It should have been an easy connection to make.
Even if he had not known the name Tilanqi at the time, Red Moon and Annalise had been right there in plain sight.
The reason Fu Qian had not rushed to probe in that direction was that several key contradictions had also been sitting right in front of him.
The most immediate one was this: if it really was Red Moon, why had she not recognized him?
From the respective performances of Red Moon and the Rainbow of Yao Bian back in the Night Holy Capital, it was clear that the former was not agile enough to track him into a mission.
But during that mission in the archipelago, it had practically been the equivalent of him barging straight into her territory.
He had even used his original appearance. Apart from a mask that barely counted for anything, he had made no disguise at all.
Yet Red Moon had seemed to have no reaction whatsoever.
Now, however, "Annalise and Tilanqi" seemed to offer a faint explanation for that.
If Tilanqi truly was Red Moon, then one of the causes of her madness was undoubtedly the tearing conflict between two consciousnesses.
In other words, there was a good chance that at certain times, she could not maintain the self-awareness of being "Mother."
To put it simply, the scarlet moon back then had descended in the guise of "Annalise."
Even the protection granted to the King of the White Tower had come from a glance from the Blood Clan Progenitor.
Of course, this Blood Clan Progenitor might not have been real, existing only at the level of "the Blood Clan Progenitor Red Moon believed herself to be," much like Old Man Mo Song and his son in this mission.
But that might have