When Song Shuhang received the information that "records of her existence had been erased," he instinctively thought of the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. As far as he knew, it was the only thing capable of erasing a person's existence at its very root.
But on closer thought, that did not add up.
If it had been the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room, these Steel Monster Fish and the Fish Nest would have forgotten even the "princess's" existence, remembering nothing at all. They would simply have carried out their mission—"collecting energy"—forever, until someone destroyed them.
Yet these Steel Monster Fish still retained a little information about the princess, including the fact that she had long hair.
So... perhaps some other accident had befallen the princess.
Or perhaps... she was already dead.
Whatever the case, the princess had never returned. In the stored data of the Fish Nest and the Steel Monster Fish, that stretch of time had become too long to record.
That was why, when they saw Song Shuhang's Steel Avatar, they could only describe it as "waiting here all this time for your return."
There was another point that puzzled Song Shuhang.
The Steel Monster Fish and the Mother Nest had been planted as seeds by that "princess" a very, very long time ago.
So much time had passed that it could no longer be counted.
Yet even now, the Steel Monster Fish and the Fish Nest had collected very little "energy." As a result, the Sun Ship they had now become had only enough energy to last a dozen or so days.
The Steel Fish Swarm could not possibly have collected so little energy... so where had all the energy they collected before gone?
Furthermore, Song Shuhang had another clue related to them.
Earlier, his Mana Charger