Guan Tong had never expected Orochi Murasaki to hand the Fragment directly to him.
Their brief exchange had already revealed that she was a complete nihilist. It was hardly surprising that someone like her would do such a thing.
For a nihilist, even suddenly killing herself the next moment would not be strange. What puzzled Guan Tong more was that Yingqi Nation's authorities had failed to see this and had continued training her.
But that had nothing to do with Guan Tong. After obtaining the Fragment, he also decided to postpone his revenge. It was not Orochi Murasaki's actions that had changed his mind. Rather, after learning the contents of Fragment 5, his thoughts were in disarray and needed sorting out.
He used Phase Shift to return to Mingdao Mountain, where he usually lived, then summoned his shelter and entered it.
After recalling Shadow, he lost the five senses that Shadow had synchronized with him, and darkness immediately filled his vision.
Previously, aside from when he slept, he had summoned Shadow most of the time and had him synchronize his five senses with him, giving him a greater sense of security.
But now, this utter darkness was well suited for thinking.
Guan Tong lay on the bed, the mural contents of Fragment 5 surfacing in his mind.
From Qimo Star's destruction and the planetary patterns on the fingers of that mechanical arm, it was clear that Fire Thief was likely a terrifying destroyer in the universe. The civilizations destroyed by him were beyond counting.
Yet there was a contradiction. If his purpose was pure destruction, why would he create murals to record events? And why were those few surviving strange beasts on Qimo Star ultimately taken away by the Black Pillar, which appeared to be some kind of spacecraft?
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