It was not footsteps.
Nor was it likely to be any language he had ever heard before.
The sound coming from the end of the street was more like the noise of hard objects rubbing and colliding with each other, scraping, chiseling, and knocking.
Xia Nan stood where he was, carefully sensing the details within it.
He had to admit, in this cold, dead silence, where not even birdsong or barking dogs could be heard, having something like this suddenly happen really did make one's skin crawl.
On the other hand, as an adventurer who had been through several missions, Xia Nan was also very clear on one thing.
In an unfamiliar environment he did not know, it was best not to be overly curious about strange noises coming from unknown places.
Breaking away from the team alone to search for the source of a sound was an absolutely forbidden matter.
But the situation now was special after all. After walking all this way, aside from this sound, Xia Nan had not found any useful clue that might help him escape.
Even the Adventurers Association he had planned on—he had already searched through it just now, and he had seen the results.
The only thing was that his body's ability to move had recovered, every Combat Skill including [Gravity Control] could still be used normally, and he could freely call up his Attribute Panel.
That gave him a little more confidence.
If it were an ordinary person, even putting aside that blond Elf from before, with her terrifying appearance and bizarre strength, being suddenly teleported to a place like this would have left them, if not breaking down on the spot, then definitely utterly at a loss, panicked and disoriented.
How could they possibly be like him now, calmly analyzing