In the Death Realm.
Shanhai was working on something.
Many of the red conduits that had once spread underground now lay twisted across the surface.
The whole area looked like a machine that had been taken apart, its pieces scattered everywhere.
Shanhai held up one of the red conduits, though what he was doing with it was unclear.
Judging by his grim expression, it was no simple job.
He had just received a message from the Black Robes.
Li Xieqian had sent it personally, summoning him back.
Shanhai looked at the conduit in his hand, which had reached a critical stage. After a moment's thought, he decided to contact his original self.
[Original, something's come up!]
Lin Feng was sitting in the villa with one leg crossed over the other, watching TV.
He had spent the New Year putting on weight for days.
When his duplicate contacted him out of the blue, Lin Feng paused the TV.
[What is it? Found something new in the Death Realm?]
Shanhai had been in the Death Realm for almost a month now. Lin Feng hadn't asked how his research was going.
[Something seems to be happening with the Black Robes. Li Xieqian messaged me and told me to go to Gathering Star No. 4!]
[But I can't just drop what I'm doing in the Death Realm.]
[These conduits should connect to something like a controller. I still haven't found it.]
[The controller might be alive. I'm setting up some Sealing to keep it from escaping the Death Realm.]
Shanhai's messages kept coming.
[What do I do? Give up on this thing in the Death Realm for now?]
Whatever was inside the network of conduits had realized Shanhai was hunting it and was fleeing desperately.
Its methods of escape were so strange that Shanhai