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It was too quiet.

Everything around them had suddenly fallen silent.

The whistling wind was gone, as was the intermittent chirping of insects. Even Gao Xiaomeng’s mouth—opening, closing, opening, closing—made no sound at all.

It was like watching a silent play.

Moreover, and most importantly, Gao Neng felt the surrounding temperature had changed. It had been somewhat cold before, but now there was no chill at all.

This was very strange.

One’s ears might go deaf for a moment, but it was unlikely for the body to lose its sense of the environment—especially since Gao Neng was being extremely cautious.

His Spiritual Power was spread out the entire time.

Although the area it covered was no longer as vast as before, he was at least still observing his surroundings.

"Gao Xiaomeng, let’s go back!" Gao Neng didn’t know what was happening. Instinct told him they had to leave this place as quickly as possible.

But as he spoke, there was no echo.

To put it simply, the words had definitely come out of his mouth, but he couldn’t hear himself speak.

"What is that?!" Gao Neng turned around. Behind him, it was still dark, quiet, and peaceful—exactly the same as before.

As for Dark Creatures...

There really wasn’t a single one.

At least, he hadn’t seen any yet.

A slight chill ran down Gao Neng’s back.

There was nothing behind him.

But it was as if his senses of hearing and touch had been stripped away. It was a terrible feeling, and absolutely, extraordinarily bizarre.

"Gao Xiaomeng, let’s go, quickly!" Gao Neng once again spoke the words he couldn’t hear, and then he saw Gao Xiaomeng lunging toward him.

Gao Neng was no fool.

He didn’t mistakenly believe that Gao Xiaomeng wanted to fight him again.

Because in Gao Xiaomeng’s eyes, he saw anxiety and urgency. Moreover, her mouth was rhythmically forming the same shape.

It was as if she was saying...

"Gao Neng, don’t move!"

"Gao Neng, don’t move!"

"..."

’Don’t move?’ Gao Neng was more than ninety percent sure those were her words, but the root of the problem was that he actually wanted to run.

If Gao Xiaomeng had shouted, ’Gao Neng, run!’

Then he definitely would have run.

But what Gao Xiaomeng was shouting was... ’Don’t move!’

This made things difficult.

Because he really, really wanted to move.

He didn’t just want to move; he wanted to get out of this damn place as fast as he could. After all, he felt that something was seriously wrong with his current state.

In the end, however, Gao Neng didn’t move.

The reason was simple. While he didn’t completely trust her words, he had absolute faith that she definitely didn’t want him to die.

So, he didn’t move.

He let Gao Xiaomeng lunge in front of him, raise her fist, and punch him... right in his incredibly handsome, and also incredibly handsome, face.

BAM!

It was a muffled sound.

Gao Neng shot straight backward.

Then, like a cannonball, he slammed into the cliff wall, blasting a crater in it.

It was a full two meters deep.

This just went to show that Gao Xiaomeng hadn’t held back at all with that punch. While aiming right for his face, she had also put her full, ruthless strength behind it.

But Gao Neng wasn’t angry, nor did his face turn red with rage.

Because, at the exact moment he hit the cliff wall, familiar sounds once again filled his ears, and he could also feel a bit of pain.

What did this mean?

It meant that his lost senses had returned.

Of course, that wasn’t the most important thing. The most important thing was that he could now see where Gao Xiaomeng was standing—the exact spot where he had been just moments before.

Gao Xiaomeng wasn’t alone in that spot.

There was also a mass of darkness!

It was definitely not any kind of Dark Creature he recognized, because the mass of darkness looked like a giant blob of black ink floating in the air.

And this blob of ink was now wrapped around Gao Xiaomeng’s body.

The strangest part was, although the ink had no facial features—no eyes or nose—he felt as if it were smiling at him.

This was rather horrifying.

’Use Glare!’ Gao Neng was a man of decisive action. If he didn’t know what something was or who it was, then the most direct solution was to glare at it.

"..."

The expected information interface did not appear.

Gao Neng glared again.

But the ink was still just ink, and Gao Xiaomeng was still just Gao Xiaomeng.

The two of them seemed to be engaged in some kind of communication or struggle, but the information Gao Neng wanted to see didn’t appear at all. Not even a shred of it.

His Glare ability...

...had failed!

’Did the useless system crash?!’

’No!’

’It’s not that Glare failed, nor that the useless system crashed. It’s that this blob of ink’s rank is too high—so high that even the useless system can’t analyze it.’

But that made it even more terrifying.

Because Gao Neng had used his Glare before to view the information of Yutian and others.

Although he couldn’t see Yutian’s weaknesses and strengths, Yutian’s basic information had still been displayed.

This proved that Glare could at least see the basic information of a Ninth-Rank.

But this blob of ink before him...

...he couldn’t even see a name.

’The Strongest!!!’ Gao Neng’s mind exploded with a BUZZ. He had expected to encounter some Eighth-Rank, or even Ninth-Rank, Dark Creatures at the twenty-thousand-meter mark.

But he had never imagined—or rather, it had never occurred to him—that he would actually run into something of the Strongest Level at twenty thousand meters.