“Life,” he said, without looking up, “is full of paths you didn’t know existed. 你 thought you were going on a vacation. But perhaps something else was waiting for you.”
He laid out the cards in a pattern I didn’t recognize. His eyes scanned the spread, his expression unreadable.
“The forest is safe, for now,” he said. “But the darkness… it is always lurking. And your connection to the林灵 is not something you can просто walk away from.”
My journalistic instincts kicked in. “Are there others?” I asked. “Other chosen ones? Other places like this?”
He looked up, his eyes meeting mine. A faint, enigmatic smile played on his lips.
“The world,” he said softly, “is much larger than you think, Arze.”
He didn’t answer my questions directly, not really. But his words, his demeanor, and the look in his eyes confirmed what I already suspected.
My adventure was not over. It had just begun.
The rain forest, the Lin Xiao, the Lim Ling, the fused sculpture – they were all real. And I was connected to them now, whether I fully understood it or not.
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