The Malice Beneath the Surface
Sure enough, you couldn't judge a person by appearances. They both seemed like hotheaded old men, but Stos was far steadier than Logan.
It might have sounded like making a fuss over nothing, but as someone who had already led an exploration once, Fu Qian understood Stos's thinking quite well.
No matter how credible Marco's words were, since he had mentioned two "people" there, they had to make an effort to look for them.
If they spent the effort and found nothing, proving he'd just been talking nonsense, then at worst they'd have wasted a little time.
But they were already in the middle of an operation with a countdown, and the place itself was dangerous.
Under those circumstances, if they uncovered information suggesting there might be two "people" they hadn't observed yet, they absolutely couldn't ignore it—not even if they had no idea whether those people were benevolent, malicious, or simply indifferent.
This wasn't a life-or-death gamble; it was an exploration. They had plenty of room to rule out any major hidden dangers.
Besides, Fu Qian had gained a lot from the information they'd just received.
For example, apart from the brain-teaser-style misunderstanding that the "two people" were actually Su Gao and himself, the first thing that came to Fu Qian's mind was the fat and thin demigod brothers, Malfo and Malka.
Could they still be on the ark?
Had their earlier assumption—that the brothers had completed their rebirth and left long ago—been wrong?
Since they were of a higher rank, was their rebirth far more complicated than Marco's, and were they perhaps still hidden inside some amber?
It was an easy possibility to think of, and also the least dangerous one.
If that were the case, then the poor brothers seemed to have