Yang Yi destroyed the Madman that had suddenly appeared with swift, overwhelming force, bringing the crisis to an end.
Only Dara's expression kept changing, until her gaze finally settled on Yang Yi's abdomen-or, more precisely, on the huge mouth that had just withdrawn into it.
"You can kill Madmen?"
She sounded surprised, because the Madman really had not reappeared.
Within this special space, Madmen could be called immortal and indestructible, their movements obeying neither logic nor objective physical laws.
Only this building was different: Madmen could not invade it, or it would long since have become their playground.
So the conventional approach would have been to find a way to restrain the Madman, or lure it out of the building, then shut the door tight.
But Yang Yi had simply destroyed it... or rather, digested it.
Yang Yi carefully felt the changes inside his abdomen.
"More or less. I can digest them, but it takes quite a while."
He explained, having discovered that the Madman was not dead, merely trapped inside the Greedy Maw of Gluttony and gradually transforming into a gluttonous ghoul.
"You're amazing. If only I'd been as strong as you back then."
Dara spoke enviously.
"It's just a shame you're trapped here too... so we should think about how to survive here instead.
"Let me make this clear first: no violence. We're the only two players here, so we ought to help each other!"
She stressed the importance of harmony, but soon brought out a few little tricks.
"How about this? Since you can eat Madmen anyway, why not give me all the edible food...?
"Despite how I look, I actually ran out of supplies ages ago. You even ate the last few biscuits I'd pinned my hopes on, so surely you won't just stand by and