Bai Zhu pulled his feet off the table and tapped the sheet of paper.
"At the very least, it proves one thing—they didn't decide this on a whim."
Milluki was still holding the three confessions. He looked up at that.
"No shit. Who would throw together such a huge operation on the spot just to capture you?"
Bai Zhu did not rise to the jab. Instead, he looked at the map on the table.
"Four villages, several roads. According to the information Gela Jiang gave us, they all point to one place. If the Creation Society had really put down roots here, do you think their headquarters would be over there?"
Piyu flattened the sheet that read, "Take Bai Zhu north and deliver him alive to the gate," then casually pushed it to the center of the table.
"That's exactly the problem. Over in Sankara Town, the Church could pull together an entire operation. The same went for Meteor City—believers, rituals, routes for abducting people, all laid out in the open. This place is too clean, so clean it completely clashes with the surroundings."
Milluki snorted.
"The way you put it makes it sound like they have to operate out in the open. You should know that wherever Bai Zhu goes, they don't even leave scraps behind."
"What bothers me is that they didn't leave any survivors." Piyu brought up several photos of the Stone Gate on her phone. "Look at this. The entrance, the ground, the rock walls—they all have the same pattern. That means they really have been active here. It makes no sense for them to hide this thoroughly just because Bai Zhu was coming."
Milluki leaned closer and gave the photos a quick look.
"This thing is annoying just to look at. It's packed so densely,