"Him again?"
Qin Feng looked at the dark-skinned young man, a little surprised.
While the level 47 Shadow Demon he had first encountered had looked somewhat like a priest, this level 53 Shadow Demon clearly looked like a warrior, holding a huge curved shield that covered almost two-thirds of the angles around his body.
Different levels, and different numerical IDs at the end...
A thought suddenly occurred to Qin Feng.
Could the demons in this Abyss World...
Actually be the corpses left behind after players truly died in each previous cycle?
If that's the case...
Could I even run into a Shadow Demon of myself?
The thought instantly made Qin Feng's scalp prickle.
But he couldn't yet confirm whether this theory was true...
There's a good way to prove it.
I'll go back to Magic City, or the River-Sea City Ruins, then switch into the Abyss World...
If my guess is right, I'll see plenty of familiar player codenames where players gather!
Qin Feng was currently in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, where even the Shadow Demons were sparsely scattered.
But things would be different in the ruined urban districts.
With that thought, Qin Feng first killed Cotton Bro's corpse in front of him, then got to work.
As he operated the Abyss Bracelet, the gray mist around him slowly dispersed, and familiar deep-sea water closed in again. The immense deep-sea pressure told Qin Feng that he had returned to the Game World.
He quickly found Gray Chicken and the Merfolk Crystal Ball, then used a Teleportation Stone to bring them back to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout with him.
Then...
"Switch to the Abyss World."
Remaining invisible, Qin Feng went to the aboveground area of Evil Spirit Academy.
The place had been peaceful and flourishing, but when