"I just didn't want to regret my decision. There wasn't any particular reason," I said calmly.
In the past, I would definitely have made some teasing remark to amuse the beauty, but when I thought of what I would have to do later, I suddenly lost interest.
"You just don't want to regret it..." Bai Yan seemed slightly surprised, but then she suddenly laughed. "I thought you'd say it was because I was different. As it turns out, I'm no different from anyone else in the leader's eyes."
"It's not that there's no difference at all, is there? You should know the importance of your own position better than I do, shouldn't you?" This little girl really wasn't foolish, I thought.
"All right..." Bai Yan replied helplessly.
Seeing that I had no intention of continuing the topic, she could no longer press me about matters of the heart. After testing the Shared Gaze technique, the cage above us slowly descended not long afterward.
Once everyone had returned to their places, the cage gradually began to pass through the clouds and head toward a higher-level region, accompanied by the sound of the chains retracting.
I had prepared more than a million points for Bai Yan. Although I would not be going to the appointment until tomorrow, I had also gathered nine hundred and ninety thousand points so that the Shared Gaze would have the best possible effect. No one could be certain whether distance or isolation might cause the technique to fail.
Beyond the clouds was a pitch-black sky dotted with points of light like a sea of stars, but the darkness looked so unreal that even the stars seemed like glimmers produced by burning elements.
As we drew near the platform where points were registered, I could almost feel that