"Spring City? This is Spring City, that is Spring City..." Bamboo Pole's brow knotted as he stared at Ronan. "There must be some other explanation here, right?"
Before Ronan could respond, he found a spark of inspiration himself. "Wait, let me think... During Raven's livestream, she kept going on about the 'Fire God Ants.' Those things are a 'specialty' from around Spring City. And last month, you hyped up the Jin Buhuan Incident—the volcanic-zone battlefield ruins aren't far from Spring City either. Under the 'Simple Space-Time Concept,' they're pretty much in the same region. Is something wrong there?"
Ronan smiled. "We're investigating."
It was already quite impressive that Bamboo Pole had made that connection.
What he did not know was that there was another, more direct link—one Ronan could not mention for the moment:
The "Amaterasu Order" of "Inner Earth" and the "Lost Kingdom" of "Outer Earth" were conducting a "Cross-Space Penetration Test," one that involved the cross-space circulation of large quantities of faith power elements.
And since there were currently only three "Gates of Rebirth" connecting "Inner and Outer Earth"... Well, the one on the Deep Blue World side seemed to be marked as "abandoned." Even the "Fugitive" coming out of the "Thirteenth District" had to make the jump through the Southwest Volcano Area of Spring City, leaving only two.
The "Balance of Truth" and the "Gate of Truth" firmly controlled one of them, so most of the smuggled "traffic" had to pass through the "Gate of Rebirth (Experiment)" in the Volcanic Zone. Ronan suspected that the "Amaterasu Order" had already been "Taking Root and Sprouting Branches" in Spring City, establishing connections nearby. That was why he had said those things to Bamboo Pole earlier.
Ronan basically agreed with the "Wheel Hypothesis." The complex space-time relationship of the "Three