Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 259 - 149, 150. Return, Social Death, Mysterious Reappear World (Major Chapter - Subscribe Request)_3

Chapter 259: 149, 150. Return, Social Death, Mysterious Reappear World (Major Chapter - Subscribe Request)_3

The air suddenly fell silent.

With this silence, the two of them felt a bone-chilling, soul-corroding cold.

Upon further notice, they both realized they were actually barefooted and their clothes were very thin, just a single layer of light shirt.

As for the terrain, although the darkness made it impossible to see, a bit of groping revealed it to be a flight of stairs...

"Song, did you...find anything?" Su Mengzhen’s teeth chattered with the cold.

Song Cheng said, "Just stairs."

Stairs, leaving three choices: go up, go down, or stay immovable.

Su Mengzhen gritted her teeth and said, "Up."

Song Cheng nodded.

And at that moment, a hand reached out from the side and gripped his tightly.

Fingers interlocked, Su Mengzhen said, "Don’t get separated."

In the Reappear Calamity, both of them were ordinary people, and at that moment, they quickly ascended the stairs, passing more than twenty turns in one breath, yet despite moving upward, it always felt like the scenery around them remained unchanged.

Crack...

The sound of tearing fabric echoed.

Song Cheng bent down and placed the torn piece of clothing in a certain corner, then said, "Sister Su, I tore a piece of clothing and left it here, to see if it’s a ghost hitting a wall."

Su Mengzhen responded, then suddenly screamed, "Ah!!"

Her voice was like a bell falling into a bottomless dry well, producing a continuous echo.

After listening for a while, Su Mengzhen suddenly said, "Song, it might be a tower."

"A tower?"

Song Cheng was stunned for a moment, then said, "Let’s keep going."

The two of them held hands and continued to move quickly.

At each new level, they checked the corners for that piece of cloth, but the result... was none.

This meant that the cloth either suddenly disappeared or... the tower reached the sky, endless and infinite.

And as they continued on, the originally cold air became extremely cold, and even the ground became ’sticky’ to the point where ’lifting your foot could tear off skin.’

Song Cheng was fine, as this was his own Reappear Calamity after all.

He was only in "viewing" mode.

But his elder sister-in-law wasn’t.

Feeling the temperature in her palm dropping, Song Cheng suddenly bent down and carried Su Mengzhen on his back, the thin clothes eliminating any gap between them, a faint warmth arising.

Su Mengzhen was so cold that her whole body felt frozen, now wrapped around Song Cheng’s waist and clinging tightly to his neck, using him as a furnace for warmth.

At this point, both of them tacitly avoided mentioning anything else.

Song Cheng continued to climb upward in silence.

He climbed for an unknown length of time.

Su Mengzhen only felt a slight warmth at her chest but as if several layers of her back had been sliced by frost.

Darkness, cold, and even hunger led her to despair.

This time, she did not fall into the warped spirit of the evil spirit and lose her own consciousness.

But... exactly because of that, the despair felt all too real.

"Song... Song... I... I’ll carry you," Su Mengzhen chattered through her teeth, feeling that she and Song Cheng were alike, both undergoing trial; she should not take too much advantage of her brother-in-law.

Little Song had been carrying the burden for so long; now it was her turn to carry him.

She never saw herself as a woman who needed a man’s care.

As she spoke, she tried to break free, but Song Cheng did not let go, instead gripping her thighs resting on his forearms even tighter.

He jumped slightly to adjust Su Mengzhen higher on his back and then continued to move forward.

"What are you doing, Song?" The voice of his elder sister-in-law came, "Put me down!"

Song Cheng said, "Sister Su, there is a protector, it’s going to be okay."

The elder sister-in-law fell silent again, only saying, "Then don’t force yourself, if you can’t hold on anymore, let me carry you."

Song Cheng responded and continued upward.

One step, two steps, three steps...

...

As time passed, Song Cheng felt increasingly uneasy.

Was this really his Reappear Calamity?

Why had he no recollection of it?

The nature of the Reappear World is to "play" in sequence; even Song Cheng could not "fast-forward" it.

However, his elder sister-in-law was truly cold at this moment, yet he was not cold nor did he feel fatigue.

He was simply carrying his elder sister-in-law through the ordeal while also exploring.

During this process, his control over the Reappear power was slowly deepening.

"Su Mengzhen! Su Mengzhen!"

Song Cheng occasionally called his elder sister-in-law’s name, to keep her from completely falling asleep.

Initially, Su Mengzhen could talk; later, she could only manage a word or two; and eventually, she couldn’t speak at all.

Darkness, cold, inability to see, difficulty in staying alive... when these factors were isolated, they were not so frightening, but if linked with the Sky-reaching Ladder Path that seemingly had no end, they became incredibly torturous.

Time passed, so much so that Song Cheng felt as if his elder sister-in-law was almost merging with him, yet the stairs showed no sign of change; she was only cold and hungry but had not yet died.

After rounding another staircase, a murmuring sound came from behind Song Cheng.

"So... hungry, so... cold, so... dark..."

Song Cheng said, "Sister Su, hang in there a bit longer."

After a long while...

"Mhm, thank...thank...you..."

Song Cheng continued to climb the tower while monitoring his elder sister-in-law’s vital signs. If he noticed that she could not hold on any longer, he would immediately end the present Reappear Calamity.

As for doing so in advance, he would not.

Because he did not know whether it would cause his elder sister-in-law to fail her trial.

At the same time, he wanted to see "what exactly his Reappear Calamity was," as it differed somewhat from what he had originally thought.

Old Artist Song mimicked the image of "persistently climbing the tower," with breath as light as a silk thread, yet stubbornly holding on to Su Mengzhen tightly, with each step shaky yet extremely stable, occasionally stumbling but standing strong again to continue forward.