No Sign of It (Part 1)

"Ban City was deep into the night."

Above the clouds, it was still eternal daylight. The environment, once shrouded by gathering clouds, had become even more unsettling beneath the blazing sun hanging high in the sky.

Snake Tongue sat suspended in the air, her spirit body growing ever more faint and insubstantial. Whenever a strong wind blew, her figure seemed to ripple and scatter, as though she might dissolve into the clouds at any moment.

Gong Qi stood beside Snake Tongue, listening to the faint, strange cracking sounds that came from deep within the rushing, icy currents of cloud vapor. After a moment, he smiled slightly. "The clouds and the sun appear to complement each other, yet they are separated by far more than mere distance. It was like that on Earth, and it is even worse here... Two unrelated time-spaces have somehow continued to interfere and collide. That has been a tremendous help to us."

Snake Tongue remained silent, while the cracking sounds grew ever clearer.

"These are the fluctuations transmitted through time-space interference. Good, very good!"

Gong Qi's spirit body was as solid as flesh, no different from that of an ordinary person. He reached into the clouds and gave them a light sweep, crossing paths with the tremors from deep space. "Under the interference and collisions, the originally concealed time-space structure has begun to reveal traces of itself. It is essential to observe and explore it through this. If we can catch signs of the time-space where Earth lies during this period, then once the collisions reach a certain intensity, causing the time-space structure to change and the confinement to loosen, it will be an excellent chance to escape."

"Escape..." Snake Tongue finally sent out a thought, faint and weak, yet laden with undisguised mockery.

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