The woman on the sofa looked at Elijah, noticing his unrestrained gaze upon her.
Her brows furrowed, and a cold glint flashed in her eyes.
It was at this moment that Elijah finally realized why she seemed so familiar.
This woman bore a striking resemblance to Olivia, though not identical, at least six or seven parts similar.
The reason Elijah hadn't recognized her immediately was because this woman embodied an extreme maturity, a natural aura of elegance and nobility, quite the opposite of Olivia's youthful, girlish charm.
"Are you... Kylie?" Elijah blurted out, astonished.
"You know me?" Kylie responded icily, showing no hint of a friendly demeanor despite the possibility that Elijah might know her.
"You... you know the chairman?" Wendy was equally surprised.
"I'm Quentin... Actually, I should call you cousin. You have a daughter named Olivia, right? I met her a few years ago," Elijah lied smoothly, keeping a straight face.
Upon recognizing Kylie, Elijah quickly deduced that Wendy calling her "chairman" rather than "boss" implied that the boss was someone else.
That person was naturally his target, Matthew.
Taking a risk, Elijah had switched his sensory ability and noticed a human-shaped light shadow in the adjacent room.
However, he couldn't yet confirm if it was Matthew.
Since they put Kylie at the forefront, Elijah decided to go along with it, fabricating a story and deliberately mentioning Olivia.
He wanted to see how they would react.
If he could use information about Olivia to make Kylie think he was one of them, all the better.
Sure enough, Kylie's expression froze upon hearing Olivia's name.
"Oh, so we're family!" Wendy immediately pulled Elijah to sit down, pouring him a drink. "Come on, don't just stand there. If we're family, no need to be shy!"
Elijah glanced at Kylie, who stood there in a daze without objecting, so he took the opportunity to sit down.
"Quentin, if you had mentioned this relationship earlier, there'd be no need for any tests. You could have been living on the fourth floor already!"
"The fourth floor is for the management, right? That wouldn't be appropriate..." Elijah replied with a naive smile.
Could it be that the one who possesses mind-reading is not Matthew, but Wendy?
This is very likely! Or Wendy might possess a similar ability to Olivia and Lillian's good and evil emotion sensing.
Their abilities indeed have moments of failure.
After Charlotte advanced to the second level, in Olivia's perceptive vision, Charlotte was like a black hole, blocking surrounding probes, and Olivia could no longer sense Charlotte's good or evil emotions.
The reason was that when Charlotte reached the second level, she not only had insight into herself but also began to control and influence the surrounding Chi.
This enabled her to block Olivia's ability!
But the key is that Elijah had long since left Charlotte's range of ability, and he couldn't and didn't use Charlotte's ability.
Besides, the only thing that could block perceptive abilities now was Nora's blocking ability.
Could it be that Nora's blocking ability brought a passive enhancement, causing their perceptive abilities to fail on me?
Elijah's thoughts raced, and he instantly thought of a countermeasure.
"Ah... I get it!" Elijah made a face of sudden realization.
"Get what?" Wendy asked.
"My defensive ability is to cover the surface of my body with an invisible protective layer, which I call a barrier. I originally thought it could only defend against physical harm, but now with your reminder, could it also defend against intangible perception or attacks?" Elijah touched his chin, becoming more and more excited as he spoke!
"Barrier?" Wendy murmured. Although she didn't know if Elijah was telling the truth, it seemed reasonable.
After all, she had seen more bizarre awakened abilities!
"Well, then it was my fault for wrongly accusing you. Let me apologize!"
Wendy didn't dwell on it much, instead taking a drink, pouring a glass, and handing it to Elijah.
"Sis, you don't need to do this. I don't mean to blame you!" Elijah belatedly understood what Wendy's so-called test was about!
This Wendy was probably indeed a mind-reader, which is why she was the receptionist and led everyone to dinner.
She must have been using her ability throughout the process, eavesdropping on everyone's thoughts!
That must be the so-called test!