Eyes on the Porch
"What!"
Sha Chuan and the other two reacted strongly and immediately went on guard. Nie Xuan was just as quick to take out a square glass box. He shook the shifting sand inside, then held it flat in his palm and watched how the white sand moved.
The sand spread across the bottom of the box and drifted toward them. Some of it gathered into five dots, representing the five of them.
"There's no one else here, and nothing else either." Nie Xuan put the item away and turned to Xu Huo. "Did you pick something up with your mental power?"
"I haven't opened my Spiritual World." Xu Huo frowned, but the prickling sensation of being watched from behind hadn't gone away. After only a moment's hesitation, he made a snap decision. "We're leaving. Now."
Without giving the others time to react, he grabbed Sha Chuan and Wei Xiaoyi, who were behind him, and took a single step that carried them two hundred meters away.
Nie Xuan, who was holding Tian Zhengjiang, followed close behind, but the two of them could only take that one step.
Two hundred meters was the limit of how far they could move using Space Power in this space. Yet when they stopped, Xu Huo and Nie Xuan both looked grave.
They had unquestionably retreated more than two hundred meters, but in front of them was the porch with the eye design that they had passed not long ago.
They exchanged a glance. In tacit agreement, they each took the people beside them and retreated again, covering another two hundred meters. But when their feet touched the ground, the same porch was still before them.
Sha Chuan and the others understood, too. "Could we be under some kind of mental interference?"