Rouyi sighed and explained, "We were separated soon after entering that space. It wasn't long before Fatty and I reunited, but we couldn't find Jennifer. Until the space crumbled and collapsed, I didn't see Jennifer—I only saw her after coming out of that space."

Fatty was already in tears. He seemed to know something that Han Yu and Rouyi didn't.

He said to himself, "I thought... it was just my illusion..."

Fatty's sobbing voice contained an unspeakable pain.

"When that space was about to collapse, I saw Jennifer in a small space. She was surrounded by a red and black substance." Fatty wiped the tears from his eyes. "At that time, I was dizzy from the black lava, but Jennifer was unusually clear-headed. She reminded me to leave quickly. Then, when I opened my eyes again, I was outside..."

Speaking of this, Fatty said with a face full of sorrow, "Could it be... at that time, Jennifer was already..."

Fatty didn't dare to continue.

It was self-evident that Jennifer might have already died before then. The Jennifer that Fatty saw was likely a fake created by the meteorite, just like Zhao Chenguang.

After learning the truth, Fatty slumped to the ground like a broken doll, his eyes filled with confusion and fear.

He never imagined that the Jennifer he had been intimate with was actually a fake.

Han Yu looked worriedly in the direction of the meteorite, where Jennifer had disappeared, and said with concern, "I didn't expect the 'Hive' to evolve. Jennifer was the last insurance in Zhao Chenguang's plan to find the meteorite... The 'Hive' really played a good move."

Rouyi asked Han Yu, "Why does Zhao Chenguang need the meteorite to complete the transposition restart you mentioned? Why can't anyone else do it?"

Han Yu shook her head, giving a vague answer: "Zhao Chenguang probably has something that others don't."

...

Just as the few of them were talking, an extremely loud buzzing sound suddenly came from the meteorite.

It was a low-frequency noise that made them suddenly feel dizzy and their eardrums throb as if they were about to burst.

They quickly covered their ears to reduce the intrusion of the low-frequency noise.

But the impact of this buzzing couldn't be alleviated by simply covering one's ears. It was more like a spiritual invasion.

Han Yu, being weak, was the first to be unable to bear it. She lay on the ground and vomited. There was nothing left in her stomach to vomit, so she could only dry heave bile.

Rouyi couldn't hold on for long either. She knelt on the ground, with the same symptoms as Han Yu, vomiting uncontrollably.

Although Fatty and An Wenshan were more resistant, they were still disturbed by the buzzing, feeling so dizzy that they almost fell to the ground.

For a moment, Han Yu realized that Jennifer must have triggered some mechanism of the meteorite.

Everything was developing in a bad direction.

A strong sense of discomfort swept through Han Yu's body. She couldn't speak and couldn't do anything other than vomit violently.

"Could it be that we can only go this far?"

Han Yu pondered in pain.

Han Yu was unwilling. All this way, she had been forced to abandon her innocence and grow up in torment. All of this was only to end the meteorite's influence.

The bitter and fishy taste of bile in her throat made Han Yu vomit even more violently, almost to the point of throwing up her stomach.

Fatty and An Wenshan, while they still had a trace of reason and strength, planned to take Rouyi and Han Yu away from here, to save their lives first and worry about other things later.

They looked around and found that the road they had come from had been completely blocked by the spreading branches of the mangrove trees.

They were finished; they were going to be trapped here to death.

...

This way of dying was too painful.

The buzzing sound grew louder and louder, and the vibrations became more and more violent...

An Wenshan and Fatty's ears and nostrils began to bleed.

They felt as if someone was holding a stick and stirring crazily in their brains, as if trying to completely mess them up.

An Wenshan and Fatty finally couldn't hold on any longer and knelt on the ground, while Han Yu and Rouyi had already collapsed on the ground, almost fainting.

Just when the few of them had completely lost hope, the buzzing sound stopped abruptly.

But the aftereffects of the buzzing were still there, and the few of them didn't dare to easily let go of their hands that were covering their ears.

An Wenshan was the first to wake up. He wiped the blood from his nostrils and then patted Fatty.

Fatty, reminded by An Wenshan, began to lower his guard and slowly adapt to the surrounding environment. He found that the uncomfortable feeling wasn't as strong as before.

Fatty and An Wenshan repeatedly patted their heads and shook them vigorously. After a little tidying up, the uncomfortable feeling finally disappeared after a short time.

"Rouyi! Han Yu!"

Fatty and An Wenshan helped Rouyi and Han Yu, who were lying on the ground. The buzzing seemed to have an especially strong impact on Rouyi and Han Yu. Their consciousness was a little hazy, and they showed signs of fainting.

"Rouyi, Han Yu, hey, wake up!"

Fatty shook them hard.

The truth about Jennifer's death didn't completely drive Fatty out of his mind. Faced with a huge sense of crisis, Fatty quickly regained his rationality.

Rouyi and Han Yu's pupils began to react to light, and they slowly woke up.

The first thing Han Yu said when she woke up was, "Is it too late?"

Fatty didn't understand what she meant, and An Wenshan didn't know how to respond.

Han Yu's words were more like a soliloquy.