Yue Xing's smile froze before her eyes, while Ademos, in her arms, still had his brows furrowed.
Chen Xi couldn't move either. Only her thoughts continued racing.
Lin Yue was dead?
The timing was far too coincidental. Chen Xi immediately connected the Bandage Monster from earlier with Lin Yue.
Looking back, the abilities the Bandage Monster used really were quite similar to Lin Yue's Shadow Dweller, except they manifested in completely different ways. That was why she hadn't made the connection at all.
The biggest question was... how had Lin Yue become one of the Seven Deadly Sins' advance operatives?
Chen Xi could hardly imagine what the other girl had been through in Tianhai City.
As her thoughts ran wild, darkness washed over her like a tide.
The blonde girl jolted awake in bed.
"Haah—" Lin Yue's breathing was ragged, and fine beads of sweat covered her forehead.
The image of the black-haired girl lunging at Chen Xi kept replaying in her mind, haunting Lin Yue like a nightmare and leaving her unable to come to her senses for a long time.
"It was an illusion," she reassured herself.
It had to be an illusion created by the Mountain God. She couldn't fall for it.
And yet, every sensation had felt so real, as had the familiar presence she'd sensed at the very end.
Every last detail cruelly denied the fantasy she clung to.
"No, it can't be. She said she only had feelings for me, that she only liked me..."
"Right, exactly. Xiao Xi and that girl are just friends, like Zhu Li."
Lin Yue gradually managed to calm herself.
She picked up her phone and checked the date.
[September 14, 18:53]
She had regressed by a full nineteen days, right back to the day she awakened her