"You said I was East Asian, and you said this place was called Lanling City. Looks like you came from back home too?"
"That makes us fellow countrymen meeting far from home."
"Why take a shot at me behind my back?"
"Wouldn't it be better to just talk properly, like we're doing now? Why be such a prick and play games with me? I haven't even brought up how you've been trying to curse me all this time. That's already pretty generous of me."
"And you wouldn't even answer a few questions."
"How could that not piss someone off?"
Jiang Qiao released his grip on the landline and shook his hand a few times in distaste.
Silence.
The landline offered no reply.
Jiang Qiao didn't mind, however, and continued, "Tell me, how did you provoke the Deities? Why would perfectly peaceful Deities come and attack this Hope Island of yours?"
After speaking,
his eyes flickered slightly.
As everyone knew,
an extremely terrifying Major Event had occurred at the beginning of the Nether Era, nearly wiping out all the top powerhouses among the Hometown Immigrants. This incident was known as the "Black Tide," and multiple Deities were known to have taken part.
However,
the entire chain of events remained buried in mist.
There was no way to investigate it.
It wasn't just him.
Even Yang Ling, an old monster who had survived from the Nether Era to the present, had found nothing in all those long years of investigation. He hadn't even managed to uncover the slightest clue.
Everything
seemed to have been concealed, hidden from prying eyes.
Yet that seemed about to change today, because they had entered a ruin from the Early Nether Era and encountered a Supernatural Item that had survived the catastrophe and possessed self-awareness!
Thus, when