Standing back on his feet with some help from Alexander, he and the latter turned to stare at Gu Fang's doppelgänger.
"What now?" Alex asked, his face scrunching into an unconvinced grimace.
The Fox opened his mouth to talk, but before placing a word, his head snapped up toward the sky, where a cloud as dark as the ocean's depths had formed.
Streaking within that cloud were flashes of light, some white, some blue, and before long, a single bolt of lightning crashed to the ground not far from Alexander's group, kicking up a cloud of dust and dirt as a person came tumbling out of it.
Tumbling a bit before stopping on a rock with an "Oof!" audible to everyone present, a dirt-covered Liu Yan rose to his feet, dusting his clothes and looking at Alexander with a wry smile.
"What an entrance, right?" he joked with a nervous chuckle.
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