Opening the door hit everyone involved like a thunderbolt—whether they stood outside or inside, both sides were stunned for a moment.
In fact, the handsome young man outside reacted even more strongly. After the initial shock, the expression on his face became quite spectacular. He looked as if his life had suddenly begun flashing before his eyes, and he was already sinking into his memories. Clearly, none of those memories were pleasant ones—beams, copper-headed belts, spinning like a top, heads in the Alchemy Furnace, and so on.
As the young man across the door recalled the past, Yu Sheng's life began flashing before his eyes as well.
The scenes he recalled were much the same as the other man's, except that his were from a third-person perspective.
Then the two of them reacted at the same time. In perfect tacit understanding, they each took half a step back and stood across the doorway, wearing solemn expressions as they contemplated life and organized their thoughts.
To be honest, Yu Sheng had felt an impulse to close the door right then. Although he had considered all sorts of outrageous possibilities when "Nietu 4000" said she would send someone to visit, the possibility of this "senior brother" appearing directly at his door first thing in the morning had still exceeded his mental preparations. Fortunately, the impulse only lasted a second. Then, relying on his immense sense of responsibility, indomitable willpower, calm attitude toward life, and fearlessness in the face of death, he suppressed the urge to shut the door.
Mostly, it was the fearlessness in the face of death.
But the way things developed next was clearly different from what he had expected.
The handsome young man across the door finally seemed to understand something, though no one knew exactly what. He took