After drawing cards, the evil god became my source of吐槽 (tu cao, a form of humorous commentary/criti

Chapter 112 Large-scale Mysterious Shopping Mall (16)

An Jing stopped and looked back at the four people in the group. His voice was low but clear as he reported:

"I just tried scanning Area B with my mental power... and found a lot of mental entities."

Youlong approached almost immediately, his brows furrowed, and he lightly lit a flame with his fingers. The firelight reflected a flickering light in his eyes, revealing his obvious wariness: "How many mysteries are there?"

But we also know that the number is definitely not small.

After all, An Jing has already said a lot.

An Jing swallowed slightly, her gaze sweeping across the dim environment. She slowly replied, "Not only is there mystery, but also..."

His voice was so low it was almost a soliloquy. He paused, his eyes flickering slightly, as if trying to confirm everything he perceived. "Many people."

She spoke the word "person" with unusual hesitation, almost as if she felt she had said something absurd.

She herself found it hard to believe, and a chill ran through her.

Because those people's spiritual bodies were unusually close to the mysterious spiritual body, intertwined in the same space.

In the darkness, these people seemed completely unharmed by the mystery, while the mystery lingered around them, so close that they could feel each other's breath and faint heartbeats.

Xin frowned slightly and couldn't help but ask, "Someone? You mean, there's a human next to the mysterious figure?"

An Jing nodded, his voice low and firm: "Yes, there are indeed people there."

At that moment, the five-person team stopped in their tracks. The surrounding air seemed to be compressed instantly, becoming so heavy that it was almost impossible to breathe.

The gloomy Block B seemed frozen in time, with broken corners, scattered fragments, and billboards covered in dust casting distorted shadows in the firelight.

Everyone held their breath, their eyes darting between each other, trying to find a glimmer of understanding in each other's expressions, but they only saw the same confusion and unease.

Holly's brows furrowed, and her hands clenched into fists, trembling slightly. "This... how is this possible? Why, why didn't these mystical creatures harm them?"

The flames of the dragon flickered slightly in his palm, carrying with them an unresolved doubt.

He squinted, trying to see into the depths of the darkness, his voice low but with an almost imperceptible tremor: "This doesn't make sense. Those low-level, or even mid-level, mystical creatures, they wouldn't let any of them get away if they got close to humans."

How could humans survive right under the nose of a mysterious entity?

Yunji's gaze was shifty, his fingers gripping the backpack strap tightly, as he kept guessing.

This situation is actually the most unsettling.

Xin remained silent for a long time, his brows furrowed, as if he were calculating the environment and potential dangers of the entire B area.

Half a minute later, she raised her hand, her fingers trembling slightly, her tone low but decisive: "So what do you think, should we take the initiative to investigate now? After all, we haven't seen anything strange along the way, which is really suspicious."

The others responded almost in unison: "I agree."

Youlong nodded, his eyes filled with a mixture of vigilance and determination: "Our mission is to eliminate the Mysterious Ones, so it's necessary to understand the situation."

Holly conjured a metal sword, its metallic sheen flickering slightly. She took a slow breath, a resolute glint in her eyes: "That's right, we have to find out exactly what happened."

Just then, An Jing felt a buzzing in his head.

The system gently notified: [The paper umbrella girl is stuck on vibration.]

Completely bewildered, An Jing reached into the card library and pulled out the paper umbrella girl card.

The card trembled slightly in his hand, a thin veil of light spreading across the paper, writhing as if alive. The dark figure of the man behind the woman with the paper umbrella slowly emerged from the card, surrounded by a gloomy mist, his outline indistinct, like a ghost being pulled out of existence.

"I do not recommend that you continue."

The shadowy figure's voice was deep and cold, piercing directly into An Jing's consciousness, carrying a sense of oppression that made the blood of all five of them tighten slightly.

"It would be best to go back now and find a way to get the survivors we've already rescued out."

An Jing frowned slightly, her doubts deepening: "Why? What do you know?"

The shadowy figure moved slightly, its outline appearing blurry and eerie in the dim light.
"If you hadn't died, Xiao'er and I would have disappeared too, and I wouldn't have bothered reminding you. Do you know why I'm in Area C with other mysterious figures?"

An Jing shook his head, a heavy weight of doubt pressing on his chest.

The dark figure took a slight step back, the voice seeming to come from the depths of an abyss, carrying a chilling and sinister tone:
"Because we are mysterious beings formed from human matter. The mysterious beings in Area B and Area A are almost entirely composed of animal matter, and they deeply hate humans. This extends to us, a group of mysterious beings made of human matter."

They started as low-level, mysterious creatures, their strength far inferior to ours. But after devouring many humans, they've become exceptionally ferocious and have even developed intelligence.

An Jing froze, her fingers trembling slightly on the card.

The shadowy figure continued, its voice low and menacing, like a stone pressing down on water: "You'd better not provoke them. The fact that humans and these mysterious spiritual entities are so close means they've evolved to the point where they can control their cannibalistic desires and have other thoughts about humans."

This is dangerous... This isn't something that can be resolved on a typical battlefield.

"The animal matter is incredibly mysterious and ferocious. Even if the five of you have new powers, going there will only be suicide."

The air was so thick that one could barely hear their own breathing. The five people stood there, their eyes filled with confusion, fear, and hesitation as they exchanged glances.

The darkness, ruins, and eerie atmosphere of Zone B, along with the intertwining of humans and mysterious spiritual entities, formed an invisible net that tightly bound their thoughts.

An Jing took a deep breath, gripped the card tightly, and sensed the subtle aura emanating from her surroundings.

Each spiritual entity seemed to possess its own temperature and rhythm, human and mysterious, interwoven into a complex network that was difficult to decipher, causing an unprecedented sense of oppression to well up in one's heart.

"I didn't expect the mysterious to be divided into these categories."

This was the first time Xin had ever heard of these things.

No wonder when we entered the mysterious magnetic field, some of the strange creatures looked bizarre, while others looked very much like humans.

The strange and bizarre shapes of the lower-level mysterious creatures are because their material originates from animals?
This new understanding made Youxin feel as if he had come to know a new world.

But the most important thing right now is to decide whether or not to try to figure it out.

An Jing looked around again and said in a low voice, "What are everyone's opinions?"

All four eyes turned to her once again.

The aura of darkness, the presence of spiritual entities, and the whispers of the shadowy figures within the cards all pushed everyone's nerves to their limits at this moment.

The gloomy B area is silent and oppressive, yet full of unknown threats.

"I think we should go find it."

Youlong lowered his eyes and said.

(End of this chapter)