Although they hadn't found Calamity Reimu, finding Fireworks of Romance and her group was still pretty good.
However, in the conversation that followed with Chao Mu, Bai Zhi failed to obtain any more valuable information. After all, Fireworks of Romance's group knew no more than he did.
—The point in time when Fireworks of Romance and her group entered the Exploration World was just over ten minutes earlier than when that Unknown World overlapped with the Exploration World.
At that time, all twenty-five of them were riding a bus to their destination when, without warning, the entire world suddenly plunged into pitch-black shadow.
A moment later, when the darkness receded, all of them, along with the bus, found themselves in an entirely new hilly region. Outside the bus stood more than a dozen Pale Flesh Humanoids.
Even now, recalling that memory, Chao Mu still looked deeply shaken.
"Those things were terrifying. Not only did they have incredibly powerful regenerative abilities, they were also fast. And once you were injured by them, your body would be transformed into that kind of pale dead meat. There were twenty-five of us in total, and we paid a tremendous price just to escape from there."
"But there are only five of you left now."
Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly as he glanced at the others, who were helping the giant hand remove the sand worms clinging to its body.
"If everyone had run in the same direction, none of us would have escaped. So we split into three teams and fled separately."
Chao Mu sighed.
"Our team initially had eight people. Three were caught while we were fleeing. If those Humanoids hadn't seemed to have something else to do and hadn't left only a few of them here, not a single one of