Xiao Xiao was a Diviner.
He was the wizard with the broadest knowledge, keenest intuition, and strongest mental power on the hunter team. He was also the most cautious in everyday life, practically wanting to toss a few counting rods even before going to the toilet. So, after he had said, "The deadwood branch has already been burned," his teammates had prepared to head back without another word.
Fortunately, the hunter team also had a reckless fellow who usually preferred to solve problems by instinct alone.
He had noticed a tiny discrepancy.
The problem was that this discrepancy only made things more troublesome.
If the person Xiao Xiao had met when he went "up" just now had been Jiang Yu, then this was merely a minor hiccup. Zhang Jixin was simply being oversensitive, and there was no real harm done. But if the person who had spoken to Xiao Xiao had not been Jiang Yu, they were in trouble—not only would that mean they had failed to burn the branch of Death, it would also mean their five senses might now be compromised. Taking it a step further, whether they were even still conscious, or had actually left that black-and-white Death Domain, remained unknown.
Once that thought struck him,
Xiao Xiao no longer had the luxury of feeling embarrassed. Sweat immediately began to bead on his forehead.
He checked his mental state and memories at once, then went through the protective talismans he carried. He found nothing unusual, but that offered him no comfort. Just as he had failed to distinguish the real Jiang Yu from a fake through the lenses of his Spirit Vision Instrument, if "Death" really could interfere with his perception, then nothing he was seeing now was necessarily real.
"Then... how about we go down and