Red-haired Peach slowly rose to her feet.
"As a grain of sand, you have far too many questions."
"I told you, when I awoke, all I wanted was to protect my child."
Then she suddenly turned, a trace of hostility flashing between her brows. "It was only when you mentioned dimensions just now that I understood. You must have learned the basic rules of Kepler-16b—that I would only appear when the planet was in trouble. So that was why you brought that insect egg back from tens of thousands of light-years away?"
Liu Di chuckled.
Red-haired Peach's voice turned icy. "What is this ability called? Seven-dimensional causality? I have to admire you. Even with incomplete information, with everything obscured as if by fog, you were still able to set up such a scheme."
Liu Di also slowly stood. "Using methods like this is indeed rather impolite of me. But don't worry. I'll solve the trouble I brought myself. I only need you to tell me something about Gu Fan—for example, where she is."
"No need!"
Red-haired Peach's words carried two meanings. She firmly rejected both Liu Di's solution and his question.
The curvaceous girl took a single step, directly warping space and creating a wormhole with her own gravity.
The wormhole was very short.
Its endpoint was merely the sky outside the fortress.
Liu Di stepped out after her.
He and Red-haired Peach looked up together.
A massive Insect Nest floated in the sky above!
The Insect Nest was at least two hundred kilometers long and wide, like a pitch-black mountain. Its surface consisted of some mixture of clay and mucus, which had hardened into something that gleamed like metal.
The air was filled with the foul stench emanating from the Insect Nest.
Its surface was covered in densely packed