The moment that question surfaced, Fang Ran felt as though he had thought of something, yet was still missing some crucial piece of information.
That faint, hazy feeling made Fang Ran look at Van Helsing standing before him and ask the question he had once asked Ling—a doubt that had only deepened after this incident:
"What exactly is the Covenant trying to accomplish with this plan?"
The drastic turn in the National War had been meant to trap Herschel Linhua. Trapping her had been meant to bring down the royal court, and bringing down the royal court had been meant to trigger incidents across the real world.
That would allow them to collect the dark side of reality and fill the Dark Energy Crystal.
And the purpose of filling the Dark Energy Crystal had been to connect everything last night and create an Artificial Numbered that reached a realm humanity had never attained.
Then—
What was the purpose of creating an Artificial Numbered?
Why had the Covenant done this? What could they possibly gain from such an elaborate plan?
Even after driving back that ten-thousand-meter darkness and awakening from the Unfinished Night of the scenario, Fang Ran realized he still knew nothing about it.
Just as he still did not know why the Covenant had truly intervened during the attack on the Night Pearl and Against the Current.
But he believed that if it was Van Helsing, she would definitely know. Before the Queen of Nevernight Palace—
She inspired that kind of trust, the feeling that she knew everything.
"You'll have to find that answer yourself."
Yet Van Helsing did not answer him directly. She merely looked at him with gentle eyes and smiled softly.
"If I tell you too many things myself, then there would be no meaning in