Jin Geng

"Did a mere watchdog really leave you in such a miserable state?"

A deep voice suddenly echoed within Jin Geng's body on the top floor of the department store where the six people from Huaxia Country were temporarily staying.

"I'm going to take a look along the Yellow River. I feel like I might have overlooked something."

Upon hearing the strange voice within him, Jin Geng's pupils abruptly contracted. Though the change in his expression was slight, his heart churned violently as he quickly made an excuse to leave the floor with Yuan Yue and the others.

Strangely, Jin Geng did not use any lightning powers. Instead, he slowly descended in one of the mall's operating elevators.

"At first, you gave me quite a good impression, which was why I helped you obtain a Heroic Spirit Soul Stone and suppress the Heroic Spirit inside it completely while you were still at the Hell Eye stage. But look at yourself now. How are you any different from a useless coward?"

The exceedingly irritated voice continued to linger in Jin Geng's mind. Suddenly, large black veins bulged across the surface of his skin inside the elevator.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Corrosive black blood spilled from deep within Jin Geng's throat. When it splattered onto the elevator interior, the metal panels were immediately corroded through with several large holes. Jin Geng's face looked dreadful as he repeatedly pressed the button for the mall's third basement level with weak fingers.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

In the pitch-black underground parking lot on the third basement level, where there was no electrical lighting, the violent coughing echoed through the darkness as the elevator doors opened.

Three Ghosts wandering in the shadows immediately moved toward the coughing and the light spilling from the elevator.

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