The scraping outside the wall had faded considerably, but the sound that crashed over them like waves had grown louder and more frequent. And Yan Jinming felt that whatever was out there seemed to be targeting somewhere nearby!
At that moment, however, Lin Yi knew that the sound of waves did not come from waves, but from the Grinning Angel attacking the outer wall of the Stairwell!
Strangely enough, since the Grinning Angel's form was illusory, it should have been able to pass through the wall and enter the Stairwell with ease. Instead, it had been blasted away!
Lin Yi took a long look at the weak, flickering candlelight on the Candlestick. For the first time, he truly appreciated the value of the "supernatural traits" contained in what Tian Bufan had called "relics left over from the old era."
They continued down another stretch of stairs. At a corner where the candlelight was somewhat dim, suddenly-
"Thud-"
With a heavy impact, a yellowish-brown stone shattered. The Grinning Angel's arm, somewhere between illusory and real, lashed out of the broken stone like a whip and grabbed at Mao Feiyang with lightning speed!
"Look out!!!" Lin Yi's nerves jolted!
But Mao Feiyang seemed even stranger. The instant the stone shattered, he had reflexively shifted aside to dodge the fragments, putting him two or three inches out of reach just a fraction of a second early!
Once he dodged, the Art Student beside him-the one who had been shouting the entire way and whom Yan Jinming had grabbed by the collar earlier-was out of luck.
The Grinning Angel caught him a second time with the same trick. This time, however, he was not so lucky: it dragged him straight out through the crack in the wall!
The crack was not large, only the