Just a few seconds after Little Niu knocked on the door, a male voice came from inside the room, and the owner of the voice was none other than Hook:
"Come in."
Little Niu took a deep breath, then pushed the door open with Xu Yun.
The guestroom Hook was residing in was a one-bedroom suite. This kind of arrangement, which in later years would be classified as a suite in most hotels and quite expensive, was a standard configuration in the seventeenth century.
At this moment, the bedroom door was already closed. Hook was sitting at the desk directly facing the living room, smoking a pipe with one hand and seeming to be leafing through a book with the other.
Upon seeing Little Niu's arrival, he did not rise to greet them but instead leaned comfortably against the back of his chair:
"Newton, it's been... oh, four days, right? What brings you here so soon?
Is it because you couldn't reach Barrow, or is it that... you've solved the problem?"
