Eyes
Poseidon ultimately chose to keep going up.
It was not because she was particularly brave.
Rather, after dealing with Jiang Yu for over a decade, she had accumulated abundant experience in acting cute. There was no trouble that could not be solved by playing adorable; if it could not be solved, then she would just do it again.
"Since that is the case."
Little Jade shrugged and looked back up at the sky. "Then look at that painting and pray—just repeat the words that were in your mind when you drew it earlier. Add something like, 'I want to go up,' and that will do."
Was it really that simple?
Poseidon glanced down at the Stillness Talisman stuck to her chest. It was still emitting a faint clear glow, and she immediately felt more confident. Looking at the little painting, she began silently murmuring, "A beautiful lady, a lady filled with majesty, a lady who loves you—"
She repeated it three or five times.
Just as the Stillness Talisman seemed to be losing its effect a little.
A gust of wind abruptly appeared near the windowsill.
The wind had arrived strangely.
Little Jade did not need to warn her for Poseidon to know. The exterior of this goblet-shaped Brass Building was covered in talismans that suppressed abnormal phenomena. Not to mention a sudden gust of wind—even a sudden earthquake would have no effect on Central Base. Any energy acting within this area would be converted by the building into other forms of energy and put to use.
She quickly glanced at Little Jade.
Seeing that it was still the same as before, hands tucked into its sleeves and head raised toward the sky, she knew this wind had a good reason for being strange. She turned her attention back