A strange, ear-piercing shriek suddenly came from deep within the corridor, like a huge sheet of metal being violently torn apart. Yu Sheng looked up and saw that countless more cracks had appeared in the bizarrely shattered, overlapping space ahead. Another mass of amorphous "matter," resembling mud, churned between the cracks, desperately trying to enter the real world.
Several dazzling balls of light instantly crossed the corridor and landed amid the pile of "mud," burning it full of holes.
The Black Dot soldier hiding behind the cover instinctively tilted his head at the thunderous explosion. Then he looked nervously toward the cracks before continuing, "...We were trapped inside the laboratory at the time. Outside were the space station's defense forces, who had already rebelled. Around us were hysterical technicians and laboratory security guards firing everywhere like they'd gone mad. The collapse triggered by Zolda Black Stone's disappearance was still tearing several huge gaps open above the laboratory. We could even see the stars outside through them...
"Then something fell from between the starlight. It was like mud, like some kind of viscous shadow, like..."
The soldier waved his hands as he spoke, his voice filled with fear and hesitation. It was as though he could not think of a suitable way to describe the frenzied, grotesque scene he had witnessed. Only after struggling to organize his words several times did he finally continue, "It was like pus flowing out from between the stars. It fell onto the space station's dome, and the entire station rang like a huge bell being struck. Something seeped in through every crack.
"But just then, a passage appeared where the 'Black Stone' had disappeared. We didn't know how it opened. The crack generator in the laboratory had already been destroyed, but the passage looked at