At the entrance to Blue Tyrant Academy in Heaven Dou City.
Tang San was the first to return.
Dai Mubai happened to be passing by. Looking at the ragged man limping toward him from not far away, Dai Mubai seemed to suddenly associate him with something rather unpleasant. Unsure, he could not help taking another careful look.
"T-Tang San?"
Dai Mubai's expression was strange.
"What happened to you...?"
Hearing him, Tang San raised his head slightly. His somewhat clouded, lifeless eyes looked at Dai Mubai. In a daze, he seemed to recall something as well. The two silently stared at each other, and an odd atmosphere quietly arose.
"Dai Mubai, could it be that the state you were in when you returned a few days ago was also because you went through it?"
"..."
Silence. Utter silence.
The two looked at each other without a word as all sorts of emotions gradually surfaced on their faces—recollection, sorrow, pain, unbearable shame and fury...
"Ah."
In the end, it all passed with a sigh. Both of them tacitly chose to forget those unbearable memories. After coming together, they walked side by side for a while, and the atmosphere gradually eased.
Dai Mubai had already had more than ten days to recover. Aside from feeling a little uncomfortable just now when locking eyes with Tang San and recalling the past, he gradually returned to acting as though nothing had happened.
As for Tang San, he had lived three lives and possessed extraordinary fortitude. Besides, he had not returned directly to Heaven Dou City immediately after "finishing his experience" in Sunset Forest. He had actually spent two days recovering alone in the wilderness first, so he did not show anything unusual now.
Emmm... At least, not on his face. As for his limping, that