Chapter 81: Paradise
Outside, the mountains stretched endlessly, like waves upon waves, overlapping as though they were ripples left behind after space itself had wrinkled and shrunk. Yu Sheng blinked, trying to shake off the dizziness from all the sudden stops and starts, and only then did he see the scene Foxy had described—the “never-ending mountains.”
The mountains rippled like a stone dropped into a pond, extending far out to where his vision failed him. Mist rolled between the peaks, shrouding them so thoroughly that all he could see were more mountains, repeating infinitely.
Yu Sheng frowned, staring at the repeated mountains in the distance for a long moment. Then, something clicked in his memory—he remembered the cafe where he had met Bai Li Qing. That place had also seemed to stretch out endlessly, repeating and extending to the very edge of his vision.
But something was different here. The cafe had stretched only in two directions—front and back. At least it had windows, something to mark the boundary of that odd repetition. But these mountains… no matter which way he looked, there seemed to be no end.
“Uh… Are we, like, stuck in here forever?” Irene asked nervously, perched on Yu Sheng’s head as she tried to peer over the ridges. “Are we really going forward?”
Yu Sheng remained silent, focusing his thoughts. He tried to recall the sensations when he first connected to this valley, and at the same time, he let himself feel the environment around them.
After a while, he bent down, picked up a small rock, and hurled it far into the distance. The stone flew through the air—and disappeared before it even hit the ground.
“Huh?” Irene gasped, her eyes wide with surprise.
Yu Sheng moved forward carefully, stepping to the spot where the stone had vanished. The air seemed empty, but there was something there—a feeling, a boundary he couldn’t see. He bent down again, picked up another small rock, and tossed it lightly forward.