Xiao He was gone.
Ever since Kun Sheng had appeared in the guise of a "butcher" and the identity of the meat chopper had been revealed, Xiao He had suddenly vanished from Ji Li's side.
The electric Light Source she had been carrying had naturally disappeared as well. Now, only the swaying lamp above the worktable remained in Room Number Three.
Was Act Two about to begin?
With such a sudden and brutal opening...
Behind the worktable, the shadowy human figures seemed to sway slightly. Something was growing restless.
On the worktable, Xiao Qian Duyue was like a lamb awaiting slaughter, able only to watch helplessly as the Butcher Knife came down toward her neck.
Ji Li had been inexplicably brought to Room Number Three and witnessed all of this unfold, yet he had no time to stop it.
He had no time to consider how or why Xiao He had disappeared. He only knew that Xiao Qian Duyue could not die.
Xiao Qian had only recently used the Eye of Calamity. The price likely had not yet fully faded, and even if she used it again, she probably lacked the strength to resist.
The situation was so tense that Ji Li could not even think about how it had happened, let alone rescue her.
A flash of white was about to emerge from the shadows when a strange cracking sound suddenly rang out.
That strange noise abruptly paused the tense situation, but it did not avert the danger. Instead, the scene became even more bizarre and indescribable.
Kun Sheng's stiff smile remained on his face. The Butcher Knife in his hand was only centimeters from Xiao Qian, but his shriveled head suddenly tilted sideways.
His head bent at an extremely strange angle, and then the flesh around his neck