Thick black clouds roiled and surged, while a massive waterspout rising from the sea pierced into the clouds.
The sky suddenly darkened, as if fierce winds and torrential rain were about to arrive.
On the bridge, people opened their car doors and stepped out, staring at the scene in stunned disbelief.
Within the clouds, blue lightning serpents darted everywhere, clinging to the waterspout and creating a spectacular sight.
"Am I dreaming?" someone muttered, staring at a scene that could only be seen in movies.
Most people were dumbstruck, but a few with stronger nerves actually ignored the continuously flashing lightning in the sky and took out their phones to film the astonishing lightning-wreathed waterspout.
There were an enormous number of people trapped on the bridge. As it happened, a popular female outdoor streamer from a live-streaming platform was there. She held a selfie stick and foolishly pointed it at the scene that looked like the end of the world.
Her live stream had several million viewers. The barrage of comments that had originally covered the entire screen suddenly vanished.
Every viewer watching the stream could only stare blankly at the terrifying natural spectacle, just like the people on the bridge.
For a time, the wondrous scene visible from Friendship Bridge spread across the internet at an astonishing speed.
What they could not see was that the waterspout was hollow inside. The way the vortex had formed, the way the waterspout had shot out of it, and even the lightning currents clinging to its surface all violated common sense.
A blue humanoid radiance slowly rose from the vortex. Following the hollow interior of the waterspout, it reached the upper sky before passing through a spatial tunnel and returning to Earth—Ye Zi.
"This is... Friendship Bridge?"
In his soul state, Ye Zi