"Drip."
Water dripped from the great hall's beams. The True Radiance Hall was exceedingly damp.
Jiang Buyi stepped over a small puddle before him and, with the Forbidden Puppet behind him, arrived before the small giant standing over ten feet tall beside the main hall's table platform.
It looked like a giant statue? It wore battered black heavy armor and gripped a black halberd. Cobwebs crawled through the cracks in its armor, and its body was thick with dust. It had likely been a very, very long time since anyone had come to clean it.
That was perfectly normal. How many years had Void Island been desolate for?
"Wait!"
Jiang Buyi had intended to pass the statue and search the hall for what he wanted.
Suddenly, just as his gaze left the giant statue, he felt something watching him. The back of his head went cold.
But when he turned back, the giant statue had not moved.
Even its eyelids remained lowered, revealing only eyeballs without visible pupils through the narrow slits. Though the statue was lifelike, it did not possess the slightest trace of vitality.
"Who is it?"
Jiang Buyi spoke calmly. He was certain that had not been an illusion.
If the statue had not just glanced at him, then someone else in the True Radiance Hall was secretly spying on him.
Mu Zixi's face behind him was still deathly pale, so much so that Jiang Buyi's shout failed to make her expression change greatly.
Hearing the old man ahead, she did not even turn her head to look around. She merely stared blankly at the towering statue in the distance, her eyes utterly unfocused.
"Big watermelons, big watermelons, they're all big watermelons, fragrant and sweet big watermelons..."
The puppet's thoughts raced as she finally met her good