Where it had just escaped, now stood Mu You.
He had used the black magic version of Teleport for the first time, immediately trapping the other party inside a water prison.
The girl holding the scythe in her hand had already turned into a lifeless body with empty eyes, lying motionless on the ground.
The shadow continually changed shape within the water prison, transforming into men, women, elderly and children, but regardless of its form, it was repelled by the water prison with no exit in sight.
Mu You approached the water prison and a Mana Floating Dragon appeared on his shoulder, exuding a cold gust.
A few ice walls rapidly connected around the water prison, forming a square ice prison and thoroughly trapping the shadow inside.
The water prison had become a perpetual ice prison, with the Shadow Man seemingly aware persuasion was futile, giving up struggling, reverting to its shadow state and glaring at Mu You furiously.
"Now, shall we talk?"
Mu You looked at the shadow in the ice prison.
"What do you want to talk about?" The shadow asked with a hoarse voice.
"How exactly do you create shadow ghosts? Also, where is Mian Mian, also known as Number 14?" Mu You asked.
"Number 14? You’re asking me about Number 14’s location? Hahaha..." The shadow suddenly burst into laughter at that.
"What’s so funny?" Mu You looked at the shadow with a frown.
"You really know nothing!"
The shadow shook its head and sneered, "You think, after abandoning my operations in the Forgotten Land for years and recklessly returning, it’s for some grand scheme?"
"Isn’t it?" Mu You asked.
"That’s why you don’t understand a thing! I’m in such a rush to return, simply to appease that waking beast. Otherwise, do you really think I’d be afraid to confront you fools after years of effort building up my power?" the shadow sneered, its expression no longer calm but gradually turning into madness.
"Beast... are you referring to the thing you kept in the underground factory?" Mu You raised an eyebrow.
He still wasn’t clear about that ’thing’ he encountered in the Gu Venom Pool of the underground factory, something that could kill him in an instant. It made him apprehensive.
"Keep it? You’re quite wrong!"
The shadow glared at Mu You in anger, "I’m not keeping it under control, I’m suppressing it!"
"Without me relentlessly suppressing it, there wouldn’t be any Fools! Your so-called Forgotten Land would have been razed to the ground thousands of year ago!"
"What do you mean?" Mu You frowned.
"It’s too late. Anything I say is too late. The weakness of my shadow has exceeded the critical point, and I can’t suppress it anymore! All my efforts of the past thousand years were ruined by you at once, and now, you fools will pay the price for your foolish actions!" The shadow completely lost its sanity, its body began to distort. Finally, with a muffled noise, it exploded into a cloud of black energy, completely disappearing within the ice prison.
Sister Xue seemed quite surprised at what she was seeing.
"More accurately, he gave up on his shadow. His real form is still in another dimension," Mu You shook his head. The opponent’s main body, of course, would not so easily commit suicide. What concerned him were the words the shadow spoke.
Given that the shadow’s strength was at its critical point, he couldn’t suppress that beast anymore...
Did that mean that the beast was about to leave the underground factory and reveal its true form?
While deep in thought, their phones started ringing at the same time.
Both of them took a look and saw a message Little Ya sent them via the forum. The message was short: Boss, Sister Xue, get on the game quick. Something happened to Dawn City!
"Trouble in Dawn City?"
Both looked at each other and hastily logged into the game on their phones.
As soon as they logged in, they received a stream of prompts.
[Dawn City has been locked by an unknown entity, in the midst of a crisis of destruction, automatically entering war mode!]
[In war mode, all production buildings will stop, the entrance to the underground city will automatically close, all residents already in the underground city will be expelled, war building will automatically go into defence mode, all residents will receive war reports in real time. ]
[In the state of war, residents of Dawn City will not lose action points due to death.]
[As the City Lord, please decide whether to mobilize residents to fight or evacuate the City of Dawn from this area?]
After the last prompt, Mu You took his time selecting an option, since the situation had not yet been clarified.
"What’s going on?" Sister Xue looked at Mu You.
"We’ll find out when we get there." Mu You took a deep breath and looked at the space fissure in front of them.
Luckily, they had a space fissure right in front of them which led directly to the Star Spirit World, otherwise, the in-game text would provide too little information.
Both of them stepped through the space fissure one after the other.
As the light in front of them changed, they found themselves on a cliff.
The thick clouds in the sky blocked the moonlight and starlight, leaving the surrounding area pitch-black.
However, using their night vision, they could clearly see their location: they were on the outskirts of the Cook Islands.
They were standing on top of a mountain peak in the Cook Islands. Looking up, they saw the enormous sky city hovering high above, while looking down, they could see the many villages below.