As Li Wei spoke with "Wildfire," the rock strata continued to twist and collapse, including the seemingly massive metal gate. Correspondingly, the chaos above in the Abyss Zone continued as well, yet their conversation remained calm and steady, as though none of it concerned them.
Mora, meanwhile, heard her own voice echoing in her ears without her own will behind it. The contradiction and disorientation were deeply unsettling.
She needed to adjust her mindset, and she needed to sort out the situation.
Mora had now confirmed that Li Wei knew this "Wildfire" on the other side, and that they had remained in contact all along. So throughout those years, Li Wei had known about the vicious struggle between the "Fugitive" and the "hunters" in the Thirteenth District, and the modification technologies and forces that outsiders could not make sense of. He had known all along.
And what was "The Other Side"? Merely the "other side" of the Thirteenth District?
But that hardly did justice to the background they had just mentioned—those "Myriad Heavens Gods"...
"Why ask me?" Wildfire countered from behind the metal gate.
That was one of Mora's questions too.
Li Wei continued speaking through her voice. "Ronan has no reason to attract the attention of the Myriad Heavens Gods through this and ruin the Window Period in which he's already begun gaining the upper hand, unless something provoked him... I've kept a low profile for a long time and haven't antagonized him. Your side, on the other hand, is a complete mess. Some information might have leaked."
After a brief pause, Li Wei added, "If it wasn't Ronan, and apparently it wasn't you late arrivals either, then the situation can only be worse."
Mora had never heard Li Wei say so much outside the field of research. Yet