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"": "Hu Jin and Zhang Yunxi had done everything they could, yet they still hadn't found Luo Bin's soul.
Luo Bin seemed to have vanished into thin air.
But Zhang Yunxi was absolutely certain that Luo Bin hadn't been "eaten."
Xu Lu had hesitated for ages, yet he still hadn't pierced the Feathered Benevolent Corpse's abdomen.
Without opening its abdomen, they couldn't retrieve the corpse core.
The Twenty-Four Mountains Dragon-Suppressing Talisman on the stone tablet had begun to curl slightly.
Above the Feathered Benevolent Corpse's head, the inkstone kept trembling.
"We lost Mr. Luo, and now we're losing the Talisman Inkstone too. I can't accept this!"
Xu Lu's face turned deathly pale.
The wound on his hand had long since been wrapped in gauze.
Thanks to Chen Zu's care, their backpacks contained everything they needed.
"We haven't lost Mr. Luo!"
Hu Jin glared at Xu Lu, his eyes wide.
"His soul's gone, and you haven't found it, have you?" Xu Lu stared back at Hu Jin, his eyelids twitching.
"His soul wasn't eaten," Zhang Yunxi said.
"It's gone."
"It vanished right under our noses."
"That benevolent corpse with an evil soul was right in front of us. She sucked out all his essence of two and five in one breath. Mr. Yunxi, you said she sucked out Mr. Luo's soul too. If it wasn't eaten, where did it go?"
"We didn't see exactly how it happened because this sort of thing is extremely rare... we don't understand it."
"But look at Mr. Luo. Does he look like a living person to you?"
Xu Lu pointed at Luo Bin's face.
The flashlight beam shone directly onto it.
His withered, chalk-white skin looked like corroded old bark, ready to crumble at a touch.
"His forehead's about to split!