Jiang Mian did not have her clone return to the hotel.
There were too many people there, and the blood on the clone was far too conspicuous. With cameras everywhere, it could easily be exposed and bring unnecessary trouble.
As for the [Sea of Misfortune] core, after repeatedly examining it, Jiang Mian figured it should be fine.
She could even hear its voice through the "wind."
Although she couldn't rule out the possibility that it was pretending, in the end, it was just a core now.
Even a Seventh-tier Calamity couldn't have an ability as heaven-defying as taking over someone's body.
And... Jiang Mian wanted to know why it was so desperate to find her.
Surely it wasn't just to see her?
In the hotel room, Jiang Mian looked out the window.
It was raining again.
Within minutes, the gentle drizzle had turned into a raging storm.
Fat raindrops pounded against the window, blurring the lights outside into hazy halos.
In the direction of the Mist boundary, streaks of ice-blue lightning flashed. It was clearly no natural phenomenon.
The [Sea of Misfortune] had just "died," and now another one had come... Was it deliberate, or an accident?
She couldn't help suspecting that everything that had happened tonight was part of a plan.
So be it. The rain would make it easier for her to act.
Jiang Mian got ready and changed into clothes that would help her stay hidden. Deliberately avoiding the hotel's security cameras, she slipped silently into the rain.
She chose a dim, unpaved road in East City as the place to retrieve her clone—the spot where the clone had entered the activity zone earlier.
Most of the Awakened in the activity zone had withdrawn by now, and attention in the city had shifted back to the offshore