Yu Xunge sat in the Prison Cell at the very center of Cube 8017, watching those gods and leaders lead the players and the prisoners of the First Epoch toward the new Prison. Her consciousness, however, searched the Star Sea outside the Prison for the Ash Inspector. Unfortunately, she failed to find it.
Ash Inspector: [Are you looking for me?]
Star Sea Prisoner: "Of course not. I was thinking about something."
Ash Inspector: [What?]
Star Sea Prisoner: "Are there any other dragons here?"
According to what B80 had once said, dragons were creatures created by gods, yet the Ash Inspector of the First Epoch already knew about them.
Were they beings from a higher-dimensional world? Or was the Dragon Clan originally created by some prisoner here?
Ash Inspector: [Not this time.]
Not this time... Yu Xunge mulled over those words.
What was it hinting at? Was there something it couldn't say?
Considering the choices the Ash Inspector had made when faced with the prisoners' mass breakout, a conjecture surfaced in Yu Xunge's mind-was the Ash Inspector also a prisoner?
Yu Xunge did not trust emotions or programs, but she trusted self-interest.
The Ash Inspector might be cold, and it might not care about the deaths of the myriad races, but did it not care about itself either? It would only help them escape if it, too, would face problems.
Wait... Yu Xunge slowly straightened up. If I'm part of history, why would I let the Star Sea and the Mountains be periodically purged by the Order Clock?
If the Soul Fire in the Exile Grounds getting too hot would alert the Eye of Surveillance, I clearly thought of so many methods-Little Biscuit, nested worlds, and so on. Why couldn't I let living beings use those methods?
Unless there was only