Tian Yue was right. Chi Yan had only gone upstairs to take a look, merely to check the situation on the fifteenth floor. In fact, all he wanted was to see whether the heat had warped the doors on that floor and whether things beyond them were any different from the fourteenth floor.
His plan was simple. As he envisioned it, this would be nothing more than a brief reconnaissance-they would need only a few minutes, a few minutes at most, before returning to where Tian Yue and Xu Rui were waiting. They would not be gone long, much less risk venturing deeper.
As for bringing Su Bai along, that was simply because he offered a sense of security Chi Yan could not quite put into words.
But something unexpected still happened.
At first, they climbed the steps, their footsteps echoing through the narrow space. Their surroundings seemed even quieter than the rest of the Newborn Ward.
Then, as they reached the turn in the staircase and took a few more steps upward, an unsettling sensation suddenly rose within them-
It was as though the air around them had grown clammy. The temperature had not changed, but the air felt damper and more uncomfortable.
Su Bai stopped. Through the Blood Butterflies' vision, he "saw" a thick bank of Mist surging up like a tide. It rolled up from below with an irresistible, encroaching force, instantly blocking their retreat.
"How did this happen?" Chi Yan turned around and was shocked to see Dense Fog already blocking the way behind them, swallowing the staircase with an inexorable force. It was silent, yet terrifying.
"It looks like you said earlier-the only barrier leading to the fifteenth floor is a thin wire mesh. So the Strange Creature lurking here will ultimately lure us, or