After midnight

When Su Ziling woke up, he stared blankly at the thing covering him for a while, then he remembered that it was the roof of the green tent. The memory before he fell into the deep pit flashed through his mind, and he knew that he was rescued.

"Hiss..." Su Ziling gasped in pain. When his memories became clear, the pain on his skin came in waves.

He turned his head to the outside, and saw a little white light in the blue sky, which was probably the dawn of the next day. Using this little light, he identified that it was Yin who was sleeping outside the tent with his head buried in his arms.

His body was stiff and uncomfortable, and all his senses seemed to be opened, itchy and prickly. Su Ziling moved his body with difficulty, but he didn't expect that this tiny movement would wake up Yin.

"Are you awake?" Yin quickly came over and asked him.

"...Yeah." Su Ziling wanted to answer but it seemed like something was stuck in his throat and he could only make some rough nasal sounds.

"It's okay, you just slept too long, you'll be fine after a while. How are you? Do you feel better? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Yin asked several questions in a row and even looked a little flustered, which made Su Ziling inexplicably want to laugh, so he pursed his lips and smiled.

"You can still laugh, which means you're fine."

Su Ziling cleared his throat and spoke: "It's okay, Brother Yin, I just feel a little pain. Thank you."

"Then you should thank An Yan more. It was that guy who found you and carried you back. He was also the one who kept watch over you. You just fell asleep not long ago."

"I understand. I will." Although it still hurt a little, Su Ziling felt that a place called heart in his body became full and warm.

"Okay, then you can have a good rest, and I can go to sleep peacefully. We have to set off again when the sun rises."

"it is good."

Yin yawned, groped his way to his own tent, lay down and fell asleep.

Maybe he slept too long. Su Ziling wanted to continue sleeping but he just stared blankly and couldn't fall asleep. All kinds of thoughts were surging in his mind. He didn't know if An Yan would be angry, and if his parents would worry about him. They should have noticed that he was missing. What would the future be like? Could he handle it?

As Su Ziling was thinking about this, he fell asleep again when daybreak was about to break.

"Su Ziling." He opened his eyes and saw a hazy figure. It was An Yan.

Su Ziling became much more sober after just one look at him. He subconsciously tried to sit up but accidentally pulled the wound, causing him to grimace in pain.

"Be careful." An Yan reminded him in a low voice when he saw him doing something stupid.

Su Ziling nodded, tentatively stood up slowly and then walked out of the tent.

"Are we leaving?" Su Ziling asked him.

"Yes, Yin and I have almost finished cleaning up."

"Oh, then I..."

"Let Yin clean up yours. I'll change the medicine for you."

"Oh." So Su Ziling stopped trying to be stubborn and followed An Yan obediently to change the medicine.

Su Ziling felt a little embarrassed when An Yan lowered his head and changed the dressing carefully. He scratched his head and said hesitantly: "Um...thank you this time."

"Yeah." An Yan continued to change the dressing without stopping or looking up at him.

Sure enough! An Yan was angry. Although An Yan didn't say anything, Su Ziling could feel it.

Su Ziling apologized again sincerely. "I'm sorry, An Yan, I won't do this again next time."

"Okay." An Yan looked up at him, and Su Ziling's figure was clearly reflected in his dark eyes.

At noon, the vast lake appeared before Su Ziling's eyes. The lake was green like emerald, and when the breeze blew, it was rippling and sparkling.

"There are three islands around here." An Yan said.

Su Ziling looked as he was told, and indeed he could see three islands from east to west.

"The one on the east is closest to us, with a straight-line distance of only about five or six hundred meters. The one in the middle is closest to the Sand City in a straight-line distance, but it is the farthest from us, about one thousand meters away. And the one on the far right, in the southwest direction, is about seven or eight hundred meters away." An Yan said, pointing to the direction of each island.

"The southeast direction is not possible. Su Ziling is injured and we can't go that far. Let's go to the nearest one." Yin said.

