Why can't humans do it too?

"Well, it's probably the kind of feeling where if you just stay here and don't take any action, you'll wake up in the middle of the night, haha, doesn't that sound weird?" Su Er chuckled a few times.

If the answer truly lies in the place Okan spoke of, then Sue must go and find it—he cannot accept a future where he will have to endure inner torment for the rest of his life, and Sue needs that peace of mind to verify the result.

"No~", Xin Ke's voice sounded incredibly lighthearted, "Anyway, Mr. Monkey is just that kind of idiot~, why would he find it strange about something that has already been verified?"

With a casual wave of her hand, the forest elf with light golden hair walked out of the kitchen while talking, without even picking up the tray that was placed to the side.

"Hey, your cake!" Although he didn't know how he had become an idiot again, Suer was already very familiar with the feeling that everyone else was just an ordinary person to this self-proclaimed genius forest elf. He simply picked up the tray full of cakes and shouted at Xin Ke.

"Let's leave it there for now," Xin Ke waved her hand without turning her head in the corridor. "How about we set the departure time for tomorrow morning? I need to prepare a few things."

"Huh? You mean...you're going too?" Su Er froze, his eyes widening in astonishment. "But aren't you...what about your research?"

"Anyway, there won't be any breakthroughs in the research on the Divine Essence anytime soon, so it won't hurt to put it aside for now... To be honest, I'm quite curious about the answer that the god of the moles gave me," Xin Ke's voice gradually faded. "An answer that a god would consider a secret might provide me with some new ideas."

Xin Ke's words were not a consultation with Su Er; they were more like a one-sided notification.

"..."

Silently, Su Er leaned against the edge of the kitchen counter, took a deep breath, and looked up at the white ceiling... He smiled inexplicably.

That's not bad, is it?

Choosing to venture into the unknown while bearing one's own mission is like a recurrence of that empty and desolate night from the past, yet it is fundamentally different.

This time, he was not alone.

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The situation was much better than Suer had expected, even giving him a kind of illusion—could I now walk sideways across the continent?

Hey, don't get too cocky!

Taking a deep breath of the cold air, and feeling the cold pain in his nasal cavity, Suer kept reminding himself.

Now he was fully armed. After leaving his home built in the abandoned city, everything outside was so familiar—the unchanging cold, the endless freezing wind, and the blood-red sky.

However, Sul did not feel much temperature change. The magical artifacts from the forest elves effectively protected him from the cold winds and stabilized his body temperature. The armor that he could not feel much weight on his body but made a hard metallic sound when it collided with itself also provided him with a great sense of security.

Suer felt he could take on a hundred of them.

However, he doubted that he would even have the chance to make a move. This confidence came not only from the forest elf who was going to accompany him, but also from the pink-haired little girl floating in the sky beside him.

Jibril followed.

"Didn't you say you'd recovered to the critical point? Leaving like this won't slow things down, will it?" Looking at the white breath he was exhaling, Suer couldn't help but turn his head and ask the Skywing.

According to Jibril, she's almost back to full strength, so shouldn't she be staying in the recovery room to speed things up? How did her sister, who's described as being very clingy, let her out?

Suer expressed his doubts about this.

“Mr. Monkey, you don’t need to worry about Miss Monster. You can’t see the spirits, so you can’t perceive this fact, but it’s very obvious to me,” Xin Ke said after glancing at Jibril and sneering. “The spirits in the surrounding atmosphere are being drawn into her body. Just her existence here is like a black hole devouring the spirits… Mr. Monkey, you should have sensed it too, that kind of oppressive feeling that is instinctively oppressive to fragile creatures.”

"Oh, I see," Suer suddenly realized, explaining why he had felt so heavy ever since he left the house.

"Hehehe, how could I possibly miss something like this~", completely unaffected by Xin Ke's words, Jibril chuckled and twirled in the air, saying, "That's a place indicated by a divine being! What could possibly be on that island~~ Hehehe, just imagining it makes me so excited~~ Hehehe~~"

Her facial expression control was absolutely abnormal. Jibril clasped her hands together and pressed them against her cheeks, her face flushed unnaturally. If Suer wasn't mistaken, this Winged Race member was even drooling—how did a perfectly good Winged Race member end up like this!

It's kind of scary.

"Just a moment~"

When Suer heard Xinke's voice, he found that Xinke's hand had reached to the side of his neck, and she bent down slightly, her beautiful face close to his. The fragrance of flowers became stronger, and Suer chose not to move.

No one knew what the woman had adjusted, but when she straightened up and stood a little further away, Suer felt that the heavy feeling from before had disappeared, as if she had lost dozens of pounds, and her body felt much lighter.

“I’ve shielded you from the oppressive feeling that Pokémon can give you, but that means Mr. Monkey has lost some of his instinctive warning signs,” Xin Ke said, stroking her chin. “Keep an eye on the gem on your wrist. If it turns red, it means that an excessive number of Pokémon are gathering rapidly and abnormally near you.”

"We should have been careful back then."

Chapter 168 The Land of the Past

Following Xin Ke's guidance, Su Er subconsciously raised her arm and saw a gem on the cuff of her clothes emitting a green light, indicating that everything was normal at the moment.

"Huh? Did this block out my influence?" Jibril asked, peering curiously at the gem and taking a spherical object from her waist.

"Jibriel's exclusive product! Portable repair room! With this, you can go wherever you want!" Jibril proudly said, holding up the seemingly transparent sphere like she was showing off a treasure.

So this is why her sister was willing to let her out?

Suer guessed so.

