Lin Qiye's string of deductions left everyone else in the study utterly bewildered.
Only Wu Quan, who had also come from the future and understood the vampire analogy, seemed to grasp part of what he meant. His expression immediately turned somewhat grim.
"Wait... you mean the one I killed that day was actually the son of Cthulhu's true body? And those spores it released before dying counted as the true body's grandsons?" Chloe asked tentatively. "The grandsons copy ordinary people, the son copies extraordinary individuals, and the true body copies gods?"
With Chloe's remarkably down-to-earth example, Yan Zhong and Huo Qubing also understood Lin Qiye's meaning.
"Gods? Are there really gods in this world?" Huo Qubing asked with a frown.
"There are." Lin Qiye and Chloe nodded at the same time.
"But that still doesn't make sense. If that finger wanted to kill you, why didn't it directly send its strongest true body? Why send a son instead? Where did its true body go?" Yan Zhong countered.
As if he had thought of something, Lin Qiye turned to look out the window, his expression instantly becoming complicated.
"No wonder... No wonder the mortal world has fallen into such chaos, yet they still haven't appeared..."
"They? Who are they?"
"Gods." Lin Qiye spoke slowly. "Gods who belong to Great Xia... no, gods who belong to us."
Back when the Evil Spirits had first thrown the world into turmoil, Lin Qiye had wondered where the Heavenly Court and the Great Xia Gods of this era had gone. Evil Spirits were already running rampant across the land in broad daylight, yet they still had not acted?
If he remembered correctly, the Heavenly Court and some of the Great Xia Gods should already have existed in this era. Perhaps not all the gods of