Confirmation

When they safely arrived at the clearing, Sunny looked at Jun Liang with a smile on her face. Such a cool and handsome guy indeed! Those sharp movements of his made her heart flutter and made her eyes twinkle with admiration. Along the way, wild animals started to attack them, such as boars, hyenas, foxes, leopards, and wolves, of course. But Jun Liang sliced them like nothing with his sword. It's truly a piece of cake!

This young man's physical strength is not really a joke. At her request, Jun Liang was dragging the dead boar's body so that Sunny could cook it at home. Meat should help him replenish his body. Stew sounds good, but she should probably make it into soup so it could warm the young man's stomach.

Knowing that he hadn't eat a decent meal even once made Sunny wants to feed him all sorts of delicious cuisine.

"So where are your parents?" Jun Liang asked when they reached the log house.

"Not here," she simply informed him. "Would you mind tying the boar here at the pillar so we can get rid of the blood?"

Jun Liang heeded her orders, but afterwards, he turned to her again, looking baffled. "Your parents are not here? What do you mean?"

"They are both dead," Sunny revealed. Her parents are really both dead. They died in a plane crash three years ago.

Jun Liang was silent for a while before he spoke again. "So who looks after you here?"

"No one. I just came here yesterday, but I don't remember getting kidnapped or being transported to this place. This log house isn't my home either. But there's no one here, so I made this house my temporary shelter for the time being."

"Wait a second, so you're not originally from here? I thought it was weird to find a kid in the Mystic Woods."

"Mystic woods? Is that the name of this forest?"

Jun Liang shook his head. "I'm not sure. I fell into a bottomless pit at the base of a cliff in Mystic Woods. But it's strange, I didn't encounter any demon beasts here, which is not right if we're really inside it."

Sunny blinked, clueless about what the young man was talking about. "D-demon beast? Are those some kind of monsters?"

"They are mutated wild animals that prey on people due to the fluctuation of spirit energy. They infested the northern part of Ying continent, where forbidden magical arrays are made by evil cults."

"Y-ying continent? Is that where you live?"

"Yes, aren't you from the Ying continent too?"

"No!" she answered hastily, with panic. The thing she was scared to confirm was something the young man had just made clear to her. "I came from a different place. There are no so called demon beasts there! No evil cults, no spiritual energy, no magical arrays, and definitely no cultivators! Brother, maybe you and I came from a different world!" Sunny finally announced her hunch.

The young man was silent for a while, thinking deeply. "There is a magical array about time and space, but it's one of those forbidden arrays that can't be used even by immortals. It's said that this array requires a large amount of spiritual energy, and whoever uses it would lose his or her flesh and bones as an immortal and would age like ordinary humans. Any information about those arrays was confiscated by the deities, though. So you can only have access to it if you go to the divine realm, which is quite impossible for the Ying Continent, which has never had an immortal that descends to heaven since the country was founded."

"What's got to do with me being here?" Sunny asked impatiently.

"Think about it, if you were transported here using those arrays, then it's not hard to believe that you're from a different world."

"But as I said, there's no such thing as a cultivator in our world, let alone a magical array."

"That doesn't mean one didn't make it if they have the power to do that. Maybe you weren't aware that there was someone like that near you."

Those words made Sunny think of those vivid memories she had forgotten. Blurred images replied in her head, making her confused again. Someone's heart stopped beating as the big sun approached the window. Was she the one who died that time? No, she was trying to revive that someone. Was it a family? A relative? She didn't know, but if that someone was the one who transported her, why, though? Is there something in that mysterious forest that she needs to attain? Or did someone just trap her in that place randomly?

Not noticing, tears flew down on Sunny's cheek, creating a turmoil of emotions in her heart.

"Are you alright?" Jun Liang asked. Even if he's blind, it looked like he's not insensitive to how others felt.

Sunny jolted and wiped her tears quickly, not wanting to be teased as a crybaby. "I'm fine. Let's get inside first."