A dim green glow slowly lit up beneath the pitch-black, viscous surface, like a malevolent Monocular Eye slowly opening.
The light was not strong, yet it pierced through the murk and darkness of the liquid, casting swaying, heart-chilling patches of light across the inner walls of the sealed reservoir.
Ming Xin's remaining consciousness suddenly tensed! Like a startled hedgehog, all his senses instantly withdrew and focused on the viscous liquid beneath him.
The agonizing pain and weakness of his soul core were temporarily suppressed by this sudden threat, replaced by cold vigilance.
That "thing" was moving. Extremely slowly, extremely gently, as though afraid of disturbing something.
Its elongated body wound and slid through the viscous liquid, producing an incredibly faint, nearly inaudible rustling sound.
The dim green point of light traced bizarre paths beneath the surface as it moved.
It was not a mechanical creation—machines would not make such soft, wriggling sounds, nor would they give off this animal-like sense of "watching."
Nor was it like the energy-dust aggregate known as the Gray Devourer he had encountered before. It was more like... some creature that had adapted to survive in this extremely harsh environment?
Or perhaps a monster that had been corroded and mutated by Corrupting Energy over countless years?
What was its target? Was it him, this "foreign object" that had just fallen in? Or something remaining in this reservoir that it could "eat"?
Ming Xin did not dare move rashly. The Dark Gold Fragment Remnant pressed tightly against the cold metal wall of the pool, like genuine debris.
He completely drew in the glow of the "key" frequency origin, suppressing even the fluctuations of his soul until they were nearly deathly still.
He left behind only the most basic passive perception, like the sharpest radar, catching every trace