"...This is my first time visiting since the island was rebuilt. It looks completely different from before. I'll have to take a good look around."
After briefly catching up, Qin Ming said he wanted to tour Steam Island.
That was no problem, of course. Steam Island was open to all players with residency rights anyway, let alone a player on Yang Yi's friend list.
Only after watching Qin Ming walk away did Su Na speak again.
"You have him on your friend list. Try sending him a private message."
"I already did. There was no notification that his account had been deleted or that he was in a special area, and he replied, too. That means he is Qin Ming," Yang Yi replied.
"No, at least not the Qin Ming we met before. Too many things don't match." Su Na sank into thought. "Could it be a parallel world? But a parallel world..."
"Come on, let's go take a look, too."
Yang Yi beckoned as he prepared to head inside, calling Cui Xiya, Cui Bisi, and Xiaoji over as well, even though one of them looked somewhat reluctant.
"Do we really have to go?
"That tower is obviously dangerous. Can't we just let someone else go?"
Cui Xiya protested, strongly opposed to this sort of asking for trouble.
Yang Yi had told them about it yesterday, saying there were exactly five of them, just enough to try entering the tower.
This was also the decision he and Su Na had reached after discussing it. They believed they still needed to take a look inside the tower.
Simply avoiding it would solve nothing. They would not even be able to discover any problems.
If the tower proved too dangerous, they could change their strategy then and stop climbing.
After checking the