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"We should keep going, too."
Professor Fu understood the Old Man's feelings, but he felt no pride in himself. As the Old Man's footsteps quickly faded into the distance, he casually spoke to Su Gao.
"Okay..."
Compared to before, there was an unusual hint of hesitation in her voice. In the end, though, she still walked ahead, continuing deeper into the unknown.
"There shouldn't be much danger on the ship."
With only the two of them left, their footsteps in the darkness seemed more rhythmic. Before long, they fell into a peculiar, coordinated beat.
After they had once again traced a straight path through the darkness, Su Gao, who was walking in front, finally spoke again.
"That's what I think, too."
It sounded like nothing more than wishful thinking, but Fu Qian agreed with her in all seriousness.
The reason was simple: he could more or less guess what had caused the disturbance just now—Nepheli.
Professor A Kai's test had gone awry earlier, creating this new passage. Nepheli might not have had anything to do with it, but that didn't mean she wouldn't act now.
From their perspective, what the three-person team had just been doing was entirely reasonable.
They lacked the information needed to make their next decision, so they had to seize any new opportunity, no matter how risky.
But Nepheli saw things differently.
Going by what she had said during the tea break, their current situation was clearly not as dire as it seemed. Everyone just needed to stay on the Ark and wait for the journey to end.
Doing anything else would only be gilding the lily, introducing unpredictable factors—like this newly discovered area.
Although he had persuaded the Old Man to give up on destroying the ship, the three-person team—especially their strongest fighter—had left