"What are you doing?"
The Black Shadow blocked Mo Ling's path, asking anxiously.
"I need to pass through the rift..."
Mo Ling typed his thoughts onto the digital screen and sent them to the Black Shadow.
Upon learning Mo Ling's objective, the Black Shadow seemed extremely hesitant.
"These passages don't just lead to the rifts. They also lead to other book-worlds. Some of those worlds have dangerous environments, and others have their own locking mechanisms. Once you go in, it's hard to escape."
"The synchronization rates inside the rifts are different. Even time and space can become distorted. Even if you aren't harmed, you could go in for an hour and a hundred years might pass outside. Can you bear that kind of cost?"
"How do you know this isn't a trap set by that vine?"
"And..."
The Black Shadow stopped Mo Ling, listing one possibility after another.
"It's too reckless to just go in like this," it urged.
