"Call you?" Hao Ren frowned at Vivian's explanation. "Was it a voice?"
"I can't explain it clearly." Vivian's gaze kept drifting across the enormous mountain of steel. "It only lasted for an instant, like someone reminding me to look in that direction... But now there's nothing there."
Several lightning-fast thoughts raced through Hao Ren's mind, and he vaguely guessed what it was. "An artifact—looks like at least half the legend is true."
There weren't many things that could cause such a strange reaction in Vivian, and something directly created by the Creation Goddess was one of the likeliest possibilities. In the ark survivors' myths and legends, there had once been an artifact that sheltered the entire world. Now Vivian had sensed an inexplicable summons right beside the Ancestor's Great Furnace, so nobody could help connecting the two things. It seemed this fleet of exiles really had gained some kind of protection—and that protection... came from the Creation Goddess!?
Willy had no idea what Hao Ren and the others were talking about. He asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"You're a local. Do you know how to enter the Ancestor's Great Furnace?" Hao Ren asked bluntly.
"A local? I'm not a local. I was born and raised in Hearth City..." Willy answered the first half instinctively, then suddenly realized what Hao Ren had said. "The Ancestor's Great Furnace?! What did you say? You want to enter the Ancestor's Great Furnace?!"
"Is that not allowed?" Nangong Sanba raised an eyebrow. "Isn't that why we came here—to solve this problem?"
Willy's expression changed completely. He had made all sorts of guesses about this mysterious group, but he had never imagined they would be reckless enough to enter the Ancestor's Great Furnace and investigate it. "That's impossible! The Ancestor's Great Furnace is a place only the