Chapter 3583: Eyes
In the void at the edge of the Xuanhuang Small World.
In that field of colored squares.
Black Cat suddenly leaned forward and glanced down.
"What are you looking at?"
Jiang Yu hopped merrily from square to square, stepping on bugs, happy yet bored. That was why she noticed Black Cat's unusual movement immediately. After all, he had never made such a large movement since perching on her shoulder.
Black Cat hesitated for a few seconds.
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"There are people down below watching you," he ventured.
"Oh, them? I noticed them ages ago!"
Jiang Yu stopped and ground the tip of her shoe down, crushing a purple bug. Watching the hazy purple vapor rise, some settling on her skirt and some dissipating into the void, she said breezily, "They're probably the Doctor and the others—though they're a little small, so I can't see them clearly—but getting somewhere this high must have taken a lot of effort. That's why I even gave them a little travel money."
As she spoke, she lifted the edge of her skirt.
Her once-plain skirt was now dyed in a riot of colors by long, slender lines. A few, however, were slightly shorter than the others. The difference was not obvious at first glance, but Black Cat was no ordinary cat, so he easily spotted those abrupt gaps in the colors.
Those fine lines were the spoils she had earned by stepping on cockroaches.
The cockroaches were the instinctive resistance split off from the world origin, laws given tangible form. Each represented a law of the Xuanhuang Small World—and not merely the laws of the Small World, but also the vast majority of the laws of the Meso World taking shape as it advanced.
Once she subdued these laws, they painted her skirt