The sudden turn of events plunged the room into an eerie silence. Only the tablet continued playing an insert song from the cartoon.
Xiaoxiao flew over to the desk, her little face drawn tight. "Auntie really disappeared!"
The three wraiths in the study were all level 20, with exceptionally high perception.
They could be certain that Empress Dowager had not left the study—she had vanished through some sudden method.
Granda floated over as well and glanced at the paper and pen on the desk. "Go get Wu Heng. Beni, you go."
"Alright!" Beni nodded and turned to fly downstairs.
Xiaoxiao flew over too. "Could the cartoon have let some other surviving Ancient People discover Auntie, and then they captured her?"
Granda thought for a moment. "With so many of us at level 20, the only ones capable of taking her away would be gods."
"Gods... that one from the Church..." Xiaoxiao was even more startled.
Empress Dowager's Nine-Tailed Fox form appeared within a dream.
White clouds drifted through the sky like bubbles, while the spires of a distant castle grew in crooked, twisted shapes.
Empress Dowager lowered her head and looked at her fair palms and clothing. She was basically certain that the dream she was in was connected to the movie played during the day.
Or rather, someone had watched the movie and then dreamed this dream.
"Daji! Today, I will take your life!" A furious roar suddenly exploded through the air.
The Black Fox Elder stepped out from the void, his black robes billowing like storm clouds pressing down upon the land. It was precisely the classic scene from the movie where sworn enemies faced off.
But the dream was unstable. The charging Black Fox Elder kept stuttering and blurring as if frames were dropping, though his