Red Maple - First Arrival

My name was Red Maple, a name I had given myself;

It held no special meaning...

It was simply that when I first saw a red maple tree, something in my heart stirred, and I decided to call myself that.

Everyone in this world...

Had forgotten their own names, forgotten any information about their identities! All that remained was some common knowledge and some cultivation experience;

But...

That was not important.

Though rationally speaking, it was still quite a serious matter;

Everyone tacitly agreed that it was not important.

What mattered was how to fill our stomachs and sustain our survival...

I liked lying in the grass and basking in the sun—warm, comfortable... yet I always felt that something was missing from this sunlight?

"Red Maple, the mist over Lightstone Abyss has cleared. Are you going?"

Someone called out to me from afar;

Without turning my head, I waved a hand and lazily said, "No."

"All right... then I'm going."

The one speaking to me was someone I got along with fairly well... a friend?

Her name was Waterweed, and she was going to Lightstone Abyss to look for lightstones;

Lightstones could fill our stomachs and sustain our survival... but these things were not worth much.

Within Lightstone Abyss, lightstones were everywhere—on the ground, along the rock walls...

You could take just a couple of steps and kick up several chunks.

I had gathered quite a lot last time, enough to last until Lightstone Abyss opened again, so I could not be bothered to go...

Lightstone Abyss was not a good place. Of the twelve months in a year, it was shrouded in mist for ten of them;

Anyone who became trapped in that mist never came back out;

Even after the mist dispersed, no trace of them could be