Chapter 383

Everything about himself was sucked into that eye.

It was the place where wandering souls returned.

But it did not belong to Ning Chen.

He had conquered it.

But he would never possess it.

Because.

Ning Chen had already lost it long ago.

The viewers in the livestream watched Ning Chen like this.

And couldn't help but start worrying.

If he fell down here, it wouldn't be a laughing matter.

【Brother Shiguang! Don't think such desperate thoughts! Go back quickly!】

【Brother Shiguang! What on earth have you been through? You conquered Mangshan — show some spirit, will you!】

【How did Brother Shiguang lose his drive all of a sudden? Could it be that after conquering Mangshan, he lost his purpose?】

【Brother Shiguang! Be good, listen to us, hurry back properly, don't sit here — if the rocks below loosen, you'll really fall!】

【Don't be so gloomy, Brother Shiguang! If you have something to say, you can tell us! Don't be like this anymore!】

【That's right, Brother Shiguang! What on earth has dragged you into such miserable suffering!】

【Betrayal, failure, love, family — or disappointment with this world? I want to know, Brother Shiguang!】

Ning Chen could not see, nor hear any of this.

He sat at this edge for a long time.

His head hung low and heavy.

His gaze fixed tightly on that Eye of Hell.

A long, long time ago.

There was someone who loved him dearly.

Now.

There was still someone who loved him.

Only.

That person was no longer here.

Things lost are like flowing water.

Never to return.

Even if one searched again.

They would not be regained once lost.

Life is just like this.

Many things are only understood later.

Things once sneered at now seem incomparably precious.

The foolishness and contempt of the past.

In the end, all come at a price.

Everyone grows up this way.

Only.

This process of growing up.

Is truly too cruel.

258. (3/5) It pushed him to the pinnacle of a new era!

After a long while.

Ning Chen finally pulled himself free from that Eye of Hell.

He did not choose to leave quickly.

Instead, he took one last look at that glacial waterfall.

His eyes hid many emotions.

Then.

He came before that female corpse.

Just quietly looking at her like that.

No one knew what Ning Chen was thinking.

At the same time.

Someone in the livestream speculated.

【This might be a kind of empathy. You can tell Brother Shiguang is struggling and suffering through something, and he can never find release. And watching the whole way through, this journey hasn't healed him at all — it's only pulled him further away.】

【I agree with the person above. I also think this is empathy. Brother Shiguang must have seen what that female skeleton went through in life — one yearned for something unattainable and fell at the final moment of hope; the other also yearned for something unattainable, but fell in the final moment of suffering.】

【Sigh, I didn't think much of it at first, but the moment I saw the look in Brother Shiguang's eyes as he gazed at that female skeleton, I suddenly noticed so many things I'd missed before. This missing thing might just be called 'emotion.'】

【Honestly, I'm really curious about Brother Shiguang. Are there any big shots in the livestream who know his background?】

【Don't ask — no one knows, we can only guess.】

【We don't even know if he was born this way.】

【After watching for so long, all I've seen is scenery and Brother Shiguang's suffering.】

【Watching Brother Shiguang, I always recall past memories — whether painful or joyful, I can remember them with such clarity. I don't know why, but I believe this is part of his charm.】

【This scene is simply a cross-century convergence of empathy; I must publish this in the newspaper! On the front page!】

Ning Chen looked at the female skeleton.

He said nothing.

He merely sat quietly beside her.

Although she was a dead person.

Yet Ning Chen had not the slightest concern or taboo.

Just like that.

He naturally sat beside her.

Then.

At a moment when everyone was caught off guard.

Ning Chen suddenly said to the skeleton, "Thank you."

The crowd, witnessing this nonsensical scene, each had a question mark appear in their minds.

Some were at a loss.

What was he thanking?

The corpse?

Ning Chen's gaze, like the vast sea, stirred up waves.

The cold wind was biting.

Yet Ning Chen felt exceptionally warm.

It seemed.

Something was protecting him.

Then.

Ning Chen looked at the sky.

He looked at the massive rock before him.

The person beside him was just one step away.

From surpassing everyone.

Yet he fell right here.

Precisely fell right here.

If it had been at the foot of the mountain.

Then there would be nothing much to say.