The three followed the fingerprint marks for a long time, encountering many monsters clad in golden armor along the way. Some they managed to deceive and get away with, while others, when they couldn't be fooled, would fight.

They also collected quite a few gold-based crystal cores.

"Boss Gu, shouldn't you unlock these chains? It won't be easy to explain if we run into Wu Qian and the others later, will it?"

Lu Qingchen raised the chains in his hands and said.

Gu Mingyue glanced at him coldly, without taking out the key, and said in a low voice, "Tie him up for now. Look how many green lights those monsters have given us when they see you as a human hostage. Just bear with it!"

Hearing Gu Mingyue's words, Lu Qingchen felt even more pain on the bruised and swollen parts of his face.

But it must be said, he was indeed a useful 'hostage'. He could only continue to swallow his broken teeth and blood.

After turning several corners, Gu Mingyue noticed that the fingerprints on the wall were getting increasingly hot.

The three quickened their pace and soon heard a few faint sounds of arguing. The sounds were so faint that they would have been almost inaudible if Gu Mingyue hadn't already become a late-stage Level 3 ability user.

"Brother Fang, you're not allowed to follow me anymore."

Gu Mingyue didn't rush over, but instead led Xinghe and Lu Qingchen to slowly move over.

Only after getting closer did Gu Mingyue recognize the voices as those of Wu Qian and Fang Kai.

"My feet are my own legs, I can go wherever I want, unless you're my wife, you can't tell me what to do." Fang Kai's words were somewhat shameless.

Wu Qian blushed slightly. There were few people in this world who truly cared for her, but Fang Kai was genuinely good to her.

"You're really shameless to say that."

But she suppressed her agitation. "Brother Fang, this is not the time to joke. You should take your team back quickly."

"Don't follow me anymore. There's no way we can be together." She said this with a hint of determination.

Fang Kai touched his mask and asked, "Do you think I'm ugly?"

“Of course not.” Wu Qian raised her voice a few decibels as she spoke. “I’m the one who’s been married and has had children. You’re the one who should be looking down on me.”

Seeing the tender look in Fang Kai's eyes as he looked at her, Wu Qian's heart skipped a beat. However, remembering something, she put on a cold and hard expression: "Brother Fang, all I want now is to find my daughter and give her a better life. I don't want anything else."

"Sister Wu, if you're looking for your child, that's fine. It won't stop you from being with Team Leader Fang!" At this point, a team member next to Fang Kai couldn't stand it anymore and said.

"You two clearly like each other, so why are you arguing so much? In this gloomy and hopeless time, you should enjoy every single day!"

Zheng Chunjia had no idea what Wu Qian was struggling with!

"Besides, Sister Wu, your child might already have turned into a monster in this dark realm. Since you love children so much, why don't you have another one with the captain..."

"Zheng Chunjia, don't go too far with your words!" Fang Kai saw the sorrowful expression on Wu Qian's face and coldly stopped her from continuing.

Zheng Chunjia had a defiant expression on her face. She felt that she was right. If Wu Qian was their captain's wife, then she was one of their own.

Of course, she could follow Wu Qian into the Dark Domain without any regrets to find her lost child.

After all, almost all the members of their Triumph Team were saved by Fang Kai, so she could extend her affection to them. But now that Wu Qian doesn't agree to be with their captain, she's unhappy.

After being yelled at by Fang Kai, her eyes began to redden. "Captain, Sister Wu's life is precious, but aren't our lives precious too?"

"You don't want me to say it, but I'm going to say it anyway. There are so many women in the apocalypse, why do you have to like her?"

“She’s clearly a jinx to husbands, children, and friends. No one who followed her into the Black Domain ever came out alive, yet you’re still eager to protect her.”

Snap!

A crisp slap echoed through the silent golden city.

It was really inappropriate for them to show themselves at such an awkward time, as it would make them look like they were eavesdropping.

However, Gu Mingyue had already sensed several golden monsters approaching from the vicinity using her spiritual senses.

The three could only cough lightly and reveal themselves.

"Ahem, shh, there's a monster nearby." She smiled and reminded them, slowly walking over to Wu Qian and the others.

Wu Qian and the others were startled when they saw a man and a woman wearing golden masks with skeletal arms on their backs and a bruised and swollen person handcuffed behind them.

Just as I was about to get into a fighting stance, I realized that these two 'monsters' looked somewhat familiar.

Gu Mingyue realized they had misunderstood. She removed the skull arm and whispered, "Stop, stop, stop. Don't hit me. I'm a real person. This arm is fake."

The crowd only put down their weapons after they saw her dismantle the pair of skeletal arms.

Following Gu Mingyue's gesture of silencing, I slowed my breathing.

Although they were arguing just now, neither of them was taking their own lives lightly.

Zheng Chunjia covered her face, which had been slapped red by Fang Kai, and shed tears of grievance without making a sound.

Wu Qian reached out to comfort her, but Zheng Chunjia slapped her hand away forcefully and turned her head away from her.

Fang Kai regretted it as soon as he slapped her. He had never abused his companions before, but when he thought of the hurtful things Zheng Chunjia had said to Wu Qian, his face hardened again. He glanced at her but didn't say anything.

Zheng Chunjia had a crush on Fang Kai. Seeing Fang Kai staring at her silently, she felt even more wronged, and large tears fell onto the cold, golden floor tiles.

After the monster left, the group, panting heavily, collapsed to the ground.

"Gu girls, you guys are really clever! You even disguised yourselves as monsters by carrying severed limbs of monsters. How come we didn't think of that!"

"With this disguise, it will be much easier for us to ambush the monsters." Fang Kai clapped his hands, praising Gu Mingyue and her companion's ingenuity.

Gu Mingyue then put the skeletal arm behind her back and said, "Captain Fang, I am a psychic ability user. I can use my mind to interfere with monsters and make them mistake me for one of their own. You are an ice-type ability user. I don't recommend you do this. It's easy for them to see through it."

"Oh." Fang Kai looked closely at the skeletal arms behind Gu Mingyue and the other person and found that they did look somewhat unreal, so he quickly gave up on the idea.

"By the way, Gu Meizi, who is this that you're locking up?" Fang Kai didn't know what to say to his teammates, so he turned to look at Gu Mingyue and the other girl.

Upon hearing his words, Gu Mingyue laughed and said, "Luckily you reminded me, I almost forgot to unlock the chains on Lu Qingchen's hands."

After saying that, he quickly took out the key and unlocked the chains on Lu Qingchen's hands.

Lu Qingchen's fair wrists were marked with several red welts from the chains.

Fang Kai looked at Lu Qingchen's bruised and swollen face with some strangeness.

"Holy crap, I remember this guy was pretty handsome, how did he get beaten up like this?"