The wind rustled through the leaves, just like when she had slacked off as a child, skipping training and hiding behind the house, listening to the trees outside the courtyard stir in the summer breeze...
"Those really were carefree times, when I could forget those things, those..." Her thoughts drifted farther and farther away like a kite with a broken string, and as that kite flew toward the horizon, it also carried away those fantasies that had never belonged to her.
Sunlight filtered through the woods onto her eyes. Its dazzling brightness made her instinctively shut the eyes she had been about to open.
Only after taking several deep breaths did she gradually adjust to the sunlight, looking at the tall trees around her and the quiet surroundings so utterly unlike the city.
She instinctively grew tense, the sound of her heartbeat echoing in her ears. She recalled what she had been taught during training: once a mission failed, if she was captured by the Star Luo people or found herself in unfamiliar surroundings, she should immediately take her own life to avoid being deceived by the enemy Soul Masters' illusions and leaking their information.
So she immediately reached into her trouser pocket, trying to find the razor blade kept there, but after fumbling around for a long time, she found nothing.
At that moment, she realized something. She removed a strip of cloth wound around her arm, wrapped it around her neck, and pulled outward hard with both hands, trying to end her life that way.
But just then, a hand suddenly caught the strip of cloth and tore it to shreds.
She saw a figure appear out of thin air before her, yet she could not make out what the person looked like.
When she saw that her