"See this?" After taking Shanhai on a circuit, Lin Feng brought him back to where they had started.
He pointed at the ground, where the red veins converged beneath the spot Hela had been sitting.
Shanhai crouched and touched it.
"Some kind of energy convergence point?"
Frowning, Shanhai activated the same X-ray vision his original possessed.
Under his gaze, every detail of the red veins came into view.
Countless branches, large and small, spread in a tangled web across the planet.
"It looks a little like the Starfolk's, but it works in reverse!" Shanhai followed the red veins with his gaze.
The Starfolk had leylines and convergence points too.
But a Space Stone now sat at their convergence point, constantly feeding energy into the leylines.
Here, it was the exact opposite.
Energy in the planet's veins seemed to be flowing toward this convergence point.
And the source of that energy was a multitude of bewildered souls.
"Holy shit. Hela set this up, didn't she?"
Shanhai switched off his X-ray vision. He had more or less worked out what the veins did.
Using souls as an energy source could be summed up in one word: evil.
"Feeding on souls. That's disgusting!"
"Right? You think it's disgusting too!" Lin Feng nodded along vigorously.
Shanhai had a vague sense that something was off, though he couldn't say what...
"And?"
"And what?"
"Why are you telling me all this?" Shanhai asked, puzzled.
Lin Feng pressed his lips together and glanced at him.
"Christmas is only a few days away, right?"
Shanhai sucked in a breath.
Does my original always jump between topics like this? That was the clumsiest subject change I've ever heard!
After a moment's hesitation, Shanhai answered anyway.
"Yeah. Christmas is in a few days, and then comes New Year's Day."
"And