The Teddy Bear in Alan's hand twisted out of shape and asked anxiously, "But Qian Wendao passed the Lie Detector..."
"It was fake! They must have invented a way to interfere with the Lie Detector!!"
"If Qian Wendao isn't the Domain Master, then who is?!"
"I don't know!" Sima Ji's eyes filled with alarm. "When we arrived in the Eighth Domain that day, our skill cooldowns suddenly quadrupled. That means someone had just passed God's [Succession Trial]."
"And only a [Domain Master] could receive a reward that affects the entire [Evolutionary Sequence Domain]! So the Eighth Domain's Domain Master must have been outside the Safe Zone at the time! But Wen Daoqian was in a meeting inside the Safe Zone! That means he wasn't the Domain Master!!"
A viciousness at odds with his appearance surfaced on Alan's face as well. Through gritted teeth, he asked, "Sima Ji, do you think their Domain Master is dead?"
Sima Ji snorted. "What a stupid question! Wen Daoqian died in that Domain Master's place precisely to keep people from noticing him! In other words, the real Domain Master was already being protected back then. Do you think he's dead now?!"
"But neither of those two natives who just broke through to the domain sequence was the Domain Master!"
"That only means we got lucky. The real Domain Master couldn't take part in the operation to kill the moles! If our luck had been any worse, we'd already be trapped in the Eighth Domain!"
Alan's eyes shifted as he said, "The situation has changed. We need to contact William immediately and see what he plans to do!"
Sima Ji replied, "What good would contacting him do? Distant help won't save us from immediate danger! Just tell him and Granny Hua that we're already retreating with