Origin of the Ruined World

Time regressed to over an hour earlier.

"This place really doesn't seem like anywhere decent, no matter how you look at it..."

At the center of a Ruined Hall, Bai Zhi sat back on a Sofa with his feet propped atop the battered Coffee Table before him, tilting his head up toward the sky.

Like everyone else, he had arrived in this Dark Ruined World when darkness fell.

This Dark Ruined World was filled with Hungry Monsters devouring one another. Aside from their advantage in numbers, these monsters mutated from humans were extremely weak, yet their numbers were inexhaustible.

Li Changsheng had once wondered about that. He simply could not understand where these countless monsters came from, nor what purpose their existence served.

—But in truth, the answer to the first question would have been obvious if he had simply looked up at the sky.

Rain was a common weather phenomenon in everyday life, and probably few people had never seen it. But Bai Zhi was certain that very few had ever witnessed the sight before him.

...People were falling from above their heads.

In the literal sense.

As if it were raining, thousands upon thousands of panicked humans fell from the sky. They rapidly mutated into Hungry Monsters midair, then plunged into the ruins below to slaughter one another.

No... Or rather, the dome above their heads could no longer be called the sky.

The night vision provided by [Pluto], along with its enhanced long-distance vision, allowed Bai Zhi to see the scene overhead with remarkable clarity.

Far above their dome was an immense Wriggling Muscle Mass with a revolting coloration. It expanded and contracted in a highly regular rhythm as time passed. The mass covered the entire sky, stretching endlessly in layered waves toward every direction, wrapping the