She lowered her head and said, “I’m sorry, I’ve always been so willful and let you play with me…”

“I don’t want to cause you any more trouble… I can’t continue the next step by myself.”

“So, let’s just end it like this, and you don’t have to worry about me. I won’t continue.”

Looking at the petite girl with her head down in front of him, and recalling what she had just said, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and also stood up.

“… Let’s go or.”

Lily was slightly stunned, looked around at the vast ocean, and asked in confusion: “Where to?”

“Don’t you have a backup plan? Let’s go for plan C.” Xia Zhi replied.

After all, as the girl said, I promised to protect her.

So

“It’s okay even if I mess up.”

Xia Zhi lowered his head, looked into her stunned eyes, smiled and continued

“…Don’t worry, I’m here.”

……

PS: Two chapters in one… because it is not easy to separate the chapters, I just combined them together.

Chapter 1164: The Brave Division seems to be facing the crisis of being abolished?

“Whoa-!”

A series of screams were left in the sky above the edge of the world.

The sharp wind whistled past her ears, and feeling the weightlessness sweeping over her body, Lily could only hug the boy tightly, hoping to get some sense of security.

Fortunately, this process did not last long, and Xia Zhi soon brought her to her destination.

…The so-called plan C is to choose another route, climb up the vertical wall hundreds of meters high and directly cross it.

Xia Zhi skipped these troublesome steps and flew the girl directly to the top of the wall.

Although it was simple and quick, the process made Lily, who was afraid of heights, turn extremely pale, and she still hasn’t recovered.

and so……

Xia Zhi lowered his head and looked at the petite girl who was hugging his waist tightly.

Could you please let me go?

“Yes, yes …

Lily stammered, not daring to look behind her, nor letting go of the boy’s arms.

Even though she was now more than two meters away from the cliff behind her, she still seemed to feel that it was not safe enough and wanted to shrink her body into Xia Zhi’s arms as much as possible.

…If Xia Zhi didn’t know that she was really timid, he would have suspected that she was deliberately taking advantage of him.

“You’ve climbed a mountain before, right?” Xia Zhi asked.

I clearly told her that the top of the mountain she climbed before was similar to the one it is now. Not to mention that she had experienced it once before, why didn’t I see her climb like this then?

“That feels different!”

Lily retorted.

Although it was quite high, it was not a direct vertical drop like this. The visual impact is completely different, right?

“Didn’t you try hang gliding yesterday?” Xia Zhi remembered this and asked.

“In fact, when I was standing at the take-off point, I gave up on my own initiative.”

He is quite self-aware.

…Forget it, let her hug me if she wants. After all, the wind is quite strong up there.

Xia Zhi thought to himself and reminded him, “Be careful, you are so small, you will be blown away by the wind if you are not careful.”

“Don’t scare me!”

Lily complained. After his interruption, the tension in her heart eased a lot. After hesitating for a moment, she finally tried to let go of the boy’s hand, tried hard to resist the urge to look back, raised her head and looked forward.

…This is the place she had always dreamed of, where she could look beyond the four countries and seek the truth.

However, all you can see is the sky and the sea stretching into the distance. The sea breeze blowing in your face carries a salty scent, and it looks peaceful and beautiful.

Apart from that, there is nothing.

…Stardust, Batik, the destroyed world, these things seemed to not exist. If she wanted to, she could take a few steps forward and go to the four countries beyond the wall.

If it were in the past, Lily would certainly be very happy to see such a scene, after all, it proved that her previous suspicions were correct.

However, at this moment, she knew that the picture before her was undoubtedly inconsistent with what the boy had told her, and she had confirmed part of the truth to a certain extent.

Lily turned around and looked at the boy in confusion.

“Go up and try to touch it?” Xia Zhi tilted his head slightly and reminded her.

“touch?”

Lily looked at him doubtfully, hesitated for a moment, and tried to stretch her hand forward.

Then, she felt that she had touched an invisible wall…she didn’t know what texture to use to describe it.

It was neither hard nor soft, and it was not a solid object. Yet it blocked her hand, as if it was refusing her to move forward…

“Is this… the boundary of the world?” the girl murmured softly to herself.

“Strictly speaking, not really.” Xia Zhi replied.

The real boundary is not a certain entity, and it is impossible for people to touch it directly in this simple way.

What the girl felt was just a barrier that the sacred tree had specially set up to prevent people inside from accidentally entering the outside world, and to physically isolate things inside.

As for the method of passing through this barrier…it is certainly impossible to do it using ordinary means.

and so……

“Remember to hold my hand tightly and never let go.”

