Zhenlan's expression made it clear that he had also noticed that the big ugly thing in front of us was healing itself.
The creature pulled itself forward on six arms. Its lower body dragged through the broken floor behind it, wrapped in chains and pieces of concrete from the tunnel.
And one of those chains still had a man attached.
He hung from the end by both wrists, his feet scraping over the rubble while he screamed my name.
I recognized the thread immediately.
He was one of the two marked people I had felt moving on the road. Gu Han hadn't sent him toward another shelter. He had dragged him into the tunnel and left him there as bait.
The creature had followed him back.
I looked at Gu Han. "You put people inside the tunnel."
He followed my gaze toward the man attached to the chain. "It was the only way to confirm what lived there."
