The phantom wolves crossed one block after another through the gaps between light and shadow, passing over those misaligned, overlapping high-rises and roads that seemed to run straight through the air. The entire city had been transformed within the world of reflections into an extremely complex structure of distorted mappings, but the wolves knew how to find their way out of such a warped world—and then, they arrived at their destination.
Yu Sheng only felt his vision blur. The wolf he was riding beneath him leaped from that stark black-and-white world of reflections into vividly colored reality, and the sounds of traffic on the distant road suddenly flooded into his ears as if someone had switched them on.
Huli appeared right behind them. She jumped down from the wolf's back, then rubbed the shadow wolf's head with considerable interest and happily said to Yu Sheng, "Benefactor, the spirit beast Little Red Riding Hood keeps really has some tricks. Its intelligence may be lacking, but even back in my hometown, those shadow-traversing legs would have been useful..."
Then the pitch-black shadow wolf let out an indistinct grunt and wagged its tail while bobbing its head in front of Huli...
"You're still wagging your tail!" Little Red Riding Hood came over and slapped the wolf on the head. "She just said your intelligence is lacking, and you're actually happy about it? I've never seen you act this obsequiously when I ask you to deal with other people!"
Eileen lay across Yu Sheng's shoulder. After looking around and seeing that they were in an empty alley, she raised her head and muttered, "Makes sense. They're all canines. Easy to communicate with."
Huli had no reaction to the little doll's words. She probably hadn't understood them and simply continued rubbing the wolf's head.
But