"Big Sister Hong Zhuang, couldn't we have come during the day?"
"You have to admit, it's pretty scary coming this late at night."
The petite blue figure shrank back timidly, almost half her body hanging onto the red figure.
"What's there to be afraid of?"
"I think the surroundings are quite nice. The temperature is moderate—not cold or stuffy."
"Look, these things even glow. How relaxing."
The woman in the red dress walked barefoot across the fungus-covered ground. The moment her foot came down, the fungi withered and blackened.
As she walked, she forcibly carved a path of death through Magic Mushroom City!
"But, Big Sister Hong Zhuang, don't you think these things feel soft and squishy underfoot? It's disgusting."
"And there are bugs everywhere, strange bugs I've never even seen before. Xiao Qing is scared."
The woman in blue lowered her head. She claimed to be frightened, yet her expression remained indifferent.
Her expression and tone seemed to belong to two different people, creating an intense sense of dissonance.
When she passed a huge mushroom that looked like a fried egg, she even stepped on a large red centipede, crushing it into pulp.
"Qing Lian, Qing Lian, you're really going backward with age. What's there to fear about the territory of a mere little bug?"
"Back when we were in Yanfu, passing through the forbidden zones of those thrones—that was what you call frightening."
"For me, this place is practically a paradise beyond the mortal world."
Hong Zhuang raised her hand and ran her pinky across her vivid lips, letting out a soft laugh.
Qing Lian kept her head lowered, her eyes shifting as they flashed with a vicious gleam.
"It should be here."
At that moment, the two women stopped.
Before them stood a library that had already