Was he... on a ship?
As he pondered this, a figure suddenly lunged straight at him and pinned him to the bed!
Startled, Li Xian swung at the stranger, but the man deftly dodged his attack and restrained both his hands instead.
"Who are you?"
With his hands pinned, Li Xian began flailing his legs, trying to kick the man off him.
Ji Xie leaned close to Li Xian's ear and whispered:
"It's me."
Yet the man beneath him did not stop struggling at those words. Instead, he tilted his head and slammed it straight into Ji Xie's!
Taken aback, Ji Xie released his hands. Li Xian immediately scrambled up and backed away. The faint light from outside the window illuminated their faces, but Li Xian still asked warily:
"I don't know you. Where is this?"
Ji Xie's heart jolted.
Before entering the Instance, Li Xian had told him about signing the Betting Agreement with the system, so Ji Xie quickly pieced things together.
Could he have lost his memory?
And it had to happen now...
With mixed feelings, Ji Xie looked at Li Xian, who was watching him warily, and ventured:
"Do you remember your name?"
Li Xian thought the man was being rather strange.
"Am I supposed to have forgotten it?"
Ji Xie wanted to question him further, but the ship suddenly began rocking more violently, followed by a series of sharp slaps against the door.
Although it sounded like someone slapping the door, the noise was unusual-crisp and rapid, nothing like the sound a human hand would make.
Ji Xie immediately stepped between Li Xian and the door.
"Don't move."
If Li Xian had forgotten who he was, he had probably also lost all his memories of clearing Instances. His judgment of the situation and his awareness