"Captain!"
Herk and Mo Zitong both flew up, staring at the creature in astonishment. Like Zhou Zheng, they had believed from the very beginning that it possessed no intelligence.
Who would have thought that it would suddenly speak?
Zhou Zheng waved at Mo Zitong and Herk, signaling for them to remain calm.
He then looked at the enormous creature and asked, "Tell me, can you understand what I'm saying?"
"I can!"
That muffled voice rang out again.
"Do you have a name?"
"Fei Er!"
"What is this place?"
"Home!"
Zhou Zheng chatted with the lifeform named Fei Er for a while and quickly discovered that it possessed intelligence, though seemingly not much. It was probably comparable to a five- or six-year-old child.
Moreover, this lifeform seemed never to have left this place since its birth. As if following instinct, it had remained here all along.
"Tell me, do you know how you came into being?" Zhou Zheng asked again.
"The Master created me!" Fei Er said. He then added, "But the Master hasn't returned for a very long time!"
"How long is a very long time?" Zhou Zheng asked.
"Just a very long time."
"Did your Master leave anything behind?"
"No, no."
"If you don't tell the truth, I'll kill you!"
"...The Master has a Stone Tablet. He usually makes me keep it."
"Take it out and let me see!"
"Without the Master's permission, others cannot see it!"
"Then I'll have to kill you and take it myself!"
A moment later, the enormous creature spat out a Stone Tablet roughly a hundred zhang tall and used a tentacle to place it before Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the densely packed writing inscribed on the Stone Tablet.
A moment later, a trace of