"Desire and wishes, aren't they the same?" Huangfu Miaomiao asked.
Feng Ling glanced at her and smiled. "To the person making the wish, it's a wish. But to a deity, that might not be the case."
Ye Zheng fell silent for a moment upon hearing this, then said quietly, "That thing made of so many chunks of flesh... no matter how I looked at it, I couldn't see it as a normal wish."
"Let's go back and ask the Taoist priest. He loves studying this kind of thing." Feng Ling looked down the road ahead. "Come on. The Safe Zone is just past one more street."
The three returned to the Safe Zone.
Perhaps because of the Wandering Deity activity, they did not encounter a single rat along the way.
After returning, Feng Ling was about to tell Li Qing and Xu Yiming what had happened when Li Qing abruptly stood up. With a shocked expression, he rushed over to her in a few strides and looked her up and down as if he were seeing something terrifying.
Feng Ling was baffled by his scrutiny and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"
Huangfu Miaomiao also asked Li Qing, "Yeah, why are you looking at Feng Ling like that?"
Li Qing took a deep breath and said to Feng Ling, "You've been Marked! There's a skull symbol over your head. Who did it?!"
"Ah..." Feng Ling's eyes widened in surprise.
Ye Zheng immediately flew into a rage. "I told you to leave quickly, but you refused! You got so close—the Labyrinth Master must have Marked you!"
Li Qing turned to look at Ye Zheng again and said gravely, "You've been Marked too."
Ye Zheng was stunned. Her scarlet eyes stared at Li Qing in disbelief.
Only Xu Yiming was still out of the