Gu Li reluctantly shut his mouth.

Sitting cross-legged on Levi's flat-topped head, Gu Li watched the surrounding streets gradually become unfamiliar, and asked Eric, who was walking ahead, with his chin resting on his hand, "There's actually a hospital here?"

"It can hardly be called a hospital; it's more like a medical clinic."

Eric stopped in front of a building and turned to Gu Li and the other man: "You two go ahead, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for me to go today."

Having not heard it before, standing in front of this church-like building, Gu Li suddenly heard continuous, shrill screams coming from inside.

She tapped her fingers on the chair beneath her, a hint of wariness in her eyes. After a two-second pause, she cautiously asked, "Are you sure this is a medical facility, and not some illegal place where they use torture to interrogate people? I won't end up like this if I go in, will I?"

As her voice trailed off, a sharp scream suddenly erupted from the church, startling her so much that her fingers tightened abruptly, her body trembled almost imperceptibly, and she gave a dry laugh: "I suddenly realize that my affairs aren't so urgent after all."

Eric stepped forward and reluctantly pulled her hand out of Levi's eye socket: "Miss, this is of course a legitimate place. The practicing doctors here had advanced medical qualifications issued by the Federation before the mutation."

Before the mutation.

Gu Li heard herself let out a dry "hehe" laugh, cleared her throat, and tried to argue for herself again, when she heard Levi's soft voice from below her: "Miss, I will accompany you to find Cecil, provided that I do not want to be your fellow patient."

Upon hearing this, she lowered her head blankly and met Levi's eyes, which were filled with resentment. Unconsciously, her tense fingers had already dug into his eye sockets!

Vocal felt a strange sensation on her fingers, like a bit of runny dough. She quickly pulled her fingers out and jumped off his head with lightning speed, awkwardly covering Levi's wound with her hand.

After holding it in for a long time, only two scattered specks of white light managed to float out: "I'm sorry! Levi, are you alright?"

The giant octopus in front of them moved its tentacles and walked into the church, its nonchalant tone saying, "It's nothing. Thanks to this body, it will heal in a while. But Miss, you shouldn't always force yourself to use your abilities."

“You’ve only just awakened. If you were in the Federation, you would definitely be pampered like a newborn baby. Well, what I mean is that you can be a little willful. Children of Light always have privileges.”

Gu Li had no choice but to follow him inside. The church was unexpectedly brightly lit, but the place where the statues were was now empty. Terrifying screams could be heard coming from the tightly closed rooms behind.

However, she had calmed down and even felt a bit of the thrill of playing a live-action horror game. The octopus's incessant chatter kept slipping away from her ears. She peeked inside from a door that wasn't fully closed.

"...Even though you're in the city of aliens, you can relax a bit under Eric and my watchful eyes. Wait, what are you doing!"

Before she could even see the dark hospital room clearly, a tentacle grabbed the back of her collar and pulled her back. Levi's voice became helpless: "The freedom I'm talking about isn't this. You should have seen the sign on the door, right?"

Beside the door of this ward, there was a rotten wooden board. If you looked closely, you could see the words written on it in large characters: "No Peeping!"

Gu Li dangled her feet in the air for a moment, then nodded innocently: "Sorry, I thought those were planks that had fallen off the house due to its age and disrepair."

It is indeed true.

"Well, that's not important."

He gave the girl a gentle nudge from behind: "Cecil is here. Go in, but remember not to stay with her for too long."

At the end of the corridor was a room that looked no different from the ward, except that the words "Doctor's Office" were crookedly written on a broken wooden board by the door. When Gu Li pushed the door open, he noticed something on the top of the door.

She reached for the light switch, and a hurried voice came from directly above: "Please don't turn on the light, Miss. I am Cecil. Eric has already told me about your condition. It's a minor problem. Please move forward a little further, and the all-powerful Cecil will treat you."

Gu Li withdrew her hand from the switch and stepped forward as if walking into the roots of some plant, with layers of branches brushing against her shoulders.

Then, the wings that couldn't be retracted behind me seemed to be covered by something wet. The sensation only lasted for two seconds before disappearing. I subconsciously flapped my wings, and sure enough, the pain from twisting my bones had disappeared.

Gu Li didn't rush out. She stood there, looking up at the pitch-black ceiling, and asked curiously, "Are you really omnipotent?"

The rustling sounds paused for a moment, then Cecil ignored someone's warning and eagerly approached the unusually human-like girl, stopping in front of her: "What do you want to know?"

Gu Li noticed the movement of the air in front of her. She didn't move, and tried to make out the creature named Cecil in the darkness with her eyes: "It's no fun just saying it directly. Why don't you try to guess what I want most right now?"

“What’s so difficult about that?” Cecil, whose outline gradually emerged in the darkness, curled up his limbs. “If you want to know more about this world, staying here won’t do you any good. Go and look in the underground city.”

She discovered that as long as she kept staring at Cecil's position, she could gradually catch a glimpse of shadow in the absolute darkness. In a place she couldn't see, the light sky-blue eyes were gradually turning black from the edges.

Until the light blue pupils are covered by pitch black, everything in front of you will be fully visible.

Gu Li subconsciously knew it would be a while longer, but he didn't know where this feeling came from. The last thing he saw was a thin, elongated object reaching towards his eyes, and then everything suddenly went black again.

Cecil's disgruntled voice came from beside him: "I told you we're here to play a game, no cheating allowed."

"What was that just now?" Gu Li asked curiously.

The thrill of gradually grasping something in the darkness even surpassed the shock of having one's thoughts guessed correctly for a moment. Gu Li knew this way of thinking was a bit strange.

Perhaps the impact of being saved from corruption by the so-called "King" was greater than imagined.

Cecil stretched out his ubiquitous limbs in the darkness, making a gesture similar to clasping his hands behind his head, and swayed freely on the ceiling: "Who knows, you're the first one to be corrupted by the King."

Gu Li opened his mouth, but was suddenly sent out by an irresistible force.

Her power and the underground city?