The mention of Despair Mist plunged everyone into a brief silence.
Ke Meng had made a special trip out over the ocean to examine the clouds precisely so he could use Big-Faced Cat to check the red cloud mass's information.
The information he brought back was shocking enough to leave everyone speechless.
Despair Mist's function was to incubate an evil god embryo.
"An evil god... just how powerful would an evil god be?" someone muttered. He did not expect an answer, since none of them had ever seen an evil god or knew how powerful one was.
Ke Meng himself knew how absurdly powerful an evil god could be, but he could not answer.
"Despair Mist needs tens of billions of despair hearts. Blue Star doesn't have enough lives for it to finish incubating."
"You're only counting humans. What about animals?"
"Go abroad, bring back a few animals that have gone mad, and cut out their hearts. One look in person will tell us. Our spirituality is high enough to spot any problems at a glance," Flaming Man said, flames rising from his head.
"Seconded."
"Seconded, plus one!"
The mention of animals prompted Ke Meng to take the idea further. He said:
"People have already gone mad. With nobody looking after the animals, they'll only go madder. We need to warn them to keep the animals under control."
"Agreed."
What followed was another chorus of repeated agreement.
"If animal hearts can become despair hearts too, we're in serious trouble." The Director-General squirmed restlessly in his chair.
Tens of billions. Humans alone already numbered in the billions.
As for the number of animals with hearts, apparently no one had ever counted them.
And did the "despair hearts" Big-Faced Cat mentioned really mean physical hearts? Could even insects fall within that category?