Could there really be living things in this hidden, special region?
Was it only hidden from outsiders like him, while creatures from the Sea of Ashes had always been free to come and go?
That discovery was more than just interesting. It was downright revolutionary.
"Sorry to bother you."
He had reason to think so. Although his perception was passive, Fu Qian could still tell that the thing behind the stone ridge really did look a bit like a sea creature—
Drifting and swaying, stretching and contracting like a thread.
At Fu Qian's greeting, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared from behind the ridge.
Then a translucent tentacle reached out from behind it.
A jellyfish?
Though it was far above the surface of the water, that tentacle still gave the impression of floating in the sea.
The parts that continued to drift out behind it gave the same strong impression of some kind of marine creature.
It was just that some details didn't quite fit. The bell-shaped part at the top, for example, looked neither like a bell nor a dish. Instead, it resembled a... brain?
The description might have sounded bizarre, but Fu Qian felt it was uncannily accurate.
The creature really was glowing, and the dozens of threadlike tentacles below were unmistakably jellyfish-like.
But at its very core was a perfectly ordinary human brain.
Though the whole thing had the characteristic gelatinous texture of a jellyfish.
"That's all right."
That wasn't even the strangest part. The next moment, Fu Qian received a voice from the brain.
Not only did it look like a brain, it could actually communicate?
As they said, courtesy went a long way. No matter what the other party looked like, it never hurt to be polite.
Faced with a response that was almost