Three days later.
The Nightmare Star followed their original route toward the Sea of No Light. They encountered neither the Deathbirth Society nor any danger along the way.
At this speed, they would probably be able to leave the Death Plague Sea in another four days.
Throughout that time, the Deathbirth Star remained lit, never going dark for even a second. Xiaoji kept monitoring it.
For that reason, the temperature in the Death Plague Sea had risen even higher.
After prolonged exposure to the light, the apparent temperature could reach seventy or even eighty degrees.
By this point, every member of the Deathbirth Society should have realized something was wrong with the Deathbirth Star, so it was perfectly normal that no one was bothering with Yang Yi.
At the moment, Yang Yi was personally at the helm, chatting intermittently with Su Na.
Their conversation mainly revolved around the Deathbirth Star.
According to the data recorded on that phone, the Deathbirth Star had existed for at least fifty thousand years, because the earliest records of the Death Plague dated back that far.
The Deathbirth Star's leader-the Matriarch-seemed to have existed just as long. There were no records of any change in leadership during that time; it had been the Matriarch from beginning to end.
Judging by that, the Matriarch was very likely an undead.
Otherwise, even a ghoul's constitution should not have allowed such a long existence.
Then there was the information about the Corpse-Eating Cult and ghouls.
Although most members of the Deathbirth Society were ghouls, they did not belong to the Corpse-Eating Cult.
According to the Corpse-Eating Cult Introductory Manual, ghouls likely originated from an outlier among humans-a mentally disturbed individual with a compulsion to eat corpses, whose name was most likely Wendigo.
The Corpse-Eating Cult was probably an