Three minutes earlier.
After his Mirage Shadow double was destroyed, Chen Miao immediately summoned a new Mirage Shadow.
But this time, without the enhancements from his other abilities, it could not reach its previous strength.
However, Chen Miao had not summoned the Mirage Shadow to send it out and mislead anyone.
He had summoned it for one purpose alone: to keep his real body concealed!
After hiding the Mirage Shadow, Chen Miao traveled through the Mirror Realm Passage under concealment and reached the entrance to the factory building containing the altar. At that exact moment, Mirror Pillar entered the mirror.
Although Chen Miao trusted Mirage-Escape Form, he still decided to play it safe.
So he activated Mist Condensation.
The mist appeared not in Chen Miao's passage, but in another passage more than ten meters away.
While everyone's attention was drawn to the mist over there, Chen Miao slipped into the Investigators' ranks.
Originally, he had intended to sneak up beside the Grade-A Investigator, then quietly explain his situation.
But Chen Miao feared that the Grade-A Investigator would detect his approach, mistake him for an enemy, and kill him with a single punch. That would be a truly unjust death.
Judging by the fighting power this Grade-A Investigator had just unleashed, even the combined physical enhancements of the Extreme Yin Body-Refining Art and Thick-Skinned were nowhere near enough to withstand him. So Chen Miao used [Status: Ah] from a distance to deliver his message directly to the man's ears.
That was how he had managed to work with the Grade-A Investigator after approaching him and put on their little double act!
But Mirror Pillar still had far too many tricks.
Chen Miao had never expected him to use the cold light shooting out of the Yin Gate to locate him.
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