At that moment, I was sitting on the ground. As I spoke, I brushed aside a strand of Xiao Yu's silky hair.
The surrounding investigators stared in astonishment.
"What's their relationship?"
"Isn't this way too intimate?"
"Could she be his sister?"
"Sister my ass. They look like a couple!"
"..."
But those voices were only whispers, and we paid them no mind.
The people around us were tactful as well and did not disturb us.
I said to Xiao Yu:
"Xiao Yu, while you were in seclusion, I went to the Northeast.
I also wiped out a small restricted zone with Master and met Black Mother..."
I began chatting idly with Xiao Yu.
What Xiao Yu liked most was listening to me talk.
She even said that once things here stabilized, she wanted to go over there with me and take a look...
It felt like only a moment had passed when powerful ghostly energy suddenly began pouring out from the open gates of the Nine Corpse Tower.
Wails of "woo woo woo" rang out without end...
The tremendous noise drew everyone's attention.
We all turned to look at once.
When we saw densely packed ghosts emerging from the gates of the Nine Corpse Tower, everyone present was astonished once again.
"What's going on? Another huge batch of ghosts came out?"
"There are so many?"
"Captain!"
"..."
But I understood what was happening. The Misty Ghost Domain served as a buffer zone before the Nine Corpse Tower.
Even if the Abyss Ghost Cave had been sealed, it would still draw ghosts drifting toward this place.
Negative evil energy would flow here as well.
The ghosts were kept here mainly to absorb the evil energy drifting in from outside, preventing it from entering beneath the seal and being absorbed by the