Just like the hunter's cabin before it, after this space collapse based on Vivian's dream, a certain area around Hao Ren remained a "safe zone." It was a grassland only a few hundred meters across, and at its edge, a space rift flickering with faint light had opened.
That space rift was the crack left behind after the Gate of Roses exploded earlier. Its form had changed, becoming more solid, and a faint line of light seemed to shine through it. Hao Ren knew that it was the passage leading to the next fragment of spacetime, just like the wooden door of the hunter's cabin before it.
"Passing through that door will take us to the next spacetime," Hao Ren said, pointing at the rift. "If there's anything else to do, get ready here."
"What could there be to prepare?" Heiserana shrugged. "We're entering this spacetime as consciousnesses. We didn't bring anything from the future with us, so the only useful things are the equipment we have on hand. What about you over there? Do you have anything to prepare?"
Faced with the little Bat Spirit's brusque tone, Hassu didn't get angry. He merely said indifferently, "Nothing. Let's go."
"Okay, okay, then let's go~~"
Lily was probably the person at the scene most eager for the next adventure. She couldn't wait to find out what the spacetime on the other side of the rift looked like, so she ran over excitedly. But just as she was about to touch the rift, her body suddenly froze for a moment.
"Freeze" might not have been the most accurate way to describe what happened, but Hao Ren truly had no idea what was going on. He saw Lily's body suddenly become covered in a layer of gray-white, just like those "images of the