I suspect we're in Imaginary Space.
Gu Cheng and Sh...ev Yang crawled out of the tunnel.
Staring at the empty cavern, Gu Cheng was utterly bewildered.
"What the hell is going on?!"
"Where's the scorpion's body?!"
"I clearly came back the same way. Even if someone cleaned it up, how could they leave absolutely no trace in such a short time?!"
Gu Cheng even ran over to where the body should have been, searching for the marks its poisonous blood had corroded into the ground.
Unfortunately.
Never mind corrosion marks.
The ground was covered in naturally accumulated dust, without so much as a footprint.
Sh...ev Yang walked over. Seeing how lost he looked, she suggested, "Could you have remembered wrong?"
Gu Cheng grew irritable. "How could I possibly remember wrong! I..."
His expression suddenly froze.
Then he gave two dry chuckles. "Actually, I think I did remember wrong."
"The cavern where I killed the scorpion is farther back."
"After killing it, I came to this cavern first, then went to the next one and found you."
"What's wrong with me? How could I get something so simple wrong?"
He smacked his head hard.
Sh...ev Yang hurriedly stopped him. "All right, maybe you're just too tired. We haven't rested since the Desert Army Ants started chasing us. Why don't you take a
break and clear your head?"
Gu Cheng shook his head. "I'm not tired."
With his current physique, Gu Cheng could go three days and nights without sleep without any trouble.
He also knew perfectly well that fatigue wasn't the problem.
"Forget it. Let's hurry up and find the others."
Gu Cheng looked at the two openings on either side.
"Which way?"
Sh...ev Yang thought for a moment, then pointed right. "How about that way?"
"Okay!"
Gu Cheng took out