In the blink of an eye, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang crossed dozens of kilometers and arrived near the ruins.
Yet the closer they drew, the stranger Jiang Mian felt.
The ruins no longer seemed like ruins, but a complete Base City.
Pedestrians moved back and forth inside. There were black and white people alike, along with foreign-language signs she could not understand—it matched her impression of a certain country perfectly.
But Jiang Mian knew perfectly well that it was all fake.
A more twisted, bizarre spiritual force had appeared around them.
It tried to alter Jiang Mian's perception, making the scene before her seem more real. She could even hear the pedestrians talking.
"Is this... spiritual contamination?"
Jiang Mian briefly described what she saw, then pointed at the "city."
"Brother Ye, can you see it?"
Ye Chenyang spread out his senses, his gaze piercing through the mist and settling on clusters of writhing darkness deep within the ruins.
"I can see it, though the form is somewhat different."
At that, Ye Chenyang could not help finding it strange.
Over this period, the power of Jiang Mian's [Radiance] had grown considerably. In theory, her immunity to spiritual contamination should already have been about the same as his.
So why, when faced with this unknown contamination, could she still see something different from what he saw?
Was it because of her own unique nature?
Or was this spiritual contamination specifically targeting her?
Jiang Mian harbored the same doubts.
Perhaps she had spread out her senses earlier and come into contact with too much "contamination," allowing it to affect her mind slightly?
Jiang Mian patted Ye Chenyang's shoulder, signaling for him to put her down.
"There's no use just thinking about it. Let's investigate and find the source of the contamination."
"Alright."