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Willow suddenly reached over and tugged lightly at Doorboard’s sleeve, her voice low and taut as she said, “I keep feeling like we’re being watched.”
Her instincts were sharper than anyone else’s. Doorboard’s grip on his giant axe tightened at once as he asked, “From ahead or behind?”
“I can’t tell. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not.” Willow let out a soft hum, then added, “But right now? Behind us.”
“We’re being stalked,” He Lingchuan said. He had heard it too. “These things move through the rock walls like fish through water. Why don’t you guys guess who they’ll strike first?”
Xu Chun replied without thinking, “Chains always break at the weakest link.”
After he said that, everyone’s eyes immediately shifted toward the most vulnerable member of their current group—the young man who was so thickly wrapped in bandages that he looked like a mummy. The poor young man froze mid-step, dread washing over his face.
And in that exact instant—
A pair of claws burst up from beneath the ground, clamping onto his ankle and wrenching hard!
The solid ground where he stood instantly softened and became like a pit of mud. One violent tug, and the wounded man plunged down into the ground all the way to his calves before he could even scream.
He had just barely managed a strangled cry when He Lingchuan flashed toward him. He Lingchuan’s...
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