Mister Return saw with his own eyes as the few of them jumped into the abyss.
He did not even have time to stop them.
I stared into the abyss and asked Mister Return, "What exactly is inside?"
Mister Return shook his head. "I don't know. I'm only responsible for guarding this place, but I truly don't know what's inside. Still, I think it's terrifying in there, full of danger."
"Weren't you ever curious? Didn't you want to go down and take a look?" I asked.
Standing here now, I was no longer quite so anxious.
Even if I was anxious, it would not help.
"Of course. It wasn't just me—Yuan was curious too. We tried several times to go down and investigate, but in the end, we never did. First, we were afraid. Second, it seemed as though some mysterious force had always been restraining us. Even if we truly wanted to go down, our bodies would not be under our own control."
"So even if you wanted to go down, you might not be able to?"
"Yes."
I sighed. "Then how am I supposed to save them?"
"Go down," he said.
I froze. "Are you sure?"
"What else? Can you save them by standing here?"
I was stunned again. He was right. How could I save them if I kept standing here?
Mister Return looked at me and said, "Of course, you can also choose to leave them alone. It won't have much impact on you. At worst, I'll erase this part from the trajectory of your life. But those friends of yours may truly be erased completely, as though they had never existed."
Now that he had said that, there was no way I could let him do it.
I did not want Duan Hongbin and the