Chapter 1 He Who Hesitates is Lost

Feng Bujue and the two beauties continued to walk across the plains for a while. The scenery before them still looked exactly the same: a green meadow, flat terrain, and distant mountains. But no matter how they advanced, the mountains didn't seem to get any closer.

When Feng Bujue looked back, he found that he could still see the stone tablet engraved with the three characters "Lingzhong Jing" (Realm in the Bell).

"We have to go back." After walking for a while, Feng Bujue suddenly stopped and said.

"Aren't we looking for the way back?" Lu Qingning replied. She thought Feng Bujue meant going back to Cang Ling Town. Wasn't that just a load of nonsense…

Lu Qingning had arrived here earlier than Feng Bujue and Si Yu, and she had entered this place in the early hours of last night, followed by more than three hours. Considering a person's biological clock, Lu Qingning was like someone who had just stayed up all night without sleep, and had been chased and on the road… So she was very tired now, and her emotions were also more irritable.

"I mean… back to the stone tablet," Feng Bujue said.

Lu Qingning turned her head, "There's nothing there, what are we going to do?" In fact, she also knew that no matter how she walked, she couldn't get away from the stone tablet, but she had carefully looked around the stone tablet a long time ago, and there was nothing that could help her.

Before Feng Bujue and Si Yu arrived here, Lu Qingning also appeared at almost the same coordinates as the two players when she first entered Lingzhong Jing, but she walked for a long time, and when she looked back, the distance from the stone tablet had not changed at all. After that, she walked and stopped, rested several times, and also went back to study the stone tablet, but to no avail, so she had to continue walking forward on the plain. Later, when she looked back for the nth time, she finally saw something different… two figures.

"That's the only reference point we can actually reach," Feng Bujue said. "Since we're in a stalemate…"

"Reference point?" Lu Qingning repeated with a slight frown. Obviously, she didn't understand the meaning of the word.

"It's another object used to determine whether an object is moving," Feng Bujue said.

"Huh?" The Deer heroine was even more baffled.

"Sigh… let's talk about it when we get there." Feng Bujue gave up explaining.

Although she didn't get a convincing explanation, Lu Qingning couldn't think of any other way. And in her opinion, since the other party was a couple, that Miss Li would naturally not object to Feng Bujue's idea, so she had no choice but to follow the two.

It didn't take long to return to the stone tablet, and the time was consistent with the estimated distance. Every time they moved forward a little, they would actually get closer to the target.

When the three of them stood under the huge stone tablet, Feng Bujue said, "Deer heroine, have you ever tried staring at this stone tablet and walking backwards?"

Lu Qingning's eyes lit up: "That's right… If we use this method…" She was stunned for a moment, "Wait, then what are we doing back here? We should have done it when we were far away just now…"

"I tried it, it didn't work." Feng Bujue interrupted her, pouring a bucket of cold water on her.

The Deer heroine was a little angry. She said, "Master Feng, are you making fun of me? You asked me after you tried it, and you only said half a sentence."

"Miss Lu, don't be angry, he usually likes to tease people like this, there's no malice." Si Yu smoothed things over for Feng Bujue at this time, not specifically to excuse him, but because she was afraid that the NPC would turn hostile.

"From an experimental point of view, the return result I personally obtained through a single behavior is not 100% reliable," Feng Bujue said. "So I thought I'd ask you for the sake of it."

"I don't understand most of what you said," Lu Qingning replied.

"It doesn't matter, what I said is not very important anyway." Feng Bujue simply changed the subject, "In short, I think this 'inability to get away' phenomenon is a very obvious hint. It's hinting to us that we're going in the wrong direction."

"Wrong direction?" Lu Qingning asked suspiciously, then instinctively moved her gaze to the other side…

Which was the deep valley that plunged straight down and was obscured by a cloud of mist.

"This stone tablet is like a boundary marker, and this…" Feng Bujue turned around and made a forward-pushing motion with his arm, "is the dividing line." He also turned his face to the sea of clouds that looked like the end of the world. "The place where we are at this moment is just the entrance to Lingzhong Jing." He spread his palms and pointed forward, "Which side do you think is Lingzhong Jing? This side?" He turned his head and pointed to the plains behind him, "Or does that side look more like it?"

"Are you crazy? Even if there isn't an abyss of ten thousand zhang (丈, a unit of length), it's far more than a hundred zhang. How can we survive if we step down?" Lu Qingning said with wide eyes.

Feng Bujue seemed not to have heard her words and continued, "When we first entered this place, we stood on the boundary line, but we all took it for granted that the plains over there were more like the so-called 'road' compared to the slanting cliff and misty valley behind us.

"But in fact, that's a dead end that can never be completed. As long as we get a certain distance away from the stone tablet, the stone tablet in our line of sight will no longer get farther away, which means that at that distance, no matter how we walk, we're just standing still."

"Let's talk about how to get down." Si Yu directly cut to the point.

"What can I do? Not to mention that I don't have ropes or anything, even if I did…" Feng Bujue leaned forward and looked at the white mist that was difficult to penetrate, "How long of a rope would it take to support us to get down from this place…"

These words were correct. For the players, the drop in elevation in front of them… To give an example, it was like an ant standing on the curved edge of a washing machine. Although the shape was not a completely vertical cliff, from the ant's perspective, the magnificence was conceivable.

"Alas… what exactly does Master Feng want to do?" Lu Qingning sighed and simply sat down on the grass. Even if she was a master of qinggong (light body skill), she couldn't bear it after not sleeping for a day and a night, traveling back and forth, and not eating or drinking.

Feng Bujue… answered very decisively with four words: "Leap of Faith."

These four words confused Lu Qingning. Her expression seemed to say, "Although I don't know what you're talking about, it sounds amazing."

And after hearing this, Si Yu first stared at Feng Bujue for two seconds with her usual cold eyes, then her eyes gradually took on a disdainful color, and finally, she opened her lips slightly and sarcastically said, "Are you planning to use a high-end, foreign, and gorgeous way to make me a widow?"

Feng Bujue's face was as thick as a city wall, and he was not moved at all. He replied calmly, "Hehe… Madam, don't worry, just watch me try." As he spoke, he took a step forward, "Oh, by the way, if the system hasn't prompted me to die after five minutes, you can consider following me down."