Who exactly was his mother?
This question had troubled Fang Cheng for a long time, but he had never found an answer.
Those who knew kept their mouths shut, while those who didn't could only guess based on the few clues available. Finding a definitive answer was difficult.
After thinking for a while, Fang Cheng set the question aside for now. The answer was still a long way off; he had to deal with what was right in front of him first.
There was only one way to return to Machine City or the Iron-Cast Palace: wait for the regions that had been split off from Hokkaido to merge again and for the terrain to return to normal.
If he ran around now, there was a good chance he'd fall into Subspace and disappear—the bottomless darkness surrounding the terrain.
Even though he was anxious, Fang Cheng could only wait patiently. At the same time, he felt relieved.
Fortunately, he'd trusted his instincts and stayed out of the darkness when he first went scouting. Otherwise, he'd have been done for.
He asked Li Yu, "I heard competitors are drawn to each other. Won't you attract other monsters here?"
"It's not the competitors who are drawn to each other. It's the Proofs."
Li Yu rubbed her stomach and let out a burp that was anything but ladylike. "I can indeed sense a monster with a Proof in the same area as us. But they're being very cautious and haven't come over yet."
Fang Cheng hadn't expected another Great Demon to be hiding in an area barely a thousand square kilometers wide.
When he'd sent his clones to scour the area just now, they hadn't found anything.
"Are you not planning to make the first move? Or do you want to keep waiting