Terrible news! My deskmate's first chapter is gone!

The darkness slowly receded.

The black vortex didn't have the strong pulling force it appeared to have. Instead, it was like a tunnel, and the two of them slid down it like they were on an extremely long slide.

Not long after, Chen Xi and the other person who had jumped into the black vortex landed on the ground with a "plop" and slowly opened their eyes.

"This is......"

The scene before him made Chen Xi's pupils shrink slightly.

Before jumping, Chen Xi had imagined many possible scenarios, but the scene before him was not any of those he had envisioned.

Before me lay a world of pure white.

But it's not the kind of snowy white that comes from when it snows in winter.

Instead, it's as white as a blank sheet of paper!

This is a world blank slate!

How could this be such a place?

Chen Xi never expected this answer.

According to Chen Xi's understanding, the blank world is a world that is restarting or has begun to restart.

That is, the world outside the Black Tower.

Behind this gate of snakes and men, there may well be a cycle of reincarnation or a great treasure.

It's a pity the class monitor couldn't get in, otherwise we could have explored the area further.

"Um?"

Chen Xi's eyes narrowed slightly.

Although the distance was far, with Chen Xi's current eyesight and the vast, unobstructed world, he could see a tower in the far distance!

A white tower!

"The White Pagoda?"

"Does a white pagoda really exist in this world?!"

This wasn't the first time the concept of the White Pagoda had appeared in Chen Xi's mind.

Black and white are inherently opposed, so the White Tower's first reaction is naturally that it is the Black Tower's enemy.

Could it be... that this is why Paradise Lost is preventing us from entering?

"Chen Xi, something seems a little different here."

Lin Fan suddenly spoke, his eyes filled with doubt.

Lin Fan had already learned from Chen Xi that the outside world had become a blank slate. He was surprised, but not that surprised.

As for the White Pagoda, he had never heard of it before.

"Are you saying the cold we felt has disappeared?"

"Although it doesn't pose much of a threat to me, it's definitely a good thing."

Lin Fan shook his head:

"It's not about that, Chen Xi, but rather that the 'heaven' here seems a bit different from the outside world. Those pieces of information you mentioned before that would be deleted by the Black Tower..."

"You can communicate freely here!"

After finishing his sentence, Lin Fan revealed some secrets that Chen Xi had previously mentioned that couldn't be told.

Just as Lin Fan had expected, this information was not deleted after it was spoken, and Lin Fan still remembered it and repeated it.

"It seems this place is indeed quite extraordinary."

"Could it be a blind spot of the Black Tower, a lawless zone?"

Chen Xi thought this way, but soon he refuted himself.

"However, it's also possible that this is outside."

"We're out."

"Outside?" Lin Fan murmured. "When you say 'outside,' do you mean the world we used to live in?"

Chen Xi nodded:

"That's right, I'm not just making this up."

"First, this is a blank slate world, and before I entered the Black Tower, the world had already begun to become blank slate. If nothing unexpected happens, the outside world should look like this now."

"Secondly, is it possible that whitewashing will also whitewash the Black Tower?"

"Based on the information I have, once the world is completely blank, the Black Tower will close. Only those outside the Black Tower will know what the world will look like after it is completely blank, while those inside the Black Tower will never know."

"Therefore, I have reason to suspect that this black tower is the black tower from our original world."

"Third, eternal equidistance is not a passive ability; I feel it's more like a protective mechanism."

"Protection mechanism?"

"What are you protecting?"

"I don't know either." Chen Xi couldn't answer Lin Fan's question either, but she put forward this concept: "As I said before, I went to the previous cycle of reincarnation, and the Black Tower there did not have the mechanism of eternal equidistant distance."

"In other words, this is not an instinct of the Black Tower."

"As for whether it's actually meant to protect anything, I don't know."

"I can only speculate that perhaps after turning white, it lost its power of eternal equidistant distance, which is why it is so far away from us instead of the fixed distance it used to be."

"Fourth, the fact that we are no longer attacked by elements suggests that we have left Paradise Lost."

"That makes sense," Lin Fan commented after listening quietly. "In that case, let's go take a look."

"This white tower is like a lighthouse in the sea, which can be considered as pointing us in the right direction. Otherwise, we really wouldn't know what to do after we came in."

Chen Xi nodded, looking towards the White Pagoda, her calm eyes seeming to be deep in thought.

If this place is truly outside the Black Tower, then could I possibly meet Wang Sanjin and the painter?

After saying that, he looked up at a black hole that looked like a cave, which was where they had come down.

The two had been out for a while, but the black hole hadn't disappeared yet. If it didn't disappear, wouldn't it be the same as Lin Fan's situation last time?

However, since neither of them had been attacked by elemental forces, Chen Xi couldn't be 100% sure if he was outside the Black Tower.

The three exclusive forbidden items remained completely silent after entering, as if they were merely a key to open a door.

"Don't overthink it." Lin Fan knew that Chen Xi was someone who would try to think through the whole process beforehand, so he patted Chen Xi on the shoulder. "There's no need to be so anxious."

"Just do it!"

"It's nothing more than a joke! Stop thinking about saving the world all the time."

"If we can't save it, then let the world die!"

"Hahaha!"

"That's true." Chen Xi shook her head slightly, adjusted her mindset, and slapped Lin Fan's thick, steel back with a "smack."

"Well said, if you can't win, you die!"

"It's no big deal!"

"Come on, my deskmate, let's go take a look at this white pagoda and see what it is!"