"You'll find out soon enough," Tian Bufan said mysteriously. "Oh, and from now until I call you myself, don't say anything... of course, you might not get a chance to speak anyway."
Before Tian Bufan had finished speaking, he had already started piloting the Puppet forward.
Although it was a cannon-fodder-grade Puppet, Lin Yi had to admit that it handled well. It didn't feel like driving an old tank.
Since Tian Bufan had told him not to speak, Lin Yi shut his mouth and observed their surroundings.
The Puppet kept advancing through the Forest of Bones, but before long, it turned onto a dark, eerie path.
The trees along this path were thick and lush, their branches reaching high overhead. Their interlocking crowns covered almost the entire sky, preventing even a sliver of light from filtering down from the already dim heavens.
Where is this...? The moment Lin Yi saw Tian Bufan leave the Forest of Bones, he went on full alert. Could this be the depths of the Dense Forest?
The Puppet was nothing more than an unfeeling robot, trudging over dried leaves and somewhat soft soil. Its movement filled the secluded woods with a rustling sound.
This was somewhere deep in the Wooded Belt. An eerie atmosphere enveloped everything like a thick slurry. Fog wound through the woods like a living thing, its wisps slowly flowing and shifting, sometimes gathering into strange shapes, sometimes dispersing into drifting strands...
The ancient trees around them grew increasingly tall and twisted. Their crisscrossing branches resembled tentacles reaching out of the darkness, clawing in every direction.
Lin Yi was certain that trees like these no longer belonged to the human world. At the very least, they weren't something that could appear on a campus like S City University.
He soon noticed that