In the cloudless sky, a crack, like a rift in space, slowly appeared directly above the city.
The crack was as long as half a city.
Hela slowly raised her head, a strange feeling washing over every cell in her body.
This has never happened before.
At the same time, Xiao Huan inside Hera's pocket sensed something was amiss and kept burrowing deeper into Hela's pocket.
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
It was like a mouse that had seen a cat; Hela could even feel it trembling.
" Hela, what's wrong? Is there something on this?"
Ailin stepped forward and gently patted Hela's shoulder. Seeing that Hera was looking up, she also looked up.
The others also looked up curiously.
They were instantly stunned by the strange scene before them.
Before they could say anything, the crack in the sky changed again.
The crack slowly opened, and then, remarkably, an eye the size of a planet opened.
"This..."
With a thud, Laide, the one with the lowest cultivation level among them, immediately knelt down on the ground.
The pressure from that eye made him lower his body repeatedly, as if it could crush him at any moment.
A translucent eye covered half the city, and it began to slowly rotate, as if searching for something within the city.
"Is this... Variant?"
Ailin, her arms trembling slightly, took Fulan's arm.
A bead of cold sweat trickled down Fulan's forehead. Even though he couldn't discern the level of that strange eye, the oppressive aura emanating from it was something even ' Starlight ' hadn't possessed.
When that eye turned its gaze in their direction, it immediately locked onto them.
At the instant the lock was placed, an oppressive aura of impending death struck the souls of everyone present.
Hela took a few steps back, wanting to leave as quickly as possible.
But somehow, a barrier made of swift winds had formed around them, trapping them here.
Hela's hand was shredded to pieces at the cellular level the moment she touched the barrier.
Startled, Hela quickly withdrew her hand.
My fear of that eye grew even stronger.
This is the first creature that can kill itself with a non-high-temperature attack.
There was no escape now, so Hela could only raise her head and continue staring at the eye.
The enormous eye stared at them for almost a minute, as if confirming something.
After a while, the enormous eye trembled slightly, almost imperceptibly.
It seemed like excitement, but it could also be shock.
"Whoosh..."
A sound that could not possibly have come from a living being rang out from all around the city.
The feeling of this sound is like being submerged in the deepest part of the sea, where you can't see your hand in front of your face, and suddenly hearing the sound of a whale very close by.
This sense of despair and suffocation was something none of them had ever experienced before.
"Whoosh--"
The sound came again, this time even crisper and clearer than before.
"What is He saying to us?"
Fulan swallowed hard, and with all his might, he managed to utter those few trembling words.
No one reacted except for Hela.
It wasn't that they didn't hear it; it was just that this thing, which they weren't sure could even call a living being, exerted too much pressure on them.
"Hand over that girl..."
Xiao Huan's trembling voice came from Hela's mind.
Hela blinked, puzzled, and tried to take Xiao Huan out of her pocket, but Xiao Huan stubbornly refused to come out.
"That's what the eye in the sky said... I understood that voice just now."
Xiao Huan is a spiritual Variant; she cannot speak and communicates with other beings entirely through telepathy.
Because the communication is based on the most basic logic, as long as the other being is conscious and has logic, Xiao Huan can understand it and communicate with it.
Hela's mind was completely elsewhere, not on why Xiao Huan could understand what she was saying.
Instead, they started to feel a little scared.
'Hand over that girl.'
Hela and Ailin were the only girls present, and combined with her own strange feeling about those eyes...
The girl they're talking about is most likely Hela herself.
What should I do now? Run?
Hela looked around and saw that the others were already engulfed by a hurricane shaped like a circular barrier. Hela's will to run was extinguished.
Okay, let's talk to them first and see if they have any ideas.
Thinking this, Hela slowly spoke to the group of people who were still in a daze.
"The eyes said, 'Hand over the girl.'"
The group turned their heads toward Hela with difficulty, Lanke asked in confusion,
How did you know?
"Whoosh--!"
The clear voice rang out again, but this time it was clearly tinged with anger, as if He was growing impatient.
The group was simultaneously startled. Ignoring how Hela knew, Fuke hurriedly said to Hela,
" Hela, can you ask Him what He really wants?"
After all, there were indeed two girls, Hela and Ailin, present, although Fuke would not easily abandon either of them.
But we still need to ask clearly.
Hela poked Xiao Huan in her pocket. Xiao Huan had naturally heard Fuke's request, but it just stayed in her pocket without giving a reply.
Hela didn't care and yanked it out. "Can you or not? If you don't answer, I'll crush you."
Hela's tone was so calm, as if she were saying something completely ordinary, yet it gave Xiao Xiaohuan a huge fright.
"I'll try, I'll try!"
Xiao Huan pushed her mental energy to the limit, trying to communicate with this god-like monster.
The moment Xiao Huan's mental energy touched the eyeballs above, Xiao Huan she almost lost her soul.
It could sense that its proud spiritual power was nothing more than an ant compared to the creature before it.
If the other party resists even slightly, he will die suddenly due to the mental backlash.
Fortunately, after sensing Xiao Huan's spiritual power, the other party did not resist but actively accepted it.
"Hand that girl over to me. I'll spare your life since you helped find her."
A very authoritative voice entered Xiao Huan's mind.
Even though the other party was only communicating mentally, Xiao Huan still felt a splitting headache (the bug must have a headache too).
Despite the excruciating pain, Xiao Huan asked very cautiously,
"Um, may I ask which girl it is?"
Xiao Huan is also connected to Hela's spirit, so Hela can hear their entire conversation.
Hela didn't need to be nervous at all upon hearing Xiao Huan's question.
What do you think?
The other person's counter-question completely baffled Xiao Huan.
The unease in my heart grew stronger and stronger. I dared not guess, for I was truly afraid that guessing wrong would kill me.