Chapter 52: Connection
The moment he heard those four words, Li Lin felt his blood turn cold.
Just a moment ago, he had been mourning Yu Sheng, who had been killed by a monster’s sneak attack. Now, he realized he might not live much longer than this fallen stranger.
“How could this be… The reports never mentioned a Dark Angel lurking here…” Li Lin muttered to himself. Under the cold, indifferent gaze from above, he felt a storm of thoughts roaring in his head. “How could this be…”
“In their dormant state, every Dark Angel is different… This is worse than battling Angel Cultists out in the wastelands!” Xu Jiali cursed, shaking his head. He couldn’t understand how his routine mission had spiraled into such chaos. What was supposed to be a simple surveillance task at the border had turned into a nightmare.
Everything had happened so fast—being pulled into an Otherworld, seeing that “door-opening weirdo” he’d met once on a wasteland planet, standing with a half-meter-tall puppet and a fox demon who looked like she’d been exiled for a century. Before they could exchange even a few words, the mysterious “door-opening weirdo” had died right before his eyes. The puppet had reacted in the strangest way, and then even more creatures of Hunger appeared. To top it all off, a Dark Angel emerged in the sky…
How could all these bizarre things happen in just one day?
Low growls echoed around them. Shadows shaped like wolves circled the group. The cold gaze from the solitary eye in the sky made these creatures feel immense pressure, even fear.
Little Red Riding Hood, perched on one of the wolves, frowned. “This is strange. Why aren’t those monsters coming at us?”
Irene, resting in Foxy’s arms, felt a chill. She noticed it too—the strange creatures surrounding them were still prowling and growling, but none had stepped forward to attack.