The sudden guess stirred a long-forgotten unease in both their hearts.
But aside from Russell, who else stood behind Huai Shi?
A god? Which god? It couldn't possibly be the one Golden Dawn had taken away, could it? Mamagiriya? Or some specimen within the Continuance Institute?
But if the gods had become active again, the Land of Nothingness should have been able to detect signs through changes in the Pillar of Divine Marrow.
Or was it those selfless walking corpses from the Pioneer Society?
Surely it wasn't some Destruction Factor hiding behind the scenes?
Countless possibilities surfaced in his mind, only to be swiftly dismissed.
Yet when his thoughts reached the end of countless hypotheses, Woodman could not help but frown—these guesses based solely on scraps of rumor, this familiar scent of having no basis whatsoever, and this feeling of being deliberately led along...
It was as if he could hear Loki's shrill laughter from behind the curtain.
Fuck!
His previously calm emotions gradually began to churn.
An uncontrollable anger.
Once that Old Turtle got mixed up in anything, it became a goddamn headache!
Who knew whether this was smoke Loki had released to sow confusion and disturb their minds? But at the same time... what if it was an empty-fort strategy, a trap laid upon a trap? What then?
Truth and falsehood were impossible to distinguish.
As long as Loki remained, no intelligence or news involving him could be trusted lightly. If they wanted to respond with complete coordination, they could only proceed step by step according to the objective circumstances currently before them.
Other than that, every guess would only tilt toward the worst possible outcome—because from the moment they began thinking about the future, they might already have stepped into a trap!
But regardless, Huai Shi's importance