After Jing Yuan and the Divine General were killed in an instant, a metal cylinder was left where they had stood.
"Hm?" Fu Xuan stared at it, puzzled.
"What is that thing? It just appeared out of nowhere."
March 7th came to her senses and pointed at the object on the ground. "Oh, I know! That's a heater from Belobog!"
"Uh... wait. Why would a heater from Belobog show up in the medicine market?"
Fu Xuan thought it over, then offered an explanation.
"It seems a piece of one experience has gotten mixed into another, like an intruding foreign object."
"And that attack just now... It killed the general and the Divine General outright."
"How could an attack like that appear here?"
The more Fu Xuan thought about it, the less right it felt. She made a suggestion.
"Miss March, perhaps we should leave. This place may already be beyond the Grand Void Array's control."
"Huh...?" Even without Fu Xuan saying so, March 7th had noticed something was wrong.
The way Jing Yuan had spoken just now was nothing like his usual self. He had even attacked them in earnest.
Jing Yuan had fought the Express Crew before, but he had been left with no choice at the time. March 7th had never imagined he would one day sincerely want to fight her.
"Wait..."
March 7th suddenly seemed to remember something.
"Why did Jing Yuan turn against us back in the Scalegorge Waterscape?"
"Hm? Why bring that up all of a sudden?"
Fu Xuan answered as though it were obvious.
"Wasn't it because the Calamity of Annihilation blocked our way and threatened the lives of the Xianzhou's people?"
March 7th nodded.
"That's right, but why did Nanook come to block our way?"
Fu Xuan gave March 7th an odd look.