Chapter 31: The hand that didn't let go

Li Tian naturally didn't know that someone had already come to the White Sand Sea for himself, and he didn't know that he was followed by a knight who had been famous for a long time in the Xiqi Continent.

He was looking for the senior brother and the junior sister on the Central Avenue with the second senior sister who didn't know where they went, because there was no way to talk, Li Tian didn't know how the senior sister got separated from them, but looking at the expression of the senior sister when she shook her head, she shouldn't know where the two of them went.

Li Tian has seen his senior sister's number plate, which is two hundred and forty-three, which happens to be one place older than him. Putting aside the possibility that someone came to Baisha City between him and Song Zhiyi and quickly received the bento, the senior sister should have come in shortly after Li Tian. The three of them entered the Baisha Overseas Enclosure together, and if they all went deeper, they should come in at about the same time.

But there are no shadows of the two people on the central avenue or the sky stairs, maybe they have already lived in the residential area, and of course there may be some accidents...... This is obviously the result that Li Tian does not want to see the most.

There are at least two hundred and forty-three people in the whole city, but none of them are on the Tongtian Cloud Stairs and the Central Avenue, which is already very revealing: what has happened to Baisha City, or what kind of existence, makes the Tongtian Cloud Stairs no longer a way to escape, but is likely to be a place to kill people, so no one appears here.

Li Tian would definitely not choose to climb the Cloud Stairs in the short term, but if he really couldn't find the two of them, and didn't find anything else, he could only take the risk.

Until dark, neither of them found anything in the city. They also went into the residential area to look for a long time, if it weren't for the fact that some houses were indeed closed, telling outsiders that they had already moved in, Li Tian would have thought that all the people here were dead.

When there was no gain, Li Tian took out his hatred snow and changed to a room next to his senior sister to live.

Although it was already night, Li Tian still had no plan to stop searching, and he wanted to see what changes had occurred in the cloud steps at night.

In the game's White Sand Sea dungeon, some players like to climb it at night. For some cultivators, night is a good opportunity to sneak away, and Li Tian wants to see if he will encounter such a situation.

He pointed to his sister, and then to her house, and motioned for her to stay. He pointed to himself, and then to the towering stone pillar in the distance, and motioned for himself to go and see it alone.

The senior sister nodded, without any pretension, and turned back to the house, which simply made Li Tian feel a little complicated.

Doesn't you have to go along in general TV dramas, why don't the boys agree, and finally go back to the house in anger?

Maybe this is Senior Sister Song Zhiyi.

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Walking along the path out of the residential area and onto the central avenue, Li Tian found that there were indeed many more people on the avenue, and walked towards the sky and cloud steps one after the other, and couldn't help but feel happy. Although these people will be competitors to leave here on their own, it is too scary to see no one.

It's just that such a happy mood didn't last for a few seconds, and Li Tian was filled with another emotion.

It's fear.

On the central avenue, there were about two hundred people, all of whom walked to the sky and clouds, their steps were almost the same, there was no difference in speed, they would not be side-by-side, and they all maintained a good sense of distance. When he walked under the stone pillar, he did not climb it, but surrounded it in a circle.

They didn't look at each other, they didn't see any eye contact, they just walked on their own, forming one big circle after another of the sky cloud steps, separated by a distance of several meters from each other.

When the last person also walked under the cloud steps, he joined the circle, and exactly five circles were formed, surrounding the stone pillars. Instead of climbing, he fell to his knees and his upper body prostrate on the ground, as if the most devout believer wanted to kiss God's feet. The head underneath was pressed tightly against the stone slab on the ground.

Li Tian hid near the house closest to Central Avenue, he knew that as long as someone wanted to, his soul power could easily detect his location, but the fear in his heart still made him want to hide involuntarily.

The crowd crawled and didn't say a word, looking particularly oppressive in the dark night. This scene did not last long, and the various patterns on the stone pillars suddenly emitted a faint light, not enough to illuminate the city, but it could be sprinkled on these "believers" like people.

The silent crowd suddenly became agitated. As if they had received a great favor, everyone made a big salute to the stone pillar, presumably if it weren't for the rule of Baisha City that they couldn't speak, this group of people would have offered all the beautiful words to the glimmer in front of them.

This glimmer lasted only a few minutes, and then slowly dimmed, no longer lit up. But the crowd seemed to be unsatisfied, prostrate in place, and refused to leave for a long time.

Li Tian was afraid in his heart, and while everyone was prostrate on the ground, he looked towards the crowd, wanting to see if he would find the senior brother and junior sister, but unfortunately he confirmed everyone's faces and didn't see it.

And although Li Tian's soul power visit can be said to be quite bold, among the nearly two hundred people present, none of them found themselves, which also made Li Tian's guess in his heart even more certain.

