"Those things again."
Shen Boxia finished packing and found Jiang Qiao already sitting by the campfire like a lord at his leisure. He felt rather helpless, but dared not say anything. Looking toward the distant main peak of Heaven's End Mountain, he noticed a fire burning up there too.
In the firelight.
He could just make out the figures of two women and three children.
That was utterly bizarre.
Although they were too far away for him to see their faces clearly, would normal people—even special ability users—dance halfway up the main peak of Heaven's End Mountain?
And those three children were skipping around, playing and roughhousing.
Were those the children of any normal family?
"They are a little unusual." Jiang Qiao studied them closely. "Have you heard any legends like this?"
"No."
Apprehension filled Shen Boxia's eyes.
"Places near the Northern Ice Plains are practically forbidden zones, even by northern standards. Aside from adventurers who value money over their lives, very few people in the Supernatural Circle come here willingly."
"The legends and stories that make it out are only the tip of the iceberg."
"And truth is mixed with fiction."
"It's extremely hard to tell them apart."
"Figures like those on Heaven's End Mountain definitely aren't living people, but they're also very different from ordinary evil spirits."
Hearing this.
Jiang Qiao gave Shen Boxia a rather strange look.
"What is it?"
Shen Boxia paused, baffled by the way Jiang Qiao was looking at him.
"Nothing."
"I just thought of an old acquaintance."
Jiang Qiao smiled.
When it came to peculiar behavior, this man's later behavior on the Nethersea Islands was far stranger than that of the figures on Heaven's End Mountain.
Those figures seemed bizarre to people of this era.
That was because they hadn't accumulated enough supernatural