The newcomer was Matthew, who had traveled all the way from Playa.
Matthew seemed a little surprised to see Henry. He looked at him and asked,
"Chairman Henry? What are you doing here?"
Henry was also somewhat surprised to see Matthew, but he said,
"Let's skip the pleasantries, Commander Matthew. Sorry for the trouble, but please open this door!"
From the way Henry looked as though he had spent days here, Matthew guessed some of what had happened.
Without wasting words, Matthew glanced at the door, then extended a finger and tapped lightly.
The door shattered.
The lights inside the room were off, leaving it rather dark, but both Henry and Matthew could just about see.
In the darkness, Shen Qing stood by the window and heaved a deep sigh.
He turned to Matthew and Henry and said helplessly,
"What do you want to know?"
Before Henry could speak, Matthew answered,
"Everything! Everything you know!"
Shen Qing gave a helpless, bitter smile, then used his formidable Legendary mental power to transmit everything he knew and understood to Matthew in one rush.
Matthew closed his eyes. A moment later, he looked at Shen Qing in horror.
"Is all of this true?!! The World-Destroying God!! Do you understand what you're saying?!!"
Shen Qing said softly,
"Of course. I met this being fifty thousand years ago. Though he wasn't in human form then, I've only ever seen that same despair-inducing presence in the Creator God, and the Creator God is still trapped deep within the Lost Kingdom."
Matthew seemed to recall the Lost Kingdom in Shen Qing's memories. He was young, too, and had never seen the Lost Kingdom himself. As he remembered it, the Lost War had merely been a cosmic calamity caused by part of the Destruction Tide spilling out of