The faint, blurry light of the "Mirror of Appraisal" quietly illuminated Hong Qiang's muddled—or perhaps tranquil—face, almost revealing the destiny that awaited him. Along that dimly lit road of fate, whatever the outcome might be, this man would most likely remain in this stubbornly resolute state, calmly awaiting the arrival of the end.
The unscathed "giant lizard" in the boiling lava maintained the same calm posture.
It had been over an hour since they discovered this Demi-Plane, yet the "Reclamation Corps" had still not arrived.
Ronan simply put them out of his mind.
Hong Qiang's memories contained a vast amount of information. Although the "Mirror of Appraisal" had already arranged it chronologically, largely reconstructing this man's life trajectory through places and organizations such as the Deep Blue World, the Soul Order, the Thirteenth District, and the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone, the countless elements and details reflected by that winding life still required considerable effort to sort through and assess.
What Ronan currently knew with relative certainty was this: Hong Qiang had once been a miner in the Deep Blue World. He had joined the "True Soul Order" and possessed considerable talent. During the grueling exploration and flight through the "Thirteenth District" and the "Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone," he had been captured by the "Reclamation Corps," then cruelly dismembered and modified. Yet through the "Sanctuary," he had recovered himself, and under its guidance, he had brought Aka Ge and the others from the despairing "Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone" to a relatively safe region of the "Outer Earth" closer to the surface by a method that defied common sense.
The first key piece of information Ronan seized upon was the matter of the "route."
More precisely, it was the way Hong Qiang had arrived at the near-surface region of the "Outer Earth"