Heart Bewilderment pressed a hand to their forehead. "I'd advise you not to do that. Whatever else, Hong Ming and we are grasshoppers tied to the same string now. If humiliation really turns his anger against us, we won't come out of it well either."
Yu Qing curled her lips. "I was only saying."
Heart Bewilderment gave the girlish-looking Yu Qing a thoughtful glance, a shadowy light flickering in their eyes.
Moglis had struggled for an entire day and was almost completely exhausted by the end. Just when she thought no one would come, voices sounded outside.
From their conversation, she realized that these people were actually after Su Jiu and Chu Luohen.
But Su Jiu and the others had only just arrived. How could they have made enemies already?
Could other people have arrived here at the same time Su Jiu had accidentally landed here?
Yet she had never seen any humans dressed like Su Jiu and the others.
And those unmistakable roars outside clearly belonged to a Sand Beast!
For some unknown reason, however, the Sand Beast had not attacked her.
That could only mean this Sand Beast was under someone's control.
Moglis was not stupid. On the contrary, she was very clever.
Their accents alone told her that they were probably the same kind of people as Su Jiu-the cultivators from "outside" that Su Jiu had mentioned.
Su Jiu had only touched briefly on the subject without going into detail, but Moglis had understood that other humans did indeed exist beyond their world.
People like Su Jiu, and like Gu Xingzi.
These two had captured her to lure Su Jiu into taking the bait. But whatever the case, they had known each other for far too short a time. Would Su Jiu really come to rescue someone