Finally, as the vehicle stopped for the second time, Jiang Cheng and the others all felt something shift inside them. They knew it was their turn to get off.
The door creaked open, and outside lay the same impenetrable gray fog.
The moment to part had come. Huai Yi and Wang Qi still couldn't leave the vehicle, so Wu Yingying had them stand behind her before waving goodbye to Jiang Cheng.
Wu had said earlier that the Old President was recuperating and had likely already fallen into a deep sleep. That meant Wu Yingying and the others would be safe for the time being.
After saying goodbye to the three of them, the rest stepped off the vehicle. Before them was a town shrouded in night.
The Fatty finally breathed a sigh of relief. This was the place they'd been in before leaving, and Xieming Mountain was not far away.
Jiang Cheng turned to look behind him. Wu had vanished the moment he stepped off. His remaining teammates now stood shoulder to shoulder: the Fatty, Yao Shunyu, Li Bai, and Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie, who looked absolutely terrified.
Jiang Cheng's expression had improved considerably. The mission had been perilous, but they'd managed to return without losing anyone—and even brought back two more people.
It was the middle of the night in this world. Not a single light shone from the surrounding buildings. Stranger still, they could just barely make out their surroundings.
The town wasn't shrouded in darkness so much as a dusky haze, like the look of an old movie.
"Brother Jiang," Tang Qisheng asked anxiously, "where are we?"
"We're where we started," Jiang Cheng replied offhandedly.
Tang Qisheng looked nervous and clearly wanted to ask something else, but when he saw Yao Shunyu and Li Bai's unfriendly