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Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?
In a dark world, a man stands at a crossroads with a bewildered expression on his face. He starts to doubt his own existence, standing there in a daze, gazing at the endless distance with empty eyes.
In the next moment, in this dark world, gray-white images appear in the space, fleeting like a slideshow, flashing before him. The scenes in these images are unfamiliar, yet incredibly familiar.
From birth to growing up, step by step, it unfolds like a movie of life. But this life has only passed halfway, as the scenes suddenly shift into another world.
It is a magical world without the technology of the previous world, but filled with extraordinary powers.
In the images, the boy is scared, fearful, and lonely. With these emotions, he lives alone until that one day arrives.
On that day, a long sword appears out of thin air in the boy's hand, accompanied by an existence that can change his destiny. This existence alters the boy's fate.
From then on, an ordinary life becomes extraordinary.
Upon seeing this, the man clutches his throbbing head with both hands, memories continuously surfacing in his mind.
He remembers now, the person in those images is himself! The flashing images are memories he has experienced.
My name is Zeng Yi!
Memories flicker through his mind like a movie, and the last moment of memory freezes at the moment when he was attacked and sent flying by the Sword Douluo.
Am I dead?
Is this the afterlife?
Looking around the dark world, it is filled with a sense of loneliness, causing his mood to become extremely oppressed. His heart is filled with a sense of loneliness, standing alone in this world where he feels like the only person, isolated, lonely, and sorrowful.
"Is this... Hell?"
Zeng Yi raises his head, his gaze filled with endless melancholy, as he looks at the dim sun in the sky, muttering to himself.
Everything has come to an end.
In this gloomy world, it seems that time does not flow. It forever appears desolate, occasionally accompanied by a gust of lonely wind.
Zeng Yi continues to walk in this gloomy world, wandering without knowing how long has passed, completely unable to feel the passage of time.
And Zeng Yi never stops walking. He hasn't eaten anything here because he doesn't feel the slightest hint of hunger.
As he walks on in this gray world, maybe it's been a month, maybe a year, or perhaps ten years. In this boundless world, Zeng Yi has never encountered a living creature. There is only endless yellow sand and a lonely wind.
It seems like he is the only person in the whole world.
"Is this really Hell?"
He couldn't help but start to doubt.
Suddenly, Zeng Yi noticed a figure ahead.
That figure is a person, dressed in a tattered gray robe. This person has long pitch-black hair tied into a ponytail at the back of the head, and carries a long sword, near his waist. They wearing a pair of brown boots and face away from Zeng Yi, continuously walking forward.
A lonely breeze blows over the person's cloak, causing their long hair to sway with the wind, and the wind also brings up yellow sand, making the scene hazy and ethereal. They step on the yellow ground with every step, as if they are walking, yet there is not a trace of footprints on the yellow sand.
Like a Ronin.
Finally, encountering a figure in this desolate world fills Zeng Yi with extreme excitement and joy.
However, why does he feel a sense of familiarity, as if he has seen that figure somewhere before?
"Hey! Brother! Hello!"
Zeng Yi doesn't care about that, shouting loudly towards the figure in front of him. His loud voice reverberates for a few seconds in this space before gradually dissipating.
But it seems like the figure didn't hear anything and continues to walk forward silently.
What's going on? How can they not hear me with such a loud voice?
Seeing that the figure ignores him, Zeng Yi becomes puzzled.
Could this person be deaf?
Zeng Yi can't help but think that way, then he starts running towards that person. Regardless of whether this person is human or ghost, he is already dead and not afraid of anything. He must ask that person what kind of place this is.
However, no matter how fast Zeng Yi runs, he can't catch up to the figure. The figure continues to walk slowly and unhurriedly while Zeng Yi tries to chase them. No matter how he accelerates, he can't reach the person, always maintaining a distance of about fifty meters.
Looking at the hazy and ethereal figure, sometimes appearing close but ultimately distant, Zeng Yi realizes that no matter how he chases, he cannot touch it, like a boundless time and space separates them.
Zeng Yi keeps chasing after the figure, but time passes by without any response from the figure, no matter how loudly he shouts.
Finally, Zeng Yi loses his patience and stops.
And when Zeng Yi stops chasing, he notices that the figure also stops and stands still.
This situation makes Zeng Yi's face brighten up. He takes a step forward, prepared to continue pursuing the figure, but then a phantom voice sounds.
"Do you regret it?"
This voice echoes directly in Zeng Yi's mind, like heavenly music, causing his consciousness to shake and his footsteps to pause.
In an instant, Zeng Yi comes back to his senses, his gaze fixed on the place where the figure was, but finds that the figure has disappeared.
Do I regret it?
This sentence keeps echoing in his mind, and Zeng Yi's gaze becomes blurred, hesitant, and struggling.
In that moment of contemplation, Zeng Yi notices that countless cracks appear throughout the gloomy world like a spider's web. These black cracks look sinister, terrifying, and dangerous, as if it's the end of the world.
The next moment, a crisp sound of shattering is heard.
This gloomy and desolate world, just like a mirror, instantly shatters. Zeng Yi also falls with countless pieces of the world, plunging into an endless abyss.
However, at this moment, there is no fear on Zeng Yi's face due to falling into the abyss. His gaze becomes trance-like, staring upward.
"Do I regret it? Do I regret it? Do I regret it?"
This dark abyss has no end. Zeng Yi's body keeps falling, but his mind keeps replaying that one sentence. He mutters incessantly with bloodshot eyes, his expression becoming extremely distorted, as if he has gone mad.
"Do I regret it? Why should I regret it? What am I regretting?!!!"
Zeng Yi, like a madman, becomes obsessed. With a ferocious expression, he screams and questions, but in this endless abyss, he receives no response.
Who is that figure, exactly?