Hearing Bu Er's startled exclamation, Yang Qing and Jiang Zhizhou immediately walked over and reached out. Sure enough, their hands met a wall.
Yang Qing looked around. The wall had sealed off the entire staircase leading to the second floor.
Naturally, they could not go up.
"It seems the time hasn't come yet." Yang Qing turned to Fen Liyou. "We should leave."
With the second floor inaccessible and nothing remarkable on the first, Yang Qing decided to leave the Library Pavilion.
Fen Liyou and the others had no objections.
For some reason, Yang Qing took the biography with him as they left.
Although he had read through its contents several times, he still felt there were things he had yet to see clearly.
After leaving the Library Pavilion, the four looked around elsewhere but found nothing else suspicious.
"Four Directions City has been preserved so perfectly, yet there are only buildings, without a trace of the warmth of everyday life. It looks like a castle in the air," Jiang Zhizhou said.
It was hardly surprising that he would raise such a question. Along the way, they had seen signs of people living here only in the Four-Square Shrine they had first entered and the strange little courtyard afterward. Beyond those places, they had found nothing.
It was as though everyone had been enshrined in the Four-Square Shrine, while every trace connected to them elsewhere had been erased.
"You're right. Four Directions City seems like a false city. Only those memorial tablets and the coffins in that courtyard are real."
Bu Er also pointed at the Library Pavilion behind them. "Of course, the books in there are real too."
"Since we're here, why don't we take another look at that courtyard?" Fen Liyou suggested.
Ever since Yin Xian had fallen into