The Greenery Leading to the Past

A disappearance case that looked like the work of an anomaly ended up involving such deep-seated inside information.

The girls, who had not expected this development at all, tentatively began to feel their way forward, yet they arrived at a conclusion far more terrifying than that inside information.

The past gloom of Rongcheng had merely been artificially covered up; this shadow had never completely dissipated, and had even grown stronger during this period of obscurity, enough to form a massive presence.

The emergence of the hypothesis known as the Death Cycle sent a chill down Su Tianqing's spine, making her immensely grateful that she had not detonated her Mindscape as a bomb when fighting Garuda back then to eradicate Garuda once and for all.

If she had really done that at the time, not to mention whether present-day Rongcheng could still be protected, such a fragile, old-model mindscape definitely would not have been able to withstand the aftermath of the explosion. By then, she would have had to face the fully realized Star Realm Behemoth, Garuda, and an unidentified Giant Hydra at the same time.

...Was it truly of unknown origin? Su Tianqing planted a huge question mark against that.

"Its origin only has two possibilities," said Cheshire Rabbit. "First, it might be a hydra that fell from the Star Realm into the Mortal World many years ago, accidentally dropping into the Mindscape where it was intercepted by our predecessors."

Fenrir retorted nonchalantly, picking up the thread, "That possibility sounds pretty bizarre. What's the second one?"

"Second, just like Fox Fox said a moment ago, this hydra might be the hydropolyp left behind by the jellyfish that was slain and eliminated by Scarlet Snow's predecessor back then."

The pink-haired bunny girl maintained an upright posture and proposed this serious possibility.