"Huh?"
Everyone present was astonished to see the eyeball.
But the others were merely surprised that such a fresh eyeball could be hidden in this ancient Secret Realm.
Yue Wen's heart jolted, and his shock far exceeded theirs. He remembered perfectly well that the only thing left in this chest before had been a Game Coin from the Fox Demon Lady, which he had deliberately left inside. Now it was gone.
In its place was a fresh, still-warm, bloody eyeball.
Clearly, someone else had entered this Secret Realm after he left and reached the great hall without leaving any traces.
Surely the Game Coin hadn't automatically exchanged itself for an item.
The thought sent a chill down Yue Wen's back.
Only a few hours had passed between his departure from the Secret Realm and his second entry with the others. If someone had come during that interval, that was one thing. But if someone had been watching him secretly from the shadows while he was inside, that was rather frightening.
Taking that thought further, were the Dragon Breath and Game Coins he had seen necessarily the chest's original contents?
"There's no formation here to slow the passage of time. This eyeball must have been placed here very recently," Huo Yanshan deduced. "Someone came in before us."
"Someone took what was in the chest and put this eyeball inside," Perfected One Nagiko said after examining it closely. "This is an Earth Wolf's eyeball, from a type of Demon Beast that lives in the Wasteland Zone outside River City. There's a faint trace of spirituality on it. Perhaps someone could use it to perform some supernatural power. They might even be watching us through this eyeball right now."
She stared into its pupil, as though she could see the sinister gaze behind