"Let's look around for clues first," Ye Chu said. In truth, the room was so small that they hardly needed all five of them searching it.
Ye Chu looked out through the window, his eyes widening. Outside, the blue sky stretched high and deep above an endless desert.
Why was there a little cabin in the middle of the desert?
"It's so hot..." Wu You took off her jacket and kept fanning herself with one hand.
The air was scorching and stifling, making it hard to breathe.
"It really is," Su Fengzi said, tying back his hair, which had come loose. Perhaps because of the oppressive heat, he looked a little off, his face pale and bloodless.
The entire cabin was extremely spartan. The room was less than twenty square meters, with nothing but a simple bed and a wooden table. There was no other furniture.
No one could possibly live here for long, so it had to be temporary accommodation.
Pei Yanchuan found a box under the table and opened it. It was full of candles, but the heat had melted them into liquid that clung to the sides of the box.
Lu Rui rummaged through the things on the bed but found no useful information. "There are barely any clues. We don't even know this Instance's name."
The muggy heat put everyone on edge, and beads of sweat rolled down their temples.
"It's all right. We'll find a way out," Ye Chu said reassuringly.
They soon turned the cabin upside down. Ye Chu found a notebook in a corner beneath the bed and gave it a casual shake, sending grains of sand tumbling from between its pages to the floor.
They stood apart from one another, since gathering together made it even harder to breathe. Ye Chu opened