At that thought, Lu Li flicked his fingers and sent over the coordinates where the giant cocoon had previously been.
He added a question afterward:
"Have there been any reports of traveling merchants, drifters, or mining ships going missing near these coordinates?"
Ruizhi's reply arrived quickly:
"These coordinates... are they in an unexplored region outside the Extreme Domain?"
"I checked. The Star-Picking Tower has no relevant intelligence on file, so I'd guess no one has gone missing near those coordinates."
"Though it's also possible that the Domain Overlord ordered the information sealed."
"After all, it's the Extreme Domain. Overlord Lu Li, you know how it is—Black Star, that wife-obsessed maniac, is over there. You could say he commands the wind and rain, with one hand covering the sky..."
Seeing that there was no valuable information to be gained, Lu Li could not be bothered to steer Ruizhi's derailed topic back on track.
He simply followed her further off course.
"Novels are novels, after all. They're still very different from reality. At the very least, that Ilya isn't some naive fool who knows nothing. She's extremely shrewd when it comes to business..."
The moment Lu Li said this, Ruizhi replied instantly.
Though mere text could not directly convey emotion, he could clearly feel the excitement and agitation of the woman on the other end of the Data Panel.
"Overlord Lu Li, it's obvious you didn't analyze it seriously. You need to cater to their preferences!
"Then again, with so little time, there's no way you could grasp the essence of those literary works."
"How about this? I'll briefly summarize it for you..."
"As the 'kindhearted oddity' among traveling merchants and drifters, Ilya will sympathize with you as long as you make yourself seem pitiful enough."
"The reason you think Ilya is