Back Village Plaza.
The village chief strode toward the center of the plaza.
"You aren't joking?" he asked the two burly men leading the way.
At his words, they answered without daring to hesitate, "No. How could we joke about something like this? He really came up, and he left." The well was empty now; they would know once they got there.
"Once night falls, the well will close on its own without us doing anything.
"There's something seriously uncanny about this man. I suspect he isn't human.
"How else could he have come up from down there?"
The village chief looked at him and said, "Even something inhuman couldn't come up."
The Forbidden Cellar was no joke. Those who went down simply couldn't come back up.
At least, they had never seen it happen.
Nor had they ever heard of it.
If he really could come out, then this was an extremely unusual situation.
Soon, they reached the edge of the Ancient Well. The well no longer had that emptiness from before; an aura had filled it.
That meant someone was down below.
"Isn't he down there? How did he supposedly get out?" the village chief said, staring at the Ancient Well.
Both burly men froze at his words.
They checked carefully and found that someone really was down below.
But the man really had come out just now.
"Were your eyes playing tricks on you?" the village chief asked.
At his words, the two began to doubt themselves.
They had been a little tired lately. Had their eyes really been playing tricks on them? Or had they encountered an illusion?
Either was possible.
In the end, neither could find an answer. They took deep breaths and said, "Perhaps our eyes really were playing tricks on us, or the