Chapter 1924: Bright, Then Dark
"It's a reasonable suspicion. Otherwise, it's hard to explain what those two could gain from attacking us."
Professor Fu remained tucked safely behind the shield, without a scratch on him. He wasn't surprised by Lord Stos's theory and casually confirmed it.
It was indeed one of the likeliest answers to the original question, in Fu Qian's opinion.
As he'd said before, the Mal Brothers' actions had always been hard to understand.
For one thing, even if they really did kill this powerful exploration team, what would they gain?
Other than bringing down the Night Watchers' furious retaliation.
Could this place be the foundation of their existence, allowing them to revive endlessly as long as it remained intact, while its destruction would erase them, too?
At first glance, that sounded plausible. But the Night Watchers clearly hadn't come here to destroy the place. They were only conducting an investigation.
In fact, if they really did destroy it, that would only make this place collapse sooner.
They might not be very bright, but surely they wouldn't do something so obviously suicidal.
And on the other hand, even with the Ark enhancing their ability to stay hidden, could they really pull it off?
Wouldn't that be overconfidence—unless they never intended to succeed in the first place?
It was this thought that had led Fu Qian to stop Old Man Stos from acting on impulse three times.
On the level above, the passage down had suddenly closed after Su Gao spotted Malfo and the old man used his ultimate move to steal the kill.
At the time, Fu Qian had described the change by saying, "This ship seems angry."
Could that have been their real goal? Attack, assassinate, hide—and then the exploration team, trying to eliminate the threat, would