A Faint Cough

By the time he finished speaking, he had already started running off into the distance. In just a short while, Momo could no longer see Qin Xi. She knew this had to be extremely serious, so she quickly ran in the opposite direction to find Qirui, Di Qun, and the others.

It took Momo a very long time to gather everyone together. After all, they were in four different directions, and they truly were very difficult to find.

When Qin Xi ran back to that underground tunnel, he saw that nothing around it had changed. At that moment, Qin Xi felt that his instincts had been right—the sound really had come from inside just now.

Qin Xi went down into the tunnel again. This time, he did not light a torch. Instead, he carefully used his divine sense, probing bit by bit as he walked through the darkness.

Qin Xi was like a wandering ghost hidden within the tunnel. No one noticed his traces at all. He buried all his power deep away and carefully walked inward.

Once again, he skipped directly past the earlier rooms and arrived at the room where he had heard the sound before.

He listened carefully inside the room, but there was no sound at all.

Qin Xi did not grow especially anxious. Instead, he leaned very quietly against the room's wall, carefully distinguishing the sounds around him.

Sure enough, after a long time had passed, Qin Xi heard the sound of an extremely suppressed cough again. Qin Xi's heart shook, and he was equally overjoyed. It seemed the Mediocre Death God was definitely here.

Qin Xi listened to the sounds beyond the wall. After a few coughs, there was no sound at all. He looked at that wall and groped along it bit by