They were surrounded.
Less than a minute after arriving in this world, Martin and Lu Youqi had been surrounded by the natives in a farmland.
It was as if they had known in advance that they would land here...
A man in black wearing sunglasses slowly stepped forward and stopped two meters away from them.
"You're here." The man in black looked at Lu Youqi and spoke softly.
Then he glanced at the piece of metal before finally looking at Martin.
No expression could be seen on the face hidden behind the sunglasses, but with Dream's ability, Martin keenly noticed that the man had been slightly surprised, his emotions wavering faintly.
"Who are you?" Lu Youqi asked nervously.
"We're here to receive you." The man in black's words were startling.
"Receive us? You knew we were coming?"
"Yes, we learned in advance where you would descend."
"You found out through a Relic?" Lu Youqi immediately guessed it. There were many predictive Relics like that in the Abyss.
The man in black nodded.
"Why are you receiving us?" Lu Youqi's expression turned grave. Since they had gone to such lengths to meet them, they must have had a strong purpose.
"There's no need to be so guarded. We mean no harm; we merely wish to offer assistance," the man in black said calmly.
"Come with us." His voice held no inflection, yet it carried a magic that was difficult to refuse.
"Alright," Martin and Lu Youqi replied in unison.
They did not notice at all that they should not have made such a decision.
A stranger—a stranger with some special purpose—had invited them along, yet they had not shown the slightest wariness?
Beneath the sunglasses where they could not see, the strange runes in the black-clad man's eyes rotated a few