"Snow Mountain?" Old Ping looked in the direction Martin was gazing, but aside from the flashing neon lights, he saw nothing...
"Where's the Snow Mountain?"
When he turned back again, he realized Martin had left his side.
Martin was already standing beneath the Cube.
He gently raised a hand and drew a dividing line beneath the Cube. On the other side of the line seemed to be Dream Qilin Avenue, where they had been before.
The Cube seemed to sink beneath the surface of water, gradually descending into the dividing line. Martin leaped forward as well, following the Cube into it.
Once Martin had fully crossed to the other side, he waved his hand behind him, and the dividing line rapidly zipped shut again...
It had all happened too quickly. By the time Old Ping reacted, Martin and the Cube had both vanished without a trace, gone somewhere unknown. All that remained before him was empty space.
Suddenly, Old Ping's mind went hazy.
"Who was standing in front of me just now?"
He only remembered a Cube. As for the other person, he could no longer recall them...
"What's going on? He only just left. How could I have forgotten him?"
He patted his head. "Am I really getting old?"
Old Ping desperately tried to recall that person's appearance, but the more he thought, the blurrier it became. It was as though wherever his thoughts reached, an "eraser" wiped it away. In the end, only a blank outline remained.
But when he tried to think carefully about that outline, even it vanished. He even began to wonder whether someone had truly been standing there just now.
Or had there only been a Cube?
"Did I forget someone?"
Old Ping shook his head. An inexplicable emptiness welled up inside him. He