Yang Yi hugged the wall, keeping to the shadows as he crept closer and eavesdropped on the conversation.
The passage was not deep. After less than thirty meters, he reached an enormous plaza, a vast space lit by a large Light Container.
This was probably where the villagers normally held important events. The source of the bloody smell was here too—a huge dark red Magic Array, over a hundred meters in diameter, had been drawn on the ground. It seemed to have been drawn in blood and gave off a bloody odor.
Yang Yi could not make sense of the Magic Array, so he took a photo and sent it to Su Na, also keeping it as a backup.
"Where are you? I'll be right over."
"Wait. There seems to be something other than Fishmen here."
Yang Yi stopped Su Na, but she had a way to deal with that.
"I'll send the Penitent Armor over on a raft," she replied.
Yang Yi thought for a few seconds, decided this was a sound plan, and did not stop Su Na.
Once they dealt with the danger, they could bring the Nightmare Star straight in and loot the supplies inside.
Yang Yi looked up ahead. At the very center of the plaza, which was also the center of the enormous Magic Array, stood something he could not understand.
Several pillars extended out of the magic circle. The thickest one in the middle was five meters in diameter and over fifty meters tall. It consisted of some pale yellow gelatinous substance, with large numbers of Fishmen stuck inside, encased as though in jelly. Many humans and Half-Fishmen were encased inside as well, their expressions contorted.
"What the hell is that?" Yang Yi muttered under his breath, losing 5 points of Sanity.
Meanwhile,