Red Hero didn't actually care about the Soft Universe. It wasn't important. What mattered was why the Unknown hadn't told him about the mission reward.
Unfortunately, the portal to the Soft Universe had been destroyed after its inhabitants discovered it, so he couldn't go there directly to check. Otherwise, he wouldn't have asked Lu Yin.
Now, he could verify it by going to Zhi Zong and asking for another portal. But if the Soft Universe really had been destroyed, then the Unknown clearly knew and still hadn't given him a reward. Something was wrong there.
Could it be that the Soft Universe creature had merely disappeared, not died?
Elsewhere, Lu Yin used Instant Movement to reach the second set of coordinates.
As when he'd gone to the first set, he was cautious. Extremely cautious.
At the first set of coordinates, Red Hero had left him the Soft Universe. He had no idea what awaited him at the second.
Without Instant Movement, Lu Yin wouldn't have gone through them one by one. Of course, more importantly, when facing Red Hero, he couldn't turn the tables and take control.
Red Hero was far too powerful. Lu Yin couldn't see the depths of his strength, and he had no attachments. Lu Yin couldn't even see the only two people he might care about, Rang Yu and Ji He. He also wanted to learn about the Unknown through Da Mao, leaving the initiative entirely in someone else's hands.
But nothing in the world was absolute. The initiative could change hands.
He would take his time. He'd been through this sort of thing plenty of times before.
The second set of coordinates was still empty. There was nothing there.
What the hell? The first set of coordinates had been like this, and so was