This was the first time Yu Sheng had seen such stark, undisguised anger on Luo's face—and the first time he had witnessed the distinctive profanity of an Argraidean Elf. Even though he had no idea what the so-called "Usobug Hive" meant, he could still feel the shocking force behind those words on the screen. How should he put it... that girl had some real fire when cursing people out, and she was far more cultured than Eileen.
Besides, he deeply understood Luo's fury at that moment.
"The Hermetic Society was the first to discover the Zolda Black Stone, but they didn't tell me what it actually was. They only gave me some information," line after line of text continued scrolling across the screen, occasionally interspersed with garbled symbols. "They asked me to recommend a researcher whose spiritual aptitude was the best match, to make contact with that 'stone.' At the time, they still hadn't told me about 'Eden.' They merely offered an exorbitant price, and I had no reason to refuse..."
Luo's gaze turned icy. "So you 'recommended' me, right?"
"I have the psionic data and... biological samples of many people stored here. Your data was the best, and your neural specimen produced an extremely strong active response to the Zolda Black Stone," the brain in the tank twitched and writhed slightly as bubbles gurgled up through the biomatter solution. "So it wasn't me who chose you. It was the Zolda Black Stone that chose you—and you chose that 'stone,' too."
Luo drew a deep breath.
Yu Sheng looked at the words on the screen, but he couldn't help recalling a scene he had witnessed back then on the polluted Black Stone Space Station. In the contaminated area surrounding the Zolda Black Stone, Luo's "spiritual body" had stood quietly in