A God Walking Through the City

Countless questions crowded Xia Chong's mind. Before she could turn them into words and ask them, she suddenly saw that the single soldier and his "classmate" had already walked ahead as if nothing had happened, soon leaving her several dozen centimeters behind.

She hurriedly caught up, wondering how she should ask.

But in this world, Lu Xin and Number Two moved very quickly. Or perhaps it wasn't that they were moving quickly—the world itself was changing too fast.

They walked forward across the shattered floor. Soon, they pushed open a door that was only half intact and saw a black eye growing on the horizon, so enormous that it occupied half the world. Then they walked into that eye and arrived beside a lake.

They entered the bottom of the lake and saw an elevator. They took it downward, sinking until they arrived above the sun.

All around them was black soil and rings of blazing flames erupting into the air.

They passed through the rings and arrived in a forest filled with enormous, razor-sharp blades standing upright. They turned sideways and carefully threaded their way between the blades. On the smooth surfaces, they could see their own faces stretched into all kinds of twisted, bizarre shapes.

What was especially strange was that even after they had walked a long way away, their reflections were still looking at them and smiling.

Xia Chong experienced all of this and felt surrounded by twisted, bizarre sensations.

Everything seemed so surreal and grotesque, yet it was filled with a palpable sense of reality.

She even felt as if her brain had been stuffed into a kaleidoscope. In a short span of time, she had witnessed countless absurdities. Yet if she were asked to describe them, she could only feel how desperately inadequate language