"Ai Li? You're finally here. If you took any longer, I think I'd freeze to death in here."
As Xu Le spoke, he put his hand on the doorknob.
Just as he was about to turn the knob and open the door...
Xu Le suddenly caught sight of the window beside him out of the corner of his eye.
He seemed to have seen something gray...
After losing his abilities, his powers of observation had diminished considerably too. Only Guyinduo Vision, his most fundamental ability, remained usable.
His sight, hearing, and perception had basically all returned to an ordinary person's level.
So, much of the time, Xu Le had begun to question his own judgment.
"Wait a moment!" Xu Le called toward the door, no longer in a hurry to open it.
Turning, he walked to the window, bent down slightly, and pressed close to peer outside.
Aah!
A dried corpse, almost skeletal, was pressed against the window too, practically face-to-face with Xu Le.
Startled, Xu Le stumbled back several steps, then tripped over a chair at his feet and fell to the floor.
"Fuck..."
"Xu Le, Xu Le, it's me, Ai Li! Open the door!"
The knocking continued, but the dried corpse at the window was crawling around too.
It licked the window with its freeze-dried tongue, making a teeth-grating sound.
Then it licked all the dust off the window.
The dried corpse and Ai Li's calls left Xu Le somewhat confused.
He instinctively tried to enter the tranquil state to organize his thoughts, but only after trying did he discover that nothing happened, leaving him no choice but to give up.
"I can't use the tranquil state either."
Xu Le looked at the door. However slow he might have been, he had caught on by now.
*There was