"Why was Doctor even slower to catch on than the elder this time?"
The black cat crouched on the witch's shoulder, its tail hooked around her neck. It craned its head to look below and muttered, "That trap was so crude, and he still didn't spot it. How embarrassing..."
Jiang Yu had given up fighting the tail.
Even if she tore it off, the black cat could grow a new one in the blink of an eye. After all, it was no real cat, only a wisp of shadow cast down from Outside the Realm.
She could ignore the tail, but not what the black cat had said.
Yet when the witch followed its gaze, all she could see was an endless expanse of "squares." She lacked the vision of a Legendary Grade being and could not see through the boundless, hazy mist beneath them. The good news was that the multicolored cockroaches were growing fewer. Sometimes she had to cross several squares before finding one in a crevice.
The colors on her robe were growing richer, too.
The bad news was that the golden "sun" hovering overhead was growing brighter and hotter. According to the black cat, once it truly reached its zenith, she would have to go back, even if she had not crushed every cockroach.
That would mean this world's Origin had drawn enough nourishment from the Black Gem. The world could ascend at any moment. Though, in truth, that was hardly bad news.
She had stayed at the edge of this world for so long, left such a deep mark on it, and gained so much insight into its laws. It had already surpassed even her most optimistic expectations.
"Doctor was a Diviner, so he was bound to think things through more carefully. Overthinking can make