Brian Yin's experience had more or less confirmed one of Bai Zhi's suspicions.
—The reason those Patients attacked them was because they wanted to obtain the illnesses on their bodies.
It was just that their illnesses were too useless and would even burden their hosts, so the Patients simply didn't think much of them...
—Some of his earlier conjectures had indeed been correct. This place truly was a Place for Raising Gu.
While Brian Yin wore a bitter expression and smeared superglue over his neck, Bai Zhi roughly explained his previous speculations regarding the Patients' attacks.
"...So it really was because they were too useless?"
Glancing at Brian Yin, who was sticking his head back on, Mu Yu Xing Zhou crossed his arms with a thoughtful look on his face.
Mu Yu Xing Zhou: "..."
"You'd better be more careful in the future. The reason you two were fine was because the Patients you encountered had special illnesses. Those other dangerous Patients won't be so particular."
Lowering his head to look at the hollow in his finger, which seemed to have enlarged slightly since before, Bai Zhi spoke noncommittally.
"Bai Ye Jisi still hasn't come down. We... huh?"
As if sensing something, Bai Zhi suddenly turned to look toward the stairwell entrance. Seeing his movement, the others also turned to look in that direction.
Then, a few seconds later, accompanied by a series of thumping sounds, a round object like a ball bounced down the stairs from the darkness.
As that round object rolled down, the light that had previously reached that area immediately became exceedingly dim.
The lighting in the hall had originally been provided by the Gem Bai Ye Jisi had taken out earlier. But now, not only was the light reaching the stairwell entrance affected, the lights