According to the records, Zhang Chen arrived at the passage connecting the first and second levels.
With sufficient funds and the required status, he entered the second level of the Ghost Source Demonic Cave through one of the entrances.
During the crossing, the sense of shared origin between himself and the depths of the demonic cave grew stronger. It seemed the other party really was at the very bottom.
What lay before him was no longer like the cosmic void of the first level, but a continent dominated by stone. Not far ahead stood a village resembling one from the Stone Age.
"Fresh blood! It's been so long since I smelled the scent of fresh blood!"
A shadow sprang from a pile of stones by the roadside and attacked Zhang Chen as he passed, only for Zhang Chen to seize it in midair, leaving it unable to move.
"It seems it isn't just the environment that has changed. Even the ghosts have started looking the part."
Zhang Chen inspected the ghost in his grasp. It resembled a primitive man, with thick hair covering its body. Its face was similar to Lan Miao's after her initial release, like that of a werewolf. Saliva dripped from its snarling, fanged mouth onto Zhang Chen's hand.
"Hm? It has become beastlike. Does it have no intelligence?"
Zhang Chen tried every possible way to communicate with it, but to no avail. He then extracted the memories from its mind and pieced together the nearly shattered Memory Fragments, discovering that the situation on the second level was even worse than on the first.
This werewolf-like ghost was one of the "incompetents," cast out by the organizations of the second level and left in the barren stone wilderness without any resources, to fend for itself. Though it