"You're right." Su Ming held a cigarette between his lips and casually ruffled Bean Sprout's head. He stood up and stretched his back. "If it comes to it, we'll keep looking for a way out of this stage. Maybe I've been a little too greedy."
Yes, the information that could basically be trusted at present had come from TOAA. The first two layers of Mystery, the first two layers that humans could comprehend, were respectively The World of Action and The World of Creation.
There was little chance of that being wrong. After all, the Omniverse was TOAA's territory. Whether CAAT had eaten it or done anything bad to it, it was essentially going against TOAA.
Perhaps the two sides were currently holding each other in check somewhere beyond his knowledge. Though TOAA's performance had become increasingly underwhelming, it had surely still done some things beneficial to humanity.
Su Ming needed to take advantage of this time to venture deep enough into Mystery, find CAAT's weakness, its home, or anything else he could exploit, and then deal with it.
Therefore, in this fourth stage, the main quest was still to leave this place and head for The World of Creation.
It was only because they had discovered seven creatures here that Su Ming wanted to do some side quests, try to pry information from them. Once they obtained high-value intelligence, wouldn't that be sharpening the knife without delaying the chopping of wood?
Thus, the creature calling herself Norwell had provided that information. Even if much of it was useless, they had gained a little. They ought to be satisfied.
Strangle was right. There were still six creatures they had not questioned. Even if the humanoid creature's information was false, they could compare it with the others and rule things out.