A hand suddenly reached out and broke the spell.
Ye Zhengyi was completely unceremonious. He draped an arm over my shoulders, hooked it around my neck, and gave me a familiar, playful shake.
"Ha, don't overthink it. It's all in the past. You only need to know the general outline," Ye Zhengyi said. "Let's focus on the future instead."
He sounded so cheerful, as if he wanted to leave the past completely behind.
But we'd started talking about the past the moment we met. He'd just thrown out a whole lot of information, only to turn around and say something so contradictory. It was hard not to be suspicious.
That feeling of being watched hadn't been a figment of my imagination.
I immediately realized Ye Zhengyi had deliberately changed the subject.
He felt it too.
That feeling of being watched...
Was it the higher power of the future, or some powerful ghost king?
Now that the yin energy was gone, I couldn't be sure I'd sense a ghost king nearby.
I wanted to use Nangong Yao and Gu Mo's abilities to search, but no matter how long I focused, I got no results.
Whatever it was lay beyond my search range.
I was more inclined to think that the higher power of the future world had its eye on me.
Its tendrils had surely reached into the real world. The "it" in the real world had lost its personality after I erased it, so it probably couldn't actively resist an invasion anymore. It couldn't monitor a particular soul, either.
It could no longer alter the world completely, but it should still be capable of going after a single soul.
It just had to find its target.
The chains on me might have blocked its search twice. I still couldn't figure