The other man said nothing, but his eyes remained fixed on the child in Yin Rui's arms.
Shang Yi stepped in front of Yin Rui, his right hand shifting slightly.
Yin Rui stopped Shang Yi, who was already poised to kill the man.
"He might be our son's friend," she said.
Shang Yi seemed quick to accept that he had acquired a grown son out of nowhere. He nodded and lowered his hand.
Afterward, they erased Midnight's memories and took him out of that Instance World.
Yin Rui never heard anything more about Midnight after that.
Like ordinary humans, they stayed by Yin Chao's side as he slowly grew up.
Along the way, the two of them also dealt with the chaos caused by gods cropping up everywhere.
They even killed the King of the Underworld, who had once commanded twelve Hell Hunters.
Order began to take shape in the Instance World.
"You need to purge those things that call themselves gods." Yin Rui was unusually serious.
She looked at Yin Chao. "Their presence disrupts the order of the instances. When ghost monsters stop following the rules set by the Supreme God, the humans who enter will find themselves in an extremely difficult position."
The Instance World was, at its core, a world of tragedy.
Death permeated it at every moment.
A longtime friend laughing and chatting with you might die before your eyes the very next second.
Yin Chao had never understood any of this before. He had been the protagonist of every killing game he played.
Just as a protagonist never knew when a supporting character would die, Yin Chao had no idea what nightmares those people he had met only once would experience inside the instances.
What lay at the end of an instance?
*Death, or a