On the journey toward the Dark Forest, the group fell into silence.
Everyone was focused on observing their surroundings, keeping their lives in their own hands, and doing their best not to entrust their survival to strangers. Li Qingyuan could feel the intense, lingering unease among the group. It was understandable, really. Imagine putting your life in a stranger's hands, trying your best to protect that person while they slept to keep them from being attacked by a Nightmare, eyes straining to keep watch—only to find that when it was their turn to stand guard, they were half-hearted. Even if that didn't always happen, the possibility was directly linked to death, and anything linked to death was never a small matter.
"Trust is hard to build," she thought. "But it can be destroyed in an instant."
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