After kneeling down for more than ten minutes, the crowd came together and walked towards Central Avenue, and Li Tian immediately returned along the original road and returned to his house.

Obviously, the pilgrimage-like ritual just now is an important reason why the White Sand Sea dungeon has become so different from the game. The glimmer of the stone pillar was obviously extremely important to the people of White Sands City, and it was likely to be something that kept them alive.

And the person who turned into a skeleton that he and Senior Sister Song saw in the afternoon was probably also related to the pilgrimage.

There were at least two hundred and forty-three people in the city, and not all of them showed up at the pilgrimage site, which showed that some people were unaffected, such as Li Tian and Senior Sister Song. So what distinguishes Li Tian from that group of "believers"? Li Tian couldn't figure it out for the time being, and the information he had obtained was not enough.

However, what Li Tian is most concerned about is the stone pillar itself.

In the dungeon, the stone pillars, the cloud steps, and the cloud altar are all the settings of the game, and they will not be affected by the player or NPC, or in other words, the only one who can affect them is the game company.

And in this world, if you want to find one that can influence this, it should be only one possibility.

That's providence.

This is also what Li Tian doesn't understand, what is the purpose of Providence doing this. If this world is almost identical to the Legend of the Boundaries game, then why would Providence change the setting in the game dungeon and turn White Sands City into a dead place?

Thinking of the existence of himself and Chen Yuanran, the will of heaven was probably clear, Li Tian felt extremely cold all over his body, and this feeling of being manipulated in the dark made him very uncomfortable.

Since all the houses in Baisha City had no windows, and to prevent others from visiting other people's houses, the walls could shield the soul from visiting, which made Li Tian ignorant of the information from the outside world at the moment, and he didn't know if the group of "believers" had returned to his house, or if they were doing something else.

Forcibly suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Li Tian entered a meditative state, and also calmed down his mind. No matter when and where, it is always beneficial to improve one's cultivation.

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In the morning, Li Tian finished his cultivation and let out a sigh of relief. This was his first meditation after entering the Cloud Lake Realm, and he obviously felt that the Xuan Power in his body was several times stronger. This promotion has brought Li Tian's strength improvement qualitatively. When he met the four men in black again, he was confident that he would solve the battle in one minute with one enemy and four enemies.

Although he doesn't seem to have a cheat for a golden finger, a system, or a bloodline talent, after all, when he used to play games, he was the strength of Tianhe Realm, and now that he no longer has a situation where he can't keep up with the operation, it shouldn't be too much to abuse an NPC of the same level.

Stretching his waist, Li Tian focused all his attention on the door, ready to go out to have a look.

Since there was no means to explore the outside world, Li Tian would not be surprised if there were two hundred "believers" standing at the door, waiting for him to come out.

Anyway, if there is a need, they can't beat me, even if they block me. It was with such a dead pig not afraid of boiling water that Li Tian calmly but cautiously opened the door of his house.

The door was empty, and there was no one, which made Li Tian breathe a sigh of relief, the imaginary scene did not appear, and he walked out with confidence.

Suddenly, a hand slapped on Li Tian's shoulder, and Li Tian turned his head suddenly and found that it was Senior Sister Song.

is the same as yesterday's usual way of meeting, and every time the senior sister appears, she successfully makes Li Tian suffer from a myocardial infarction.

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Li Tian still decided to continue looking for the senior brother and the junior sister today, although it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, searching aimlessly, it was almost impossible to encounter it, but Li Tian was unwilling to give up.

Whether it is suddenly turning into a skeleton on the road, or a "believer" who worships the stone pillar like a pilgrimage, Li Tian is extremely worried, for fear that when he sees him again, the other party's wooden sign has become a number that will never change again.

He and his senior sister still came to the Central Avenue, which was the most likely place to meet them, but unfortunately there was still no one on the Central Avenue during the day, which was a little frustrating.

I looked at the gate of the city and the door of the wooden hut where the wooden signs were distributed, but I didn't see anyone.

Turning around, Li Tian, who didn't have any hope, looked at the Tongtian Cloud Step again, but what he never expected was that there seemed to be a figure on the first layer of the Tongtian Cloud Step, climbing upward.

I don't know if it was out of excitement, or if I was in a hurry and didn't pay attention, Li Tian took up the senior sister's little hand and ran towards the stone pillar, and the senior sister who didn't react exclaimed in surprise for a while.

Fortunately, this didn't seem to be talking, and Li Tian also secretly scolded himself in his heart for being too anxious, and almost caused an accident, so he looked at his senior sister apologetically.

Song Zhiyi just shook her head, not looking concerned, which also made Li Tian breathe a sigh of relief and continued to rush to the Tongtian Cloud Steps.

They didn't notice at all, and they didn't let go of each other's hands.