Shatter

“What should we do?”

Being stared at by a group of people in dead silence was definitely not a pleasant experience, and Su Mian felt rather uncomfortable.

The main issue was that Qi Chuan was among them.

If they actually started fighting, it would be hard to guarantee his safety, so she was already hesitating whether to let her other self take over.

Beside her, Jiang Xun did not answer immediately.

His gaze swept over the surrounding crowd, and he remained silent as if contemplating something.

After a full thirty seconds, just as the old man on the stage was about to lose his patience, the young man finally spoke.

“Then my choice is…”

Halfway through his sentence, he suddenly paused, stopped for a few more seconds, and then inexplicably revealed a smile.

“It looks like I have a third choice.”

“What?”

Yu Fu was confused.

Then, at that very moment, the building beneath them shook violently!

No, it was not the building shaking; it was the entire world swaying.

In an instant, the scarlet color that had appeared frequently before covered the world in front of them, and a massive number of black lines slithered across the walls and floors like small snakes.

But this time was clearly different, because beneath that red, a layer of normal color was distinctly superimposed.

The two colors overlapped yet remained clearly demarcated, making one’s head swim just looking at it.

Double images appeared in the surrounding space, and through those ghosts of reality, Su Mian saw another world—the real world!

It was the same location of the auction hall, but the seats inside had been cleared out, the doors were sealed, and in the middle of the empty room stood four figures: two men and two women.

A youth wearing glasses who looked quite young.

A bald man in a black jacket and black sunglasses.

A girl wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts with her hair tied in a ball bun.

And finally, a junior high girl in Gothic attire wearing an eyepatch, giving off a strong vibe of middle-schooler syndrome.

The four of them were either standing or crouching around a very strange-looking black machine in the center.

At this moment, that thing was sporadically emitting bursts of blue electrical sparks, looking quite extraordinary.

Su Mian saw the other side, and Jiang Xun beside her naturally noticed as well.

The people on the other side clearly discovered them too.

The bald man among them immediately walked over and said something, but although he could be seen unclearly, the sound from the opposite side could not pass through at all, making it look like a pantomime.

Jiang Xun, however, understood his meaning.

Without wasting words, he immediately pointed to the guests invited here around him.

The bald man on the opposite side stopped immediately, nodded in understanding, and then looked at the youth fiddling with the black machine.

At the same time, Yu Fu on the stage reacted immediately.

“The Bureau!”

He could think of throwing An Ye and Old He outside to avoid trouble, so he naturally knew they would contact the Bureau soon after getting out.

Knowing the situation, the Bureau would certainly dispatch more people to handle the problem.

Yu Fu had expected this long ago, but the problem was that the other side’s movements were too fast; they had made a breakthrough from the outside in such a short amount of time!

Of course, it was mainly because the internal ritual had been mostly destroyed by Jiang Xun and Su Mian.

Otherwise, with the characteristics of the Shadow Realm, it would be very difficult to break through directly from the outside.

But dwelling on this now was useless.

The old man’s eyes turned cold, and with a wave of his hand, the quiet crowd around them charged frantically toward the two people in the middle!

But also at this moment, in the auction hall of the normal world, that strange machine suddenly erupted with a blinding blue light.

With the eruption of that blue light, the entire surrounding space was actually painted sky-blue in an instant.

However, that blue clearly conflicted with both the colors of the normal world and the red of the Abyss.

With the three colors superimposed and the Shadow Realm already unstable due to the destruction of the ritual anchors, it suffered another impact.

After lasting for a few seconds, it finally emitted the sound of shattering under the unbearable burden!

As the Shadow Realm began to break and dissipate due to various reasons, the guests rushing toward Su Mian and Jiang Xun all trembled and simultaneously collapsed to the floor.

A large part of Yu Fu’s power came from the ritual, and now that the Shadow Realm was shattered, the ritual’s effects naturally began to vanish.

Thus, the people he was manipulating also lost their control.

However, when Su Mian instinctively looked up at the high stage in front, she found that the old man’s figure was gone.

Even the demonic people around had disappeared to some unknown place!

Did he run?

No…

“The restaurant!”

Jiang Xun reacted faster than Su Mian, turning around and charging downstairs without a word.

The girl stood in place with some hesitation because her mission was basically complete now.

The remaining matters could be left to these people from the Bureau to handle.

The thing she truly needed to consider next was how to rid herself of suspicion.

Anyway, staying in place was impossible.

Su Mian looked up at the four people from the Bureau outside.

Although the Shadow Realm was shattered, the impact it had caused on the normal world did not disappear immediately.

It would still take a process for the surrounding environment to return to its original state.

Therefore, at this moment, they were still in different worlds.

But this situation certainly would not last long.

After glancing at the few people, Su Mian ran outside without hesitation.

But her goal was not the restaurant on the bottom floor, but the room where she had left her clothes earlier.

She needed to take advantage of the time before the Shadow Realm completely vanished to hurry and change her clothes back, then find a suitable place to ‘faint’ and wait for someone to save her.

Just as she ran to the place where she had hidden her clothes, before Su Mian could change back, her body suddenly stiffened.

“What is this?”

Instinctively looking down at the ground, the girl felt an indescribable restlessness from below.

Along with that restlessness, she felt as if her body was also being affected; her heart pounded wildly, and scalding heat surged everywhere inside her.

Her body became soft, yet seemed to be filled with power.

An unspeakable strangeness was filling her chest!

Something seemed ready to come out, yet she did not know what it was.

The strange feeling made Su Mian feel as if ants were crawling all over her.

Enduring that strong discomfort, she gritted her teeth and took out her small pocket mirror.

Before the succubus girl could fully manifest, Su Mian immediately asked, “What is going on?”

“A demon.”

The answer in the mirror was very simple.

Su Mian was stunned.

“A demon? A demon has descended? But has the Shadow Realm not already collapsed?”

“The Shadow Realm is the prelude to the descent of the Abyss, and the descent of the Abyss might bring demons. But the descent of a demon… does not necessarily have to rely on the Abyss.”

To put it plainly, the Abyss was the Abyss, and demons were demons.

Demons were a powerful species existing in the Abyss, so if the Abyss descended, they would very likely come to this world along with it.

But this did not mean that was the only way they could arrive here!

“As long as certain conditions are met, they can also come to this world.”

The succubus’s voice carried an inexplicable emotion.

Su Mian frowned deeply as she looked at the unconscious smile appearing on the other’s face.

She thought for a few seconds before asking, “Then what is wrong with my body now? I feel very wrong!”

“It is simple.”

The succubus smiled more and more radiantly, and even those blood-colored eyes were glowing slightly.

She murmured softly, like a delirium, “A body that has been vacant for a long time needs to be fulfilled; a body that has been hungry for a long time needs a feast.”

“Speak human language!”

“I am hungry.”