This is a question that must be answered, as it could potentially affect their lives.
Everyone looked at Yun Chenjing, but to their surprise, Yun Chenjing kept his head down and didn't move for a long time. When Mo Shuwan called him but didn't get a response, she reached out and poked his arm, finally coming to a ridiculous conclusion.
"Asleep."
"Heh, heh heh, this sinner in your family is truly extraordinary!" Zou Zhiqing glared at Yun Chen, who was hanging his head, through gritted teeth.
Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo were somewhat amused and exasperated by Yun Chen, but after a moment of helplessness, they also thought of something.
“He asked me for crystals before, and I asked him why. He said that only crystals made him feel comfortable in this world. I wondered if these crystals could replenish what he needed?”
Not knowing what had just happened, Zou Zhiqing could only quiet down and listen to Mo Shuwan and the others' discussion.
Wen Zuo nodded and said, "Very likely. We can imagine what he was talking about as spiritual energy. The dark world even has a trace of corrosive power in the air, so it probably doesn't have the spiritual energy he needs."
Wen Zuo's guess was unanimously agreed upon by everyone, after all, Yun Chen came from the world of cultivation, so it was not strange to imagine him as spiritual energy.
"So these crystals contain spiritual energy?"
Mo Shuwan glanced at Yun Chenjing, whose head was bowed and whose face was completely covered by his long hair, and said in a low voice, "I don't know, let's ask Yun Chenjing when he wakes up."
They still had many questions to ask: the powerful being he spoke of, the clothes, and the crystals he ate like candy...
Before Yun Chen woke up, the group was greeted by Luo Baokun and his companions, who all looked extremely disheveled when they returned.
Before anyone could ask questions, Luo Baokun took the initiative to recount his experience: "We encountered a group of dark creatures at the beginning. Although it took some effort, we managed to kill them. But while we were looking for crystals, some strange things happened."
"What?"
Luo Baokun shone the light prop card on his arm. "Look at this wound. Don't you think there's anything special about it?"
It took Mo Shuwan and her dozen or so companions about five minutes to finish observing each of them.
Mo Shuwan gently shook her head, "I didn't find anything special."
Zheng Shanhe also shook his head.
Zou Zhiqing frowned and said, "What do you mean? Can you just say it already? I get annoyed by your roundabout way of speaking."
"If you're willing to shut up, you might barely qualify as a beauty," Luo Baokun said casually, then winked at his teammates. "Let's see."
Including the sinner who had just joined their group, several of them rolled up their sleeves, allowing Mo Shuwan and the others to clearly see the wounds on their arms.
"What's going on? Why are they exactly the same?"
Luo Baokun gave a wry smile. "Exactly the same, that's right, exactly the same."
Even Zou Zhiqing frowned as he looked at Luo Baokun, no longer provoking him.
Luo Baokun told his team members to lower their sleeves, then sighed deeply, "We were doing well just now, but suddenly our heartbeats got faster and faster, and our whole bodies started to go weak. A monster took the opportunity to attack Qu Dan, and then several of us had the same wounds on our arms as Qu Dan."
After Luo Baokun finished speaking, the cave fell silent instantly, and everyone could hear the breathing of the person next to them.
Finally, Zheng Shanhe broke the silence, "After Qu Dan was attacked, wounds also appeared on your arms at the same time?"
“Yes.” After a pause, Luo Baokun smiled and said, “But in that situation just now, it was thanks to the fact that we were all injured that the pain pulled us back from the brink of disaster, preventing any major problems from occurring.”
"This is troublesome."
Mo Shuwan also thought about how everyone's heartbeat frequency had become exactly the same just now, and what exactly was that monster that passed by in the distance?
When Luo Baokun and his group encountered this incident, they were still fighting against the dark creatures and were unaware that everyone's heartbeats had suddenly become identical at a certain moment. Zheng Shanhe, as the employer, solemnly informed Luo Baokun and the others of this news.
"So, our guess was correct, and something extraordinary has indeed happened in this world?"
After all, with so many people from their three teams searching for information about the dark world on the forum, including the wealthy Zheng Shanhe, there was no way they wouldn't have found out about a monster of that level. Yet, no one knew anything about that monster, which could only mean that they were the first to know about its existence.
"It seems that's the case." Zheng Shanhe turned to look at Zou Zhiqing. "You should also stay here for the time being."
Zou Zhiqing is not an unreasonable person. When it comes to life-or-death issues, she is calmer than anyone else and does not feel resentful that everyone else went but their team did not.
"However, we need to come up with a strategy quickly. If it's really as we guessed, then the difficulty of this mission world will probably increase. We have to do something."
Mo Shuwan shook her head. "There's nothing we can do."
Zheng Shanhe remained silent.
Zou Zhiqing looked at Luo Baokun, who also showed no reaction, and frowned, "Hey, can you guys stop being so pessimistic?"
“We’re not lost. Right now, we’re completely in the dark. We don’t know anything about what’s happening in this world, what that monster is, why crystals appear in the heads of the dark creatures, and why they’re so corrosive just by running past us. We don’t understand any of these questions. Under these circumstances, it would be too reckless to rush into the dark world.”
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