"Wait."
"Sheng Yi, we're going this way."
The six of them stopped. They had all been walking together in the same direction.
But Chen Xiyao had suddenly stopped.
Sheng Yi glanced at Lu Cang and the others, then shrugged and gave them a helpless smile. "Looks like I'm going this way."
"See you around."
Lu Cang said, "Yeah. See you."
No—if possible, it'd be better if we didn't see each other again... Sheng Yi thought.
Whoosh—
The two of them walked toward an invisible wall. The moment they hit it, they vanished.
"We're almost there, too," Huang Minzhi said.
A few minutes later, a withered, blackened tree suddenly appeared before them.
And beneath the tree,
several shriveled "people" hung.
Whoosh—
Sensing spread out at once. Lu Cang's perception was the fastest among them—not only fast, but first.
He had already obtained the destiny of seeing enemies before anyone else.
On top of that, his Prophet class let him constantly predict the future.
This "first" came before sight.
Lu Cang saw not only the shriveled bodies hanging beneath the tree, bound tightly by slender ropes.
He also saw...
A woman with long, loose hair, her body bare but skinless, drenched in blood.
That person... was Aertemi!
One of Aertemi's avatars.
The moment the group appeared, Aertemi's gaze turned toward them as well. Her bloody face and scarlet pupils carried an extreme sense of oppression with nothing more than a glance.
Thud!
The instant they looked at her, skin and flesh appeared directly on all sides.
Bloody skins stitched together, tracing the outline of walls.
Their retreat was sealed off completely.
It happened too quickly. The other two didn't even have time to react. The skins had formed almost the instant they appeared.
"Looks like we're here."
"Yog, is this the answer