Forest of Silence

Sun Qingyi looked at the wooden houses that were almost covered with moss and vines and wondered, "The Silent House can't be just these cabins, right? They don't seem to have anything special about them, except for being very old-fashioned, right?"

She implied that Anping wouldn't create such a thing just to make them feel the sense of the times. It had no meaning for practicing spirit, and it was worse than the previous arena.

Sun Qingyi's reasoning was not unreasonable. After entering the dream world, they could still use their soul power like in reality, but only a very small part of it.

Hearing Sun Qingyi's words, Xu Xiaoyan shook her head slightly and said, "These wooden houses shouldn't be it, but since they are here, they must have some purpose. Let's explore them separately."

As she said that, she picked a room and walked over. Sun Qingyi also chose a room to explore. After entering the house, they found that it was exactly as it appeared from the outside.

All kinds of furniture lay scattered everywhere, and it looked like they had been ransacked. Xu Xiaoyan picked a house whose sign was missing, and the cabinets inside had fallen to the ground. They were made of wood, and they looked rotten.

After doing some random research, Xu Xiaoyan discovered that there should have been some documents in these cabinets, but they were too old to find any useful information in them.

Since she couldn't find anything useful, Xu Xiaoyan had no choice but to continue exploring inside. When she reached the end, she found a dilapidated wooden door.

With a creaking sound, he pushed open the door. It was a place that looked like an office. The tables and chairs were made of wood that was not easy to corrode. Although they looked equally shabby, they were not as rotten as the cabinets outside.

Walking to the table, Xu Xiaoyan found something like a book spread out on it. She looked down and saw that the handwriting on it was blurred, and he could vaguely make out the words of a certain year, a certain month, and a certain day.

Xu Xiaoyan guessed that it might be something like a diary. Looking down along the date, she could only vaguely see words such as silence, night, danger, abandonment, and death. Most of the things were too hard to see clearly.

She stretched out his hand and tried to flip through the other pages, but there was no record that he could read. Unexpectedly, as soon as her hand touched the book, it turned into ashes.

She was stunned for a while, thinking that this was probably a clue set up by Anping, but she didn't know what the purpose of this clue was, which only showed some words.

Since she couldn't read the diary, she walked around the office-like room and found a box in the corner. After opening the box, she found a few gold coins with cat heads printed on them. Shr thought to himself that these might be the so-called cat coins that were lost, so she put them away.

After confirming that there were no more useful clues, she left this shabby place along the original path, and then went into the next room to explore.

After repeating this process, she didn't find any useful clues in the next few rooms, except for a few more cat coins.

At this time, Sun Qingyi also finished exploring the other rooms in the station, and the two met again. Seeing each other's dirty looks, they couldn't help laughing.

They burst out laughing, and then lowered their heads to look at their own clothes. They felt a little embarrassed. This was the first time since they were young that they were so messy.

After laughing, Xu Xiaoyan said, "Besides some gold coins, I also found something like a diary. The gold coins must be the cat coins you mentioned. The diary was badly damaged and I could only see a few words. There was no useful information."

Sun Qingyi knew it was her turn to share what she had discovered, so she said, "I can assure you that it's the same here. Apart from some cat coins, I found out one thing: there is Silent House at this station. It's called the Forest of Silence."

Suddenly remembering the cat coins, Sun Qingyi said, "Speaking of the cat coins, we should explore the starting station. Maybe we'll find something there."

Xu Xiaoyan understood what Sun Qingyi meant and shook her head slightly. "It's not a good idea to think like that. Not to mention whether we can get enough cat coins to go to other stations. Even if we can, we probably won't be able to handle them."

After Xu Xiaoyan's reminder, Sun Qingyi realized and said, "You mean, the later stations get harder, so we should start from the first one?"

Xu Xiaoyan nodded and said, "That's right. You've forgotten our current cultivation level. I remember there are ten stations in total, and only the starting station corresponds to the our level. I guess this design is to let us get familiar with our own cultivation level from the beginning, and then gradually increase the difficulty as we pass the levels."

She made this guess mainly because she felt that Anping wouldn't make a useless function during the promotion stage.

After listening to Xu Xiaoyan's analysis, Sun Qingyi nodded and said, "That makes sense. So what should we do now? Find the Silent House?"

Xu Xiaoyan nodded and said, "After all, the name of this station is the Silent house. We have to find this Forest of Silence before we start."

Since they had finished exploring the inside of the station, they walked towards the station gate. The station was not large, so they reached the gate quickly.

Looking out through the gate, they could only see a narrow road. It was not really a road, because it was covered with grass.

They called it a road because it looked very straight, and the trees on both sides were neatly arranged. It must have been like this because of long-term neglect.

Looking forward along the road, they could vaguely see a patch of green, which should be the Forest of Silence. Now that they had decided to explore, they didn't hesitate and walked directly on the grass towards the forest.

Along the way, the only sounds they heard were their own footsteps and conversations, and the chirping of some birds. Since they didn't encounter any danger, they hopped around, as if they were having fun.

After an unknown amount of time, they finally arrived at the end of the road, which was the entrance to the forest. There was a wooden sign at the entrance of the forest. Although it was very old and a little crooked, they could see the words "Welcome to the Forest of Silence" on it.