"I didn't hide anything!"
Mora was still looking up at the road ahead, her tone perfectly justified. "I told you before, the information I gave you was mainly about Instructor Xiu. The Deep Blue World intel was only a little bonus. How was I supposed to think that far ahead back then?"
Ronan did not press the issue. "Then now that I've asked, how are you planning to answer, Senior Sister?"
"That depends on what you want to know, Junior Brother." The corners of Mora's lips curled up. "The Thirteenth District is not much of a secret in the Deep Blue World. But don't be fooled by how everyone can say a few things about it. What they know is still superficial. Very few people have grasped the core issues, including Mentor Li Wei."
"Including Li Wei?"
"Otherwise, how would that Big Mouth Yuan dare say that a miner knows more than Li Wei?"
Ronan raised his eyebrows. "Senior Sister, care to explain?"
"What I know is that, back then, those people who entered the Deep Blue World through various channels and became Miners—or simply slaves—had been carrying out all kinds of resistance activities for decades in pursuit of freedom. But none of them ever amounted to much. They rose and fell again and again. However, sometime around the 80 Year era—probably then? I was still in a cultivation tank at the time..."
"The 80s? That early?"
"There was plenty even earlier. You don't think anyone would actually like living that kind of life, do you? It was just that facing Mentor Li Wei, they would quickly collapse. But starting in the 80s, these people clearly became much more organized. And somehow—perhaps while desperately searching for hiding places after failed resistance operations—someone actually found an extremely secret area deep within