[Take us with you... Lin Yi...]
[Hahaha...]
[Let's go together... together...]
[Hehe...]
"Go?"
I'm leaving, all right. Come and try me if you've got what it takes.
Lin Yi wasn't absolutely certain this plan would work, but he was more than eighty percent confident.
And here, even a chance above fifty percent was precious!
He first crouched on the steps with water flowing over them, carefully adjusted his breathing and state of mind, then checked the time.
10:43.
Determination appeared in his eyes. He slowly straightened, standing like a stubborn rock against the fierce wind, gradually adjusting to the feeling of the wind eroding him before he began climbing the steps!
Splash!
As his foot landed, water instantly splashed beneath it.
His expression unchanged, he continued upward.
Every step was a struggle, but he had no intention of considering a stop, almost maintaining a rhythm of one step per breath.
[Lin Yi...]
[Stop wasting your effort... you can't get away... can't get away...]
[Hehehe...]
[Take us along... let's go together... together...]
[Hehe...]
The clinking and clanking of the Iron Chains kept beating out an eerie rhythm in the wind, mingling with those spellbinding calls like a tune that unsettled the mind, constantly burrowing into Lin Yi's ears...
"You want to use me?! Dream on! Dream on!" Lin Yi gritted his teeth hard, keeping his rhythm as he continued up the steps.
But the stairs seemed endless. There was only a blurry white speck of light at their distant end, while the wind kept surging in, pouring into this place like seawater.
Thirty-six!
Seventy-eight!
Lin Yi silently counted every step he took. Sweat drenched his back, but the wind had already dried the front of his clothes. That fierce wind was like a pair of invisible hands, seemingly about