The Forgotten...

My palm was slashed by a sharp weapon, the deep wound exposed to the air, and I was suddenly stimulated by a sharp pain.

Fresh blood gushed out.

The red liquid flowed into the blood array on the ground, like rivers and lakes merging into the sea, instantly becoming one with the patterns of the blood array.

Yu Xing controlled the wound to prevent it from closing, feeling the power of the curse mixed in his blood, gradually opening up the distorted space within the array. He didn't know how much time had passed when suddenly everything went black before his eyes.

The air around him seemed to turn into sharp blades, cutting and pulling at him, as if trying to bend his body into a ball of paper that could no longer be unfolded.

Yu Xing remained conscious.

Since absorbing the power of the curse, he has rarely experienced significant dizziness or uncontrollable unconsciousness. Now he is fully aware of everything, but he cannot see anything in front of him.

Perhaps because the space transport across worlds is so chaotic inside the passage, there is no light, so naturally there are no outlines of anything.

He felt as if he had fallen into a black hole that was constantly squeezing, expanding and shrinking, his chest was being pressed so hard he was almost suffocating, and the skin all over his body was aching.

If Yu Xing could see right now, he would feel that his whole body would be covered in blood. In ancient times, there was a form of execution called slow slicing, and he felt that he was almost in the same boat now. However, his resistance was much higher than that of ordinary people, so he wouldn't be in so much pain that he would want to die. He had gotten used to it.

In addition, he vaguely felt that he was being pulled in one direction. The feeling of being pulled was very weak and was completely covered by the pain of being cut. However, this proved that he was indeed moving in one direction and that the teleportation was successful.

Calodi probably has no idea how much courage it takes to enter such a teleportation array. After all, apart from Yu Xing, no one else can open it, and no one would want to experience it.

Much, much later.

As time went on, Yu Xing grew accustomed to the pitch-black darkness, his body became increasingly used to the pain, and his resistance grew stronger. Just as he began to feel better, a glimmer of light appeared ahead of him.

There is light.

This means there's an exit.

Yu Xing then could Yu Xing truly feel his own movement. The light had been continuously expanding since it appeared. Judging from the speed at which the light spot expanded, his current movement speed was not as weak as he had imagined. If he had to make an analogy... he should be flying through the atmosphere in an airplane.

It feels like we'll be there in the blink of an eye.

The light grew larger and larger, transforming from a negligible dot into a wall of light. Yu Xing was finally dragged to the wall of light and crashed into it headfirst.

He didn't feel any hardness at all; he only felt as if he had fallen into a warm, cloud-like place. The scabs on his body, which had been constantly repairing and then bursting open, were finally no longer in danger of recurring, and he was completely healed under the cover of the curse's power.

The next moment

"Bang!"

Yu Xing's head was suddenly hit by something hard, the impact even made him frown. His vision blurred for a moment, and when his vision returned, the scene in front of him had changed.

... It's a familiar ruin.

After the Dead Silent Island was destroyed, the entire island was a ruin, with various bricks and building materials exposed, and not a single living creature remained.

What Yu Xing bumped into... was the hotel door.

The hotel is the only surviving building on Dead Silent Island. After the curse was lifted, the hotel returned to the world it should have existed in. But there is another one on Dead Silent Island, which is more dilapidated and on the verge of collapse.

It's really in a precarious situation.

Yu Xing scratched his head and looked up at the hotel in front of him. The reason why the hotel entrance of Daisy's family still had the aura of Dead Silent Island was probably because Yu Xing had once knocked on the hotel door on Dead Silent Island.

Logically, after the gate opened, Yu Xing should have seen Daisy, the old Daisy in the rocking chair he arrived at, and the functional facilities that provided weapons, clothes, and an exchange counter, not the hotel where the guests were trapped in a curse crisis.

However, it was clear that the hotel had been divided in two.

Its appearance is different in different times and spaces. Although the hotel's exterior and the gate overlap, everything changes by chance because Dead Silent Island was destroyed.

Previously, Yu Xing believed that this hotel might have a fundamental connection with the Dead Silent Island itself, but now he knows that it was because the Dead Silent Island was destroyed that the real exchange hotel in the Dead Silent Island timeline was also destroyed. The hotel in another "parallel world" also experienced special fluctuations due to the curse, which happened to become the pillar that supported the Dead Silent Island hotel from collapsing. Yu Xing knocked on the door and opened the door to the parallel world.

Now, the parallel worlds no longer overlap, but are connected by a teleportation array.

Yu Xing looked around and saw that Calodi's teleportation array was located in the open space in front of the hotel. He appeared above the array and, without realizing it, stumbled forward and crashed into the hotel door.

However, the curse has been broken, and the hotel is now without any support...

Yu Xing's head had only hurt for a moment, but it was completely fine now. He blinked, hesitated for a moment, and then gently poked it with a finger.

"Boom..."

The hotel collapsed suddenly. He hadn't held back at all; no matter how lightly he jabbed, it was still the work of a cursed source, making the already fragile building even worse and turning it into the last ruin to collapse on the Dead Silent Island.

An indescribable cloud of dust rose from the ground. Yu Xing smelled the dust and another strange, rotten, bloody odor, like a corpse that had been left out for a very long time. He raised his hand to cover his mouth, nose, and eyes, turned his head away, and used the branches of the withered Ghost Tree that had broken through the soil to shield himself.

Yu Xing showed no remorse whatsoever for collapsing a building as soon as he arrived.

The old lady Daisy from Dead Silent Island had actually offended him. He remembered that when he first arrived on the island, Qu Xuanqing, worried that there was a trap, said one more thing, which triggered Daisy's rule, and his tongue fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Qu Xuanqing's physical body was only a shell, like a puppet on strings. Her real senses were in her soul outside the body, so she couldn't feel any pain and could speak as usual.

But I still held onto this grudge.

When Yu Xing entered the cursed hotel, he was very rude to Daisy, partly because he had a grudge and wanted to get revenge. However, he later discovered that the two Daisy were not the same person at all, like two identical individuals in parallel worlds who had taken different paths.

So he didn't hold a grudge, and even helped.

With that thought over, Yu Xing saw that the formation on the ground was still intact, so she stopped paying attention to the inn and turned to look at the vast ruins on the other side.

He came to Dead Silent Island to obtain an item that retained the aura of the real world. In other words, the items that the deducers brought during the event dungeon, if they had only been touched, wouldn't have enough aura, since he still needed to carry that item through the teleportation array and then hand it over to Calodi.

Of course, he believed there must be something left behind by the strategists on the island.

Because they didn't receive every single one of the offerings they originally made.

He lost almost all of his own offerings, and after that, without him, no one else could take his offerings away.

Etc...

Yu Xing suddenly thought of something very serious.

Even if everyone else has found their own offerings, his own offerings must be scattered among the ruins of Dead Silent Island.

The problem is...

Where is the dagger from the Sheqing Dreamscape?

Yi Qing has been residing inside the dagger all along. If the dagger is still on Dead Silent Island... wouldn't Yi Qing have been stranded on this island for over two months!?

Oh, the flow of time is unknown, so we don't know how long it will take.

However, when Yu Xing came up from underground last time, he had sensed it on a small scale, but perhaps he was just unlucky. At that time, he did not sense the presence of the dagger, nor did he sense Yi Qing.

Perhaps on the other side of the island?

Yu Xing felt a little guilty.

Yi Qing's contract ceased to exist without the deduction system. Therefore, when the deduction system disappeared, even though they had a contract, they were unable to contact each other.

He had almost forgotten about the Sheqing Ghost.

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