Looking at the middle-aged fat man's build, Ren Ye felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, but he could not be sure. Tugging trousers out of one's butt crack was a common enough gesture, nothing particularly distinctive.
"I'm about to cast a spell. You three, get ready to move," Zhou Fangfang reminded them through a voice transmission from behind.
"All right," Ren Ye replied quietly. "Once we move, I'll take the drinking fat man on the left."
The long street bustled with noise. The five people ahead were cautious, walking close to the edge of the Blue-Stone Road and deliberately keeping ordinary visitors from approaching.
Zhou Fangfang waited a little. Seeing that they showed no intention of turning onto another road, she decisively summoned a blue bottle magic treasure and chanted softly, "Bottle Realm-Flooding Heaven and Mountains!"
Whoosh!
The blue porcelain bottle in her palm rose into the air at her command, growing larger than an ordinary house.
"Huh?!"
Not far away, the middle-aged fat man reacted first. He looked behind him in surprise, almost instantly locking onto Zhou Fangfang. "Sure enough, anyone who can get me to do something is fucking trouble...!"
Before he could finish, the enormous blue bottle hovering overhead tilted slightly, its mouth facing the street, and poured out an endless, surging ocean of water.
It was as though a celestial river lay hidden inside the bottle, its boundless waters flooding the human world.
Seeing the pedestrians disappear and the houses on both sides collapse beneath the flood, Ren Ye knew he had been pulled into an illusion realm. Seizing the opportunity, he slammed his right foot into the ground and shot toward the middle-aged fat man like an arrow loosed from its bow.
He did not know why he had chosen to ambush the fat man