"What are they talking about?"
With the Dual Interference platform of the Magneto-Optical Mica and Blood Intent Ring Fortress, Long Qi had a far firmer grasp of the situation than when he fought alone. Yet Raven and Joker's exchange still left his brain struggling to keep up.
Reason could offer no answer, but instinct sensed danger.
"Joker..."
Was a "Joker" who no longer performed exaggerated expressions still Joker?
His face had clearly not changed, yet Long Qi found the bare-chested, scar-covered middle-aged man on the big screen utterly unfamiliar.
He even thought: Perhaps the only thing this man had in common with Joker was the Mosquito Wings rapidly beating against his right back ribs...
Before the thought could finish, that long, slender Mosquito Wings detached itself from the base of his back ribs. In midair, it transformed into countless mosquitoes that scattered in every direction.
Never mind what impact this new wave of differentiated aberrant mosquitoes would have on the mountain region under Hundred Peaks Monarch's control. Joker, now stripped of every inhuman trait, opened his lips again and spoke to Raven.
"You ultimately don't want to make someone else's wedding dress for them, do you?"
Raven gave no reply to either of the two consecutive questions. Still maintaining her unusually serious attitude, she watched Joker's face, along with every corresponding detail behind it.
Facing Raven like this, Joker asked for the third time:
"What, is it that hard to answer?"
After the repeated questioning, Raven finally responded simply:
"You have five seconds left."
"Huh?" Long Qi was genuinely dumbfounded now.
Over at the Blood Intent Ring Fortress, Zhang Yingying hesitantly offered a guess. "It looks like there's a slight distortion in the Space-Time Structure around Joker. Part of it was dragged out by those 'Star Pellets'... but there also