When Jiang Lan emerged from the Inner Domain, Shen Qingqiu had finished his shower too.
"Did you just go into the Inner Domain?"
"Yeah." Jiang Lan nodded. "I had something to take care of, so I went in."
"What was it?"
Hearing Shen Qingqiu's question, Jiang Lan did not answer directly. Instead, he said:
"Nothing major. I just attended a little meeting."
He did not tell Shen Qingqiu much about the cores or the Harvesters.
It was not that he did not trust Shen Qingqiu.
The same reasoning still applied: even if Shen Qingqiu knew, he could not change anything. Rather than make him shoulder the burden too, Jiang Lan would rather keep it to himself.
If Shen Qingqiu knew too, he would inevitably worry.
"I need to go in again. I'll be right back."
Shen Qingqiu glanced at Jiang Lan.
After spending so long with Jiang Lan, he could naturally tell that Jiang Lan was hiding something from him.
However, he clearly had no intention of pressing the issue.
If Jiang Lan did not want to talk about it, that meant he did not want him to know. Asking would be pointless.
"All right, go ahead."
Jiang Lan nodded, took the three cores out of the drawer, and entered the Inner Domain.
He invited Ji directly. After handing the items over, neither of them spent much time on pleasantries, and Jiang Lan left straight away.
Honestly, it would have been unrealistic to say Jiang Lan had no misgivings at all about handing over the cores.
After all, just absorbing a little from them could improve his strength.
Although their efficiency was getting lower and lower now, his strength was still rising, at least.
Still, he was not overly resistant.
He could not forget those who had made all this