Dantai Mingyue opened her eyes.
A voice rang out:
"You're awake?"
It was Nangong Wantu's voice.
Dantai Mingyue sat up in bed and surveyed her surroundings.
-it was a small, simply furnished room with two beds, two storage cabinets, and two desks facing each other.
Outside the window was a perimeter wall.
There was no one else besides Nangong Wantu.
It was very quiet.
Shen Ye sat at a desk, holding a round paper carton.
Inside was steaming fried noodles.
He ate with relish, occasionally picking up the drink on the desk for a sip.
"I remember... that general grabbed me..."
Dantai Mingyue said.
"Yes. You were under a mind-control art, so I summoned you over in time," Shen Ye said.
Dantai Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief, only for her heart to rise into her throat again. She quickly said:
"There's a spatial expert among them. They might come looking for trouble."
"It's fine," Shen Ye said with a smile.
Some things were difficult to explain.
Like the text in the void that had yet to fade:
"Due to the influence of the Dark Gold Trait 'Scandalous Protagonist,' the other party received the following intelligence:"
"Li Kui, a relative of the imperial family, is weak and has been hiding in a nation called the Eastern Land of Great Tang in the 13th-layer universe."
"Li Kui is pursuing Dantai Mingyue and took her westward to the Western Heaven. In a place there called Wuzhangyuan, he begged a brother-in-law named Baoyu to bring them to the 170th-layer universe."
Hear that?
I'm Li Kui, and I'm weak.
And they thought the place they reached by teleporting along the master-servant Contract-
Was the Eastern Land of Great Tang in the 13th-layer universe.
That was why the "baiting" had succeeded.
There were two key