Chapter 388: Chapter 388 Are We Turning into Ghosts Too?
Ning Yue looked at the person before her, a complex emotion swirling in the depths of her eyes.
After a long while, she sighed and said, “Princess, why must you insist on guarding this place? It would be better to let bear this sin alone.”
The one addressed as Princess suddenly chuckled softly, tilting her head to look at her, “Ning Yue, you are mistaken. The one who insists on guarding this wretched place is not , but you.”
With that, she transford into a wisp of smoke and vanished within the palace.
Ning Yue looked at the empty palace, tears dropping blankly from her eyes as she murmured, “Am I the one who is wrong?”
Outside the city, Qi Yu and Li Mingjue were still roaming about in that underground palace.
With the faint light of a candle, they carefully examined the place.
“Apart from being able to tell that this place was once a palace and might have held people captive, there are no other clues,” they said as they exited the palace along the staircase. Qi Yu patted the dirt off her body and silently shook her head.
Li Mingjue glanced at the sky and didn’t continue the conversation. Instead, he said, “It’s getting dark. We should head back to the city.”
Qi Yu nodded, “Okay, this city is eerily strange. We better leave this wilderness quickly.”
The two headed towards the city gate, but after walking for a while, they suddenly realized sothing was off.
“Have you noticed that the city gate seems to be the sa distance away from us all this ti?” Qi Yu said, stretching out her hand and waving it around, feeling no resistance, she wondered, “That’s weird. There is nothing around to obstruct us, so why does it feel like we are still in the sa place after walking so long?”
Li Mingjue also looked around and indeed found nothing unusual.
He looked again at the city gate not far ahead; by now, they should have reached it.
Qi Yu was already panicked by this unexpected change. She shivered, goosebumps forming on her arms.
Wrapping her arms around her chest, she quivered and said to Li Mingjue, “We couldn’t possibly be trapped here, could we?”
Li Mingjue looked in the direction of the city gate and said in a deep voice, “It’s possible.”
Qi Yu let out a heavy sigh, “If only I hadn’t listened to that Ghost Envoy.”
It was too late for regrets now.
Li Mingjue saw her crestfallen face and shook his head with a slight smile. He then said, “There’s another possibility.”
“What?” Qi Yu looked at him, puzzled.
Li Mingjue pointed at the city gate and speculated, “Perhaps we are not the ones who are trapped, but the city gate is moving further away from us.”
Qi Yu was bewildered, “You an, as we move forward, the city gate is continually retreating?”
Li Mingjue nodded slightly, affirming her notion, “Yes.”
“What?” Qi Yu felt increasingly confused.
This was her first ti hearing that a city gate could move by itself.
Could it be that the city had grown legs?
Li Mingjue knew what she was thinking and interrupted, “The city gate is not running on its own. This place is an illusion, and what we can see entirely depends on what the creator of this illusion wants us to see.”
With this explanation, Qi Yu understood.
Still, she couldn’t figure out, “Who is the creator of this illusion?”
If it were the City Lord, why would she do such a thing?
Li Mingjue, however, shook his head and said, “The illusion probably wasn’t created by the City Lord.”
“Why?” Qi Yu looked at him with a puzzled face.
Li Mingjue explained, “That day, in the palace of the Imperial City, when I said that killing the City Lord would allow us to leave this illusion, there was not a trace of annoyance on the City Lord’s face from being exposed. Instead, she even said she was waiting for us to kill her. It seems that she also doesn’t know how to escape this illusion.”
Qi Yu nodded vigorously, “That’s true. If the City Lord were the one who created this illusion, regardless of whether we were right or not, at least her reaction wouldn’t be so indifferent. That day, after you finished speaking, I even saw a bit of anticipation in the depths of her eyes.”
After saying that, she sighed lightly and continued, “I don’t know why, but I always feel the City Lord is eager to leave this place, as if she would rather die than stay in this accursed place. Yet, for so reason, she can’t leave.”
Li Mingjue glanced at her with so surprise, “How do you know all this?”
Qi Yu shrugged, “I’m just guessing blindly based on my feelings. It’s not like I can really dive into the City Lord’s brain to probe her true thoughts.”
Upon hearing this, Li Mingjue chuckled and shook his head, “The more you talk, the more outlandish it gets.”
Qi Yu also laughed, “Since we don’t have any clues right now, guessing blindly is all we can do.”
Having said all this, she felt a little less worried and continued walking forward, muttering to herself, “I just don’t believe that I can’t enter this city!”
Li Mingjue stood in place for a while, watching her encouraged and spirited silhouette from behind, a light smile crossed his lips.
His Princess seed incoherent, but was actually very perceptive.
Her words just now were not blind guesses, as she had claid.
Perhaps, she really did feel sothing unusual, she just didn’t realize it herself.
The two of them continued towards the direction of the city gates.
This ti, the city gates didn’t keep retreating endlessly.
After walking for a while, they stood beneath the city gate.
However, they discovered that there seed to be a subtle change to the city gate.
When they entered the city, they were on a carriage and didn’t get a good look at what the city gate actually looked like.
When they left the city today, they only glanced at it and did not notice whether there were any inscriptions on the city gate.
Qi Yu raised her head to look at the large characters carved on the city gate and curiously read them aloud, “Luoyue City.”
Li Mingjue also looked at the elegant characters, his eyes slightly stern as he said in a deep voice, “A hundred years ago, there indeed was a country nad Luoyue.”
“What?” Qi Yu exclaid, “So are we now back a hundred years in the past?”
Li Mingjue nodded, “Possibly.”
Qi Yu stared at the huge characters on the city gate, her eyes wide with disbelief, “But aren’t we in the Ghost City? How did we suddenly end up in Luoyue City?”
Li Mingjue looked at her and explained, “Be it Ghost City or Luoyue, they are both forms of illusion. Where we are depends solely on what the creator of this illusion wants us to see.”
Although Qi Yu had heard him say sothing similar before, seeing it with her own eyes was a whole different matter.
She looked at the ancient and imposing city gate and couldn’t help reaching out to touch it.
But imdiately after, she discovered sothing even more bizarre.
Her hand could actually pass through this city gate!
“What… what’s going on?” Qi Yu withdrew her hand in panic, looking at Li Mingjue with a terrified face, “We haven’t turned into ghosts, have we?”
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