Chapter 857: The Mastermind Behind The Curtain
“Who is it?!”
It was at this moment Chen Cang suddenly glimpsed a face hidden in the shadows of the ceiling. Caught off guard, he immediately channeled his sword qi and got ready for battle immediately.
The next moment, he relaxed. It was because he realized that he was looking at a bat, not a human.
The bat was about as big as a baby’s palm, and it had a pair of jet black wings covered in dark red lines that joined into an image that vaguely resembled a baby’s face. That was the face Chen Cang had seen earlier.
“Can’t believe a Baby Bat almost gave me a heart attack.” Chen Cang chuckled to himself and shook his head. He was high strung even after two days of rest, but that was understandable. He had been hunted like a rat for the past week. It would be stranger if he wasn’t as tense as a bowstring.
However, Chen Cang’s relief didn’t even last a second before he lifted his head and stared at the Baby Bat with alarm. “Wait! Why’s there a Baby Bat in this cave?!”
A Baby Bat was a Hatred-class Stranger. Unlike your usual bat, it was fond of sunlight and disliked dark places. It only appeared during the day and enjoyed feeding on baby blood. Combined with the fact that the pattern on its wings were shaped like a baby’s face, people came to call it a Baby Bat.
The reason Chen Cang was alarmed was because Baby Bats were only ever found on the surface where sunlight was plentiful. Barring exceptional circumstances, one could never find a Baby Bat in dark, damp places such as this underground river. And yet, there was no doubt that the bat hanging on the ceiling was a Baby Bat.
Was this normal? Of course not.