"You just mentioned a ruin?!"
Wen Ruzhi seized on the word at once, cutting straight through the account of the girl who called herself Xian Jin.
Lin Che's eyes went wide as well. His mind jumped at once to the very place they had entered the Northern Region's Secret Realm to find.
All three of them turned on the girl with open urgency, and she shrank back, frightened all over again by the sharpness of it.
"Mm. Those monsters dragged my family off to a ruin..."
The girl nodded obediently.
The purple illusory light of Ruzhi's dual pupils sharpened. "Who is your family?"
"The children of the village..."
"The village?"
"Mm..."
She nodded again. Even under the scrutiny of the dual pupils her gaze stayed clear, without a trace of falsehood in it.
Ruzhi's brow only rose higher, and her suspicion deepened by the moment. "Do you not know where you are? This is the Northern Region's Secret Realm. How could a human village survive here?"
"Unless..."
