After learning of Riko's thoughts, Dugu Bo clicked his tongue in amazement. He had never expected this petite, delicate girl to possess such formidable information-gathering abilities and such sharp insight that she reminded him, in part, of Zhou Qing and Tang San.
No!
It was not just Riko. The residents of Abyss Town appeared gentle and easygoing, but their ability to spot clues was far from poor.
As Zhou Qing put it, the environment shaped people.
In other words, because the residents of Abyss Town lived around the Abyss Ruins and could not awaken Martial Souls, their practical and creative abilities were far stronger than those of other humans outside. This had made their minds sharper than those of people beyond the ruins.
Riko continued, "So, I suspect Dark said all that because he wanted us to eliminate the Undying Princess."
Why?
Riko believed:
Dark thought Nami Village was not good enough yet and wanted to guide Hope and the other villagers to continue exploring downward.
But they could not leave Nami Village.
To achieve the goal of exploring below the Seventh Layer, they could only rely on the Heart of Dreams.
The way the Heart of Dreams granted wishes—
That was still unclear. But judging from Nami Village's current state, the process by which the Heart of Dreams fulfilled wishes had to be directly linked to the user's thoughts.
Namiki...
Based solely on the phantom in the cave earlier, Riko could not accurately judge what kind of person Namiki had been in life. But judging from Namiti and Timidit's attitudes, she should have been rather pure-hearted... The Abyss People were all like that.
Yet even so, the way Namiki's wish had been fulfilled after using the Heart of Dreams was difficult to accept.
Because of this, Riko guessed that