It had been a quarter of an hour since Rob entered the poplar forest alone. During this time, there was no movement in the forest. Just as Lolo was starting to feel nervous, she heard footsteps coming from the forest.
The Brave did not dare to let her guard down. She had already lent her sword to the youth, so she grabbed a thicker branch from one of the crooked trees and held it in her hand as she stared at the entrance.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for her to see Luo Bu striding out from inside with a person on his back. It was Jenny, who had been missing for a few days. The girl's face was pale, her eyes were closed, and her face was covered in blood. She seemed to be unconscious.
Lolo was shocked. "You knocked her out?"
"No, she was already like this when I found her." Your Honor, the future supreme magister, spread his hands, indicating that it had nothing to do with him.
The rookie Brave pointed at the bloodstain on Jenny's forehead and the young man's torn clothes. "Then what's going on?"
"Oh, that … The road was too dark, and I accidentally fell."
… …
The missing Jenny was found again. The process was daunting, but not dangerous. Apart from some superficial wounds caused by an accident, she seemed to be fine. The news quickly spread throughout the camp, and everyone gathered around to see her. However, they were shocked to find that the girl seemed to have fallen into a strange coma, and they could not wake her up no matter what. Jenny's breathing was very stable, and all her physiological indicators were no different from a normal person's. However, she did not react to external stimuli.
Everyone tried almost everything, but they couldn't wake up the sleeping girl. Even when they shouted in her ear, Jenny was still unmoved.
Luo Bu had noticed this problem a long time ago. When he fell in the woods, Jenny's forehead was bruised, but the girl still showed no signs of waking up. Luo Bu then used Jenny's staff to examine her, and it turned out that her current coma was not due to magic. Besides, the level of her magic had also fallen to the initial state of less than level-1.
If not for the fact that Your Honor had used his senses to lock onto her, Rob would have suspected that the Jenny in front of him was a different person from the one on the sand dune.
"This situation is quite rare. A person's mana source cannot be changed at will. For example, if you are a level-4 Magician, you can indeed use some methods to suppress your mana and pretend to be a level-1 Magician Apprentice. However, your mana source will not be changed," the Magician said after a moment of silence.
Jenny was currently unconscious and defenseless, so Luo Bu could easily detect the source of her magic. She couldn't hide it at all, and this was what surprised the future Supreme Magus the most. Luo Bu's magic power level wasn't enough for her to complete that ambush.
Lolo caught the keyword in his words. "Rare? Does that mean something similar has happened before? "
"Yes. There are some shadow creatures in the abyss that can parasitize their souls in other creatures' bodies. This way, there will be two souls in one body, so in theory, one can have two mana sources, but …" The future Supreme Magician Your Honor paused.
"But what?"
"But this only exists in theory. In reality, the body structure of the shadow creatures in the abyss is very different from that of humans. I've never heard of any abyssal creature that can cultivate a mana source, unless the other soul in Jenny's body is also human …" Rob suddenly thought of something else.
Jenny's performance in the game by the lake that night had attracted his attention. This girl clearly looked ordinary in all aspects, but somehow managed to overcome all difficulties and win two rounds in a row. However, the impression that Jenny gave him back then was that of an exceptionally lucky girl. Now, it seemed that what happened to her could not be attributed to luck. Perhaps there really was another soul in her body. Rob rummaged through his luggage for a blanket and a pillow.
"Huh? Where are you going? "
"To sleep. It's late. You should sleep early too. There's no point in guessing now. If you have any questions, just ask her when she wakes up." The future Supreme Magician Your Honor yawned. He was a little tired after almost an entire night.
"Can she wake up?" Lolo was stunned.
"Of course, her current unconsciousness is just a self-protection mechanism of her body. She should be awake by tomorrow morning at the latest, but you'd better not have too much hope. It's very likely that we won't be able to get too much useful information from her."
In the end, the future Supreme Magician Your Honor was unfortunately right. Jenny opened her eyes in a daze the next morning, causing quite a commotion in the campsite. Everyone, including Harvey, gathered around her. However, they were surprised to find that Jenny's memory only stopped at the moment when she went behind the sand dune to change her clothes. She had no memory of what happened after that. When she opened her eyes again, she was already in the campsite. She did not even realize that three days had passed.
Teacher Harvey couldn't hide the disappointment on his face. He thought that he would be able to find out what the thing that had snuck into the arena was, and at the very least, he would be able to get some clues about it. But in the end, he still comforted the girl and told her to rest well. If there was a need, he could send someone to send her back to the inner city. But Jenny eventually rejected the suggestion and said that she wanted to stay with her team.
After the crowd dispersed, the other three members of the team returned to the girl's side.
Lolo looked at Jenny, who was a little timid as if she had done something wrong. She could not connect her with the cold and merciless figure on the sand dune last night.
In the end, it was Rob who spoke. "Can you tell us what happened to you?"
Jenny looked very guilty. "I'm sorry. I didn't lie. I really don't remember anything about the past few days."
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