"No Entry for the Living. Who could make it here and still stop because of those words?"
Zhang Hongxing muttered with a smile.
But Nana did not go straight through the gate. Instead, she carried him down into a nearby valley.
The valley was filled with all sorts of glittering golden objects, arranged so neatly that at first glance, they seemed to have just been tidied up.
At that thought, Zhang Hongxing turned his gaze to Nana.
"Master, this is Nana's home. What do you think? Isn't Nana's home beautiful?"
Looking at the undersea valley before him, which could hardly even be called a nest, Zhang Hongxing found it difficult to associate it with a word as warm as "home."
"Ahem, well, it's pretty nice."
"I knew it! I decorated it just the way my boss liked best."
"Your boss? That last member of the Sea Dragon Race?"
"Yes! My boss used to love lying here and doing nothing."
"Is the place beyond that gate where your boss went?"
Zhang Hongxing pointed toward the Beast-Headed Gate.
"Yes. My boss said it was terrifying in there and told me not to go inside until he came out. Master, you're not thinking of going in, are you? I'm telling you, it's really scary in there. You absolutely mustn't go!"
"You've never been inside. How do you know your boss wasn't lying to you?"
"My boss would never lie to me."
"Fine, I can't be bothered to argue. Anyway, how did the search go for that spaceship-shaped thing I asked you to find?"
"I'm sorry, Master. Nana couldn't find the spaceship you described."
"That's all right. Stay here and keep watch. I'll take a look over there."
Zhang Hongxing started toward the Beast-Headed Gate, but before he had taken more than a few