"Then, husband... what do you think... is going on with those Insect Race?"
Long Aoshuang hesitated slightly.
This was still something she could ask. That much was obvious from Shen Yi's expression and attitude.
Shen Yi looked toward the sky, his gaze seeming to pierce through the clouds and land on some distant direction. "Before I leave, I need to go confirm the Insect Race's situation."
"The Insect Race?" Winnie raised an eyebrow and lowered her voice. "Didn't you decide not to interfere before?"
"Not interfering in their competition with Blue Star's humans doesn't mean I'll leave them completely unchecked," Shen Yi said calmly. "Lilith told me before: a collective will, strong reproductive ability, and immense destructive power—any one of those traits appearing alone would be normal, but when they're combined, especially on a planet with weak rules like Blue Star, that in itself is abnormal."
"This... what if it's just an instinctive plundering of material resources?" Long Aoshuang thought back to the abnormalities of those Insect Race from earlier.
"I just think it's too much of a coincidence."
A cold glint flashed through Shen Yi's eyes, and then he continued, "The Black Fog descending, Ability Fruits appearing, the Insect Race rising..."
"And me obtaining Authority." Shen Yi gave a deep sigh.
"All of this happened within just a few short years. If we go by the 'screening' theory Lilith mentioned, then the existence of the Insect Race is very likely also part of that screening mechanism."
"You mean..." Wen Ke'er's pupils constricted slightly. "The Insect Race was deliberately left on Blue Star by the Black Fog?"
"No, it might be worse." Shen Yi said calmly, "They might be another form of the Black Fog itself, or rather, a derivative."
"If it isn't plunder, but competition—if they create an enemy