"Samples?"
Ronan genuinely hadn't reacted at first. He had been through too much lately. Even with "Auntie Kui" as his secretary, automatically recording and reminding him of many things, it was still hard for him to make an immediate judgment when the information he received was unclear.
Fortunately, Zhang Yingying quickly added, "The samples I collected at the subway station during that last earthquake. You specifically asked me about them. Mora was there too..."
"Ah, those!"
Ronan remembered immediately. Xia City had experienced another "Space-Time Earthquake" at the time, causing some spatial-temporal anomalies at a subway station. The Xia City Branch had sent Zhang Yingying to deal with it, and she had run into Mora there.
Later, Ronan had specifically asked Mora about it. According to Mora, she had accepted a commission from Baiji Pope. That bald Pope said a "Test Subject" had escaped. Though it had been recovered, it had still left behind some loose ends, so he had asked Mora to clean them up.
However, because Zhang Yingying had arrived first and had an excellent habit of preserving samples from the scene, Ronan had been given an opportunity for further research.
At the time, Ronan had suspected it was related to the special structure of "Three Cats Under the Cape," and he had already traced his suspicions to the "Thirteenth District." What he had not expected was that an "Outer Earth" stood behind the Thirteenth District.
No matter what, it counted as an unsolved mystery.
Even Mora, who had taken the commission, did not understand the details. Ronan had asked her to question Baiji Pope, but there had been no response even now.
As for the samples Zhang Yingying had collected, Ronan had even gone to the Xia City Branch to take one... What had he done with