Lu Yin kept comparing Old Man Hehe with Furball because he wanted to compare the green giant’s attitude toward Old Man Hehe to his attitude toward Hong Xia.
Furball raged for a while, but then they fell silent.
Then, the stove was gone. The entire stove, or rather, the stove and the dining table, was Furball’s world. Still, their world was just far too bizarre.
A gate appeared in the distance, and Furball walked toward it. “If you’ve got the guts, follow.”
Lu Yin shouted, “I can’t figure it out. Your species is vegetarian, and you eat plants all day, so how is your temper still so explosive?”
Furball did not respond and simply passed through the gate.
Lu Yin felt helpless. There was no question that the gate led to Vestigium, which was a place that he did not dare to go to. But even if his real body could not go, his consciousness could. Furball obviously intended to settle accounts with Hong Xia.
The moment Lu Yin entered Vestigium, he heard Furball shouting for Hong Xia, rage filling their voice. It sounded as if they wanted to overturn Vestigium itself.
Lu Yin tactfully stayed silent.
“Hong Xia, come out! Don’t think I don’t know that you’re here! Get the hell out here, Hong Xia!” Furball roared, their voice shaking Vestigium.
After a while of shouting, Che spoke up. “Cyan, how has Orange offended you? Why are you so angry?”
Furball fumed, “That bastard gave out my location. Ba Se, are you going to handle this or not?”
Ba Se spoke, sounding somewhat surprised, “Orange shared your location?”
“That’s right. Lu Yin came looking for me and said that he received my location from Hong Xia. That shameless traitor! Betraying his own civilization is one thing, but he even sold me out! Ba Se, Obscura owes me an explanation.”
Ba Se did not respond, seemingly thinking.
Che spoke again. “Could there be a misunderstanding?”
Furball snapped, “Misunderstanding my ass! How did Lu Yin find me? How far am I from his human civilization? Without someone pointing the way, could he have found me?”
“Maybe it was a coincidence? Cyan, don’t be so angry. Harmony is precious.”
“Shut your mouth!” Furball growled. The more polite Che’s words were, the more that Furball felt Che was helping Hong Xia.
Lu Yin also wanted to scold Che. Furball was picking a fight with Hong Xia; what did that have to do with Che? Why did he insist on butting in all the time?
Che did not get angry at all, and his voice remained as gentle as ever. “Cyan, don’t make a judgement before things are made clear, or else you’ll lose your sense of reason.”
“Get out of the way! Spare me the nonsense. Hong Xia, come out!” Furball roared.
Che helplessly said, “I’m helping you. You probably aren’t Hong Xia’s match.”
That comment caused Furball to completely explode. He roared like a madman, “I’m not Hong Xia’s match? Che, say that again! I can’t beat Hong Xia?”
“After all, Hong Xia is a top-tier expert who resonates with two laws, as well as a Twelvefold Crimson who has received the legacy of humanity’s Crimson Starshade. He can even fight against a being who resonates with three laws. You only resonate with one.”
Furball shouted, “Do you really think that more laws makes one stronger? Then make Hong Xia come out and fight me!”
“I’m doing this for your own good,” Che insisted.
Lu Yin was speechless. The more times that Che said that, the more infuriating it became.
As expected, Furball lost all sense of reason. “Fine! You’re not coming out, are you? One by one, you’re all helping him, huh? You all think that I’m inferior to him, right? Fine! Then let’s blow everything up. If I can’t have it easy, none of you will either.
“Che, you live at Void Mountain. I’ll give the coordinates to Lu Yin right now so that he can go and have a ‘chat’ with you. Don’t think that I don’t know that you also took part in the war to destroy the Nine Ramparts. Stop pretending to be a good guy.”
Inside the red coffin, Lu Yin’s expression instantly tightened. Had Che taken part in the war against the Nine Ramparts?
“Cyan.” Che immediately spoke again, but this time, his voice was so cold that the void seemed to freeze. At that instant, even Lu Yin felt his scalp go numb from an indescribable dread.
Is that really Che’s voice?
“Cyan, that’s enough,” Ba Se spoke.
Furball sneered. “Oh, so now you’re willing to speak up? What about Hong Xia giving away my location?”
Ba Se blandly asked, “Did Lu Yin attack you?”
“If he dared, I’d have cooked him to death.”
“Then what’s the problem?”
“You think that there’s no problem? That freely exposing my location is no problem? Then I’ll announce all of your locations and see if you still think that there’s no problem.”
“Hehe. Furball, what did the little brat do to you to make you so angry?” Old Man Hehe called out.
Furball answered in a low voice, “He’s just a petty Aberrant. What could he really do to me? The problem is, what right does Hong Xia have to give out my location? If Obscura doesn’t give me an explanation, I’ll go find Hong Xia myself!”
Che sounded a bit helpless. “You can’t beat him.”
Furball snarled, “We’ll see!”
Ba Se said, “As long as members of Obscura do not attack each other, you are free to go find whomever you wish.”
Furball sneered. “Fine. After all these years, do any of you really think that you have stayed hidden? Everyone’s identities are an open secret. I’ll add one more thing: if Lu Yin comes looking for me again, every time he finds me, I’ll expose one more of you. Let’s see who can stay hidden to the end.”
With that, they left Vestigium again.
Lu Yin left at the same time and peered into the distance. Furball did not reappear. After leaving Vestigium, they had gone elsewhere.
Recalling what he had heard in Vestigium, Lu Yin’s expression gradually darkened. Che had taken part in the destruction of the Nine Ramparts. Was he another enemy of the Nine Ramparts and humanity?
Lu Yin could never forget the politeness that Che had shown when they had met in the Consciousness Megaverse, nor the guidance that he had offered Lu Yin. He had never considered the possibility that Che could also be an enemy.
Vestigium was like a thick history book; each time it was opened, a new bit of history would appear. To see history clearly, someone had to fully open the book.