"Fuck!"
"I finally made it out alive."
"I thought I was going to die. Thank god I ran fast. Thanks, Mom and Dad, for giving me a good pair of legs."
"Fuck off. I saw you using your ghost domain to travel."
"A ghost domain counts as legs too."
"They all count as legs."
Once the rift expanded to the edges of the cavern, its expansion gradually slowed, and its powerful pull began to weaken. Many people seized that chance and successfully broke free.
In the end, around twenty people made it back to the cave entrance alive, roughly half the group.
This made the two would-be robbers.
Quietly shelve their plans.
There were too many people.
They had expected only a dozen or so to return alive, but more than twice that number had survived. Trying to rob them by force could easily lead to unforeseen trouble.
To play it safe.
They would wait until they left, until everyone split up.
Then find a chance to strike.
"What do we do now?" the Slender Woman asked calmly, looking at Jiang Qiao as though she considered him the one in charge.
The other adventurers looked over too.
This man... dared to travel alone through the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest. He was clearly not someone to mess with. He had also been the first to discover this cave and had led everyone here.
Of the eighty-odd people who had entered the cave, only a quarter remained.
Their losses had been severe.
Instinctively.
All the adventurers treated Jiang Qiao as their decision-maker, intending to hear his opinion.
"What do you mean, what do we do?"
"We gathered the herbs. Naturally, we head back."
Jiang Qiao smiled.
He was still watching the enormous space rift, his gaze somewhat unfathomable.
Those who had been