After Ke Meng woke up, he noticed that the air had grown damp.
He got up and saw a Giant Toad standing on the floor, having just swallowed the envelope Luo Yuan had dropped in.
"Toad, how did you get in? Can you get in here too?" Ke Meng asked in confusion.
This was the world beyond the door, not Blue Star.
"Reporting to Lord Ke Meng, I first went to the old residential complex, then walked through the door and burrowed through the soil in this world to reach you," the toad answered truthfully. A foul stench poured from its mouth, calling to mind all sorts of rotting things.
Ke Meng paused. That made perfect sense.
Still, the toad's ability really was powerful. It could travel through the earth anytime, anywhere, faster than a plane.
After the toad left, Ke Meng went to the Basement door.
To stay hidden, Ke Meng had already put away the Angel Wing. He wore the Stealth Suit and held the False Time Pocket Watch in his left hand.
With the Master Key in his other hand, he waited quietly, listening to his heartbeat and amplifying his mental senses, using Synesthesia to gauge the danger of opening the door.
No danger!
Repeated attempts at Synesthesia revealed no danger, so Ke Meng stopped waiting. The Door Organization would soon learn of the Investigation Bureau's victory, and this escape route would quickly be abandoned-or rigged with a trap for him.
Ke Meng twisted his right hand. With a click, the Master Key bypassed the seal on the door and opened the iron door.
Because of the Master Key's effect, opening one door closed another. Ke Meng did not know which door it had closed, but he set that aside for now.
Gently pushing the iron door