Even in the dim light, her eyes, always bright, suddenly lost their sparkle, "I didn't hear..."
"I know."
Lu Li put an end to Anna's panic, "Go check if the door is open."
An instinctive drift carried Anna forward, but she forgot she now inhabited a human body and staggered a bit. She walked silently to the door, turned slowly, and a never-before-seen frailty and despair clung to her cheeks.
"The door...is open..."
It came in...
If it were the Uninvited Guests, Lu Li would have triggered death—
"It's not the Uninvited Guests," Lu Li replied in a low voice.
The ritual of the Uninvited Guests ends differently, not with the sound of a door opening.
Anna couldn't feel it, couldn't hear it, which should be a characteristic of "the door," but "the door" shouldn't affect reality, or at least it couldn't the last time it masqueraded as the Uninvited Guests.
So that means...
Suddenly, a head sneakily peeked out from behind the door, looking around curiously.
