In the cloudless sky, a crack, like a rift in space, slowly appeared directly above the city.

The crack was as long as half a city.

Hera slowly raised her head, feeling a strange sensation in every cell of her body.

This has never happened before.

At the same time, Little Illusion in Hera's pocket also sensed something was wrong and kept burrowing deeper into Hera's pocket.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

It was like a mouse that had seen a cat; Hera could even feel it trembling.

"Hera, what's wrong? Is there something on this?"

Eileen stepped forward and gently patted Hera's shoulder. Seeing that Hera was looking up, she also looked up.

The others also looked up curiously.

They were instantly stunned by the strange scene before them.

Before they could say anything, the crack in the sky changed again.

The crack slowly opened, and then an eye the size of a planet suddenly appeared.

"this……"

With a thud, Ryder, the one with the lowest cultivation level among them, immediately knelt down on the ground.

The pressure from that eye made him lower his body continuously, as if it could crush him at any moment.

A translucent eye covered half the city, and it began to slowly rotate, as if searching for something within the city.

"Is this... a variant?"

Eileen, her arms trembling slightly, took Fran's arm.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down Fran's forehead. Even though he couldn't discern the level of this strange eye, the oppressive aura emanating from it was something even 'Starshine' hadn't possessed.

When that eye turned its gaze in this direction, it immediately locked onto them.

At the instant the lock was made, a deathly pressure struck the souls of everyone present.

Hera took a few steps back, wanting to leave as quickly as possible.

But somehow, a barrier made of swift winds had formed around them, trapping them here.

Hera's hand was shredded to pieces at the cellular level the moment she touched the barrier.

Startled, Hera quickly withdrew her hand.

My fear of that eye grew even stronger.

This is the first creature that can kill itself with a non-high-temperature attack.

There was no escape now, so Hera could only raise her head and continue staring at the eye.

The enormous eye stared at them for almost a minute, as if confirming something.

After a while, the huge eye trembled slightly, to a degree imperceptible to the naked eye.

It seemed like excitement, but it could also be shock.

"Whoosh..."

A sound that could not possibly have come from a living being rang out from all around the city.

The feeling of this sound is like being submerged in the deepest part of the sea, where you can't see your hand in front of your face, and suddenly hearing the sound of a whale very close by.

This sense of despair and suffocation was something none of them had ever experienced before.

"Whoosh—"

The sound came again, this time even crisper and clearer than before.

"What is He saying to us?"

Fran swallowed hard and managed to utter those trembling words with all his might.

No one reacted except for Hera.

It wasn't that they didn't hear it; it was just that this thing, which they weren't sure could even call a living being, exerted too much pressure on them.

"Hand over that girl..."

Xiao Huan's extremely trembling voice came from Hera's mind.

Hera blinked, puzzled, and tried to take Xiao Huan out of her pocket, but Xiao Huan stubbornly refused to come out.

“That’s what the eye in the sky said… I understood that voice just now.”

Xiao Huan is a spiritual being; she cannot speak and communicates with other beings entirely through telepathy.

Because the communication is based on the most basic logic, as long as the other being is conscious and has logic, Xiao Huan can understand it and communicate with it.

Hera's mind was not on why Xiao Huan could understand what she was saying.

Instead, they started to feel a little scared.

'Hand over that girl.'

Hera and Irene were the only girls present, and combined with her own strange feeling about those eyes...

Nine times out of ten, the girl they're talking about is Hera herself.

What should I do now? Run?

Hera looked around and saw that the group was already engulfed by a hurricane shaped like a circular barrier. Hera's will to run was extinguished.

Okay, let's talk to them first and see if they have any ideas.

Thinking this, Hera slowly spoke to the few people who were still in a daze.

"The eyes said, 'Hand over the girl.'"

The group struggled to turn their heads towards Hera, and Ranke asked in confusion,

How did you know?

"Whoosh—!"

The clear voice rang out again, but this time it was clearly tinged with anger, as if He was getting impatient.

The group was simultaneously startled. Ignoring how Hera knew, Falk hurriedly said to Hera…

"Hera, can you ask Him what He really wants?"

After all, there were indeed two girls, Hera and Irene, present, although Falk would not easily abandon either of them.

But we still need to ask clearly.

Hera poked Little Illusion in her pocket. Little Illusion naturally heard Falk's request, but it just stayed in her pocket without giving a reply.

Hera didn't care and yanked it out. "Can you or not? If you don't answer, I'll crush you."

Hera's tone was very calm, as if she were saying something completely ordinary, but it gave Xiao Xiaohuan a big fright.

"I'll try, I'll try!"

Xiao Huan pushed her mental energy to the limit, trying to communicate with this god-like monster.

The moment Xiao Huan's mental energy touched the eyeballs above, she was so frightened she almost lost her soul.

It could sense that its proud spiritual power was nothing more than an ant compared to the creature before it.

If the other party resists even slightly, he will die suddenly due to the backlash from his mind.

Fortunately, after sensing Xiao Huan's spiritual power, the other party did not resist but actively accepted it.

"Hand that girl over to me. I'll spare your life since you helped find her."

A very authoritative voice entered Xiao Huan's mind.

Even though the other party was only communicating mentally, Xiao Huan still felt a splitting headache (the bug must have a headache).

Despite the excruciating pain, Xiao Huan asked very cautiously,

"Um, may I ask which girl it is?"

Xiao Huan is also connected to Hera's spirit, so Hera can hear their entire conversation.

Hera didn't need to be nervous at all when she heard Xiao Huan's question.

What do you think?

The other party's question completely baffled Xiao Huan.

The unease in my heart grew stronger and stronger. I dared not guess, for I was afraid that guessing wrong would kill me.