Outside, the once-stable space trembled faintly.
Chu Chu, who had been chatting, could barely keep his footing. A trace of surprise flashed through his eyes.
Strange.
Had they encountered a spatial turbulence?
Chu Chu had encountered such things before, so it was not particularly unusual.
But Chen Ke's expression was different.
Something about this space felt deeply strange.
"So, sir, have you decided what you'd like to buy?"
A smile still hung on Chu Chu's face as he looked at Chen Ke, his bearing unfathomably mysterious.
But the next moment—
Chen Ke's gaze sharpened. He seized Chu Chu by the throat, and a surge of power flowed in.
Detection from the main control system activated.
Where was the system? Where had the system gone?
Chen Ke was furious.
Inside, Chu Chu also cried out for the system to save him. Yet no matter how he called, he could not summon the system.
Beside them, Gu Yuan had already awakened from his sleep and was watching the two with great interest.
"Where did the system go?"
Chen Ke's voice was grave as he gripped Chu Chu's neck.
As a cultivator of the Myriad Laws Realm, though he had occasionally slacked off over the years, he had never once let a system slip away.
Yet he had still run into this.
Damn it.
This system must have taken the chance to escape.
His divine sense spread out, and every trace in the vicinity came into view.
But there was no sign whatsoever of a system fleeing.
Had it hidden itself?
No, something was definitely wrong.
Chen Ke's face grew uglier and uglier.
"Sy... sy..."
Chu Chu, his throat clutched in Chen Ke's hand, spoke weakly. He kept failing to get the word out, and no one knew what he was trying to