Black Thorn recognized it carefully and said, "Indeed, it is my fruit core, likely an earlier one detached from my body, even earlier than the one you hold."
Earlier?
Zhou Yi suddenly thought: "Could it be the Mud Tree People?"
Normally, if someone else obtained Black Thorn—a Light Core Body Level vessel—they wouldn't just frivolously release it in the Dead Sea.
Previously, Black Thorn's regular haunts were within Duke Destructive's territory; from a safety perspective, it also shouldn't have been abandoned there.
The most likely possibility was the Mud Tree People.
That is, the original pilots of Black Thorn.
"I don't know."
Black Thorn said, "But never mind, I'm not familiar with it; it doesn't really affect me anyway."
"The fruit core will grow weaker as time passes and eventually lose all activity completely. Frequent stimulation like this will only cause the fruit core to deactivate faster."
