I must be dreaming...
Zhou Tian's consciousness was blurred, he could feel "himself" disappearing, but he could do nothing about it.
Until he saw Meng Zhen, seemingly panicked, yank a nearby plant and swallow it without hesitation.
The abnormal gray-white light spread across her body, her expression pained, yet her actions unstopped.
This... was the method Meng Zhen had thought of.
If this plant caused Zhou Tian to become , then if she was also parasitized by this plant, she should have the same ability as Zhou Tian — to absorb the "gray" into her body.
She grabbed Zhou Tian's arm, her forehead pressed against his, and threads of gray light flowed from Zhou Tian's mouth and nose into Meng Zhen's body.
Thanks to this, Zhou Tian's consciousness became increasingly clear.
Until... Meng Zhen completely passed out.
Bai Yanliang remained silent after listening to the old butler's story.
At this moment, Bai Yanren had already made a move on Song Que.
His tone wasn't seeking consent but notifying.
The next second, Song Que's vision went dark, and panic seized him.
Nobody expected Bai Yanren to take out Song Que's eyeball without any warning from his socket!
On the surface, he seemed to have done nothing, but indeed, Song Que's eyeball flew out by itself.
Song Que collapsed onto the desk, but soon realized something was off.
His first reaction was panic, not pain.
Why didn't it hurt when my eye was taken?
Song Que didn't believe Bai Yanren would be kind enough to use his superpower to numb his pain.
Moreover, when Song Que touched below his eye socket, he didn't find a single drop of blood.
"Don't be surprised."
The speaker was Bai Yanliang.
He lifted his head, seemingly snapping out of the story the old butler had told.
But this time, Bai Yanliang's expression was even calmer, even indifferent.
"Because it's not your eye," Bai Yanliang said to Song Que, "your eyes died when you were young, it's something Zhou Tian and Meng Zhen placed, mimicking the function of an eye, existing in your body."
Bai Yanren glanced at Bai Yanliang as if he hadn't expected him to say that.
"Are you still coming with me?"
Bai Yanren suddenly asked.
For Bai Yanliang, the mystery of his origins hit him suddenly, but for Bai Yanren, it seemed he had known Bai Yanliang's background for a long time.
Bai Yanliang thought maybe Bai Yanren had struck some deal with Zhou Tian once.
At this moment, Bai Yanren's question confirmed his suspicions.
For a moment, it seemed absurd to him.
"Is your next stop Xu Zhifei?"
This question seemed to influence Bai Yanliang's further decisions.
Bai Yanren didn't hesitate: "Of course, I need to take away what Zhou Tian left with them."
Bai Yanliang remained silent.
He knew Bai Yanren referred to Song Que's peculiar eyes and Xu Zhifei's "precognition" ability.
It's not so much their ability as... Zhou Tian tinkered with them long ago.
This was consistent with the information Zhou Tian had previously revealed.
Without his eyes, Song Que could only hear Bai Yanliang's voice.
But at this moment, he shouted angrily: "Bai Yanliang! What exactly are you trying to do?!"
"I don't care what plans or schemes you have, or if it's for others, I must tell you..."
"What you're doing now is wrong! Even if the result is right, what you're doing is still wrong!"
Bai Yanliang trembled slightly but didn't answer.
"Let's go." He continued to say to his brother.
Song Que struggled as he stumbled towards Bai Yanliang, groping.
"I don't know this version of you! I can't believe you've chosen him! But no matter what reason you have, don't do this..."
Song Que fell to the ground with a thud.
Bai Yanliang instinctively bent down, trying to catch him, but stopped midway, then gave up.
"Please... I beg you..."
Song Que's last words were barely audible.
Yet Bai Yanliang remained unmoved and continued to say to Bai Yanren: "Let's go."
The old butler stepped forward and helped Song Que up.
Song Que struggled to say: "Help me to Bai Yanliang's side, quickly!"
"They've already left."
The eerie sound of the wind whistling awakened a muddled consciousness.
Suddenly opening eyes saw a patch of gray luminescence.
As consciousness returned to the body, a severe headache surged up.
Though the broken memories were more chaotic, more flooded in, gradually piecing together a scene just now.
It seems, continuing down to the bottom of the cave, a sudden gale came, sweeping everyone down into the deep hole.
"Ugh..." Ren Wudao groaned, raised his hand to press his painfully aching temple, his entire body covered in abrasions.
He looked around, the light here wasn't strong, but not dim, enough to see the surroundings clearly.
Most people sent by Ye City's officials had disappeared, maybe deeper in the darkness, maybe swept into other caves.
Indeed, at this point, Ren Wudao saw, under the gray light, everywhere on the ground, and the walls were over a meter wide deep holes, leading who knows where.
Around him, there were no familiar people.
When Zhou Tian let him down, he told him about the situation below, and now it seemed, it was even more bizarre than Zhou Tian had mentioned.
Zhou Tian said below there was originally only one deep hole, but over time, more and more pits appeared underground. When all the pits expanded into one, connecting as one, the tree crown would break through the ground, completely linking two worlds.
At that time, entirely different world rules would collide, from a physical sense, mutually destroying each other.
And the only chance was to find the first hole that appeared here before everything happened, that... was the original connection point.
According to Zhou Tian, he would simultaneously head to the Fog Realm, find the initial point in the Fog Realm, and the two of them would become the Fish Eye.
Communicating the "Origin" rules of the two worlds, preventing them from mutual attrition and annihilation.
And in this process, the two at the origin point would also welcome the elevation of their life, becoming — God by human standards.
Ren Wudao had no interest in becoming a God, he didn't even believe in what Zhou Tian said.
He returned here, following Zhou Tian's order, for a very simple reason —
His sister, Yu Sheng, indeed came back to life, but if she wanted to continue living, she still had to rely on Zhou Tian's power... New ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄhapters are published on novel⚑fire.net
Therefore, he came here.