Su Ziling listened silently without trying to show off, but he felt very sorry. He didn't want to be a burden to others.

An Yan thought silently for a while, then slowly raised his hand and pointed to the southwest. "Let's go there."

Su Ziling nodded in agreement, and Yin said nothing more.

"You guys wait here for a moment, I'll take the things over first." An Yan said as he pulled all the luggage onto himself, then walked to the shore, stood for a moment, and then jumped into the water.

Su Ziling exclaimed, and just as he was about to call his name, he saw An Yan standing steadily on the water. Su Ziling looked more carefully and saw that An Yan was standing on a thin piece of ice. An Yan walked forward step by step, and the thin ice slowly extended forward. An Yan walked on it as if he was walking on solid land.

Su Ziling was startled, while Yin Ze was very interested.

After An Yan gradually walked away, Yin turned around and said to Su Ziling seriously: "Su Ziling, you have to adapt to this world quickly. Although An Yan is protecting you, you have to be extremely careful. The first thing you have to do is to adjust your attitude and be cautious about your current situation."

"I know, I will be careful."

"I'm glad you know." Yin looked at him for a while before speaking slowly.

"Brother Yin, why don't you tell me about abilities?" Su Ziling changed the subject. He didn't understand this world, let alone abilities.

"Okay. Regarding abilities, the first thing you need to know is that not everyone has abilities, and abilities vary in strength. After you came to this world, if I'm not mistaken, everyone you met was an ability user, but this world is far from being like this. People with abilities are only a minority, and those with strong abilities are even fewer."

"Is that so? What about ordinary people like me?"

"I'm not sure. Maybe they were leading a normal life and doing normal work, or maybe they could easily have died. I don't know whether they were unlucky or lucky."

Yin's words were so profound. Su Ziling rarely thought about such a heavy topic. Injustice seemed to exist in every world, but the gap between people in this world seemed to be inherently difficult to cross.

Su Ziling looked up at An Yan, who was walking towards him from the other side of the lake. What about An Yan? He was the strongest, but now he was on the run.

Seeing that Su Ziling's attention was on Anyan, Yin smiled slightly and waited for Anyan to come over.

An Yan came over quickly, and after he got ashore, he stood between the two of them, and then grabbed Su Ziling and Yin's hands at the same time. When their skin touched, Su Ziling felt something warm quickly penetrate into his body.

"Get ready to go. Pay attention when walking, follow my pace, and be sure to keep your balance." An Yan reminded them and pulled them ashore.

Su Ziling held his breath and was nervous. He watched the ice below his feet gradually expand, and he actually stood on the water without falling. His heart was pounding, and he followed An Yan and walked forward carefully.

The calm lake was not really calm. The slightest ripples made Su Ziling's body shake uncontrollably. If An Yan hadn't held his hand, it would have been difficult for him to stand still. Especially since An Yan was still paying attention to the speed of the water and the ups and downs of the wind.

After Su Ziling had safely walked a long distance on the water, he realized that An Yan was walking much slower with him and Yin than he was. He secretly turned his head to see how far they had walked.

He didn't expect that the moment he turned around, his body suddenly sank and fell into the lake.

An Yan did not expect this, and did not have time to take any measures. The moment Su Ziling fell into the lake, the three of them fell into the water at the same time.

"Help!" Su Ziling thrashed about in panic. He couldn't swim and gradually struggled and drowned in the water.

Just when Su Ziling was about to suffocate and thought he was going to die, something was wrapped around his waist, and he was quickly pulled up without waiting for him to resist. As soon as he emerged from the water, Su Ziling breathed heavily, and when he calmed down a little and wiped his face with his hand, he saw An Yan, who had fallen into the water with wet hair, standing close to him.

An Yan grabbed his arm and hugged his waist, and swam forward with him. Yin was almost swimming to the other side at this time.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it."

"Well, take a deep breath."

When An Yan dragged Su Zi Ling to the shore, Yin had already changed his clothes and quickly cleaned himself up. He threw a backpack to An Yan and said, "Go change your clothes and take a rest. I will take care of Su Zi Ling first."

