Mr. Otto suddenly collapsed, and strange cracks appeared across his body. The reason they were strange was that cracks had appeared in a human body, yet not a drop of blood flowed out, making the sight all the more bizarre.
At that moment, seeing Aliyah crawling on the ground in panic, along with the pitch-black passage behind the open Stone Door, immediately intensified the fearful atmosphere.
Claudia quickly came to her senses, then shuddered. In fact, the correct decision now was to leave this mysterious oasis ruin at once. After all, the appearance of such a vibrant oasis deep in the desert was already highly abnormal.
She had quietly begun to consider retreating, but when she saw that her new classmate was silent, as though pondering something, she could not help saying, "Otto has become so strange... Perhaps it's some kind of virus. But even if it is a virus, a human body cracking open should still result in bleeding... There must be something inside here that's making all of this seem so unbelievable. Maybe... we shouldn't go in after all."
"Oh! What a good woman!! She's right! Don't go in! Don't go in!"
The red Magic Lamp's voice was urgent and rapid. Not long ago, the red Magic Lamp had been berating women in every possible way, but now it was screaming shamelessly. Someone who had lost all dignity naturally no longer cared much about saving face.
"Ah—!"
Just then, Aliyah suddenly let out a scream. He had collapsed on the ground, his entire body trembling and his face filled with terror. His outstretched finger was shaking as it pointed at the pile of sand before him.
The sand was in the spot where Mr. Otto should originally have been lying.
"I don't know... It wasn't me... Mr. Otto,