Ever since entering the energy sector of this massive platform, I had kept moving roughly upward. By now, I had crossed two-thirds of the area, which had been mangled beyond recognition, and finally found a clue that might be connected to the accident: an inconspicuous hole in an isolation hatch of the energy compartment.
This hatch was a backup exit leading to the central connecting passage. According to the platform schematics, there should have been a huge vertical corridor behind it. In other words, this door was actually installed on the "ceiling." But the platform had originally possessed independent gravity fields throughout its interior, while this area now had no gravity field at all, so there was no point fussing over whether a door was installed in the ceiling. I passed through the hole in the hatch, and the sight beyond was exactly what I had expected: the corridor had been torn to shreds, and through those devastating cracks, I could directly see the enormous mechanical structures that had once been sealed away. Equipment and pipelines submerged in the Psionic Sea of Fire silently "burned." Lightning Clusters spanning dozens of meters continuously burst from the nearest Crystallized Cables, licking at the space around me. Energy sparks constantly happened to pass through the corridor's cracks, forming a vast flashing Thunder Web ahead. It looked terrifying, but luckily, I was the Undying Taoist Priest—I simply tilted forward and flew on. Those charged "electric" webs didn't hurt at all when they hit me... They were a little itchy.
I rummaged through the limited amount of advanced scientific knowledge in my head and instinctively felt that something here did not make sense. In theory, I had already left the blast center—the former site of the Psionic Energy Reactor. The farther forward I went, the