In the dark of night, countless glittering stars lay scattered sparsely across the sky.
The clear moonlight draped the earth in a silver-gray gauze gown. Shining on the petals, it made the flowers lovelier still; spilling into the forest, it mingled with the cool, faintly fragrant night air, refreshing the heart and soul.
Cat Girl Duoduo rode the Human-Faced Spider Emperor, now reduced to a Stitchcorpse Monster, as it raced forward. Sweat dripped from her cheeks onto her dry, pale lips. Her clothes were somewhat tattered from a fall, but she could no longer spare a thought for any of that. Run forward, keep running forward—her subconscious kept telling her that she had to leave that place, had to escape the Star Dou Great Forest!
Shrubs, grass, and trees—the scenery around her flew backward.
The wind howled, striking Cat Girl Duoduo's face with bitter cold and freezing her fresh sweat into tiny beads of frost, damp and chilly.
Abruptly, the Human-Faced Spider Emperor beneath Cat Girl Duoduo stopped.
It had not wanted to stop. It had no choice.
Ahead of the Human-Faced Spider Emperor, stalks of Blue Silver Grass as thick as buckets lay concealed among the waist-high shrubs, forming something like tripwires. Had it failed to brake just now, the Blue Silver Grass would likely have sent it sprawling, while inertia flung Cat Girl Duoduo off its back. She would have become a helpless moving target in midair, exposed to merciless attacks from enemies hidden in the darkness.
"Who's there!"
Cat Girl Duoduo's gaze chilled. Her red garments rustled beneath the moonlight, presenting an exquisite sight tinged with sorrow.
As Cat Girl Duoduo's voice faded, several figures suddenly emerged from the depths of the forest.
The first to emerge was a young man who stood among the ferocious beasts