Qi Lingwu stared intently at her.
As if sensing something, he reached out and took her hand, interlacing their fingers.
Warmth passed from his palm into her icy hand.
Sheng An squeezed his hand back.
When the Time Hand contested with time, her opponent had stopped her from turning time back. But in the brief instant she succeeded, she had seen the Time Otherkind.
In that instant, her expression had changed drastically.
And the shadow had no longer stopped her from glimpsing its appearance through time. The Time Otherkind, which had previously kept trying to withdraw with a "draw," had instead said, "Sheng An, you can't kill me, but I... will kill you."
At the time, the Time Otherkind had not merely been preventing time from rewinding and giving Qi Lingwu an opening to strike.
It had also been preventing her from seeing its appearance.
She had seen it anyway.
Sheng An's voice was soft, as though it might dissolve into the wind-
"On the Time Otherkind's face, I saw my own face. Very quickly, that face changed into Zhang Jialiang's. That was also when the Time Otherkind gained the undying body superpower..."
The face beneath the hood had shifted between "Sheng An" and "Zhang Jialiang."
Qi Lingwu's expression changed.
Sheng An spoke again. "Only after mastering the time superpower did I vaguely sense something wrong with the Time Otherkind. Is it really a Time Otherkind? Or is it... a puppet with a time superpower?"
Her final words were very, very soft.
After a long silence, Qi Lingwu finally spoke. "The time superpower, undying body, puppet ability. At least three familiar but rare superpowers may have appeared in the Southwest."
Aside from the Time Otherkind, the only current time Superpower Person was Sheng An.
The only person with an undying