Fine, then. Yue Yuan had seen the Silver Heart Civilization Leader pull this before, and now that he was seeing it again, he was no longer surprised. After all, who didn't have their own little amusements?
Higher life-forms sometimes had lowbrow tastes too. Besides, no one had ever decreed what counted as refined amusement and what counted as vulgar amusement.
In any case, Yue Yuan thought the Silver Heart Civilization Leader was rather amusing. The key point was that the Silver Heart People also happened to fit humanity's aesthetic standards for cute animals pretty well.
Of course, in the Virtual Auditorium, Yue Yuan would not show the kind of gaze one used when finding an animal cute. That would be disrespectful to the life-forms of other civilizations.
He had long since grown used to the fact that the life-forms of various civilizations differed. Likewise, for all he knew, in the eyes of the Silver Heart People, the other civilizations might look quite cute too.
Looking at the Silver Heart Civilization Leader's smug manner, Yue Yuan asked curiously, "Why don't you tell us how exactly you pulled off this 'shedding the shell like a cicada' trick?"
Yue Yuan's curiosity was one thing, but what he actually cared more about was how the Silver Heart Civilization had run away. After all, judging from the attitude the Degeneracy Civilization had shown, they clearly could not possibly allow them to leave. So Yue Yuan was worried that once the Silver Heart Civilization's actions were discovered, the Void Returners might come knocking—or rather, the Degeneracy Civilization might come knocking.
They had been about to take them away, yet the Silver Heart Civilization had secretly slipped off. To the Degeneracy Civilization, that was a slap in the face!
"Heh heh, I already said it was shedding