When the unfamiliar girl in red rushed into the cottage, Yu Sheng merely paused for a moment before rushing in after her.
The instant he crossed the wooden door, he felt as though he had passed through something thin and cold, like mist. Immediately afterward, many of the sounds around him vanished. The howls that had constantly surrounded them, and seemed to have chased them right up to the door, abruptly disappeared. The wind faded away as well. Only the infant's cries remained—the cries that only he could hear and that had continued without pause ever since he entered the Black Forest—though even they sounded muffled, as if separated from him by a thick barrier.
Yu Sheng cautiously raised his weapon and swept his gaze around the room, then frowned unconsciously.
He did not see any of the red cloaks that had been hanging around.
There was not a single red cloak, whether on the walls or on the floor.
The only spot of red in the room was the girl in red sitting on the floor and gasping for breath.
Yu Sheng and Huli walked over to the girl and stood before her. He tried waving a hand in front of her eyes, but she still showed no reaction.
Just then, Huli seemed to notice something as well. She furrowed her brow, sniffed a few times, and suddenly said in a low voice, "Benefactor, there's no smell."
Yu Sheng did not understand at first. "What?"
"There's no smell on her," Huli explained.
Yu Sheng frowned, a thoughtful look crossing his face. Then, as if he had suddenly sensed something, he immediately opened the wooden box containing the angel's umbilical cord.
The umbilical cord still lay quietly at the bottom of the box. Yet at some point, part of the