No, I just wanted to ask about Raven.
But you dragged the conversation off course.
Ronan still wasn't sure whether Blood Demon had genuinely misunderstood or had done it deliberately.
At a time like this, listening more and speaking less was never wrong, but it was hard to understand without any context. Ronan vaguely added, "You can help me sort through the clues."
Blood Demon readily agreed. "Some things do need careful thought. The Deep Blue Project has been in development for less than ten years, yet its products have come out generation after generation, crushing the military's similar in-house projects so thoroughly they can't lift their heads. The Bloodline Project, which was launched a whole generation before Deep Blue, hasn't leaked a single reliable scrap of news even now, yet people are still pouring money into it like mad.
"From what I know, similar projects unrelated to Apocalypse Laboratory have received less and less sponsorship in recent years, especially funding from the circles of the very wealthiest people. Ah, what a miserable sight.
"What does that tell you?"
It meant your investment had failed...
Ronan answered in his heart, but remained silent in reality.
Blood Demon didn't possess Ten-Thousand-Mile Mind Reading. He continued at length, "Have those old tycoons with one foot in the grave decided to gamble everything? Do they really trust Li Wei that much, trust that shady and highly dangerous bastard? I can believe one person is brain-dead, but an entire group of them? I'd sooner believe Li Wei put a collective curse on them."
Ronan felt Blood Demon could have put it more bluntly. "So?"
"Brother, you need to know that Li Wei is exceptionally good at persuading people. He's an expert who understands better than anyone how to secure research funding! And he's absolutely