Batos's words made the narrow-eyed woman at the very front stop in her tracks.
She looked at him strangely, as though she were looking at a madman.
"Coilera, didn't you tell him who obtained the Secret Substitute Cube?"
Abucado's Red Severance, the girl named Coilera, was passing information to Ye Qiyan through her System Light Screen. At the narrow-eyed woman's question, she calmly raised her head and snorted.
"Why should I tell him? Shen Qianyu, you eyeless woman, you always like ordering other people around. Why don't you tell him yourself? I'm busy. Don't bother me."
After saying all this irritably, she lowered her head and continued talking to the person on the other side of the Light Screen, her eyes full of smiles and delight.
The woman named Shen Qianyu wordlessly pressed a hand to her forehead. She tried hard to open her eyes wide, yet it was still impossible to tell whether they were open or closed.
"This is a natural feature of mine, understand? Oh, forget it. Mr. Batos, the person who obtained the Secret Substitute Cube is..."
Before she could finish speaking.
A dangerous, icy, unfathomable power... filled with countless terrifying whispers instantly manifested in the space.
Everyone present instinctively looked down.
It wasn't that there was anything below them.
Rather, under this power, they had no choice but to bow their heads.
What on earth is this?!
Shen Qianyu was utterly shaken.
Driven by curiosity, she instinctively activated an item, briefly dispelling that strange sensation.
She abruptly raised her head.
Only to witness a scene she would never forget.
A young man clad in a black cloak had appeared before them at some unknown point.
The young man opened his eyes. Those still, emotionless eyes gazed calmly at her.
"Hmm?"
Ye Qiyan's gaze happened to