However, compared to the technology that made the originally huge repair room smaller and more portable, Suer felt that Xinke was more impressive. She was able to adjust Suer's equipment and block out that strange feeling after only seeing it for a short time.

"Heh," sure enough, the forest elf sneered again.

Xin Ke has always looked down on the intelligence of the Skywing race—well, it seems she has never respected anyone.

"Ha, in the end, isn't it just that this weed wouldn't wait any longer?" As always, Jibril retorted sharply to Xin Ke, hanging the sphere back on her waist and speaking with the same cold smile.

"What are you talking about? Mr. Monkey's matter is extremely urgent!" With her eyes slightly narrowed, Xin Ke told a lie without hesitation.

This woman had planned to slip away with Sull while the pink-haired Skywing returned to Abant Heim, but she was caught red-handed by the prepared Skywing.

'Ugh, it's starting again...'

Looking at the two beside him, well, the ladies started bickering as usual, and Su Er couldn't help but squint and complain in his heart.

Or is this the price of safe and worry-free travel?

He could usually sneak away at times like this.

"Well, cough cough, let's go, it's getting late," Suer urged, raising his voice and coughing a few times. "Let's go take a look at the old settlement first, let's hurry up."

He must get in the car immediately!

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Although it's called a car, Suer still thinks it's better to call it a small airship.

Even though it was somewhat inspired by the sports cars in Suer's memory in order to be novel, it is essentially something that flies in the sky. The fact that it didn't grow wings is already a result of Suer's strong insistence.

Even so, the edges and corners of this... flying car were still covered with vines and flowers. They were real flowers, and if Suer tried to pick them, an identical flower would quickly grow back in the same spot.

Without a doubt, it was designed by the master Xin Ke. In the beginning, only two seats were designed. In Xin Ke's own words, since the Skywing species have wings, they can just fly around.

Such a statement naturally drew strong protests from Jibril (physical). After some debate (physical) and sacrifices, the final compromise resulted in the flying car number two in front of us.

Flying Car One has disappeared from the debate (physics).

The two rows of proper seats eliminated the potential danger, and Sull specially named Mr. Flying Car No. 2 "Mr. Miraculous Survivor".

In short, it was quite tiring.

No longer did he have to struggle across the land; in fact, it only took him a few hours to reach the settlement where he had lived for several years. The powerful security forces also meant he no longer had to worry about other races that liked to start wars for no reason and roam the continent.

If Xinke can't beat them, there's Jibril. And if Jibril can't beat them either, she can call for backup. As a race skilled in spatial manipulation, Jibril can easily summon several of her sisters to help her in an instant if she wants to.

Suer always felt that even if this Skywing race fought to the death, he wouldn't call for reinforcements.

Standing at the entrance to that secluded path leading into the mountainside, a path he had traversed countless times, Suer felt a mix of emotions.

Yes, the old settlement.

This place has been abandoned by Liku.

This was the information reported by the forest elves that Xinke had sent. To be honest, when Suer first heard this news, he almost had a heart attack. However, he was relieved after hearing that there were no signs of an attack inside.

Liku chose to transfer voluntarily... Was it because of the last message I left behind?

Sull could only guess at this, and the unease that Riku felt about entrusting his safety to the enemy was unbearable, given the potential crisis from the orcs.

Using the light created by magic, Suer saw that the ore hidden in the iron rack between the stones at the entrance was covered with dust, indicating that no one had been here for a long time.

Feeling inexplicably complicated, even though the light created by Xinke's magic was enough to see, Suer still took a piece of ore from the iron rack, stuck it on a wooden stick, and dipped it into the babbling underground river beside him.

Soaked in the water, the originally translucent mineral gradually began to shimmer, emitting a warm orange-yellow glow, appearing particularly persistent in the magical white light.

"It's really cramped," Jibril remarked, looking around as her toes were only a few centimeters off the ground.

“…It’s quite spacious inside, let’s go in first,” Su’er explained simply, then held up his torch and walked into the depths of the path he had walked countless times.

Perhaps sensing Suer's mood, no one spoke during the rather long walk until they reached the end.

The wooden door, meant to keep out wild animals that occasionally wandered in, was half-open, and the spiked traps had been pushed aside. Through the gap in the middle, Suer could also see white spider webs.

Pulling away the spiderwebs, Suer and his two companions entered through the rising dust and arrived at the settlement's main hall.

In the past, when people had nothing to do and were afraid of being lonely, they would come to this square-like place to chat or something. The light from the minerals illuminated the place day and night. But now, there is no one here, and only emptiness remains.

Suer saw the huge stone pillar in the center of the hall and the pool below it, but the beautiful stones hanging from the ropes around the pillar were gone.

Those stones, representing the lives of those who gave their lives for the community, are the only remaining proof of those most venerable heroes.

'They must have been taken to the new settlement during the relocation, right?'

Suer pondered this in his heart. To be honest, this should have been good news, proving that everyone had not been attacked and had chosen to migrate. But for some reason, what lingered in his heart at this moment was an endless sense of loneliness.

Some things can never be recovered.

Chapter 169 A Feeling of Fear Upon Returning Home?

He once considered this place his final resting place, but that resting place has since vanished.

The empty cave, devoid of any human presence, is filled only with endless cold and gloom. Although it was a home built by our own hands, stepping into it again now feels like an adventure from the first time we arrived.

"This is where livestock are raised."

"So small~"

"This is where most people live."

"So messy~"

"This is where you take a bath."

"How shabby!"

"This is where books and documents are stored."

Where is the book?

"It's probably been moved... I guess."