The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

310: A Mysterious Man Appears

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It was the strangest island.
You couldn’t see the lay out of the island even when you stood on the highest point.
Instead, all you saw was the sea; it obscured everything.

Feng Wu and her group had encountered the same thing.
Back when they were on the beach, they hadn’t seen the castle, even though it was situated on the highest part of the mountain.
All they had seen were the woods and nothing else.

The old castle appeared once they climbed to the top of the mountain.
It appeared so suddenly, but yet looked like it had always been there.

“Everyone, this isn’t getting us anywhere.
Maybe we can find a way out if we search for clues around the castle.” Boss Hart said after clapping to get everyone’s attention.

“Yeah, we can’t just sit here.
We need to look for a way out.”

What Boss Hart said made sense, so everyone agreed to search for clues.

It was a big castle with dozens of rooms divided amongst three floors.
Multiplied by three…
there were over a hundred rooms to search.

They needed to split up.
The group of twenty separated with a few going to each floor.

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Feng Wu opened the door to one of the rooms.
It looked like it had was cleaned every day, so it was in surprisingly good condition.
There was a sofa, wardrobe, vanity table, and a bed with freshly made sheets.

Feng Wu only frowned a little at the condition of the room before she went about searching for clues.

The first thing they needed to figure out was where they were.
They couldn’t allow even the smallest clue to escape.

Feng Wu diligently searched the room, looking in all the drawers, under the sheets, and even the carpet.

She went from one room to the next, occasionally seeing the others in the hallway.
They would say hello and ask about each other’s progress before resuming their search.

The first floor had been assigned to Ming Xi’s group and one other male mage.
No one knew him so they didn’t chat other than to ask about their progress.
Despite spending all that time searching, they failed to find any clues.

“Thirty rooms and still nothing!”

Ming Xi’s group returned to the lobby in disappointment.

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The group assigned to the second floor had returned before they did.

“Did you have any luck?” Jier asked the other group.

Liana shook her head.
“We went through every room but found nothing.”

They could only pin their hope on the third floor.
Maybe that group would have good news.

Hart and the others came down five minutes later.
He didn’t seem surprised at finding the other group already there.

“Boss Hart, did you find anything?”

A dozen people looked to Hart’s group expectantly as they hoped for good news.

“No, nothing.”

His words cut off their last strand of hope.

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“How can this be?! Are we really trapped here?!” Someone groaned as he clutched his head.

No one talked.
Since their abilities were sealed, they were just ordinary people.
They would starve to death if they couldn’t leave.

“Everyone is aware there is no escape…”

The group’s expression changed drastically at the sound of the elderly voice.
Ming Xi unconsciously moved to protect Feng Wu behind him.
The others also shifted into a defensive stance despite being sealed.

“Who are you?! Are you the one keeping us all here?! What are your intentions?!” Emoke, head of the mercenary group, yelled out to the invisible man.

Boss Hart couldn’t help but roar out as well.
“Yeah! Who are you and why have you locked us up in here?!”

“Yeah! What do you want! Out with it!”

While many people became excited and were asking questions, a few remained silent.

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“OK, be quiet and listen to me.” The old voice resonated again after the noise died down.
“Welcome everyone, this is my island.
I call it Death island because of all the people who died here after being swept ashore by the black tornado.
Those that died on the beach have stained the sand red, so red that it has turned black.”

“You killed them?” Liana clarified.

“No.
No.
I would never kill anyone.
No.
They killed themselves.
If you’re lucky enough to complete something for me, I’ll let you leave.
If you are unlucky, you’ll end up like the person over there still on the beach.”

A vision of a person appeared.
It was the guy who refused to enter the island with Feng Wu and the group.
Zha was standing on the beach with a dazed look on his face.
Suddenly small red bugs burrowed up from the sand and began devouring the things on the beach.

It was impossible to tell where the bugs came from, but they easily devoured everything on the beach – including Zha.
He screamed horrifically as he was eaten bit by bit.

The group watched as bugs devoured a live human being, bones and all.
The cruel scene left everyone with a sense of pity for the poor guy.

“OK, you have all seen how that fellow ended.
You will end up just like him if you fail.”

“What do you want us to do?” asked Jier.

This person, they didn’t know how strong he was, where he came from, or even his name, but they knew one thing with certainty – he was strong.
While on the island, he was invincible.
What could someone like that want from them? What could he want them to accomplish for him?