The fusion reactor hanging three thousand kilometers overhead began operating at a completely abnormal rate. The powerful magnetic coils securing the reactor core changed from dark red to bright yellow within seconds, then were swallowed by the white sphere of light at the reactor's center. A white glare dozens of times brighter than the real sun instantly filled the sky, casting a vast blank whiteness before our eyes.
Lin Xue's warning came only seconds before the reactor exploded, but it gave everyone time to react. Though nobody understood what was happening, when someone suddenly shouted something in an emergency, many people instinctively obeyed—just like how, if you suddenly yelled "Get down!" at a train station, someone would definitely drop to the ground. Of course, the police would pin you down soon afterward, but the effect of an "urgent information rallying cry" was very real. Lin Xue's shout made many people close their eyes at the instant the reactor exploded.
Except me...
Seriously, my reactions were slow. If this girl had given me a proper warning a few minutes earlier, maybe I would've managed to react.
My vision was still a field of blinding white, while terrified cries came from nearby. "My eyes! My eyes!" "I can't see anything!"
Sandora snorted coldly. A faint mental pressure blanketed the square, making the townspeople—who had nearly fallen into total chaos because of a dozen panicked people—shudder and fall silent. Only then did she say coolly, "Quiet. It's only temporary blindness."
After the mental pressure was withdrawn, the people around us had clearly calmed down considerably, though uneasy whispers could still be heard. I blinked, and vague figures gradually emerged in my vision. Despite all the enhancements I had undergone, flash blindness apparently still counted as a normal function of the eyes. I had