In just a few seconds.
The entire carriage had become a pile of smoking remains. Black liquid churned above the wreckage for a moment, then seeped back into the gaps between the Stone Slabs.
The street filled with the sour stench of corrosion.
Lu Yuan rolled over and got to his feet. The Night Watcher driving the carriage had been flung to the base of the wall. With a muffled groan, he pushed himself up by his knees, one hand already resting on the hilt at his waist.
He raised his head and looked ahead.
Three figures.
In the shadow beneath the streetlamp directly ahead, a figure flickered into view. Half her mask was gray-white, and an utterly warmthless smile hung at the corners of her mouth.
They had left the Earl's Mansion less than fifteen minutes ago. She was already here.
It was "Jie."
A man silently dropped down from the top of the high wall to the right. He looked to be in his thirties, with an ordinary face—the kind that would draw no second glance in a crowd.
But the black liquid on his body revealed everything. It constantly seeped from his skin, then withdrew again, flowing slowly over his surface.
Gray-White Text appeared.
[Target detected: Grey Covenant member J (Eerie Transcendence) (Contamination)] [A strange Eerie being, a pilgrim who had abandoned his human identity.]
The moment Lu Yuan saw that, he immediately realized that this man was most likely J.
At the alley entrance to the left, the third figure stepped out.
His carapace-covered skin was marked with dense old scars, every one of them left by insect bites. Yet his steps were steady and his presence deep and heavy, utterly different from the half-dead state he had been in underground last time after