When the black fog surged up, Hao Ren and Lily were unable to escape in time.
It was almost inconceivable. Hao Ren's body and mind had been tempered and strengthened far beyond the human realm, so he had complete confidence in his current reaction speed. Lily was even more extraordinary. She possessed beast-like instincts, and every one of that magical idiot's talents had been invested in physical ability. She could be called the ultimate benchmark for agility and reaction speed in Hao Ren's team. Yet these two superhumans, whose reactions were astonishingly fast, were swallowed by the oncoming black fog without even having time to resist.
As the black fog swept over him, Hao Ren felt the space-time around him twist instantly. A bizarre sense of time stretching made him feel as though all his actions had slowed to a crawl. He watched helplessly as the darkness swallowed him, unable to move even a finger. It felt as though his mind had been severed from the real world—a completely unprecedented and terrifying sensation.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Lily slowly turning her head toward him. Every movement the Husky Girl made was absurdly sluggish, as if played in slow motion. She opened her mouth toward him, her eyes filled with utter bewilderment.
The next moment, a dizzying sensation of the world spinning interrupted all his thoughts.
The two vanished into the billowing black fog. Inside the ancient, mysterious structure, everything returned to normal in an instant. The detached reliefs and murals became whole again, the cracked walls fused back together, and after churning for a while, the darkness at the bottom of the structure vanished into thin air, as if no spatial rift had ever existed there.
Starlight from the distant reaches of space shone through