At home, Jiang Mian put down her phone and yawned.
"Finally, it's over..."
When she'd detonated the core just now, she'd compressed all her remaining power to make sure she'd cleaned everything up thoroughly.
"By the way... how did those two run into each other?"
Jiang Mian had sensed Ye Chenyang's presence while she was at the medicine warehouse. Then Xiao Song showed up, too.
She guessed Xiao Song was simply unusually perceptive, much like her.
Against high-tier Awakened like them, Aberrants who were at most Third-tier couldn't hide. Besides, Number Two, the Wind Element one, had already been swallowed by Number One.
As for Ye Chenyang, she had no idea. Every time she wanted to do something, that kid would come sniffing around.
"What a cursed connection..."
Jiang Mian rubbed her face and couldn't help grumbling.
"Forget it. I'm not thinking about him anymore. Time to sleep."
She burrowed under the covers, curled herself into a ball, and closed her eyes.
She fell asleep just as quickly this time. Her eyes closed and opened, and Jiang Mian found herself back on that blood-red wasteland.
But this time, the pool was gone, and so was the ball of flesh. In their place stood a "tree" made of flesh and blood.
"Whoa?!"
She let out a rare gasp of astonishment.
Wasn't this thing... a little too big?
Jiang Mian could see clearly that even one of its outermost branches was almost as thick as her thigh.
Could it be... that the more it accumulated, the more advanced its life form became?
After all, the first two times, it had been a mass of flesh writhing in the shadows. Now, after gathering more than twenty branches, it had "evolved" into this form.
"Whatever. I'll burn it first!"
Jiang Mian strode toward the