Jiang Er thought carefully. "Probably around the time you had just woken up?"
Just woken up?
An Qingyu suddenly froze.
He clearly remembered that when he had regained consciousness from his coma, he had been forcibly awakened by a splitting headache... Then, the first Mi Go had descended upon Shangjing; and during the second Mi Go invasion, they had also appeared when his head was hurting.
The two Mi Go invasions had both happened to coincide with his headaches... Was that really not too much of a coincidence?
When the Mi Go first descended, Lin Qiye had immediately set off to hunt it down. He had not known that An Qingyu had suffered a headache at the same time, only that An Qingyu had woken up as soon as he returned. Naturally, he would not have connected An Qingyu to the Mi Go's descent... But An Qingyu was different.
He immediately linked the timing of the two Mi Go descents to his headaches.
"Is it a coincidence? Or..." An Qingyu's brow furrowed tighter and tighter.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Er asked when she saw that something was off about his expression.
An Qingyu explained his thoughts, and Jiang Er was stunned for a long while before immediately shaking her head.
"You're overthinking it. Your headaches are a lingering effect of Heavenly Venerable cutting off a piece of your soul, while the Mi Go are Lovecraftian Creatures that live within the Space-Time Rift. These two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other."
"But before Heavenly Venerable cut off a piece of my soul, I was contaminated by Lovecraftian influence."
"There are plenty of people who have been contaminated by Lovecraftian influence. Chen Yangrong, the gods of Takama-ga-hara, the gods of Asgard, Cool Bro... They've all been contaminated to varying degrees.