"What's going on...?"
As she watched the bizarre scene unfolding over the Matrix of Prescience and the strange behavior of the Divination Commission's staff, Qingque couldn't help furrowing her brows.
Huohuo shrank farther behind Jiang Yu and Qingque. "S-stay close to me. I-I'm a little scared..."
"You're a Judge of the Ten-Lords Commission, yet you're the biggest scaredy-cat here, you little coward! Isn't this your area of expertise?" Tail said, exasperated.
"Urgh..."
The group didn't rashly approach too closely, instead keeping some distance.
"So, what are they doing?" Sushang asked.
Qingque looked up at the Matrix of Prescience's constantly twitching, multi-ringed structure, which resembled a blood-red eye floating above the Divination Commission, and called out to the diviners with some concern. "Everyone... are you all right?"
There was no response, but everyone could see the diviners' lips moving, as though they were muttering something.
So the group moved a little closer and heard the diviners mumbling deliriously:
"There is only ever one path..."
"Divination is meaningless..."
"This is so strange. They weren't like this when I first got here, and when did the Matrix of Prescience turn into this?" Qingque narrowed her eyes.
"Look, Diviner Fu is standing in the center of the Matrix of Prescience," Huohuo suddenly said. "What is she doing?"
"Judging by how she's chanting, she's probably calculating routes or the future, just like before..." Qingque said hesitantly. "But everyone, including the Master Diviner, is acting strangely, and the Matrix of Prescience hasn't moved at all. It's just twitching up there like a malfunctioning mechanism...
"Something's wrong. Very wrong."
"I'd say Xiyan has already possessed her," Cirrus said from the side with a half-smile.
"A Heliobus... so that really was the sort of danger you meant..." Qingque murmured.
"But... I read in a book that Heliobi are