The atmosphere fell silent, as though a drug of silence had seeped into the air, making everyone shut their mouths at once and swallow the words caught in their throats—
Caesar stared ahead and sighed. "It really is 'him.' He caught the scent a step ahead of the other two."
"But unfortunately, he was still a little too late!"
Whoosh—boom!!
As his words fell, the entire carriage suddenly jolted eerily.
Tianma immediately grabbed the [Eerie Prison Box], but it had already turned into a handbag.
Jiu Ye's [Noah Eerie Blade] was also replaced by an ordinary curved saber in an instant.
Anticipating what was about to happen, Ji Yan did not rush at Caesar. Instead, in that brief window, he opened the Tool Bar...
Then, in a single second, the carriage changed completely!
One second, they were still inside the wrecked carriage. The next, all four of them appeared in an endlessly long corridor—
Or rather, inside an endlessly long carriage!
Tianma frowned. "Is that American turning traitor?"
"Whatever he's doing, he's up to no good."
Jiu Ye turned to stare at Ji Yan. "Whatever secrets he was hiding, you should have analyzed them the moment you first saw him."
Holding the "Key," Ji Yan said, "Before I gave him the Key, he was a 'friend.'"
"But after he touched it, he became an 'enemy.'"
"What exactly is that thing?"
Tianma stared at the golden cone in his hand. "It could turn Caesar against us in an instant?"
Turning him against them meant Caesar did not want them to unlock the main quest.
It meant... he was on the eeries' side!
"[Omniscient Understanding] can't analyze this thing in depth..."
Ji Yan frowned. What could restrict [Omniscient Understanding]?
He held his forehead as the earlier headache returned.
But it also made