Eighteen years ago, Sword Immortal Taiyi set out from the "Narwhal Cape" in the easternmost part of the Western Continent and flew towards the east, trying to fly over the vast ocean known as the "Endless Sea" to the distant Eastern Earth Continent.

Before leaving, Panda and the others went to the beach to see her off. At that time, Liu Daoqing, who valued her most on this trip, once asked her how long it would take to arrive. She said lightly: "If it's fast, it's a few months, if it's slow, it's a year and a half, no matter how slow it is, it is estimated that three or five years is enough." ”

However, this time, she has been gone for eighteen years.

In the first year or two, everyone thought that she should be able to find Dongtu easily. But when she fell into the depths of the endless sea like a labyrinth, and even the system map could not help, as the days passed day by day, the years passed, and everyone's confidence in her gradually decreased.

Later, more than once someone even persuaded her to give up and simply commit suicide and return to the city.

Anyway, the fleet of the East Earth will come sooner or later, so why bother walking alone on the vast ocean?

But it was too easy to give up.

"I've spent so many years, and if I give up now, won't I be in vain!" she said, "and I'm going to stay the course anyway." Dongtu is ahead, whether it is ten, twenty or more, I will fly all the time, and sooner or later I will arrive!"

For her stubbornness, everyone can't think about it.

Wang Tuhao has analyzed it and thinks that her sunk cost is too high and she can't accept failure - just like some business or political wrong decisions, which seem to be mentally retarded at first glance, and she should try her best to redeem it, but she doesn't know that it means that the previous investment and persistence will be completely denied, and the cost is so large that it is often difficult for those big people to accept.

"The bigger the event, the more you can't afford to go in the wrong direction. If you start wrong, you can often only make a mistake to the end. Because even the boss who takes the lead can't afford the loss of 'total denial'. In the end, Wang Tuhao summed it up like this, "Taiyi is like this now, if she comes back now, she will not only deny her original plan, but also deny the hard work of these years, she can't afford this price." ”

Does Taiyi not be able to afford that price? She may have been asked about this in private, but how did she answer...... At least Panda didn't see a paraphrase in the chat channel, and he hadn't heard anyone mention it in private.

As far as he knows, in recent years, Taiyi has been in less and less contact with everyone. Even, except for everyone to take the initiative to contact her, she hasn't taken the initiative to contact everyone for a long time.

This made everyone worry about her, the traverser has an immortal body, but an immortal body does not mean an unshakable will like steel. Long solitude is terrible, enough to drive people crazy. And the pressure of failure is like a sword chosen above the head, which makes people restless.

Panda didn't understand why Taiyi was still insisting, but he was sure that Taiyi's current situation must be terrible.

He had tried to help Taiyi by going to heaven, and then from heaven to earth, directly to Taiyi's vicinity - even if he couldn't persuade her to change her mind, bring some condolences, talk to her face-to-face for a while, and fly with her for two or three days, it was still okay.

However, Taiyi's position seemed to be very special, not to mention Heaven's regular search methods, and even Raphael, the chief inspector of Heaven, had not been able to find her location in person.

If you can't locate it, you can't go there, and the panda's plan can only fail.

But now, Taiyi actually took the initiative to contact Sanyu, and two more news came!

Although these two pieces of news are good and bad, Taiyi's willingness to re-contact everyone is good news in itself!

There was a celebration in the chat channel, and everyone repeated the panda's statement that "itself is good news".

After some celebration, Sanyu, who had been silent just now, began to speak.

"Depending on what everyone thinks, I'll start with the good news. He said, "Sanyu has arrived in Dongtu." ”

"Great!" Liu Daoqing said excitedly, "What's the situation in Dongtu now? Could it be that there is still a war? This is indeed bad news......

"No, we're all in the seventieth year. According to the time in the game, even if it is the seventh year now, the Dongtu side should also end the chaotic era of the Later Tang Dynasty and start the Ming Dynasty...... "The emperor who was also born in the Dongtu said, "If you are still fighting...... Could it be that something is wrong?"

Everyone talked about it, but Sanyu was silent again.

After a while, everyone realized that they had gone off topic again, and they asked Sanyu to tell the bad news.

Sanyu remained silent.

"What's wrong?" Panda asked, "what is the bad news that makes you so hesitant?"

At this moment, in the chat channel, an ID that had disappeared for many years popped up.

[Sword Immortal Taiyi: Let me announce it myself. The bad news is that the East Soil is finished, it's all over, and there is nothing left to the East Soil. 】

There was silence in the chat channel.

A few seconds later, Liu Daoqing, who rushed back to the hall of the guild castle, grabbed Tai Yi, who was full of exhaustion, and asked loudly: "What did you say? What do you mean by 'no Dongtu'? You explain it to me clearly!"

Because of suicide and returning to the city, Taiyi was still weak and exhausted. He grabbed his shoulders and shook him around, like a large rag doll, without the power to resist.

Fortunately, the others in the hall stopped Liu Daoqing and saved Taiyi.

Because Raisa said in the chat channel, "Liu Daoqing and Taiyi are fighting in the hall", so except for those in the small world, who can't see the chat channel, almost all the rest of the people hurried back to the castle, and for a while, the usually empty hall was full of people, and even seemed a little crowded.

With so many people getting together, of course, it is impossible not to say anything. Everyone was chattering and chaotic, and the whole hall was suddenly noisy, just like a vegetable market in the morning.

"Don't make a fuss! "Let's get down to business!" the panda rushed to the front and shouted at everyone to silence them.

Then, in the silence, he looked at Tai Yi.

"What the hell is going on? Can you tell us more about that?"

Taiyi sighed, a helpless wry smile appeared on his tired face.

"As I said earlier, Dongtu is finished, completely finished. I flew across the endless ocean, and what I saw was not the Eastern Earth Continent, but a solidified, shattered void. In that void, there are also some broken land fragments floating, but there are no mountains or water, let alone flowers, trees, birds, beasts, insects, and fish...... Even people. The debris floating in the void was all gray and lifeless. ”

She paused and closed her eyes: "I wanted to get close to that frozen void, and then I was stopped by an invisible force. A will told me everything that happened in the East. I'll take this experience out of my memory and wait for tomorrow, for you to see. ”

With that, she turned around and staggered towards the dorm room upstairs.

"I'm tired, now let me go and get some rest. ”