Creak.
The glass doors opened automatically, revealing a brilliantly lit stage straight ahead. Standing on it was a... man in a high-slit cheongsam?
No, its body was clearly female, but its face sported a thick beard.
Its face had rotted into gashes that exposed the bone, and the swollen skin of its hands, which gripped the microphone stand, oozed thick pus. As the doors opened, its gray-white eyes stared straight at him, accompanied by a wave of corruption that made even Edward's skin sting.
"Yazi!"
Edward narrowed his eyes slightly and returned double the corruption he had suffered.
"Aah!!!"
The next second, the dancing girl (man) let out an agonized scream. Its lower body rapidly swelled and exploded, while its head seemed to be pulled free, dragging a bloody spine behind it. Then it, too, rapidly swelled and burst into a shower of blood.
The crackle of electricity sounded again. The dance hall's lights snapped off along with the multicolored neon sign, and then gray fog rapidly enveloped the entire building, which vanished before his eyes.
A thought inevitably surfaced in Edward's mind: That's it?
As if affected by this, the gray-white fog began surging violently as well. It grew thicker and denser, obscuring the streets and concealing the buildings, until it completely swallowed this "Old Shanghai street" in the blink of an eye.
Then a rotten wooden door abruptly appeared before Edward.
Chapter 558: Lilith's true purpose
He had seen this door before, after defeating the flaming giant in Bansy's "inner world."
In the original story, Gehrman Sparrow had seen the "Old Shanghai" behind that wooden door only after pushing it open. Now that Edward was inside, did that mean he could get out simply by opening the door?
After he left, would the Wanderer Beyonder Characteristic "drag" him