The dust at the edge of the giant pit gradually dissipated, revealing a bottomless black fissure.
Zhang Yang crouched at the edge and looked downward, seeing wisps of white vapor rising from the fissure, resembling the residual warmth of dissipating Earth Vein Energy.
"Uncle Long's men just arrived and are setting up a perimeter," Jin Tuantuan handed over a bottle of water.
"That woman earlier... just ran off like that?"
She referred to the woman in the incubation chamber who looked strikingly like Xiao Man.
No one had seen her again amidst the chaos, as if she had never appeared.
Zhang Yang twisted open the bottle cap but did not drink.
Zhang Yang noticed the energy within his Dantian suddenly becoming restless, as if losing some kind of balance, leaving him inexplicably uneasy.
"Where is Li Hu?" Zhang Yang asked.
"Interrogating that one-armed Elder over there," Jin Tuantuan gestured towards the distance.
