April 3rd, 9:00 a.m.
Another twenty-four hours had passed, and yet another human sense had been erased from the collective.
Some people had been eating, savoring their food one second and enjoying every bite, only for all taste to vanish from their mouths the next. It was like chewing wood, and many immediately spat their food out.
It was taste! The sense erased today was taste!
People quickly realized this and felt relieved.
Having taste or smell removed was still better than losing hearing or touch.
Ever since vision had been erased yesterday, people had only endured the past twenty-four hours by listening to audio. If hearing were erased too, being both blind and deaf would truly be the ultimate torment.
As for what would happen if touch was erased, no one had yet been able to offer a definite answer. Everyone knew it would be more terrifying than the removal of the other four senses combined, so they deliberately avoided thinking about it.
People had initially been glad that taste was what had been erased today, but they soon discovered that eating without a sense of taste was extremely unpleasant.
Everyone forced themselves to swallow canned food, then continued passing the time by listening to audiobooks and music.
Only a very small number of people could avoid this suffering through abilities, items, or certain special medicines.
Guan Tong was one of them.
At that moment, he was walking along a beach.
This was Lieming Island, territory of Yingqi Nation. By controlling Shadow Line, he had crossed the ocean to reach this place, then used Phase Shift to travel from Andai State to here in the blink of an eye.
The reason he had come to this island was precisely because Fragment 5 was located here.
Yingqi Nation's bombing was