An angel fell from the earth, plunging toward the sky.
Li Lin and his colleagues from the Special Operations Bureau stood beneath the night sky. As if pulled by invisible hands, they tilted their heads up and stared blankly at the light slowly rising through the sky. It climbed higher and higher, gradually beginning to disintegrate from within. During the process, more than one person suddenly saw certain "visions" flash through their mind—
They felt as though the mass of light had suddenly transformed into an enormous silver-white metal construct, like a "seed" swollen in the middle, with several glowing ring structures at its rear. It rose from the orphanage courtyard, yet in the next instant became unimaginably huge—so huge that it could cover the entire sky.
They also felt flesh growing within the mass of light. It became a strange, twisted creature, apparently formed from countless assorted limbs. It stretched innumerable arms toward the sky, then gradually melted into the light.
Li Lin felt that what he was seeing was a stone—an enormous, irregular stone covered in moss and tender shoots. It flew higher and higher while singing a broken ballad from afar. It said that it had come from the starry sky to sow seeds upon the earth, but now everything was over. The seed had reached the time to return home...
And so it fell toward the starry sky.
The light split apart, transforming into countless streams of blazing fire. Like a meteor shower flying backward, they accelerated across the sky above The Crossroads. During the latter half of the process, they split apart even further. Some continued to "fall" toward the sky, while others drifted lightly away from the main fragments' trajectories and began descending into the distance.
Baili Qing stood on the ground with her