Seconds after the last line of text vanished, slow footsteps began to recede, and with them, the malevolent presence disappeared.
The footsteps faded gradually until they were gone. Lu Li allowed the presence to leave without following.
This time, the way the "door" contacted Lu Li had changed - it no longer reached out to him through letters - perhaps because Lu Li had consistently ignored them, or perhaps because receiving a letter on a deserted island was too illogical.
The goal of the "door" had never changed; it still aimed to make Lu Li hear it, then see it, then touch it, and finally enter through the door in the sewer.
There was no doubt about this. It was the reason it continually fabricated lies to deceive and lure Lu Li.
But within the lies, there were also truths.
