They retraced their steps.
Liu Ye especially cherished this moment, because the treasure hunt would soon end. Before long, the two of them would return to how things had been before, no longer able to walk forward hand in hand as freely as they did now. This treasure hunt, their fingers interlocked and their hearts as one, might become the most unforgettable memory of her life... She did not want it to end so quickly, but she wanted even less for him to encounter danger. Before this, Liu Ye had never seen Yue Yang shrink back in the face of difficulty. He simply was not someone who gave up easily! Yet now, he had abandoned the search for treasure and chosen not to continue onward.
Why? It was absolutely not because he feared the weaknesses of human nature.
On the contrary, he must have been worried about her, afraid she would fail the test of human weakness in the ancient treasure space and be cast out!
When the two of them walked back through the black-and-white distortion and passageway, returning to Polar Day's bright region and then back into that dark region where no light existed, Yue Yang's steps paused slightly. But before Liu Ye could voice her question, he led her onward again.
"Is something wrong?" Liu Ye was meticulous as a strand of hair and had already sensed that something was different.
"I don't know. I just have a feeling," Yue Yang said.
"Let's be careful." Liu Ye knew that Yue Yang also possessed an exceptionally powerful premonition. It was especially uncanny in battle. Although it could not compare to Cici's inborn and remarkably precise Six Senses Gift, it almost never went wrong. If he sensed something amiss, something must have happened somewhere. Had people from the Central