"Forget it, forget it. I could only blame myself for not being resolute enough. I couldn't fault anyone else."
Sun Minjie muttered soundlessly, withdrew his gaze from Murphy's receding back, and swept his eyes around the area with vigilance.
The next moment, he spotted Ilya, who had only recently entered the God Realm.
"So she came in after all? But Black Star isn't here either..."
"With this endless black fog, finding someone won't be easy..."
"Forget it. I have nothing else to do anyway. I'll follow her and take a look—call it surveillance."
With that thought in mind, Sun Minjie immediately left the other Golden Boot Warriors behind and headed toward Ilya.
As he drew closer, he could vaguely hear the intermittent conversation between Lu Li's group and Murphy coming from the direction of the black-fog giant.
The task seemed fairly simple.
They merely needed the stone men to do some heavy lifting and carry the "Lu Li" beneath the black-fog giant out.
Sigh!
Regret!
If only I'd been a little more resolute earlier!
Ilya noticed Sun Minjie, one of the Brocade Boot Warriors, approaching her. Her already tense heart grew even more uneasy.
She immediately stopped searching for Black Star and stood frozen in place, not daring to make the slightest movement.
"C-Commander Sun Minjie..."
Ilya's face turned pale, and her eyes darted away, not daring to meet Sun Minjie's gaze.
Afraid that he would suspect her motives, Ilya hurriedly explained, "Overlord Lu Li said I could come in. I just wanted to find Black Star and see whether he's safe..."
"I know." Sun Minjie was still regretting having missed the chance to earn an enormous amount of military merit, so his expression was anything but pleasant.
When he answered, his face remained cold, as though someone owed him