Of course, this didn't mean Xiao Yang had truly gone on a killing spree. Everything in the sewer simply made him feel uneasy.
Nothing here seemed quite right—not even the things that looked normal.
The Red-eyed Rats had deformed arms growing from their bellies. The slimes gathered arm bones of all sizes. Even the Moss Lizards crawling haphazardly across the ceiling of the lower tunnel had deformed bulges beneath their flesh, not yet broken through their tails.
The pale skull in Little Bone's hand fell to the ground, startling the giant crab inside. No, no—that wasn't a crab at all. Its legs were tangled together, growing haphazardly and twisting into a knot. It was a grotesque, terrifying thing.
A boot came crashing down, crushing the strange crab into a pulp. Little Bone was frightened and grabbed Xiao Yang without thinking.
Xiao Yang rubbed the little one's head.
"Good. Hide in my shadow, and don't come out without permission!"
Nothing was right, and it made Xiao Yang uneasy.
But he couldn't say exactly what was wrong.
The exploration continued. They reached the end of a passage, and Xiao Yang's killing continued, but for some reason, he had reached the end of the tunnel far too soon.
Looking at the solid wall before him, Xiao Yang frowned, the map in his hand.
"No, according to the map, I've only made it two-thirds of the way through this passage. Why have I reached the end so quickly?"
Something felt wrong to Xiao Yang, yet the wall before him seemed entirely real.
He stood there in silence for a while, then took a long look at the solid wall in front of him.
Turning around, Xiao Yang started back the way he had come. But before long, another wall that looked just as real