"This time, everything lined up." Sun Hang habitually snapped his fingers, but the instant the snap rang out, the Everburning Lamp suddenly went out.
Everyone immediately went on high alert.
"What happened?" Yang Qi looked at Sun Hang. "Did you do that?"
"It had nothing to do with me. It went out by itself," Sun Hang said. "Could this be the legendary... Ghost Blows Out the Lamp?"
"The Everburning Lamp's memetic fluctuations have disappeared..." Ye Xuan, who had been staring at the monitoring equipment, said quietly. "Did it 'commit suicide'?"
"It couldn't have been scared to death by your finger snap, could it?" Wang Xiyi stared at Sun Hang's fingers with a complicated expression.
The Everburning Lamp had gone out right after Sun Hang snapped his fingers. Considering his usual absurd abilities, it was hard not to connect the two.
"Then should I snap again?" Sun Hang said, snapping his fingers once more.
The crisp sound echoed through the tunnel. Other than that, nothing happened.
They looked at one another, clearly unsure what to do next.
"I'll go take a look." Sun Hang strode over to the Everburning Lamp and reached toward it.
He wasn't sure whether the lamp going out had anything to do with him... but he really had only snapped his fingers. As for Three Monkeys, that was even less likely—whenever Three Monkeys appeared, even if it hid in an extremely concealed corner, Sun Hang could sense its presence. It was as though it wanted to announce its arrival, always manifesting some tangible form within the scene, whether a statue or a pattern... Since nothing had drawn Sun Hang's attention this time, Three Monkeys had most likely not interfered.
Perhaps to make refueling it easier, the Everburning Lamp was not very high off the ground, only about