"Tsk!" Hearing Lin Ruo's words, Medici curled his lips and didn't bother to argue with him, after all, Medici wasn't finding out about the tool-person ABCD thing for the first time.
He just looked in a certain direction, a smile playing on his lips, arrogant yet tinged with coldness, and said, "Actually, I'm more curious how Alista left behind this secret ruin, or rather, who is impersonating him."
Hearing this, Lin Ruo glanced at Medici, showing no surprise, and simply said, "No matter what that ruin is about, its target is clearly me."
"What do you mean?" Klein, who was beside them, was a bit confused and couldn't help but ask.
Didn't they say it was the Blood Emperor's ruin? Why is impersonation involved now?
"Klein, do you remember what I taught you? Alista went mad after becoming the Blood Emperor, and a Lunatic doesn't have the ability to build secret ruins without the Seven Deities knowing," Lin Ruo explained unhurriedly, his eyes seemingly calm yet holding a profound depth.
"And those ruins that aren't secret enough would definitely be destroyed by the Seven Deities…" Klein wasn't stupid; he just hadn't reacted for a moment, but now that he heard Lin Ruo's explanation, there was nothing he didn't understand.
Immediately, Klein thought of something else and looked at Lin Ruo, saying, "So someone left behind these ruins under the guise of the Blood Emperor? And there's something in that ruin calling out to you… Is this a trap set by your enemies against you? Then you definitely shouldn't go in."
Although he didn't know who Lin Ruo's enemies were, Klein was very sure that Lin Ruo had enemies, and he couldn't help but advise him again.
Cattleya's expression also became tense; although she didn't have deep feelings for her elder, Lin Ruo, she certainly didn't want anything to happen to him.
"Probably not…" Lin Ruo shook his head. He also looked in the direction from which the summons came. As he stayed here longer, the summons became more and more obvious.
Something there seemed to be about to awaken.
Lin Ruo lowered his eyes, concealing all emotions, and said, "I can feel that the other party has no ill intentions."
"Moreover… whether this is something Alista left behind, or the result of someone impersonating him, I must go. This is my intuition, or you could say it's a reminder from my Spirit World," Lin Ruo finished, looking at Klein, and added, "Of course, just in case, you should stay on the ship obediently. Don't worry, nothing will happen. If all else fails, at a critical moment, I can always sacrifice tool-person A!" At the end, Lin Ruo glanced at Medici, his tone clearly teasing.
"Heh!" Medici immediately scoffed, casting a glance at Lin Ruo, and said in a sarcastic tone, "Don't worry, when I'm dying, I'll definitely take someone down with me."
"You're being too formal, aren't we? We're like brothers from different fathers and mothers. My living is equivalent to your living, why talk about taking someone down with you?" Lin Ruo spouted nonsense without batting an eye, making Cattleya, who wasn't familiar with their daily bickering, gape in astonishment.
"They… they really won't start fighting?" Cattleya couldn't help but whisper to Klein beside her.
Klein immediately gave her a reassuring look.
Medici was clearly used to Lin Ruo's shamelessness at times. He glanced at him and said grumpily, "Lil' Black, everything else is regressing since you lost your memory, but your shamelessness is growing."
"You flatter me, you flatter me. It's merely a deep understanding of the truth that as long as I'm not embarrassed, the one who's embarrassed is someone else," Lin Ruo said without changing his expression, his calm demeanor as if he wasn't making shameless remarks, but rather a significant speech.
After a pause, he looked at Medici, a natural smile on his face, and said, "Let's find the entrance to the ruin first. The call from that thing is getting stronger and stronger. If we don't go in soon, it might not be us looking for it, but it looking for me."
Medici's brows furrowed, and he no longer dwelled on Lin Ruo's previous words. After standing up, he leaped down from the captain's cabin roof, landing in front of Lin Ruo, and said, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's find it quickly."
Lin Ruo naturally wouldn't object.
The two immediately began their search. This would be a difficult task for others, but for a King of Angels and the one currently being "called," it wasn't difficult at all; it was like having a guide.
Soon, Lin Ruo and Medici locked onto a location.
While using the wind to float on the sea, Lin Ruo surveyed the sea below. From the naked eye, there was nothing there, but an invisible summons clearly told Lin Ruo that the ruin was right there.
However, unlike the Sea God's ruin, this ruin was not merely hidden where the Spirit World and reality intersected.
"A hidden power…" After observing for a while, Medici suddenly spoke. He glanced at Lin Ruo and said, "Now I'm starting to believe that this really is a ruin left by Alista."
A mad god indeed cannot leave behind secret ruins, but if a god who controls the authority of Concealment helps him, it would naturally be much easier.
Lin Ruo's brows, however, furrowed. As someone who had just recovered a segment of memory related to the Evernight Goddess and had an immersive tour of the Nation of the Evernight in that memory, he naturally recognized what that power was.
It was precisely because he recognized it that Lin Ruo felt puzzled.
"Whether it is or isn't, we'll know once we go in." Despite his doubts, Lin Ruo naturally wouldn't jump to conclusions now. He simply studied it for a while longer, then thoughtfully pressed his hand over that space, guiding his own Spirit World power.
"Crack—"
A sound echoed at that moment, and then Lin Ruo saw something materialize from the air below. It was an ancient gate, full of mysterious and fourth epoch-style asymmetrical beauty.
Lin Ruo looked at the gate, raised an eyebrow, and before he could do anything, he felt his collar being grabbed from behind.
A certain Red Angel, as if lifting a cat, picked up the weak, pitiful, and helpless Lil' Black, tossed him behind himself, and then said sarcastically, "A noob should have the awareness of a noob, understand?"
Lin Ruo: …
Such a good person, why did he have to open his mouth?
"Don't worry, boss, if we encounter danger later, I'll definitely sacrifice you first," Lin Ruo blinked, his tone full of conviction.
"Pfft—" Medici scoffed, but didn't retort sarcastically. His blood-colored eyes looked at the gate before him, with thought and coldness flickering in their depths.
Then, Lin Ruo saw Medici raise his hand and place it on the door. He pushed it roughly, and the door opened, revealing not a normal ruin interior, but a swirling vortex of merging colors.
Clearly, the true ruin was in another space.
"Let's go!" Medici stared at the vortex for a second, then without much hesitation, flew towards it.
Lin Ruo naturally followed closely behind; he was even more curious than Medici about what was inside the ruin.