For one brief instant, the Piper born from the Regeneration Plan experienced a strange sensation that even another version of himself had never known.
That spine-chilling cold...
It was as though he had turned around at midnight and found a bizarre smiling face inches away, its eyes burning with cold fire, its grin wolfish.
"Surprised? Didn't expect that, did you?"
Huai Shi smiled warmly, tugging on the "bond" between them as he told him, "You jump, I jump!"
Yet beneath those heartwarming words from the story lay a heat that nearly gave the Piper severe burns.
Huai Shi, you motherfucker...
Amid countless dazzling streams of light, during that mad dash that could have been ascent or descent, Huai Shi had already grabbed the chain and rapidly closed in.
The Piper's speed suddenly stalled!
As the power of the Silver Sea drew him upward toward the core of that magnificent mystery, Huai Shi's existence was like a ten-thousand-ton iron weight tied to him.
Dragging him down with all its might, biting down and refusing to let go. Like a rabid dog chasing him through the night, like the illegal ads multiplying day after day on a security door, like a salesman who had already forced his way inside—relentless and impossible to shake off!
Trying to drag him back!
But more than that, what the Piper fucking wanted to know was: how had this guy gotten in here?!
This was the Silver Sea!
An epic Source Matter megastructure forged from all humanity's souls and subconsciousness—a illusory, ethereal place, a kingdom of fantasies forever out of reach.
Material existence simply could not enter it. Only pure Source Matter and souls could...
Wait!
"What are you thinking about?"
In that instant, the burning spirit, savage as an evil ghost, burst into laughter, crossed the