He gently took the girl’s hand and gave her these instructions.

Realizing what the boy was going to do, Lily took a deep breath, nodded slightly, clenched his hand, followed his footsteps, and took a few steps forward.

“…”

At a certain moment, as if suddenly waking up from a dream, the scene before my eyes changed.

If one had to use human language to describe what the girl saw at that moment, it would be… nothing.

All “existence” turned into “nothingness” at this moment

There is neither light nor darkness

There is no concept of space, nor the passage of time.

All the logic and rules that maintain the operation of the universe and the world, all the concepts familiar to humans, do not exist here.

Even the self cannot perceive

The only thing Lily could feel at this moment was the warmth from the hand holding hers.

She finally understood why the boy said that there was nothing outside.

Silence, darkness, cold… No, what the girl felt was something countless times deeper than these.

Because time does not exist, it is impossible to judge the passage of time. There is no beginning, and there is no end. The boundary between the moment and eternity is confused here, unified into a concept called “nothingness”, making it impossible to judge how long you have been here.

Is it one second? Or ten thousand years? Or…both?

A wave of fear rose in the girl’s heart. She subconsciously wanted to open her mouth to speak, but found that she could not make a sound.

Although I was in a world that should be countless times more “vast” than the four countries, I felt a suffocating feeling, as if I was claustrophobic and couldn’t breathe.

She could only clench the hand holding hers in vain, trying to hold on to the only remaining thing that could prove her existence.

As if realizing that her psychological endurance had reached its limit, a force came from his hand, pulling her away from this void.

The next moment, all the “silence” and “darkness” faded away, and the warm sunshine and cool sea breeze once again occupied her perception.

The scene outside the wall returned to its original peaceful state. With the invisible wall that had just been touched as the boundary, the outside scene was blocked from the inside as if by magic.

“Hu…ha…ha…”

Lily knelt on the rough ground at the top of the wall, breathing heavily, feeling the slightly cool fresh air rushing into her lungs, giving her a feeling of being reborn.

After a long time, she finally recovered, but she still held the boy’s hand tightly, unwilling to let go.

Xia Zhi had no intention of breaking free, he looked down at her and asked, “How do you feel?”

“Very novel…”

Lily panted slightly, her face still extremely pale, and she shook her head and replied: “But I definitely don’t want to do it again.”

As she spoke, she glanced at the vast world beyond the wall in front of her, with a trace of residual fear in her eyes… Compared to the towering cliff behind her, she found that she seemed to be more afraid of the “sky” outside.

Fortunately, the boy was still by her side, giving her some sense of security.

“Anyway, after finding the truth, the goal of the Brave Division has been achieved, right?” Xia Zhi asked.

Lily was stunned for a moment, then thought about it carefully…it seemed to be true.

The Brave Club was created for the purpose of exploring the secrets beyond the walls, but now that the original goal has been achieved, it seems to be of no use?

“What should I do next…?” She showed a hesitant expression on her face.

Xia Zhi opened his mouth and was about to say something, but suddenly paused, raised his head and looked towards the sky in the distance.

“What’s wrong?” Lily asked puzzledly after noticing the boy’s reaction.

“……No.”

Xia Zhi retracted his gaze and shook his head.

“Let’s go.”

He breathed a sigh of relief, held the girl’s hand tightly, and smiled again.

“…Let’s go home.”

…….

Chapter 1165: Rokuko cannot understand such feelings

“…!”

Above the clouds, the girl with long golden hair was startled and quickly shrank her body back into the clouds, pressing her hands on her chest, feeling her heart beating “thump thump” in her chest.

…Were I discovered just now?

Recalling the look the boy gave him just now, Rokuko thought uncertainly. He felt his cheeks getting slightly hot and his heart was still beating very fast, but he didn’t know how to calm down.

No, he must have been discovered, right?

The girl thought.

I just don’t know. Even though he found out, he didn’t come to find me.

Just like when I ran away shyly that day, he also didn’t catch up with me…

Thinking of this, the girl couldn’t help but recall the words she had said to the boy at that time.

“Ugh…!”

Her body trembled slightly, and her mind became a mess again.

She hadn’t felt this confused for a long time.

She had completely forgotten her past experiences, and this complex feeling seemed so strange to her.

She had no experience and didn’t know how to deal with it, so she could only let these emotions spread in her heart, interweaving into all kinds of strange emotions that filled her heart.

…Why did I say that in the first place? The girl couldn’t understand.

Sure enough, when I was in the heart-locked state, I was a completely different person.