The light bulb cast a yellowish glow over the cold walls.
"What, you're awake?"
As if sensing something, Bai Zhi turned around and saw Fireworks of Romance behind him, leaning against the wall with one hand clutching her head as she opened her eyes.
"I... ow, what exactly happened earlier?"
Feeling a dull ache coming from deep inside her head, Fireworks of Romance held her forehead with one hand and looked up in confusion.
She felt as though she had had an incredibly chaotic dream, with all kinds of perspectives tangled together. Everything had seemed so shattered. Although she had just slept, her whole head still felt dizzy and muddled.
"It's simple—the splitting property of [Extreme Darkness]."
After studying her complexion, Bai Zhi gave her a brief explanation of what had happened earlier.
Honestly, if Little Cocoon had not been there, with her flighty personality, who knew how many times [Extreme Darkness] might have swallowed her...
"Mm... so I was split into more than three hundred pieces just now?"
After hearing Bai Zhi's explanation, Fireworks of Romance blinked.
"More than that. If it had continued, the final number of slices would probably have reached two or three thousand."
Bai Zhi shook his head.
"Whenever a different thought arises in your mind, or you make a different move, the number of slices increases. There's no upper limit to this thing."
"Uh... then according to what you're saying, if we hadn't managed to leave that box quickly, wouldn't most of the slices have..."
"That's right, exactly as you think. That's what makes [Extreme Darkness] so terrifying. Where do you think the Monsters inside [Extreme Darkness] come from?"
Bai Zhi shrugged slightly and looked toward the end of the corridor.
"Those Monsters are randomly assembled from countless different types of slices. [Extreme Darkness]