Looks Like That Won't Work

Luo Ye shuddered at the sight. "Why does this house feel so creepy, like a haunted house?" The gloomy surroundings were only slightly better than the shipping container they had started out in.

He had no idea why Rasa was willing to stay in a house like this. Wasn't he afraid of having nightmares after living here too long?

And he did not know whether it was just his imagination, but he seemed to sense an intense malice emanating from the house.

Machi walked in first, then stopped to one side, frowning at the level ground.

"Why did you stop?" Luo Ye asked curiously. He looked in the direction of Machi's gaze and saw the ground directly ahead of them.

Luo Ye withdrew his gaze and looked at Machi. "Is there something wrong here?"

Machi nodded, then looked at Luo Ye. "I sense danger, but I can't avoid it."

Otherwise, she would not have stopped. It was precisely because she sensed the danger yet had no way to evade it that she found it troublesome.

"Why not try and find out?" Illumi was a man of action. He directly scattered a handful of nails ahead.

It was as though some switch had been activated. The level ground instantly turned into a vortex, sucking in the nails before returning to normal.

Luo Ye's eye twitched. "The nails hadn't even reached the ground, and they got swallowed already?"

Though he did not know how it worked, it looked difficult to deal with. With no foothold, they would fall straight in if they tried to walk across.

Going around was not an option either. This was the only entrance, and if they chose another route, they could only destroy the house.

But this house was so bizarre that he feared the other routes might be blocked as well, making things even more troublesome for them.

"Or we could use something to plug up the hole?" Feitan looked around, then directly dragged over a pile of trash from outside and tossed it ahead. They lacked everything here except garbage.

He had no qualms about throwing over a heap of trash. Besides, it was a perfect chance to put waste to use and plug the hole.

The vortex appeared again and swallowed the trash Feitan had thrown over.

A hint of distress appeared in Illumi's large, emotionless eyes. "Looks like that won't work."

Feitan furrowed his brows. "I don't believe it. Can it swallow everything? I want to see whether it can really eat it all!"

Feitan's competitive spirit was roused. He dragged over pile after pile of trash from outside and threw it into the hole in the floor.

"Machi, will what Feitan is doing work?" Afraid that Feitan was wasting his effort, Luo Ye could only ask Machi beside him.

Rather than charging in recklessly like Feitan, Luo Ye trusted Machi's sixth sense more.

Machi hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "It can."

With Machi's affirmative answer, Luo Ye rolled up his sleeves and got to work as well. "All right, then let's drag over more trash and try to fill it up."

Once it was full, swallowing them would not be so easy.

Pile after pile of trash was dragged over, forcibly shaving off a corner of the enormous mountain of garbage outside before they finally fed the hole in the floor until it was full.

Looking at the mountain of trash piled on the floor, Luo Ye let out a sigh of relief. "Looks like it finally can't eat anymore. We should be safe now."

Machi's brows remained furrowed. "But my instincts tell me this isn't its limit."

And since it was clearly not at its limit yet had chosen to stop swallowing, that was highly suspicious.

Luo Ye began to feel stumped as well. "If it isn't at its limit but has stopped working, has it reached a limit on the number of times it can swallow things, or is there not enough space? Is it saving room in its stomach for when we go over?"