I seemed to have suddenly thought of something.
I asked the woman, "Have you seen one of my friends?"
"That zombie?" She directly called Ying Gou a zombie, and she wasn't wrong.
"I've seen him. He's been quite good to you. He actually dared to barge into the forbidden area for your sake."
I frowned. "For me?"
"Yes. He rushed in headfirst because of you."
"But I heard that someone he cares deeply about is trapped inside. More precisely, she's also a zombie. I wonder if you've heard of Nü Ba."
She narrowed her eyes. "Impossible. There can't possibly be any Nü Ba in there, because nothing that happens here can escape my eyes."
I froze. The old man had told us that Ying Gou had gone into the depths of the Dark Forest because Nü Ba was trapped there. No matter what Ying Gou's intentions were, Nü Ba held enormous significance for him.
But this woman before me said there was no Nü Ba inside at all, only My Evil. She also said Ying Gou had gone in for me.
For me? Then it had to be connected to My Evil.
I asked the woman, "Even now, I don't know what to call you."
"Tina," she said flatly.
Tina? I didn't think I'd ever heard that name before.
That was normal. She was one of the Ancient Pompeii people. Like A Tai, she had come from underground, and we knew absolutely nothing about their world.
Not absolutely nothing. We knew such a group existed, but we knew nothing about what they were like, how their world was structured, or what kind of people they had.
We had only learned a little about the Ancient Shu people through A Tai. We knew of Elder Quan and their centralized authority, the