In the laboratory on the Sixth Floor Underground of North Shore Gear, Ronan brought the Dynamic Spacetime Map into view and studied it in silence. Raven leaned over and soon spotted the crucial change.
"Like Dean Wan?"
"Possibly a simplified version... The architecture is the same."
The person who had automatically become "Temporary Carrier Number One" was Dean Wan Ta.
Ronan was certain of that last point. He had been operating the map and observing it throughout with the Shrunken Gods' Eye of the Law. Even after switching to Outer Earth, dropping another level to the "bankrupt version," and adding a great deal of delay, he could still make out the relevant details. He had also observed Dean Wan through the Dynamic Spacetime Map before and performed a few operations. Comparing the two made it clearer still.
That suggested a conclusion: while Liang Lu was alive, he had used this method to consolidate his own laws into a Root Marrow projection and cast it onto Dean Wan Ta on Inner Earth.
In other words, Dean Wan Ta was most likely the carrier of Liang Lu's Root Marrow laws.
Judging by Pawa's current condition, Dean Wan Ta's present Form and Spirit Framework, the "revelations" he had received, and even his patterns of thought were all traces left by that process.
In that case...
Ronan frowned. He had just done something similar himself, so he was in no position to pass moral judgment.
Still, a friend he knew was different from a tool like Pawa.
That double standard, and his awareness of it, came from both the emotions and reason of an advanced Genetic Species. The fact that he could still feel it was worth celebrating.
Raven looked at him. "Ronan, you and Dean Wan still haven't run that experiment?"
"No. We've