Whether Wan Kui or Wildfire understood, Tu Ge continued in a relatively positive tone, "Do you need me to contact the rear and report that we're safe?"
Wan Kui's brows twitched slightly. "Of course. As for intelligence regarding 'Inner Earth,' it's best that you report it yourself. The Clan Head will certainly be delighted. After communications silence ended, he was very worried about you... Our Wan Clan is doing all right, but the Gong Shen Clan has practically been wiped out, and the Tu Clan has only you, the promising one, left. Having come this far, the Three Righteous Families can no longer afford any more losses."
"The Wan Clan is indeed doing all right... Oh, sorry."
"Hmm?"
"I suddenly remembered that Liang Lu Great Monarch is considered an ancestor of today's Wan Clan. Seeing something like this happen isn't what I wanted."
At those words, even Wildfire's dark-red mechanical eyes turned sideways.
Wan Kui, however, remained utterly calm. "That branch of the Meng Clan has long been separated from the Wan Clan. There's no need to care."
"Is that so? You and Meng Yuan were very close when you were in school, weren't you?"
"We're still very close. A supposedly ancestral elder going mad won't affect anything. But you, Senior Brother, really have changed... You wouldn't have talked about these things before."
"Not really. Maybe it's because I've been repeatedly provoked lately."
The sunglasses hid nearly every detail of Tu Ge's face, while his tone remained unchanged throughout. "By the way, to borrow a saying from Earth: put yourself in another's shoes. Frequent, excessive stimulation can change me; it's only normal for that very young 'Reserve Force of Gods' to change as well...
"The intelligence I brought may very well become outdated. I'll mention that to the rear, and