The longer Baiyi conversed with the barbarians, the more something dawned on him.
'These guys don't even know why they are here.'
Their ancestors' directives had a sparse amount of detail. All they had said was: "Lo! In the South, something pretty powerful as appeared! Gotta' have someone among you check it out, okay? Just to be sure that that thing won't end up endangering us or anything."
That was all.
Although their ancestors' directives were sparse, they made sure to carefully dictate some commandments to these barbarians that they must obey; 'thou shall not rob', 'thou shall not kill the innocent', 'thou shall follow the Southern Land's laws and rules', etc.
Before the barbarians left, their ancestors gave them one final instruction: "Should you find yourself chanced, go and seek out Hope. His wisdom will guide you."
TL'S MUSINGS:
Me too. I would love to be able to leap into the void and not go down, but go up! I wanna turn a somersault in the air float on my back and then touch those glass panels on top of the sky scrappers and flail my legs and hands a little when there's a big gust of wind. I wanna see the city in a dome-shaped earth by sitting on the clouds!
I often fly in my dreams, but every dream ends with a wake-up, and that's when I could only look up to the sky instead of joining it.
Even if a radioactive airplane bit me and turned me a flying superhero— I don't know if I would actually fly though. 'Cause you see, I'm actually terrified of heights...