In the night sky, bolt after bolt of lightning poured down like rolling heavenly fire, crashing over them head-on.
Lü Siya's face flickered between light and shadow beneath the lightning.
She looked at Meng Chao for a while with apparent calm.
Then she suddenly laughed.
"A second 'microbrain'? What kind of joke is that?"
Shaking her head, she murmured, "The information we extracted from the 'microbrain' was enough to prove that the Space-Based Orbital Weapon had dealt the 'Mother' a devastating blow. Only a single surviving seedling remained, and it has already fallen into our hands.
"Information can be altered or even fabricated. Even information that is one hundred percent true and complete can twist one matter into its exact opposite merely by rearranging the sequence."
Meng Chao said, "Since the enemy's beast, the 'Wisdom Tree,' could create a nonexistent, breathtaking Peach Blossom Paradise to deceive us, how difficult would it be for the enemy to conceal the existence of another 'microbrain'?"
"But you have no evidence. This is all just your speculation. No, it is nothing but wild imagination."
Lü Siya gently placed both hands on Meng Chao's shoulders again, her tone becoming uncharacteristically tender. "Meng Chao, it seems we have both exhausted ourselves too much from cultivation lately, leaving our nerves stretched too tight and causing all sorts of symptoms. Listen to Ya-jie. Once we return to Dragon City, rest properly for a few days, recover your strength, and think more about our business and our deals—our future, and Dragon City's future, are destined to be bright. Stop borrowing trouble from the sky and making yourself so oversensitive!"
"No, Ya-jie, you don't understand. Dragon City's future is far from simply 'bright,' and I'm doing everything I can to find the reason it changed from light into darkness..."
Meng