"Come with me, then."
"Okay!"
Since he'd chosen to let Chen Changan and the others follow him, he must have decided to tell them his story.
"Tell us what happened as we walk," Chen Changan asked curiously.
"Can't you wait even a little while?" the man asked with a frown.
"Come on, tell us. It's not like we have anything else to do."
Seeing how eager Chen Changan was, the man could only look helpless. He even felt that Chen Changan was more anxious than he was to solve the problem.
"It's nothing complicated. I came here to wait for someone to come back to life."
"Come back to life?"
"What do you mean?"
"Why did you have to choose this place?" Chen Changan asked in confusion.
"My... my wife."
"You mean your wife... died?" Chen Changan asked in shock.
After all, this was the Eternal Land. Nothing could be more shocking than someone dying here.
People could die in this place? This was a huge discovery.
"Surprised, are you? But that's exactly what happened. She... died, but... not completely."
So she was dead, but not all the way dead?
"Let me get this straight."
"Your wife died for some unknown reason—or fell into a state of suspended death."
"You wanted to bring her back, so you tried all kinds of methods. In the end, you chose the Imperial Dragon Mountain Range, which means it might help your wife come back to life."
"But after all these years, she still hasn't gotten any better, so you've had no choice but to stay here, right?"
"Which brings us to the real question: how could something like this happen in the Eternal Land?"
"People here can recover even after being burned to ashes. How could your wife end up like this?" Chen