An Old Acquaintance (Big Chapter Seeking Monthly Ticket)

True Ruins · Beneath the High Tower

He Ao's true body gripped the 'Echoes of the Past' in his hand and fully activated its power.

He once again tried to open a passage to the 'Echoes of the Past Ruins.'

At that instant, the entire world before him began to 'change.'

Unlike the previous attempts, the scene around him did not directly turn into a scene within the Echoes of the Past Ruins. Instead, it began to 'shatter' and 'twist' at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Central Control Room in the high tower, visible all around him, was covered in countless dense, tiny cracks like a shattered glass photograph.

Countless streams of black-purple light spilled from those broken cracks, illuminating He Ao's entire field of vision.

"Buzz—"

Accompanied by the whistle of an Old Train, a rather classical old-fashioned train burst out of the void and appeared before He Ao.

At the same time as the 'passage' opened, the surrounding impregnable space underwent an extremely brief 'distortion.'

Strictly speaking, this was no longer the Central Control Room beneath the high tower. It was a space 'overlapping' with the Central Control Room. This space was far less sealed off than the Central Control Room and was highly unstable, giving the Verola a chance to 'squeeze' inside.

As the Verola entered this space, the surrounding 'world' instantly 'shattered.' The background of the entire space became a scene of black and purple light intertwined like an abyss, while the original 'world' became fragments shattered within that scene.

He Ao leaped onto the front of the Verola, held onto the carriage door, and watched the bizarre sights around him.

He felt as though he were in a vast, distant universe, yet also within some twisted 'dream.' The fragments of shattered world-scenes