A burst of shrill laughter suddenly came through the headset. It was so piercing that, for a moment, the three of them thought their eardrums had been torn apart.
"Fuck, what kind of sonic attack was that?" Lilith hurriedly turned off the Bluetooth headset's audio pickup, while Ling Xiao had already bent over and started vomiting.
Fortunately, he had eaten nothing before the mission except an energy gel, so what he threw up was mostly clear liquid. Still, the stomach acid burning up his throat sent waves of searing pain through his esophagus, making Ling Xiao cough nonstop.
"Water... Do you have any water?" Ling Xiao asked between coughs.
"Water? Sure." Lilith nodded. "But... do you dare drink water from the Inner World?"
Ling Xiao immediately fell silent. He covered his throat with one hand, took a deep breath, and forcibly suppressed the discomfort.
"Why... can't Inner World water be drunk?" Jiang Yu looked at Lilith, then at Ling Xiao, and asked in confusion.
"Not just water. In fact, the less interaction you have with anything in the Inner World, the better," Lilith said. "When I said earlier that we could take this equipment out, I was actually just joking with you."
"Huh? Why, exactly?" Jiang Yu was even more confused. "What's wrong with things from the Inner World?"
"A replica is still a replica. If you bring things that were never supposed to exist back to the Outer World by exploiting a bug, what do you think will happen?"
"What will happen?" Jiang Yu asked.
"Four years ago, there was a comic called Three Terrifying Days in the Inner World... I think Ling Xiao has read it, right?" Lilith asked.
Ling Xiao nodded.
"The second female lead in that comic brought a diamond necklace from the Inner World back