When system cheat becomes rampant!

Haunted.

Just a few seconds ago, Lu Hong and Lu Zhiwei were clearly right behind him. How could they have suddenly disappeared?

Xiang Beifei frowned.

Honestly, ever since he entered this forest, he had felt that the atmosphere around him was a bit eerie. The system fluctuations were very strong, as if something was enveloping the area, rendering the forest surreal.

Xiaohei "swooshed" onto Xiang Beifei's shoulder and clung tightly to his neck.

"Xiaohei, what's going on? Where are Uncle Lu and Lu Zhiwei?" Xiang Beifei inquired.

Xiaohei shook his head, seemingly also confused.

Xiang Beifei's attention had been drawn away by a woman named He Yun just now, neglecting what was behind him, but Lu Hong and Lu Zhiwei were supposed to be just five steps behind him, so how could they just vanish?

He turned around and looked at the slope behind him.

He had been at the base of the slope because he'd heard a noise and climbed up. At that time, Uncle Lu and the others were still beside him, but when he got to the top, he saw the ghostly figure of the woman, who called out to him for help. He alerted Uncle Lu, and Uncle Lu had responded.

In less than ten seconds from the woman appearing to her disappearing, how could they disappear in such a short span?

Xiang Beifei leaped down the slope, watching his surroundings warily, then whispered, "Uncle Lu?"

No one answered.

"Lu Zhiwei?"

Still no response.

It was as if the two of them had vanished into thin air.

The forest was eerily silent, only the rustling of leaves in the wind.

But soon, amidst these rustling noises, Xiang Beifei thought he heard something strange.

The sound... was like the waves crashing against the rocks!

"Why would there be the sound of waves?"

Xiang Beifei found it odd.

This place was a forest, with the nearest coastline being hundreds of kilometers away. There couldn't possibly be waves nearby.

"Xiaohei, what were you chasing to get here?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"Woof woof."

"And the scent?"

"Woof woof!"

"It disappeared?"

After contemplating for a moment, Xiang Beifei decided that something peculiar was going on in this area. He resolved to return to the road to see if he could find Xiao Cao and Ma Feiguang to help search together.

He retraced the route they had originally taken, moving through the thorns to head back.

However, after a few steps, he increasingly felt that something was amiss.

For some reason, the light between the trees would occasionally appear distorted, becoming very strange.

With no one around, it seemed like something was watching him from the dark.

He seemed to understand something.

"Xiang Beifei! Where are you?"

At that moment, Xiang Beifei suddenly heard Lu Zhiwei's voice coming from the trees to his right. He perked up immediately and turned toward the source of the sound, running.

The ground in the forest was uneven. He ran forward for a while and soon saw Lu Zhiwei.

"Where did you go just now?"

Xiang Beifei approached Lu Zhiwei.

"I should ask you the same; you suddenly disappeared."

Lu Zhiwei was standing on a branch two meters high and then reached out a hand, saying, "Hurry, come up. What are you doing running down in the ditch?"

What running in the ditch?

Xiang Beifei felt puzzled; he looked around, and clearly, it was an open field. How could it be a ditch?

"You come down, standing on a tree and—"

Xiang Beifei hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly realized something and looked at Lu Zhiwei's feet in astonishment.

Lu Zhiwei was not standing on the branch. Her feet were clearly a distance away from the branch.

She was suspended in midair!

"What are you dazed for? Is it fun being stuck in the mud?"

Lu Zhiwei waved her hand, beckoning Xiang Beifei to hurry up.

Xiang Beifei felt increasingly uneasy. He hesitated for a moment but still reached out to grab Lu Zhiwei's hand.

However, their hands passed through each other in midair.

Xiang Beifei's hand grasped nothing!

It was as if Lu Zhiwei was just a shadow, impossible to hold!

"This—"

Lu Zhiwei also paused, stunned. She tried to grab Xiang Beifei's hand again, but their hands crossed paths again in the air.

"What's happening? What ability did you use?" Lu Zhiwei asked in astonishment.

"It's not me; there's something strange here," Xiang Beifei said gravely.

Lu Zhiwei squatted down, looking at Xiang Beifei puzzledly. She tried several times to grab his hand but failed, and her face gradually turned uneasy.

"What's wrong?"

"Behind you! Watch out!" Lu Zhiwei yelled.

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Xiang Beifei swiftly turned around, breath soil had already transformed into a dagger in his hand, and a flame arose on his arm.

However, there was nothing behind him!

Lu Zhiwei shouted from above, "Run! What are you dazed for? The desolate beast is coming at you!"

"I can't see any desolate beast!" Xiang Beifei said sternly.

This wasn't the outer wilderness; normally, the chances of a desolate beast appearing weren't very high. Last time, a person named Xu Yang had attacked him with a mutated stray dog, but that was no desolate beast.

"It's roaring at you; wait, I'll jump down and join you," Lu Zhiwei said.

Xiang Beifei thought of something and yelled, "Wait, don't jump!"

But it was already a step too late; Lu Zhiwei had jumped from the tree.

Her figure hit the ground and then disappeared straight into the earth.

Just like that woman named He Yun!

"Lu Zhiwei?"

Xiang Beifei ran forward a few steps and knocked on the ground where Lu Zhiwei had just disappeared.

But the ground was only a muddy patch of grass, very moist. Lu Zhiwei had landed there, but no footprints were left.

Using the tree trunks as a slight leverage, he channeled Spiritual Power into his feet and flipped onto the branch where Lu Zhiwei had just been standing, then looked down.