In a mountain depression.

Lin Xun was tending to A'bi’s wound when she stared blankly at him and suddenly asked, “Why did you save me? I just want to be free from all this. Life is too painful, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life hearing the news of my friend’s death...”

Lin Xun said casually, “Whether it’s for revenge or for changing the pain you’ve endured, you only have hope if you’re alive.”

“Hope?”

A'bi smiled bitterly. “For thousands of years, the empire and the brute bastards have been fighting on the Blood Kill Battlefield. Who can change this?”

“It will change one day,” Lin Xun calmly reassured her.

“Do you believe it?” asked A'bi.

Lin Xun looked A'bi in the eyes and said seriously, “You...