Mora hummed a tune whose meaning even she herself might not have understood, following Zhang Yingying's route in and out as she descended step by step.
She was so certain because her five senses and six perceptions could clearly catch the lingering traces of that young female Ability User's lively, intriguing aura.
As time passed, those traces were like flames gradually dimming. Though ordinary blind-eyed folk could not see them, they could still point out the way for her.
Walking through an underground passage like this had its own peculiar charm, especially now that "the wind had risen."
The regular disturbances formed by the high-frequency interaction between the Abyss Zone and the material world flowed through the passage like undercurrents in the deep sea.
At the most superficial level of physical sensation, they were a faint cool breeze brushing across the skin. Or perhaps the mysterious, life-filled breathing of some invisible creature, rising and falling beside her ears.
They were every bit as enchanting as Raven's alluring breathy voice in that seven-minute Reality Mode video.
How wonderful!
On Earth as it now was, perhaps only Xia City held such surprises everywhere, at every moment.
Mora narrowed her eyes. Without looking at anything, she focused even more intently on feeling the wondrous rhythm here.
There were also some rather impolite "waterweeds" or "tentacles" that kept trying to twine around her. Her domain pushed them away, leaving them to cast shadows and create a touch of disorder in deeper space. Still, for the sake of this novel experience, she chose not to bother with them.
This perceptual environment did not affect Mora's progress through the Real World in the slightest. Even when she occasionally encountered maintenance workers, they showed no reaction at all, as if they had never noticed her presence.
Just