Huang had not understood before, but after hearing Ji Yi's explanation, he realized something was wrong.
Thinking back carefully to his research on the Ghost Soul Race corpses, he did seem to have discovered something entirely new at regular intervals.
And whenever he discovered something new, if he paid attention to the timing, he would find that there was actually a certain interval between each new discovery.
When researching other corpses normally, things should not have been so coincidental that new findings emerged at regular intervals.
Yet his experience had been precisely that coincidental. Following that line of reasoning, it seemed as though some force was manipulating things behind the scenes.
Clearly, Huang might previously have dismissed it as coincidence. After all, he had not paid attention to the results of other factions' research.
Those findings were top secret, so Huang naturally could not simply ask about them.
Only after the Royal Family's investigation did Huang realize that what had happened might not have been a coincidence. These discoveries might even have been prepared long ago.
"Could it be... could the Ghost Soul Race have planned everything?" Yu asked, also feeling that something about the earlier events had been wrong.
"That's very possible. The leader of the Ghost Soul Race group managed to keep us occupied for a long time at the beginning. Coming up with a plan like this would have been well within their abilities."
"So their ultimate goal was to sacrifice themselves, then keep us occupied by ensuring we discovered something new at regular intervals while studying their corpses?"
"What a clever scheme. Our findings even included ways to counter the Ghost Soul Race."
"Ways to counter the Ghost Soul Race?" one family head asked doubtfully. "If they planned what we would discover and when we would