Pursuit

"Bang!"

The window of Ye Feng's dormitory was smashed through.

Ye Feng, his arm streaming with blood, leaped out of the second-floor window. After landing, he did not pause for even a moment, swiftly running toward the depths of the forest.

At the shattered second-floor window, the deformed man holding three black dogs wore a troubled expression as he scratched his head with one finger.

"Fredri said we had to kill this person in the room. What do we do now that he's escaped?"

Suddenly, a drop of blood seeped out from between the floorboards, forming a vicious human face.

"Idiot! Hurry and chase after him. Bring me this person's corpse within ten minutes... And remember! Before killing him, check his entire body for any markings."

"Yes."

After receiving Fredri's order, Little San leaped down through the shattered window. Crawling on all fours, he ran alongside the vicious hounds, following the bloodstains Ye Feng had left behind as he fled toward the depths of the forest.

The commotion from Ye Feng's dormitory woke all three people in the neighboring room, including Yu Jing.

However, when the three of them pushed open the dormitory door, what lay before them was not the manor's corridor, but the center of a plaza they had never seen before. Raindrops the size of beans fell continuously from the sky, and with the hazy white mist spreading around them, their visibility was less than ten meters.

Beside the circular fountain in the center of the plaza, a woman in a white raincoat was half-crouched by the fountain, staring at them.

"Pitter-patter!" The sound of raindrops striking the ground disrupted the three people's hearing.

"Rainwater Illusion Technique... freeze."

Shui Bingmiao waved his hand, and all the rain throughout the world froze. Although the rain's influence vanished,