When Zhong Baiye tried to crawl out through the hole, he suddenly felt as though something was blocking him.
But he had carefully examined this spot earlier. There should not have been anything in his way.
Zhong Baiye looked up in confusion. When he saw that the person blocking him was none other than the Raiden Shogun, he ducked back inside without a second thought.
Even as the hole closed up, Zhong Baiye made no further attempt to escape, because the Raiden Shogun had been standing there expressionlessly ever since.
No matter what Zhong Baiye did, she showed no reaction. Yet he could sense that whenever he tried to escape, the corners of her mouth rose slightly.
That discovery left Zhong Baiye too afraid to keep trying, so he could only remain inside the barrier.
Taking this opportunity, Zhong Baiye carefully examined the entire Grand Narukami Shrine.
What struck him as strange was that, in the game, several NPCs worked at the Grand Narukami Shrine. Yet after his inspection, he found that there was not a single person here.
The Sacred Sakura was strange, too. Although it looked no different from any other cherry tree, Zhong Baiye always felt a sense of discordance when he stood before it.
All of that could still have been chalked up to Zhong Baiye being overly cautious, but what he saw next convinced him that something was definitely wrong here.
Just as Zhong Baiye was considering how to get around the Raiden Shogun and escape, he accidentally stepped on something.
When Zhong Baiye looked down, he found that what he had stepped on was actually a lock of purple hair.
The sight of that purple hair seemed to remind Zhong Baiye of something, and he immediately took a mirror out of his backpack.
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