From Igniting Talents to Becoming a Demon God - Section 693

However, faint footsteps sounded from overhead.

Ji Linxian did not answer. He merely turned his head to look above the underground base, toward the enormous crater that Lu Chao and Fitz had previously smashed through—a passage to the surface dozens of meters above.

Rustle...

The faint sound of pebbles rolling came from above, while steady footsteps drew closer and closer.

The cloaked woman noticed the slight movement and instinctively looked up as well.

A long, narrow shadow stretched from the edge of the crater.

It was not just her. The severely wounded airborne Black man, Hoffman, and the others barely regained their senses amid trembling coughs of blood, subconsciously looking in that direction as well.

Rustle...

The footsteps finally approached.

The shifting, elongated shadow gradually vanished. A figure stepped over the shattered alloy flooring and rock strata, entering the first-floor lobby of Biotech headquarters and arriving at the edge of the massive crater.

It was a bronze-skinned figure with his upper body bare.

Thin wisps of white vapor seeped from the pores across his body. Clearly, after an intense battle, his bodily functions had begun regulating his energy and balancing his internal temperature.

His gaze was exceptionally calm, his breathing remarkably steady, and there was not a single wound on his body.

The instant she saw his face clearly, the cloaked woman's pupils contracted sharply.

"How could this be..."

Her expression trembled. Instinctively, she expanded her senses, attempting to envelop the space aboveground and detect that familiar presence.

One meter, ten meters, one hundred meters...

"Nothing?"

The cloaked woman's eyelids twitched, disbelief rising within her.

She could not sense Fitz's life force at all?

It was as though he had completely vanished from this world.

"Where is Fitz?"

The cloaked woman's face turned deathly pale, her lips moving several times.