Tu Ge reached out and took the Fire God Ant. After examining it, he asked, "Was it found in the mountains or in the Graveyard?"
"If it had been in the mountains, would I have come to warn you?" Luo Yuan stressed again. "If the sequence of events fits, this should be one of the ants he put into that 'Basic Environment.' Somehow, it made its way into the Graveyard."
"Mm," Tu Ge said. "The Fire God Ant carries the Fire Prison Tyrant's extraterrestrial bloodline. In theory, it can travel through most spacetime environments... After generations of breeding on Earth, that gift should have faded away long ago. If it's active again, it was clearly stimulated by a power from the same source."
"Lesson learned. But aren't you a little too calm?"
"If he could find you that easily, you wouldn't still be alive."
"...What a great reason."
Luo Yuan had to hand it to Tu Ge. "So what exactly did you come to the front line to do? Lie down and do nothing while he beats you to death? If I'd known, I wouldn't have dragged Mora here to back you up."
Tu Ge gave that peculiar, stiff smile of his again. He looked up at the sky, then raised his hand and blew on the Fire God Ant perched on his fingertip.
The ant tumbled in the invisible current and vanished into the night. At the same time, with a strained creak, the huge wind turbine blade used the airflow to break free of the "steel wires" for the moment and slowly began to turn.
As the blade swept past, the starry sky between its edges flickered in and out of view.
"Luo Yuan."
It was the first time Tu Ge had addressed him by name in their