Night deepened.
Lin Qiye lay on the soft bed, staring blankly at the ceiling overhead.
Although today's trial training had lasted only an hour, Lin Qiye and the others felt more exhausted than ever before... Thus, once the Virtual Reconstruction ended, Li Kengqiang had simply waved them off and told them to return to their rooms to rest, with training to begin tomorrow.
Yet Lin Qiye tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep.
The moment he closed his eyes, he saw the battered Bai Ze and Tang Mingxuan's helpless, bitter expression.
From the others' retellings, Lin Qiye knew that after he entered the aurora boundary, Bai Ze had returned to normal and gone back to Huaihai City to stop the flood from spreading. The outcome could be considered quite satisfactory... But this was merely a world Li Kengqiang had fabricated and recreated for them. What had truly happened in Huaihai City back then?
And what exactly had happened after he entered the aurora boundary?
He always felt as though he had forgotten something utterly bizarre, yet no matter how hard he tried, he could not remember it.
Lin Qiye lay in bed for a long time before finally sighing and getting up.
After leaving the air-raid shelter, he found that Baili Pangpang, An Qingyu, and Jiang Er were outside as well, bustling around a burning campfire.
"Qiye? You're awake?" Baili Pangpang stood up and pulled out another small stool, placing it beside himself and gesturing for Lin Qiye to sit.
Lin Qiye looked around. "Where's Cao Yuan?"
"He went into the woods to hunt." Baili Pangpang shrugged. "The commanders aren't arranging meals for us, and I only brought so many ingredients. After all the effort we put in today, shouldn't we get some game tonight to improve our