"Wait!" Ordinary Gao Ming failed to stop them before the First Team's leader went in. As their strength began to recover, their confidence had returned. "Are those two insane?"
"They were hiding their strength before. Now that they've seen you gain something incredible behind that door, of course they won't let the opportunity slip by." Kind Gao Ming shook his head slightly.
"What did I gain?" Ordinary Gao Ming felt he had barely escaped with his life, and he was still in terrible shape.
"You haven't noticed?" Surprise showed in Kind Gao Ming's eyes. "Ever since you came out, blood qi has been surging through you, and you've been giving off a faint scent of flesh. Your left eye is even more frightening. Just having you look at me gives me the creeps, as if you have my fate in your hands."
While they were talking, the strange man whose entire body was covered suddenly stepped out from behind Fan Li. He approached the two Gao Mings and pulled his mask halfway down. "Could we speak in private?"
He opened an unoccupied rental unit and waited until both Gao Mings had entered before removing his hat and mask. His face was identical to Gao Ming's, except that it was densely covered in words praying for blessings.
"The second-to-last Gao Ming to get off?" Ordinary Gao Ming remembered this Gao Ming vividly. The platform he had gone to had been stranger than all the others.
"On that bus heading into the past, I remembered a lot of things. I also met a very interesting man. His name was Lu Zang." Flesh-and-Blood Gao Ming was unsmiling, but his gaze was gentle.
"Wasn't he fabricated from our memories?"
"There's a kind of ghost in the Shadow World known as an unspeakable existence. As