Tian Bufan had no intention of saying any more. He simply said, "Let's go."
Seeing this, Lin Yi stopped pressing him and asked instead, "What about the adhesive?"
"You don't need to worry about the adhesive," Tian Bufan said.
Kuai Hongji sneered as well. "Deep within the contamination, you can run short of anything except high-purity supernatural substance."
He took the opportunity to disparage the Fanatics, too. "The only reason those Fanatics don't go gather it there is that they're weak."
As Tian Bufan spoke, he stepped into the Forest of Bones.
Kuai Hongji followed closely, like a bodyguard.
After they had walked for a while, Lin Yi's Perception Tentacles seemed to pick up signs of creatures moving!
"Young Master Tian, I think I sensed something?" Lin Yi said. "Not far ahead, off to the left..."
"Ahead to the left?" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, a faint hint of a smile curling his lips. "It's not directly on our route, but one of our waypoints is fairly close. Keep sensing. If it's nothing important, leave it alone."
"Don't we need to avoid it?" Lin Yi asked.
"No," Tian Bufan said. "Two days ago, I would've been desperate to steer clear."
"But today..." Kuai Hongji gave a sinister chuckle. "If it messes with us, we'll grab it and use Instant Refinement! Heh heh heh!"
Lin Yi nearly put a hand to his forehead. "Wait... why do I feel like we aren't the good guys?"
Whatever else might be said, when they went "heh heh heh," it was all in bad taste. But when Kuai Hongji did it, it didn't seem like an act at all.
"That's not important." Tian Bufan gave Kuai Hongji a rather speechless glance. "Kuai Kuai, don't stir up trouble."
"I know, I know." Kuai Hongji chuckled sinisterly.