Chapter 300: [Unswerving Devotion] Entering Biyi Tower
[After enduring a journey filled with hardships and danger, you have finally arrived at the ultimate trial. Next is the moment to witness the birth of great love. If you can complete the task within the allotted time, you will be able to clear the game~]
The game’s voice echoed in the players’ ears.
However, Bai Cha didn’t hear it.
The other players naturally wouldn’t imagine that she couldn’t even hear the game’s prompts, so no one deliberately reminded her.
For the most part, they silently exchanged glances with the partners beside them, then began choosing which side to enter from.
After all, since the game had stated so plainly that entering and succeeding would allow them to clear the instance, it was best to go in.
Yet everyone knew all too well that for a pit-inducing existence like the game that loved playing with word games to state things so clearly now, the danger inside was equally unimaginable.
“Let’s go,” He Li said to Xia Xueyin beside him.
Xia Xueyin hesitated slightly.
“Are we really going inside?”
“Then stay here?” He Li countered with a question.
Xia Xueyin cast a glance at the people around them, grit her teeth, and headed toward Biyi Tower anyway.
Time waited for no one.
The other several players moved as well.
Xu Taotao looked at Bai Cha with a touch of unease.
“Are we going inside as well?”
“In,” Bai Cha nodded. Danger lay both inside and outside, so it was better to go in.
Inside Biyi Tower, the core of this instance might very well be found.
Xu Taotao took a deep breath.
From the moment she discovered Bai Cha until now, she had experienced a thrilling life she had never encountered in all her fifteen years. Though it had been a mere single day, she had uncovered that the real world differed completely from what she had once assumed.
In truth, she held a question.
Stepping up to the doors of Biyi Tower, Xu Taotao spoke up: “Why am I different from my parents and the others? Am I the same kind of person as you all?”
Bai Cha looked at her, falling silent for a moment before saying, “I have said before—we are the same person.”
Xu Taotao cast a deep, lingering glance at her, then stepped into the left door, while Bai Cha entered the right.
Neither of them said anything about where to meet, for both could sense the Dodder Vine on each other’s bodies.
Stepping inside Biyi Tower felt as if being transported into an entirely different dimension.
Bai Cha’s heart felt somewhat heavy, for the scene before her was identical to the one in her dream.
A pitch-black space, a white expanse of snow.
Apart from the snow shimmering with a subtle trace of light, the entire world seemed utterly void.
She couldn’t easily tell whether Biyi Tower had pried into her past dreamscape or her thoughts to generate such a terrain, or if this place was simply like this to begin with.
If it were the former, that was fine; but if it were the latter… then just as the Dream Butterfly was Han Hongmei blessing her to find her mother, was this a place her mother had once visited?
Yet the very first thing seen in the dream had been her father.
Bai Cha walked carefully across the snow, her feet making crunching sounds as they stepped onto the snow.
The tower held seven floors, yet no staircases could be seen at present.
For the moment, the intense sensation of being spied on from her dream wasn’t present in the surroundings.
She sensed Xu Taotao’s position.
And then she discovered that the other party was in the exact same place as her, right by her side.
Yet not a single person stood beside her, and the direction they had entered from differed as well.
Pondering briefly, Bai Cha attempted to summon the Dodder Vine inside Xu Taotao’s body.
In the darkness, a short length of thin, yellow vine materialized out of thin air, coiling directly around her wrist.
At this moment, she and Xu Taotao were connected, yet unable to see each other.
No wonder they needed to find each other here.
The other players definitely possessed items capable of binding as well; a Team Card alone could confirm the other party’s position.
Yet what the NPCs gave was finding the other party inside Biyi Tower and obtaining the Fruit of Love.
Perhaps they were all separated in different spaces, much like the two different worlds back then.
Reaching out her hand, she gently touched the spot where the Dodder Vine had materialized out of thin air; that place felt as if it were simply empty air.
It almost seemed as if a length of Dodder Vine had grown on her hand, its tail floating in the air.
Left with no choice, Bai Cha continued walking forward.
Suddenly, she felt a gust of wind blow past behind her back.
Yet the wind was subtle—so subtle it almost felt like an illusion, given that coldness radiated from all directions to begin with.
Vigilant, Bai Cha looked behind her.
Regrettably, her inventory couldn’t be opened, yet she held no shortage of trump cards either—she still held the Tai Sui in her hand.
She simply didn’t know where her sword had gone; she hadn’t held time to retract Fuhan Mountain back then.
The surroundings remained completely empty, as though in this space, there was only an endless, unfinishable expanse of snow forever.
Ice-cold, dark, bestowing an extraordinarily uneasy experience.
Bai Cha felt herself truly beginning to experience fear, just like in her dreamscape.
This definitely wouldn’t do.
Yet she possessed immense patience as well.
Even as fear was birthed bit by bit, she could still maintain absolute rationality, her mind becoming even clearer and sharper.
Mist seemed to rise in the surroundings.
The light here was far too dim, with only the snow on the ground reflecting light; Bai Cha couldn’t determine at first whether fog had risen.
Until the mist suddenly grew thick and dense, the air turning soaking wet and blending with the frigid cold, coldness seeping deep into her marrow.
This became difficult to ignore even if one wanted to.
And within the mist, a figure steadily materialized.
The entity radiated white light from its frame, resembling a low-wattage lightbulb.
Bai Cha stared at that figure; it was composed of mist, and had it not been glowing, one couldn’t tell it was human at all.
Whether it was male or female remained unclear—it was purely a human silhouette.
The figure was approaching Bai Cha.
Bai Cha observed it with vigilance, refraining from budging.
Whether in darkness or white mist, attempting to flee or dodge in an environment like this was basically impossible.
The figure walked closer and closer, its frame steadily turning clear.
It was a woman.
She possessed a head of long white hair, white eyelashes, and pale blue eyes, looking much like an albino, yet the color of her lips was dark red, as if painted with lip glaze.
She was very beautiful, yet her complexion was far too pale, to the point where her facial features appeared somewhat distorted and surreal.
Yet no matter how distorted that face was, Bai Cha could still match her facial features with the mother in the photographs of her parents back home.
Bearing zero expression, she steadily approached Bai Cha.
When she was still three paces away, alarm bells rang loudly in the depths of Bai Cha’s heart, the fine hairs across her body standing on end.
The other party was exceedingly dangerous.
Bai Cha summoned the Tai Sui directly; at any rate, it truly craved to devour food as well.
As for whether the person before her could be her mother?
Even if she were, that hair-raising sense of danger was telling her that what stood before her was absolute enemy.
She held virtually zero memories of her mother, possessing no deep emotional bond to speak of.
What’s more, even if she did, under such abnormal circumstances, it was impossible for her to sit idly by and await death simply because the other party was her mother!
The Tai Sui formed a fine, mesh-like barrier in front of her frame.
She didn’t have the Tai Sui attack immediately; as long as the other party didn’t move, she wouldn’t move.
And the other party halted as well, stopping outside the barrier, separated from Bai Cha by a distance of merely half a meter.
And then, the woman extended her hand.
