The floating island stopped collapsing once its core returned to its place, and Zhong Yingxue and the others managed to carry Jiang's body out safely!
They ran back to the cave base!
Mira lay on Jiang Nan's chest, sobbing softly.
Xia Yao held Jiang Nan's little hand against her face, murmuring nonstop!
More than half an hour had already passed, and Jiang Nan was frantic!
Why hadn't he recovered from his fake-death state yet?
Wasn't the biscuit supposed to last half an hour?
Then the side effects were supposed to kick in, right?
Wait!
Could the sheep biscuit's side effect be that he'd keep playing dead?
Did he have to wait for the side effects to wear off before he could come back to life?
I~%...;# *"!
Nobody spoke in the cave. The atmosphere was unbearably heavy!
Suddenly, Ziyuan seemed to remember something!
"Th-this isn't how it went in the dream. In the dream, Mira held Jiang Nan and brought him back!"
"But she couldn't just now. Doesn't that mean the future has changed?"
Xia Yao froze, rubbing her eyes as she choked back sobs. "There's a Spirit Binding Field with a radius of a thousand meters around Xiao Nan, so Mira can't use her ability!"
As she spoke, she pried open Jiang's mouth to check, but there was no Spirit Binding Pearl inside!
Wu Liang's eyes were red. "Brother Nan probably swallowed the Spirit Binding Pearl so he could fight those Bad Beasts with everything he had. He was making his last stand!"
"He never meant to come back alive!"
"What a man! Look at Brother Nan's arms and legs—they're all limp. His bones must've been shattered during the fight, right? A pulverized fracture?"
His words made everyone's hearts ache all over again, and tears pattered to the ground!