Quancheng?
Ji Jue paused for an instant, then understood at once.
He remembered the message Lü Yingyue had sent him before.
[In a couple of days, someone should be going to Quancheng.]
Quancheng, not New Spring. The hint had been there from the very beginning.
It was only that he had assumed she meant the little town he had built, overlooking the true colossus right beside him.
In an instant, his thoughts flashed like lightning, piercing through countless mysteries.
The strange look An Neng had worn when he tossed that severed limb to him, the things he had said while looking toward Quancheng...
In that sudden realization, countless questions were abruptly solved as easily as splitting bamboo.
Why Paquiao had first tried to borrow a route, then under his pressure had delivered himself to the door so readily, even gaining a Transcendent Rank teammate out of thin air whom no one had ever heard of...
And Chen Haiqiu's sudden appearance now.
In other words, their objective was not... No, at the very least, it was not merely New Spring. What they truly cared about was Quancheng, which had long since become ruins?
What was there in Quancheng?
It was nothing but ruins. Even the scraps that remained had been dug up three feet deep and stripped clean by the Garbage Collectors. Surely they had not come looking for remnants of Fiendification Pollution?
The Security Bureau had cleaned all that up.
Or perhaps something from even earlier...
In less than a second, Ji Jue's train of thought had already spread outward. The moment he reacted, he sighed softly and looked toward Chen Haiqiu.
Chen Haiqiu was smiling as well, looking at him.
In that brief meeting of gazes, an unspoken understanding suddenly arose between them.
Even if Chen Haiqiu had no