After traveling for half a day, Xu Tong and Gu had not encountered a single living person.
"Ask that Scroll you're holding what exactly is going on."
Xu Tong knew perfectly well that this was anything but normal.
Given their speed and how long they had been traveling, there was no way they should have failed to encounter a single living person.
Even if this world was vast, something like this should not have happened.
Gu nodded as well.
He had already had the same thought, but because Xu Tong had remained silent, he had waited until now.
"You heard what we were saying, didn't you? What exactly is going on?"
Gu pulled the Scroll out from somewhere.
"This world is already under the control of treasures like us."
For some reason, the Scroll had become remarkably obedient.
Of course, it was only this obedient toward Gu.
Its attitude toward Xu Tong remained just as it had been before.
Xu Tong had no objection whatsoever to that.
He had already noticed something amiss in this matter.
Still, he could also point it out directly at this moment.
After all, neither of them knew much about this world yet.
If he exposed it outright, there was no telling what might happen.
As long as he understood it himself and put a few arrangements in place, that would be enough.
As for Gu, there was no need for him to know any of this.
"So, apart from treasures like you, there isn't a single living person left in this world, is that it?"
Gu frowned.
To him, this did not really count as bad news.
After all, he had only come for these treasures in the first place.
Having so many treasures in this world was practically perfect as far as he