"Little Bottle Cap, look. The world is quiet now."
"Every disaster will pass."
"Nothing can stop hope from arriving."
"Time will roll ever onward, smoothing everything over."
Liu Di held the groggy Little Bottle Cap and stood silently.
Countless concepts suddenly flooded his mind, leaving his thoughts chaotic and tangled. He only wanted to remain motionless. Thoughts whirled through his head like a storm, yet they could only circle around one vague concept—time.
A breeze swept over the massive crater in the ground, making the air hum like some ancient clock.
The rising and falling low-frequency waves sounded like a hymn after a great battle, and like a majestic performance.
No one knew what had happened in that instant.
They only felt as though time had unbelievably reversed, and the tentacled monster had shrunk away and vanished.
Only the ravaged battlefield proved that it had truly existed.
People looked at the figure who had reversed everything, solemnity in their eyes.
"From now on, Sister Gu Fan can keep you warm."
Liu Di spoke softly and turned to look behind him.
The place where Gu Fan had been standing was empty.
Liu Di frowned slightly.
He instantly searched every nearby camera.
Although the junkyard had been reduced to scorched earth, the surrounding cameras could be used to reconstruct the movement of any object.
But under that neurotoxin just now, every living thing had been destroyed. Let alone Gu Fan, not even a single mosquito that had flown away existed.
Liu Di began to recall.
Gu Fan had been hiding within Little Bottle Cap's protection, yet she had vanished in that instant.
Liu Di saw two sets of distorted footprints near where Gu Fan had been.
An image inexplicably appeared in his mind.
Two figures, one in a golden robe and one