From Dark Crow's shifty look, Lu Ran knew trouble had definitely been stirred up.
"Speak freely. I grant you a pardon." Lu Ran waved a hand casually. Inside the Imperial Palace, he dressed extremely casually. Having just finished a bath, he wore a bathrobe and could be called the Bath Emperor.
"It wasn't even my fault." Dark Crow wiped away tears. "I just went to scout the edge of the Star Domain as you ordered, Great King. The doppelgängers had already produced results, and the Black Mist was relatively stable... but not long after I got there, it started spreading faster. Great King, what do we do? Boohoo, I didn't deliberately set out to leave you without descendants!"
Lu Ran: "..."
"What does the Black Mist speeding up have to do with leaving me without descendants? Have the doppelgängers actually been doing their jobs? Wait, the Black Mist sped up... you didn't say something to it, did you?" Lu Ran asked suspiciously.
Dark Crow chuckled. "All I said was, 'Unless the Black Mist starts spreading faster, we still have plenty of time to prepare.' That's a perfectly normal sentence, Great King! You can't take it out of context and turn it into 'I want the Black Mist to spread faster,' can you? Surely the Word Spirit-Type can't twist my meaning too!"
Lu Ran felt drained. He reached a conclusion: it probably had something to do with Dark Crow, but Word Spirit wasn't to blame.
"Stay in contact with the doppelgängers and keep watching the Black Mist. If my judgment is right, it should only have sped up a little."
"Caw!" Dark Crow stopped running off at the mouth and was about to go back to observing when Manager Ying's doppelgänger's discovery suddenly came to mind.
Turning back, Dark Crow also