"Li Yuan..." Lu Lie said slowly. He tried to calm his tone as much as possible, but no matter how hard he tried to control his voice, his voice did not tremble like a normal person's voice, "You, you, you..."

"What's wrong?" Li Yuan's voice came across from the darkness. Just listening to the sound, you could feel the other party's confusion, because Li Yuan in the darkness could not see everything, and he didn't know what was happening in that direction of Lu Lie, which made him panic to such a level.

"You... can you, again, slap...a ​​slap?"

Li Yuan waited in the dark for a while, but heard such a strange request. His brows were no longer easy to detect. Although he didn't know what Lu Lie meant, his instinctive sense of danger still made him feel an ominous atmosphere in the air.

"Of course." Li Yuan calmed his voice as calm as possible. As Lu Lie wished, he clasped his hands and tapped it lightly twice, while calmly summoning the Shikigami Time Giant sealed on his back.

"Go. Go to Lu Lie and see what happened. If an accident occurs, you must find ways to save him."

Li Yuan used his thoughts to communicate silently with the time giant. The time giant in the dark said nothing, and his huge body slowly flew towards Lu Lie.

The applause seemed particularly loud in the quiet darkness and spread very far. After the knocking of both hands, Li Yuan whispered: "Lu Lie, what happened there?"

"I……"

Lu Lie slowly squirmed his lips, and he felt that his mouth was no longer a part of his body.

His hands and feet began to get cold, the closest death to him in history. He didn't know how to describe this feeling, but he knew that perhaps following Li Yuan down here would be a huge mistake.

"You only have two hands, right, Li Yuan."

"Yes."

Li Yuan replied in a deep voice.

"So, who's the hand that had been on my shoulder when you were squeezing in the dark?"

Lu Lie still had many questions to ask Li Yuan. He had not said the words he was stuck in his mouth yet, but he felt a gust of cold wind hitting him. Lu Lie opened his eyes wide, and a huge pale face that could cover the world rushed towards him...

Immediately afterwards, he felt his chest cold, the world in front of him turned black, and everything was far away from him.

...

When Lu Lie woke up again, he found himself back to the height of the giant tree.

"This...what is this?" Lu Lie had not yet come back to his senses from the fear of being dominated by a strange hand in the abyss. When he found that he had returned to the starting point, his first reaction was to touch his chest. Fortunately, his heart was still beating in his chest and beating honestly.

But the cold feeling of being touched by the strange hand on my shoulder still existed, and that feeling was not like a false sense.

There is also the pale face that appeared in front of me, almost swallowing me...

Even though time seemed to have passed for a long time, as soon as he recalled what he had encountered before, he felt goosebumps appearing from the surface of his skin like bubbles.

Just as Lu Lie thought, a slight vibration suddenly came from the bottom of the tree wall. He lowered his head and looked at Li Yuan, who was carrying a large basket of magic fruits. While Lu Lie looked at Lu Lie, Li Yuan also raised his head and looked at Lu Lie above with a tentative look.

Lu Lie gradually understood: it was a retracement. Because he suffered a sudden death in the abyss, he directly returned to the scene he had just arrived here according to the rules of the Tower of Despair, and all the changes so far have returned to the original state.

But what killed me in the abyss? That strange hand on my shoulder? That pale face that appeared in front of me? Or the coldness that penetrated my heart?

Or are they the three of them the same whole?

"Failed..."

After the two looked at each other up and down the giant tree for a while, Li Yuan indeed spoke the lines from the last time they met on the giant tree. This time, Lu Lie did not hesitate for too long, and told Li Yuan everything that happened with him and his first trip to the giant tree, his testimony in the Tower of Despair, and his own teleportation here to the abyss. He was killed by something hidden in the darkness before he walked for a long time. All of this told Li Yuan in detail.

Li Yuan's face did not show much surprise. On the contrary, he had this awareness repeated countless times in the reincarnation of time and space countless times. He listened in detail, and stopped from time to time to ask Lu Lie some detailed questions. Finally, when Lu Lie finished what happened in the end and returned to the starting point through the retracement, Li Yuan thoughtfully asked a question: "So, can you confirm something - that is, when you are killed and teleported back to this time node, has the 'I' in another time and space been killed?"

Lu Lie closed his eyes and tried to recall what Li Yuan said last before the white giant face appeared. Is it "What happened to you?" No, or "stay calm"? It's not this. In short, letting him recall such things is definitely not a pleasant experience.

Thinking of the end, Lu Lie had to admit defeat and said, "I'm sorry, I really don't know... If you have to say it, it's that the 'you' in the time and space that moment I died should not have died, but after I die, I believe the target of the culprit who killed me will be you... In most cases, you should have died."

"So that's it..." Li Yuan nodded, as if he was mentally prepared for Lu Lie's seemingly wrong answer. He closed his eyes, as if thinking about something, and after a while he asked again: "Lu Lie, can you tell me all the things you encountered before you were killed, the more detailed the better. Maybe there is a secret that can allow us to pass through that abyss smoothly."

According to the other party's request, Lu Lie once again explained it, but this time Li Yuan raised more questions about the details. There were some questions that Lu Lie, as an experienced person at that time, had to answer vaguely. After the conversation between the two was completed, the sky on the giant tree had already become dark.

"Li Yuan, we... should actually enter the Yellow Spring Sea through the Gate of Life." Lu Lie hesitated and put forward his own opinions.
Chapter completed!