Chapter 56 The Altar (1/2)

The little girl kept repeating those words, asking for help. “I’m scared… I’m begging you, can you please help me?”

“Alright, alright.” I cautiously approached her. “Can you tell me what happened?”

However, the little girl suddenly stopped talking. She turned around and began to run.

“Wait! What’s the matter with you?” I shouted and chased her.

She wasn’t very fast, and she kept looking back at me as if she was waiting for me to catch up.

I had no choice but follow her, and at the same time, I tried to communicate with her.

“Are you okay? What happened to you? Why did you ask me for help?”

But the little girl did not answer me. Instead, she began to run faster. There were eerie cackles echoing in the quiet corridor.

“Huh, huh, huh…”

That sound made my scalp prickle and I stopped running for a moment. However, I was so curious that I kept following her.

After all, she was the only living creature here, maybe she knew something about Wen Jiubo, or maybe she really needed help?

Thinking about that, I continued to chase her. “Hey! Where are you? Wait for me!”

However, just I was about to turn around a corner and had almost caught up with her, from the darkness a hand suddenly grabbed my wrist.

I was frightened and began to scream. However, before I could make a single sound, another hand covered my mouth. I began to struggle violently. Luckily, I elbowed the attacker’s stomach during the fight, he groaned and let go of me.

I instantly ran away. But after a few steps, I began to realize that something was strange.

Was it his stomach that I hit? But does that mean that the thing that attacked me was human?

I turned back and saw a teenager who was wearing a weird mask leaning against the wall. He was holding his stomach as if he was suffering quite a bit.

“Um, you…” I gathered up my courage and spoke to him.

“What’s wrong with you?” The boy answered impolitely. It looked like my elbow jab really hurt him.

The boy was as tall as me and his build was very similar to mine. He looked like a normal human being.

“This is the junction connecting the worlds of Yin and Yang. There are cracks leading to the void everywhere around here,” the teenager panted. “If you had followed her, she would have led you to one of the cracks. And once you fall into one of them, you disappear forever. And when I say ‘disappear’, I mean it’s a fate worse than death. Void cracks completely erase your existence, as if you had never existed.”

I stared at the teenager dumbfoundedly and I stammered, “But… why did she try to do this to me? Also, who are you? Why are you here?”

“Because she is the most dangerous thing here, she acquires power by luring souls into the cracks. And as for who I am, it’s not important.” The teenager stood up and fixed his mask. “The important thing is, who are you?”

“Who am I?” I murmured, thinking of my purpose here. “That’s not important either! Do you know a person named Wen Jiubo? Or…or his soul? Did you see him? I came to find him!”

“I don’t know!”

Somehow, the boy in front of me suddenly got emotional. He took a deep breath, apparently trying to calm himself down. “I’m sorry, I don’t know. I’m also here to look for an important person, I really can’t help you.”

“Um, okay.” I carefully observed this strange teenager, my guts were telling me that I probably should stay away from him. “Then I won’t bother you anymore, thank you for saving my life…”

Upon saying that, I cautiously moved back while closely watching his reaction. The teenager stood still. He looked at me and suddenly opened his mouth.

“You should be careful. This is not the world you are familiar with, anything can happen. Don’t get lost, or else you may never return,” the boy said. “And you should follow the fragrance.”

“Fragrance? What fragrance?” I looked back to ask him what he meant about that only to find out that the boy had already disappeared, leaving only the sound of splashing water echoing in the empty corridor.

What a strange person.