A Voice After Many Years

"The timeline also matched the time Chi You was sealed... It looked like this really was inside Chi You's belly."

Fu Hua set down the brick and turned back to speak to the others.

After hearing that, Mei asked, "Then... what about the people who were swallowed along with us?"

"I don't know. Maybe they were taken somewhere else?"

Even Fu Hua had no answer to that.

Just as they were discussing this, the ruins beneath their feet suddenly shook violently, and even gravity tilted sideways.

"What's going on now?"

Kiana struggled to keep her footing.

Himeko and Fu Hua, who knew some of the battle plan, thought of a possibility.

"It's Xu Yanwu! He should be outside fighting Chi You right now."

"Uncle Xu?! Did he come to save us?"

Kiana perked up at those words, but Fu Hua's next words left her dejected again.

"Yes, but even so, it will be difficult to rescue us right now. Chi You won't be defeated anytime soon. During that time... who knows what might happen."

Fu Hua frowned.

"Then we should do something, shouldn't we?"

Kiana said, "We can't just keep waiting here, can we?"

"But we still don't know what dangers might be inside Chi You's belly."

Just as Fu Hua was about to say something, she sensed a disturbance nearby.

"Honkai Energy reaction detected."

"Something is trying to attack us!"

Yae Sakura and Bronya reacted at the same time as Fu Hua.

Just as Yae Sakura drew the blade at her waist and Assault Rabbit appeared behind Bronya, a shadow shot from the source of the disturbance like a gale, lunging straight at Mei among the six of them.

It was so fast that even Yae Sakura and Bronya, who had noticed it, could barely react.

In the blink