"Did you discover anything?" Gao Ming immediately grew excited. He had never expected to get answers ahead of time here. Though worried about Yan Xizhi, he was also intensely curious.
Yan Xizhi did not answer immediately. Instead, she studied Gao Ming even more closely, as if trying to determine whether the man before her was the Gao Ming she had known before.
"What is it? Did you see other Gao Mings in the black fog?" The Old Principal's gaze made Gao Ming deeply uncomfortable.
"Some things can't be spoken casually, especially now..." Yan Xizhi pointed at the wounds on her body. "This black fog can think. It's like the ashes of souls gathered together, or the outward manifestation of some special will."
"I don't really understand what you mean. Right now, I want to know who hurt you. What dangers are hidden in the black fog?" Gao Ming was growing anxious. His most important friends were still trapped in the fog. If even Principal Yan could be injured with her strength as a Dream Ghost, the Spirit Medium and the others would probably fare even worse.
"I can't speak of the thing that hurt me. The moment I do, it will hear, then see you, find you in the black fog, and finally kill you." Yan Xizhi sounded cryptic, but she had already given Gao Ming a crucial piece of information.
"An unspeakable being?"
Yan Xizhi neither nodded nor shook her head. She simply continued, "I did enter the black fog, but I never left Hanhai. I was injured just as I was about to leave."
Gao Ming's mind raced, and he immediately grasped what Yan Xizhi meant. Did the unspeakable being only attack once someone left the city of Hanhai?
"I lost my bearings as soon as I entered