That was just an excuse to keep him from digging any deeper.
Ronan was not so easily choked off. Drawing on his increasingly abundant experience, he asked, "Setting the past aside, with Your Majesty's guidance, Luo Yuan can't have been blundering around like a headless fly the way I was some time ago, can he? Where has he mainly been active lately? If he's only messing around in this 'Specimen World,' that would be pretty boring. I'd look down on him."
The Martial Emperor asked with a smile, "Do you need me to pass along this 'looking down on him'?"
Ronan put it more bluntly. "Hasn't he touched the 'Reclamation Corps'?"
The Martial Emperor gave a slight shrug. "Why should fifty steps laugh at a hundred?"
"If I can laugh, I definitely will. How about doing me a favor, Your Majesty? 'Inner Earth' might see life and death at any moment. 'Outer Earth' is still all right... at least for now, I can't fully get a handle on him. Ask him to seize this Window Period and contact me on his own initiative?"
"Sure. It's just one sentence. As for whether he agrees, that's none of my business."
"If he agrees, we can have a chat. At least that's how it'll be this time on 'Outer Earth.' If he doesn't agree, then whenever I catch him in the future, he won't have..." Ronan paused. "You can pass that on word for word."
"Fine." The Martial Emperor agreed readily, her bright eyes sweeping across the dim sea and sky. "It seems this Window Period truly will not last long. Are you planning to keep the 'Reclamation Corps' completely outside Earth, like you dealt with Li Wei on 'Inner Earth'?"
"Your Majesty thinks too highly of me. Li Wei hid away in