The purple-robed woman gently nodded. She got up and was about to leave the boat with the young girl. Before leaving, she turned around and looked deeply at Wang Lin as if she wanted to engrave his appearance in her heart.
Just as she was about to leave, the purple-robed woman hesitated for a moment. The young girl in the emerald green dress had already left the boat and was using the attraction technique to fly.
"Senior Sister, let's go." The young girl's voice came from the rain.
While hesitating, the purple-robed woman looked back at Wang Lin, who was huddled in the corner of the black awning. His body was shivering from the cold. She gently walked over and slapped her bag of holding. A thick coat appeared in her hand. She gently covered Wang Lin with it and muttered in a weak voice.
"Is it really my previous life …" The woman sighed and turned around to leave.
The rain became heavier and heavier.
Rain fell on the river. In that pitch-black world, the boat with a black awning floated alone, giving off an indescribable feeling. It was the feeling of loneliness … The ripples on the water disrupted the waves of the boat. In the curtain of rain, the boat moved further and further away. In the end, it gradually disappeared from the place where the rain connected to. Only the faint light from the boat still faintly swayed in the darkness.
From a distance, the swaying light made the black awning boat look like a lonely leaf floating in a dream. Under the light, the boat gradually sailed toward the end of the dream … The sound of the rain hitting the boat continued, but Wang Lin was sleeping soundly inside the black awning.
The coat on his body had a faint fragrance that entered his nose and was brought into his dream.
"Xue Fei … Senior Sister Zhou … Wang Zhuo … Wang Hao … Zhang Hu …" Wang Lin murmured in his sleep. If the two women hadn't left, they would have been shocked to hear these words!
But at this moment, they couldn't hear it.
Wang Lin's dream was like another life. In that dream, he saw Xue Fei in the Heng Yue Sect and saw Senior Sister Zhou … On the Heng Yue Mountain, there was also a white bird that flashed in his dream … After a long time, the faint candle flame in the dark gradually extinguished and merged with the night.
In the morning, the rain stopped.
The sky gradually brightened, but the darkness had yet to completely disperse. This caused the world to still be a bit dark, causing everyone's mood to become gloomy.
An entire night of rain had caused the surface of the river to rise a little. Although it was difficult to see with the naked eye, everything was clearly visible on the riverbank.
The rainwater rushed into the soil, forming a large amount of silt. On the river, a boat slowly floated over. The boat was carried by the current and slowly approached the riverbank. Not long after, it was getting closer and closer.
Finally, with a bang, the boat sank into the mud on the shore, as if it had run aground, and stopped moving.
Inside the shelter, Wang Lin's head hit the wall of the ship the moment it stopped. He opened his eyes in pain and looked around in confusion. Only then did he slowly remember what happened last night. But when he looked around, the two women had already disappeared.
Thinking back to last night, it was like a dream. The figures of the two beautiful women lingered in Wang Lin's mind for a long time.
"Was it an illusion …" Wang Lin couldn't tell. When he looked down, he saw the jacket that was obviously worn by a woman and gradually became sober.
However, in his mind, aside from the figures of the two women from last night, there was also that very realistic dream. In the dream, he returned to the Heng Yue Sect and saw the two women there.
All of this made Wang Lin very confused. The candle on the side had long since lost its light. He didn't know when it had extinguished, but he could only faintly see what was inside the shelter.
After a long time, Wang Lin silently walked out of the shelter. He looked at the dim sky and the hazy surroundings. He couldn't see too far, but when the wind blew, he felt the coolness of the rain and smelled the fragrance of the earth. He let out a deep breath.
"Could it be that what you think about in the day is what you dream at night …" Wang Lin stood at the bow of the boat. After the rain stopped, the surroundings were quiet. This kind of silence was devoid of any sound. It was as if Wang Lin was the only person left in the world.
As he looked, a feeling of loneliness spread out from his body. Even Wang Lin didn't know why. He stared at the dark sky in front of him, and the feeling of loneliness became stronger and stronger.
The wind blew gently, causing his black hair to flutter behind him. His cyan robe was slightly wrinkled, but when the wind blew on it, it was unable to smooth out the wrinkles.
"It's a bit cold …" Wang Lin lowered his head. He didn't understand why at this time, the feeling of loneliness was so strong. It made him miss home, miss his parents, miss everything.
He also thought about the woman he couldn't remember … It was as if there was an invisible force gathering in the world and entering his body, causing two lines of tears to slowly flow down from his eyes.
