When he reached a stream, Xu Yi stopped and set Pink Rabbit down on a patch of soft grass. He sat cross-legged nearby, staring blankly at the corpses piled on the raft.
His mind had been shaken to its core. His entire worldview, his sense of right and wrong, had suffered an unprecedented upheaval.
As they traveled, the sorrow in his heart had not faded. Instead, it had gathered into an intense grief, then slowly fermented until twelve words took shape in the depths of his mind: I had seen you as a beast; you had seen me as a comrade.
The thought lingered, impossible to shake.
The north wind howled, scattering spray from the stream. Cold droplets splashed his face. He rose, scooped up a handful of water, and splashed it over his face a few times. Then he tore the Green Token from his neck and replaced it with the White Token he had taken from the bald brute.
He felt like saying something.
"Cough, cough, Bala, cough, cough..."
Pink Rabbit suddenly came to. She looked around for a moment, then leaped to her feet. Though she had been gravely wounded, two top-grade Divine Essence Pills had brought her fully back to her former state.
Her gaze settled on the corpses piled on the raft. She stared at them for a long while, then dropped to the ground and sat there in silence.
Xu Yi did not try to comfort her. He got up, chopped down a massive tree, found a stretch of sloping ground, and started digging.
"Bala Bala, Big Fool, what are you doing? Wait, how did we get here? Where did those despicable humans go? How did I come back to life? How come you're completely fine? Bala Bala..."
Once she had mostly recovered, Pink