Long Qi had come around to it too. Joker's condition in the final stage could hardly be called normal, and the sight of him splitting into mosquitoes defied all reason.
He found it hard to believe Mentor Li Wei hadn't planned and intervened in some way.
Tsk. The contest was everywhere.
Lately, a certain someone had been showing off extraordinary feats worthy of a "Deity," including a nasty thing like the Sensing Chain Network, to intimidate Transcendental Species such as Gao Wenfu and Mora.
Li Wei had answered in kind. By playing the Clown Card, he had brought the fearsome reputation he had built over decades back to haunt those Transcendental Species.
Now Mountain Lord had lost an arm and, through his cooperation with the Justice Cult, escaped into the Fog Maze. What lay ahead for him was uncertain. Joker had gone further: he had turned into countless mosquitoes and scattered across the Wilderness.
Those scenes, and their outcomes, could reach the Transcendental Species trapped together in that network of Gray Substance through the Perception Chain Network a certain someone had built, even without the livestream.
The impact might be more immediate and cut deeper, too.
While Long Qi had been at the Movie Theater, he had kept an eye on the Perception Chain Network. The focal nodes for Mountain Lord and Joker—especially Joker's—had indeed spread out and dispersed as Joker split into mosquitoes...
No one could have missed it.
And the crucial question was exactly what Joker had raised in his conversation with Raven:
At the level of a Transcendental Species, very few could sever their ties to Li Wei or erase the marks he had left on them. Who could swear there wasn't a Hidden Thunder waiting along the path they had chosen?
How could anyone not be