Countermeasures IV

Just as she rushed into the passage, the sky curtain behind her instantly sealed shut, cutting off everything.

She was inside an oval cavity, advancing ever deeper.

There was no light, only the glow shining from her own body.

"Hey, Boss, are you still there?" she asked softly in her mind, a little frightened.

"Shut up and keep going forward!" Zhang Rongfang's voice swiftly replied.

His current state was rather strange.

In truth, his main body had not entered White Scale completely. He had merely sent a small portion inside—roughly one-fifth of his flesh and blood.

After all, one could not put all their eggs in one basket. He simply had not expected to succeed on the first attempt.

"We're just getting out like this? With no preparation at all?" After her excitement faded, White Scale suddenly felt at a loss.

Over these past few years, she had long grown accustomed to relying on Zhang Rongfang. Faced with the unknown now, she instinctively turned to her boss for answers first thing.

"It's fine. With me here, you won't die," Zhang Rongfang said calmly, carefully observing their surroundings.

This sky curtain was clearly extremely thick and solid.

They had already been flying for at least half a minute, at a speed of roughly a dozen meters per second.

Yet they still had not broken through the sky curtain.

"Fine." White Scale suppressed the unease in her heart, accelerated, and flew onward.

Time slipped by without notice.

Then, with a soft sound.

White Scale felt her head suddenly enter an utterly empty place ahead.

Her vision blurred.

Her body had already flown out of the Black-Line Sky Curtain.

Outside the sky curtain.

At the bottom of a dark fissure in the earth.

A massive white one-eyed python shot out from spatial distortion