This was an exceedingly coquettish voice, coquettish to the point of sounding affected.
Especially when she called herself a "mermaid princess," she drew out the words so sinuously that everyone broke out in goosebumps.
"No mermaid princess has eyes set that far apart." Adanis snorted coldly.
"You!"
Adanis said, "If you want to come out, quit the nonsense and make your move!"
The Clownfish claiming to be a mermaid princess replied in a displeased yet still seductive voice, "I already have. They won't get away."
By the time the Clownfish finished speaking, everyone had already run several hundred meters, surpassing their previous progress.
Then, they came upon another fork in the road.
This fork split upward and downward. The upward path had been blocked off, while the descending path was completely clear.
There seemed to be nothing wrong with the fork itself. It was perfectly normal for the upward route to have collapsed; after all, going upward meant approaching the surface, and when Abyss City fell, the places nearest the surface would certainly have borne the brunt of it.
Thus, no one found anything strange about the downward route remaining clear.
But Angel knew very well that there should not have been a fork here at all! Or rather, this had originally been an upward slope. A descending branch appearing out of nowhere was absolutely abnormal.
Back in the Nightmare Realm, the place where Angel awoke had been almost no more than one alley away from the Clear Sky Poem Room.
At that time, Angel had only needed to look up to see an opening, beyond which lay the surface of Abyss City.
In other words, the Clear Sky Poem Room had originally been very close to Abyss City's surface.
This downward path was one hundred percent problematic.
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