The instant everyone's gaze fell on the corpse...
A voice appeared directly in their minds.
It did not pass through their ears.
There were no vibrations in the air.
It simply appeared out of nowhere, plunging straight into their cerebral cortex.
"Pull me out."
The voice was weak and ethereal, with an eerie hollowness.
"Pull me out."
It kept calling there, over and over.
Oh-ho, Yang Yong thought.
So that was it.
No wonder those Sea Demons wouldn't come near here. No wonder they seemed to have been waiting for us to arrive.
Although the Whale Lord loathed this corpse and disdained absorbing it, he had also placed it somewhere he could destroy it at will.
It was trapped.
Trapped in the space within the Whale Lord's intestines, unable to get out.
And those Sea Demons wanted to rescue their "god."
But the Sea Demons themselves did not dare enter that cave.
Because it was the Whale Lord's territory.
So they needed people.
Living people.
Living people who could pull that corpse out.
"Where are those men?"
Something suddenly occurred to Yang Yong, and he looked around for Chen Gen's subordinates.
At the time, the man had said that three of them had come together, and two had stayed here.
But now, Yang Yong looked all around and found no trace of anyone.
Wang Ying was looking too.
So was Mang Dabiao.
None of them found anyone.
Just then, Chen Gen suddenly spoke.
His voice was very soft, as though he feared disturbing something.
"Xiao Mo and Xiao Wei..."
He raised a hand and pointed into the fleshy hole.
His finger was trembling.
"Xiao Mo and Xiao Wei were forced into the cave by those Sea Demons."
Yang Yong looked where he was pointing.
Inside the cave, near the corpse,