"Lu Ying?"
Miss Donggong exclaimed in surprise, her voice carrying a hint of the lightheartedness of encountering an acquaintance, which seemed particularly abrupt in the eerie and silent underground stone chamber.
"Why are you here?"
Chen Yi's heart sounded a sudden alarm.
Lu Ying?!
How could Lu Ying possibly be here?
As soon as Donggong Ruoshu's words fell, the figure facing away in the center of the stone chamber moved slightly.
Then, that person slowly, with some difficulty, turned around.
The firelight illuminated her face; it was indeed Lu Ying's countenance, clear-eyed, but there was a kind of pallor that never saw daylight, and her eyes seemed somewhat hollow, her gaze falling on Chen Yi and Donggong Ruoshu as though it couldn't immediately focus.
Her gaze paused on Chen Yi's face for a moment, as if suddenly awakened for a split second, but soon it fell silent again.
Then, she looked at Chen Yi, her lips slightly parted, and said:
