There was no doubt about it. Ye Qiyan was certain that the person Yu Jiuquan spoke of was Smiley Forgotten, whom he had met back in the Wasteland, at the Public Trading Platform called Advance Station.
But... no.
Something was strange.
Ye Qiyan remembered Smiley saying that he had spent decades in Advance Station, or even so long that he could no longer estimate how much time had passed.
But as the leader of the Heavenly Realm Organization, the time when the Heavenly Realm Headquarters had been destroyed was probably...
"When was the Heavenly Realm destroyed?"
Yu Jiuquan continued drinking his strong liquor, answering casually:
"In Wasteland Years, nineteen Wasteland Years ago. Not all that long, but those who wanted to destroy the Heavenly Realm erased the entire organization, including his name and every trace of him.
"It's only natural that you don't know."
Nineteen Wasteland Years ago?
The timing seemed a little off.
No...
Ye Qiyan thought of a possibility.
Thinking back, when he had first entered Forward Station, Smiley had been relatively calm and had not been in much pain.
But the second time?
He had been in tremendous pain.
That kind of pain did not seem like something that could have been inflicted in just a few days.
If the person controlling that curse on the other side wanted to torment him slowly...
The best way was nothing else.
It was to use the slowest possible curse to eat away at him bit by bit, from flesh to marrow, from body to soul.
It was not just the slow progress of the curse's power.
There was something else.
Time.
An extended flow of time.
Then that meant that when Ye Qiyan had entered Forward Station for the second time and said, "Long time no see," an unknown