Chapter 51: Awakening
“It’s not over yet,” Foxy whispered.
Almost the moment she spoke, Yu Sheng understood what she meant.
He heard chaotic roars rising from the dense forest, and a terrifying, hollow wind suddenly echoed through the valley. The eerie, sinister atmosphere pervading this strange land hadn’t lessened with the defeat of the flesh-and-blood giant beast; instead, it had grown several times stronger. A heavy, almost suffocating sense of malice and watchful eyes surged from all directions as if something had been awakened—and it was furious.
“What on earth is happening?!” Yu Sheng asked urgently, turning to the fox girl who seemed to know more than she let on.
“I don’t know exactly, but… it’s happened before,” Foxy replied, her face pale with fear. She hid behind Yu Sheng as she spoke. “The Immortal died that day—it was just like this. Something woke up. The Immortal led the others outside, but they never came back. Later, we only found their bodies…”
She trembled slightly, lowering her head. “My parents hid me in a cave and told me not to look outside. I don’t know what happened. When I crawled out, everyone was already dead…”
Yu Sheng quickly pieced together the situation from Foxy’s disjointed tale.
The real terror in this valley wasn’t that giant beast.
Or rather, it wasn’t just that beast—something even more powerful slumbered in the depths of this darkness. From the moment he and Irene had entered the valley, that thing had been awakening.