An Yan said nothing, obediently took the backpack and walked away.

Yin symbolically kicked Su Ziling, who was lying on the ground gasping for breath, and said, "Hurry up and change your clothes. The wound cannot get wet."

Su Ziling struggled to get up and did as he was told. When he changed his clothes and came out from behind the bushes, Yin was waiting for him as expected. He held the medicine in his hand and applied it to him. "Su Ziling, shall we continue talking about the ability we just talked about?"

Knowing that he had gotten into trouble, Su Ziling nodded obediently.

"I just said that not everyone has abilities, and there are differences in strength between abilities, right? Now I want to tell you that there are ordinary abilities and pure abilities, and every ordinary ability can evolve into a pure ability. The process is from controlling intensity to controlling purity. Take me for example, my ordinary ability is lightning, but unfortunately, I can't use my pure ability for the time being."

"Ah? Brother Yin, you are so strong, but you still can't use pure power?"

"Some people never use their pure abilities in their entire lives. Don't interrupt me, I haven't finished yet."

"Vertically, abilities are divided into ordinary abilities and pure abilities, and horizontally, it is the transfer of abilities. Just now, An Yan was transferring abilities to you and me."

Su Ziling nodded, suddenly realizing.

"Where is An Yan?" When Su Ziling mentioned An Yan, he realized that An Yan had not come back yet.

"He should rest somewhere else. Using the ability, passing the ability is not as easy as you think."

Although Yin's words did not contain any blame, Su Ziling lowered his head in shame, feeling a little embarrassed.

Seeing that he lowered his head and kept silent, Yin continued to talk. "I remember I told you that the power of the Son of God is water, but you should have noticed that what condensed under his feet was ice. We use our hands to release our power instead of other parts such as our feet. Moreover, An Yan also passed his power to you and me at the same time."

Yin further told Su Ziling how difficult what An Yan had just done was.

"Power cannot be transferred casually. It's okay for people like you who don't have power, but it's very difficult for us power users. You can't internalize the power that others pass on to you. In other words, once others stop passing on power, you can't receive any power. That's why you fell into the lake as soon as An Yan let go of your hand. Moreover, we power users generally never transfer power to each other, because the person receiving the power has to bear a great risk. Transferring power is also called destruction. Do you understand?"

Su Ziling nodded and then shook his head.

"Let me put it this way. A person's ability and individual are combined into a whole. When someone else's ability invades your body, in order to protect yourself from malicious attacks, your own ability will resist. Therefore, ability users generally never transfer power to each other. Unless, you want to destroy someone else's ability."

"Then how did you and An Yan do it?" Su Ziling understood this time and asked.

"Because," Yin took a deep breath. It was unknown whether it was Yin's action or Su Ziling's keen intuition, but Su Ziling was holding his breath waiting for what Yin was going to say next.

"I have to convince myself to trust him and accept him wholeheartedly, even if it means exposing myself to him and entrusting my life to him!"

Su Ziling's pupils instantly dilated, and he finally understood why Yin told him all this. Because in Yin's eyes, Su Ziling still had no idea about this escape.

Su Ziling was really careless. He didn't know that escaping was like a calm lake. It looked calm, but under the lake, there were turbulent currents and dangers everywhere. An Yan and Yin never let down their guard. They were always waiting for the storm to come.

After the epiphany, negative emotions followed. The cold wind blowing from the lake made Su Ziling feel chilly, and he couldn't help but stroke his arms, which were covered with sweat.

"Actually, you don't have to think too much. After all... you are out of touch with this world." Yin said hesitantly.

"I know, thank you Brother Yin."

Su Ziling knew that Yin was trying to comfort him, but what he did was not good enough, especially compared to Yin. The moment Yin made up his mind to accept An Yan, the courage and awareness he possessed were far beyond Su Ziling's reach.

Without these, it would be difficult for Su Ziling to move forward in the future.