The sudden question stunned everyone. The person who had asked it was Chen Changan.
Everyone looked at Chen Changan curiously. From beginning to end, he had kept such a low profile that he had practically been invisible. No one had expected him to raise such a crucial question at this moment.
How, exactly, had the entrance opened?
"We don't know exactly how the entrance opened. But we do know one thing: we have no way to close it."
"So when people came here last time, there was only one thing we could do. We urged them not to return and not to tell anyone else about this place."
"We just didn't expect... that they wouldn't listen."
They hadn't listened?
Were these people really that naive? The best way to protect a secret was to kill everyone who knew it.
If they truly wanted to prevent the Devil Race from reviving and keep this secret safe, what would killing a few people matter?
Could these people be connected to Su Tiandao? Was everything happening now an act they had staged together?
Or were they genuinely this naive, having lived in the Demon Abyss all their lives without ever being tempered by the darker side of human nature?
Besides, if they were putting on a show with Su Tiandao, parts of it made little sense. They had come this far, so how were they supposed to continue onward?
These people clearly did not want them to go any farther. They would rather have them leave right now. Unless that problem was resolved, there was no way forward.
"This was indeed our fault. We simply hadn't thought it through."
"Only after arriving here did we suddenly realize this was likely an ancient Demon-Slaying Battlefield where devils were slain. But we never imagined the