A few days later, the three men returned after investigating what lay beyond the mountain.
"He's right... The only thing we can see past the mountain is nothing but endless desert. There's nothing but sand..."
This piece of news sent the others reeling into despair.
Li Mu was right. The group had already sacrificed more than half their numbers and yet, they were barely past the halfway point of the desert.
This was a journey where they were destined to fail.
"Everything he told us has been right..."
"So, do you still think we can't trust him?"
"But, everything he's said is different from what our elder told us... Our elder said that the desolated desert was formed due to the Ancient War, and that we'll find a huge oasis if we keep traveling east. It's been centuries since the war was over. The desert should've shrunk. How is it getting bigger?"
"Who knows? The question is, do we continue or do we go back?" Zhou Tian asked.
