They came quickly, and they left just as quickly.
What puzzled me was that they had come only because that "Embroidery Woman" wanted to see Xu Qiuyan. She said she wanted to find out whether she really had some connection to Xu Qiuyan.
But was that really all there was to it?
They had been able to find me so easily. If Xu Qiuyan really was in the Void Realm, they should have been able to find her just as easily. Why did they have to come looking for me?
And before Yan Guo left, he said that we were in a very dangerous situation. He even said that quite a few people wanted me dead now, and those people came from different parallel dimensions.
He had not mentioned any cooperation.
But the more he acted that way, the more uneasy I felt. Their intentions definitely were not that simple.
"I've just realized that you're nothing but trouble. Following you, I actually feel even less safe," Zhang Jing said seriously.
I gave a bitter smile. "It's not too late to leave now."
She sighed. "Forget it. I'd better stick with you. At least you really do have the strength to go head-to-head with them. If I'm on my own, those mechanical beasts will catch me sooner or later. If I really fall into their hands, I don't even know what kind of fate awaits me."
The moment she finished speaking, my heart tightened. I heard footsteps approaching from afar again. They were extremely orderly, and there sounded to be at least twenty or thirty of them.
Though they might not have been humans. They could have been mechanical beasts.
I wanted to grab Zhang Jing and run, but those "people" suddenly spread out and surrounded us.
Looking closely, they were