"Why am I … crying …" Wang Lin raised his hand and wiped away a tear. He looked at the tear in his hand that was like a drop of rain. Unbeknownst to him, endless sorrow appeared in Wang Lin's eyes … "What's wrong with me …" Wang Lin lowered his head. He ignored the water on the boat behind him and sat down. In the silence before dawn, his tears fell one by one into the boat and fused with the water.
This feeling of being the only person left in the world gave him a very familiar impression. It was as if he had been like this many times in the past, silently walking in the world, silently savoring everything, looking back at his own loneliness in the midst of that loneliness.
Slowly, Wang Lin's vision became blurry. He could faintly see a bottomless abyss filled with endless suction force. This suction force was so strong that it seemed like it could pull down the sky. There was a crack in the cliff, and a lonely figure sat inside it.
It was also very quiet there. Only the sound of the suction force filled the air. The lonely figure's back was facing him, and he couldn't see its face. However, Wang Lin could feel the loneliness and sorrow from that figure's back.
In his daze, he even saw a young man in white. His white hair spread over his shoulders, and he silently walked forward in the starry sky. His back also seemed lonely.
He saw a lot, and the tears in his eyes gradually fell. That sorrow seemed to come from his soul, from the world. It was as if the world was his soul, as if it was a dream. At this moment, in this dream, he found a trace of sorrow in this familiar silence and loneliness.
Under the dark sky, Wang Lin looked at the surface of the water alone in the boat with the black awning for a very, very long time … until a cold wind blew by, causing his body to feel very cold. He subconsciously raised his left hand and pointed at the candlestick not far away. The candlestick's flame flickered and slowly lit up.
Wang Lin himself didn't notice this. His eyes were filled with confusion, and he didn't know where this sorrow came from. He looked at the surface of the water as if it would last for eternity.
In this silence, in this darkness, the burning of the flame slowly turned into a candle flame that gradually enveloped the surroundings. It flickered between light and darkness. Although the candle flame was weak, it gave off a sense of warmth as it struggled to burn in this world.
From afar, the figure on the boat with the black awning gradually gave off a sense of desolation under the candlelight.
As time passed, the sky slowly became brighter. The darkness from the sky, the ground, the river, and the ship began to disperse. Everything in the surroundings slowly became clear. The hazy black mountain in the distance also gradually turned green.
Only the rolling dark clouds in the sky slowly moved. An ink-like bird flew up from the mountain and let out an audible cry. It rushed into the rolling dark clouds and directly pierced through them. It flapped its wings and flew above the clouds. After circling a few times, it actually flew in the direction of Wang Lin.
Soon, the bird approached. Using the light from the sky, Wang Lin slowly raised his head and saw the white bird. It flew past Wang Lin and seemed to lower its head to look at Wang Lin. Its gaze revealed a sorrow that Wang Lin could sense. As he was stunned, the bird gradually disappeared into the distance.
As it left, the sorrow in Wang Lin's heart also slowly dissipated. The candle flame in the black awning also slowly extinguished and returned to its original state.
"What … happened to me?"
Wang Lin seemed to have woken up. He lowered his head to look at the tear that hung on his finger and had yet to fall. Under his gaze, the crystalline tear slowly fell from his finger.
After a long time, Wang Lin stood up. With the confusion and indescribable sorrow in his heart, he packed his belongings. He folded the woman in purple's jacket and placed it inside the book box. Then, he put it on his back and walked out of the black awning ship.
The moment he walked out of the ship, he looked back at the ship before turning around and walking forward.
However, just at this moment, a whistling sound suddenly came from the end of the rolling dark clouds in the sky. This sound shook the heavens and the earth. The moment it spread out, Wang Lin instinctively raised his head and saw an unbelievable scene.
Within the clouds, two rays of light that seemed to be able to split the heavens and the earth flashed by. One of the rays of light was covered in ripples, and when it passed by the sky above Wang Lin, it suddenly stopped and disappeared. A woman in blue lowered her head and looked at Wang Lin, who was looking up at the sky.
"Eh …" Confusion appeared in the woman's eyes.
"What is it, Junior Sister Liu?"
The other ray of light disappeared and a handsome young man walked out. He looked at the woman with a gentle gaze and asked softly.
"It's nothing. I think I've seen that scholar somewhere before …" The woman shook her head and turned into a ray of light and left.
"He's just a mortal. Let's quickly meet up with our sect and go to the place where the golden light came from." The young man lowered his head and looked at Wang Lin before he withdrew his gaze and left with the woman.