"You didn't hear it, but I did. Something was probably launching a Mental Attack on me."
The voice in his earpiece said, "We didn't hear it either... Could you describe the sound?"
"Hmm... Like a beast bound in chains that had starved for a hundred years and suddenly found a turkey feast in front of it. But no matter how hard it strained, it couldn't reach that platter of turkey, so it let out a stifled, despairing cry."
"Looks like something big is lurking here, so there aren't any other Shadow Beasts around."
[Multiple pieces of evidence indicated that the crying might be an auditory hallucination.]
There was little point in staying here. Zhang Ming kept moving forward, finding that it grew darker ahead. His flashlight might as well have been off.
Without activating the Eye of Space-Time, Extraordinary Vision alone gave him only three meters of visibility.
The mirrors around him had vanished at some point, replaced by purplish-black moss and some black liquid of unknown composition.
The passage also grew narrower and narrower, until only one person could pass through at a time.
He felt as though he were traveling through some creature's intestines.
"Has this continent turned into a living organism? Surely it can't be that horrifying..."
Zhang Ming took a deep breath. In such silence, all he could hear was his own breathing and heartbeat.
The two companions he carried with him were also concentrating now, not daring to speak carelessly.
Suddenly, he stepped on something soft!
He leaped up, then looked down and discovered a pitch-black corpse.
The corpse seemed to have appeared out of thin air beneath his feet. Otherwise, with how closely he had been paying attention, he would surely have noticed it beforehand.
"This corpse is pretty horrifying. It looks exactly like