At the same time, in a secret testing ground in Tianjing City personally designated by Long Aoshuang for testing and maintaining Spatial Teleportation Nodes.
A slender figure stood with her eyes closed in concentration, her delicate fingers tracing faint green streaks of light through the air, as if she were tuning a complex energy circuit.
It was Wen Ke'er.
At that moment, her brows were slightly furrowed.
Because just moments ago, she had keenly sensed an extremely faint yet incomparably familiar fluctuation of spatial rules coming from the direction of Mountain City. Though that fluctuation had vanished in a flash and had been deliberately suppressed to the utmost, to her—someone who had long been in contact with Shen Yi's power and had studied Spatial Teleportation Nodes in depth—it was still as clear as a firefly in the dark.
"This fluctuation... why is it him?"
"He's back?"
Wen Ke'er's heart stirred, and a wave of complicated emotions surged up at once.
Seven years of waiting did not mean she had no resentment.
Shen Yi had gone to Beyond the World, taking Winnie and Xilos with him, yet had left her behind on Blue Star.
Though she understood that this might have been a comprehensive consideration based on her strength and the stability of Blue Star—after all, aside from Shen Yi, she was one of the people who understood the Black Fog and otherworldly creatures best—the feeling of being left behind, and that long wait, had still accumulated into something indescribable deep in her heart.
Especially after Shen Yi returned, he had not informed her at the first possible moment. That made the fire in her heart flare up with a whoosh.
"Hmph!"
Wen Ke'er let out a soft snort, and the calm with which she had been adjusting the energy circuit