"Li Yuan......" Lu Lie said slowly. He tried to make his tone as calm as possible, but no matter how hard he tried to control his voice, his voice trembled like a normal person's voice, "You, you, you......"

"What's wrong?" Li Yuan's voice came from the other side of the darkness. Just by listening to the voice, he could feel that the other party was very confused, because Li Yuan in the darkness couldn't see everything, and he didn't know what was going on in Lu Lie's direction, which would make him panic to this extent.

"You...... Can you, again, shoot ...... A slap in the face?"

Li Yuan waited in the darkness for a while, but heard such a strange request. His brows furrowed imperceptibly, and although he didn't know what Lu Lie meant, his instinctive sense of danger still made him feel a hint of ominous atmosphere in the air.

"Absolutely. Li Yuan tried his best to make his voice calmer, as Lu Lie wished, he put his hands together and tapped lightly twice, while quietly summoning the Shigami Time Giant sealed on his back.

"Go. Go to Lu Lie's side to see what happened, and if there is an accident, you must find a way to save him. ”

Li Yuan used his mind to communicate silently with the time giant. The time giant in the darkness didn't say anything, and his huge body slowly flew in the direction of Lu Lie.

The applause was particularly loud in the quiet darkness, and it also spread far and wide. After the tapping of his hands was completed, Li Yuan said softly, "Lu Lie, what happened to you?"

"I ......"

Lu Lie slowly squirmed his lips, and he felt that his mouth was no longer a part of his body.

His hands and feet began to grow cold, the closest death had ever come to him. He didn't know how to describe the feeling, but he knew that maybe it would be a huge mistake to follow Li Yuan down here.

"You only have two hands, right, Li Yuan. ”

"Yes. ”

Li Yuan replied in a deep voice.

"So, whose hand was that hand that kept on my shoulder when you high-fived me in the dark?"

Lu Lie still had a lot of questions to ask Li Yuan, and the words he had stuck in his mouth had not yet been spoken, but he only felt that a gust of wind was coming towards him in front of him. Lu Lie's eyes widened, and a huge miserable white face big enough to envelop the heavens and the earth rushed towards him......

Immediately after, he felt a chill in his chest, the world in front of him turned black, and everything was leaving him.

......

When Lu Lie woke up again, he found himself back on the top of the giant tree.

"This ...... What exactly is this...... What's going on?" Lu Lie hadn't recovered from the fear of being dominated by a strange hand in the abyss. When he found himself back at the starting point, his first instinct was to touch his chest, but fortunately, his heart was still beating honestly.

But the cold feeling on his shoulder that had been touched by that strange hand was still there, and that feeling didn't seem to be fake.

And the miserable white face that appeared in front of him, overwhelming and almost swallowing himself......

Even though it seemed like a long time had passed, as soon as he remembered what had happened before, he felt goosebumps bubble up from the surface of his skin one by one.

Just as Lu Lie was thinking, a slight vibration suddenly came from below the tree wall. He lowered his head to see that it was Li Yuan who was carrying a large basket of magic fruits, and at the same time that Lu Lie looked at Lu Lie, Li Yuan also raised his head and looked at Lu Lie above with an inquiring and tentative gaze.

Lu Lie gradually understood: it was a rollback. Because of the sudden death of himself in the abyss, according to the rules of the Tower of Despair, he returned directly to the scene where he had just arrived, and all the changes so far have returned to the original state.

But what was it that killed him in the abyss? the strange hand on his shoulder, the miserable white face that appeared in front of him, or the coldness that pierced his heart?

Or are all three inherently one?

"Failed...... What?"

After the two looked at each other up and down the giant tree for a moment, Li Yuan really said the lines from the last time they met on the giant tree. And this time, Lu Lie didn't hesitate for too long, and told Li Yuan everything that happened to him and his first trip to the Giant Tree, his testimony in the Tower of Despair, and the fact that he went down to the abyss with him after he was teleported here, and was killed by something lurking in the darkness after he didn't travel long.

Li Yuan's face did not show much surprise, on the contrary, there was this realization that was repeated countless times in the cycle of time and space, and he listened to it in detail, and from time to time he stopped and asked Lu Lie some detailed questions. Finally, when Lu Lie finished talking about everything that happened in the end, and he returned to the starting point through the backtrack, Li Yuan thought about it and asked a question: "So, can you be sure of one thing—that is, when you were killed and teleported back to this point in time, did the 'me' in another time and space be killed?"

Lu Lie closed his eyes and tried to recall the last words Li Yuan said before the giant white face appeared, was it "What happened to you there?" or "Keep calm"?

Thinking of the end, Lu Lie had to admit defeat and said, "I'm sorry, I really don't know...... If I had to say it, it would be that the 'you' of the plane at the moment of my death should not have died, but after I died, I guess you will be the next target to kill me...... Nine times out of ten, you should be dead too. ”

"I see...... Li Yuan nodded, as if he had been mentally prepared for Lu Lie's plausible answer. He closed his eyes, as if thinking about something, and after a while asked again: "Lu Lie, can you tell me all the things that happened before you were killed, the more detailed the better, maybe there is a secret hidden in it that can allow us to pass through that abyss smoothly." ”

According to the other party's request, Lu Lie recounted it again, but this time Li Yuan raised more questions about the details, and there were some questions that Lu Lie, as an experienced person at the time, did not notice, so he had to answer vaguely. By the time the conversation between the two was finished, the sky over the giant tree had gone dark.

"Li Yuan, we ...... In fact, you should enter the Huangquan Sea through the gate of life. Lu Lie hesitated and put forward his own opinion.