Changes

Hearing Liu Shengyuan's words, Chen Lin looked puzzled.

Could the Girl in the Painting have taken the Nightmare Coins they'd left there and used them to buy food?

The idea was absurd, but he could think of no other explanation.

"Did you try watching it with an Image-Recording Bead?"

Chen Lin turned to Liu Shengyuan and asked.

Liu Shengyuan answered at once. "Yes, my lord. We tried it, but with an Image-Recording Bead present, the Painting didn't change, and the Nightmare Coins we left there didn't disappear."

Chen Lin nodded.

It seemed that whenever outsiders like them entered the Node, they were under constant watch. There was no chance of turning the tables and watching what happened inside.

But that left him powerless to learn what was going on there.

"Keep testing!"

Chen Lin gave the order in a grave voice.

The Painting had suddenly caught his interest, and he wanted to get to the bottom of it. Whatever the Green-Clothed Girl was, the Painting itself was certainly something valuable. If he could bring it into the Reality Realm, it would be of great use.

Before testing whether he could bring it out, though, he had to understand the Green-Clothed Girl. Otherwise, what he brought out might be a disaster rather than a treasure.

Liu Shengyuan accepted the order and left.

Yet more than two months passed without the slightest progress.

Not only had they failed to discover what was happening inside the Node, they had lost several more Nightmare Coins. The food in the Green-Clothed Girl's hands kept changing, from little snacks to fruit, until she was even eating roast chicken and roast duck. She seemed to have taken him for a Money-Sending Boy.

Chen Lin was speechless. Still, all that testing had caused no danger, which put his