Huge bamboo-joint-like appendages descended from the sky, sinking deep into the muddy gullies of the ground.
The gigantic monster, its enormous body almost completely concealed within the night sky, slowly stalked past the wooden house in the darkness.
Just as Calamity Reimu had said, as time passed, more and more monsters landed on this small island. Because of Bai Zhi's earlier actions, quite a number of them had been lured toward the wooden house.
"...This is the help you were talking about?"
Bai Zhi withdrew his gaze from the window and looked with an odd expression at the White Haired Girl sitting behind him on the sofa, eating potato chips.
"That's right. I need the corpses of those monsters—the more, the better."
Calamity Reimu nodded as she stuffed potato chips into her mouth.
"What do you think? This task shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"
"Setting aside whether it's difficult or not, what do you need their corpses for?"
Rolling his eyes, Bai Zhi sat back down on the sofa.
"Shouldn't our top priority be getting to the Core Zone as soon as possible? We don't have much time to waste in an outer area like this."
"Amitabha, this humble monk supports Black Benefactor's opinion."
Mountainside Li pressed his palms together.
"The Core Zone is continuously collapsing. The longer we delay, the more Anomalies will escape from it. The sooner we reach the core cluster, the sooner we can resolve this matter."
"The reason?"
Curling her lip, Calamity Reimu tugged her trouser leg up slightly, revealing strange skin like Linen Cloth.
—or rather, her entire right foot was wrapped layer upon layer in Linen Cloth.
"Several of us have been cursed. I'm in slightly better shape, but as for those lying on the Hospital Beds, in a few more hours,