“I knew it…” Han Yimo said. “The protagonist is always like this—either awakening first and stunning everyone, or awakening last and overwhelming all rivals.”

“Uh…” Zheng Yingxiong scratched his head after hearing this, thinking to himself that this person had indeed gone crazy.

“I understand now, kid. Don’t worry,” Han Yimo said. “The plot is perfect. Since I’ve obtained an ‘Echo,’ what comes next will naturally fall into place!”

Although Zheng Yingxiong had expected Han Yimo to be easy to deceive, he hadn’t anticipated it would be this easy. He hadn’t even begun to use his scheme, yet the other party had already firmly bitten the hook.

“You… you believe it just like that?” Zheng Yingxiong said. “Aren’t you afraid I’m deceiving you?”

“Deceive me?” Han Yimo chuckled lightly. “As a supporting character, you might not know this, but the protagonist’s setup is often like this—at critical moments like these, they always unleash their hidden potential. So even if you hadn’t said anything, I had already vaguely sensed something.”

“Uh…”

Zheng Yingxiong felt the current situation was indeed somewhat too absurd. He had only mentioned that the other party had a scent on him, hadn’t even said what his “fragrance” was called, and yet Han Yimo had already believed him.

Was there even a need to mention the two words “招災” (Recruiting Disaster)?

When Zheng Yingxiong brought Han Yimo back to the room, Chen Junnan was watching the two of them with great interest.

“Little Han… what did this kid just tell you?”

“Uh…” Han Yimo thought about the current situation. As a protagonist who had just obtained power, he should hide it for now, so he could only say, “…He didn’t say anything.”

“Right,” Zheng Yingxiong nodded. “I didn’t say anything. Stop prying.”

Although both said “didn’t say anything,” Chen Junnan felt he might have guessed correctly. He sensed that Zheng Yingxiong must have encountered Qi Xia just now, and then Qi Xia had somehow cured the kid’s rhinitis.

After all, when Zheng Yingxiong had come to his side just now, he had covered his nose—didn’t that explain everything?

Seeing the two of them looking mysterious, Chen Junnan reached out to pull Han Yimo aside, turned his back, and asked in a low voice, “Hey, hey, Little Han, aren’t we in the same boat? And now you’re hiding things from me?”

“Uh… being in the same boat is true, but it’s really not convenient to say right now,” Han Yimo shook his head and replied in a low voice. “One day you’ll understand.”

Chen Junnan suppressed his laughter and said, “Then let me ask it differently—what you just talked about… was it content that ‘could help the other side’?”

“Help the other side…?” After hearing this, Han Yimo smiled slightly and answered with feigned profundity, “Heaven’s secrets cannot be revealed.”

Chen Junnan grinned as if looking at a fool. What a fine “Heaven’s secrets cannot be revealed.” When an ordinary person wants to conceal something, if the answer is no, they would instinctively respond with “How is that possible?” Only when someone has guessed correctly would they possibly say “Heaven’s secrets cannot be revealed.”

This indicated that the content of their conversation just now was indeed “content that could help the other side.” In Han Yimo’s mind, as long as he himself achieved “Echo,” he could better help the other side.

And for Chen Junnan and Qi Xia, it was the same—only if Han Yimo achieved “Echo” could he help their team.

“Fine, if you won’t reveal it, then don’t,” Chen Junnan said with a smile as he turned back around and looked at Zheng Yingxiong.

“What are you looking at?”

“Kid, want to come smell your big brother again?” Chen Junnan replied.

“You… how did you know…”

Zheng Yingxiong realized that Chen Junnan was indeed difficult to deal with. In such a short time, he had actually guessed what he was doing. Unfortunately, Lawyer Zhang hadn’t been dealt with yet, so he couldn’t rashly use Chen Junnan for an attempt. After all, Qi Xia had also said that given Chen Junnan’s personality, once they failed even once, success would become impossible.

“I’m not smelling,” he said. “What’s there to smell on you?”

“Hey! Just try it!” Chen Junnan shamelessly walked up. “Just now when you came over to me, you covered your nose. Did you smell something?”

After hearing this, Zheng Yingxiong was slightly stunned, and his heart began to waver. In the current situation… could this be an excellent opportunity?

Chen Junnan had already become suspicious. At this moment, if he just went with the flow and admitted that there was also a scent on him, could he then obtain “Echo”?

However, Zheng Yingxiong remained extremely cautious of Chen Junnan. He wasn’t sure if this was Chen Junnan trying to trick him. Once he truly “went with the flow,” the other party might turn hostile on the spot, and then this “Bell Ringing Operation” would never succeed.

To be prudent, Zheng Yingxiong paused and said, “I’m not telling you. Figure it out yourself.”

“Huh?”

Chen Junnan wanted to pull Zheng Yingxiong to smell him again, but the kid had already opened the door and slipped away.

“You little brat…”

Chen Junnan couldn’t help but feel suspicious—had his “Echo” already appeared, but Zheng Yingxiong was deliberately not saying anything just to mess with him?

What did “figure it out yourself” mean? Was this something that could be “figured out”?

Although the kid refused to give him an answer, the good news was that “Recruiting Disaster” had already appeared.

He didn’t know what it was related to, but perhaps the several emotional dramas he had performed had worked, causing the kid to inadvertently recruit disaster.

The next step should be to guide Han Yimo into believing that “the mole is going to lose.” This step should be the most difficult part, but fortunately Han Yimo now had recruited disaster, so they would need to improvise from here.

Unfortunately, the timing wasn’t quite right now. If he let Han Yimo believe right now that he was going to lose, everything would seem to be progressing a bit too quickly.

Just a few minutes ago, he had just beaten him up, and now Zheng Yingxiong had sniffed out his “Echo.” If he directly announced that Han Yimo was going to lose… from Han Yimo’s perspective, it would probably seem somewhat deliberate.

Han Yimo noticed that Chen Junnan’s gaze was somewhat strange, so he swallowed and asked, “What… what are you looking at now?”

“Nothing, I just find you quite interesting,” Chen Junnan said with a smile. “Come here, let me get a good look at you.”

“Interesting again…?” Han Yimo couldn’t quite understand.

“You’re even more interesting now than before,” Chen Junnan said.

“Chen Junnan, just rest assured,” Han Yimo said. “Now that I’ve awakened, just sit back and watch what happens next.”

“Hahahaha!” Chen Junnan really couldn’t hold it in and was made to laugh uncontrollably by Han Yimo.

“What are you laughing at?” Han Yimo looked at him with furrowed brows.

“Nothing…” Chen Junnan wiped the corner of his eye. “Oh my… it’s just that when I think about how we’re going to win, this young master can’t quite suppress the corners of his mouth.”

“That’s right, we’re going to win,” Han Yimo nodded. “It’s just a pity that I don’t have any ‘characters’ on me right now. Can you give me a ‘character’? If you took it from Qiao Jiajin’s body, Qi Xia probably wouldn’t say anything about it.”