"Don't move!"
Wen Duo shouted and immediately threw a punch, targeting the strange thing poking out over Madam Jinzhu's shoulder.
The force of the punch grazed Madam Jinzhu's cheek, bringing the pain of a biting cold wind. She asked calmly, "D-Did you knock it down?"
"Not yet."
"Not yet?"
"It disappeared." Wen Duo frowned and withdrew his fist.
Deng Chanyu spun around. There was no one behind her, and there was nothing on her shoulder either.
"I wasn't lying to you." Wen Duo lowered his voice. "You saw it yourself just now, didn't you? That strange child's face."
Madam Jinzhu nodded with an ugly expression. At that moment, a group of household guards quickly gathered around them.
"You're right. We were too slow." Wen Duo spoke bluntly. "We can't stay here for long. We have to find a way out as quickly as possible."
There was actually only one straight passage. They could either go back or move forward... so they could only move forward.
"B-But that thing that appeared just now..."
Wen Duo said nothing, merely finding it strange inwardly. This eerie child's figure was not something he was seeing for the first time—it had flashed past him once before.
"What was that sound?" one of the household guards asked nervously.
Everyone looked around. On the perfectly natural wall, it seemed as though a standard circle had suddenly been dug out. No light could pass through it, but when something was thrown inside, the sound of it rolling could be heard.
"Miss, should we go in and take a look?"
Madam Jinzhu instinctively looked toward Wen Duo.
Wen Duo raised a hand to stop them and said directly, "Move. Keep going forward. Don't pay attention to the scenery along the way."
"This road seems endless. How do you know