But when I wanted to catch up to Yuan Jiang, there was no trace of him anywhere.
I realized I was actually lost in this forest.
After walking for nearly an hour, I saw the tree I had carved an arrow into again. The arrow pointed in the direction I had just gone.
I took out my compass. It did not move at all, as if it were broken.
I did not find it strange, because Little Demon had told me when we first arrived in the Void Realm that this thing was completely useless here.
I put it away again, then lit a cigarette and began thinking about what to do next.
I could only try another direction.
After finishing my cigarette, I headed in the opposite direction. If I remembered correctly, that should have been the way we had come from, and I should not have had to walk far before leaving this forest.
Fortunately, people did not get tired in the Void Realm. No matter how much physical strength they used up, they would not feel fatigued.
I had considered this before. Although time had lost its meaning here, people not knowing fatigue still seemed unscientific no matter how I thought about it. I wondered whether people in the Void Realm were actually overdrawing their physical strength without realizing it because this place was so strange and so many concepts were absent. If they overdid it, would there be any consequences once they returned to the other world?
Of course, thinking was one thing. When I had to overdraw my strength, I could only do it, just like Rui. I could not just sit here and do nothing.
I had walked for less than five minutes when I heard footsteps coming from the woods.
Then I saw