You Are a Mirage, and I Am a Nightmare

When he reappeared, the slanting shadow had already reached the foot of a mountain ten kilometers away.

With no trees to obscure him this time, a handsome figure in a black trench coat was revealed, his beauty almost demonic as he stood in the wilderness.

It was Wu Heng, who had returned to reality from Lighthouse Space.

Nightmare Power coiled around his palm and shot a thousand meters beneath an ancient tree so wide that ten men could barely encircle it, drawing up a gray cloth bag about a foot long.

Flesh-silver ripples spread across the cloth bag, like the skin of a living creature.

Wu Heng put it away, inspected it, and only then nodded in satisfaction before storing it again.

Then he extended his thoughts, connecting them to the substitute he had created. He found the other party riding a motorcycle on the way to Beiquan City.

The trunk was loaded with mountain herbs he had purchased, and the substitute looked travel-worn.

Wu Heng then connected his consciousness to Sunshine Residential Complex, reading records related to special energy from the statue at home and the necklace around his mother's neck.

His mother was still safe. As for his younger sister, whom he had not bothered to pay attention to, she had unexpectedly returned home from school once.

She had checked on Mother Wu, asked for some money on the pretext of signing up for a tutoring class, then hurried back to school.

It was Wu Heng's first time seeing his sister in person, though only through the memories stored in the statue at home.

"Mm, what was my sister's name again?"

Wu Heng searched through his memories and finally found it: Wu Duoduo.

After confirming that everything was fine at home, he turned his gaze toward Mountain Pool