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Chapter 999

Treasure or Trap

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I always felt that something was off.

Why hadn't I sensed it at all before? It felt as though the sensation had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

I grabbed Jiang Xiaohui. "When did you sense it?"

"When you and Ye Jinghong went out. At first, I didn't feel it too clearly. I was dozing off then, but it was like something was calling to me by my ear. And I could clearly sense that the voice was coming from some treasure, like it was telling me, 'Come on, come take me away!'"

Jiang Xiaohui wore an intoxicated expression, looking like a madman.

But he was right. I had felt the same thing.

I just couldn't find a way to describe it as clearly as he had.

"Don't you find it strange?" I frowned.

Jiang Xiaohui's eyes widened. "What's strange about it? It means there's a treasure hidden nearby waiting for us to take it. Oh, you mean why we can sense a treasure's presence? Isn't that normal? Because neither of us is normal."

His explanation actually seemed to make sense. That was right—neither he nor I could be considered normal. Wasn't it perfectly normal for abnormal people to encounter abnormal things?

I decided to go take a look with him.

He was strong enough on his own. If we really ran into danger, the two of us should be able to handle it.

"Huh, there's no road." We arrived at the edge of a cliff. One more step forward would lead to a bottomless abyss.

There really was no road ahead, yet I could sense that the treasure was very close—less than ten meters away. But forget ten meters; if we took another twenty centimeters forward, we would fall into the abyss and be smashed to pieces.

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