The Blood-colored Eye!
Jiang Qiao had never been to Changyang Mountain, and the Simulator had shown no images.
So he could not quite imagine what the enormous eyeball that appeared overhead after the brazier was lit had looked like.
But now, at least.
He felt a shudder that came from deep within.
It was like setting up an astronomical telescope beneath the stars to observe the boundless universe. Beyond awe and wonder, there was also an intense sense of suffocation.
A single speck of dust streaking through the cosmos could bring utter devastation to the human world.
Humanity.
How insignificant it was.
The more one understood the universe, the more one felt an instinctive reverence and fear.
And... beyond that fear, a desire to explore.
At that very moment.
Jiang Qiao was caught in precisely that tangled state of mind.
Fear, shock, curiosity... all mingled together. He stood stunned for over twenty seconds before finally, slowly coming back to his senses.
"It isn't a deity. It isn't even an eye..."
"But it's connected to a deity..."
He lowered his head and muttered to himself.
If it had been a real deity, that single glance would have been enough to kill him on the spot.
There would have been no possibility of survival.
At the same time.
As he studied it, he discovered that this eye was not an actual eye. It was more like some kind of painted image, lacking depth and the profound quality unique to eyes.
And yet.
A powerful intuition told him that the thing in the sky was connected to a god.
Beside him, Ye Fei looked somewhat bewildered.
She glanced at Jiang Qiao, then at the eye in the sky.
Clearly.
Although she had sensed the terror above the firmament, she could not quite understand