Let My Tears Flow

All of a sudden, the whole tone changed.

The promised fantasy setting turning into science fiction was one thing, but now it had become a ghost story?

Wasn't that a bit much?

Terror seeped into his marrow like icy water, yet Huai Shi's mind began racing wildly, trying to distract himself, even though he was scared out of his wits.

Especially when he flipped back through the Book of Destiny and discovered that there had been ten people when they set out...

When had they become seven?

And when had seven minus one still become seven?

It was impossible to understand what exactly had happened.

The sudden change left him frozen in place. When he lowered his head and looked at the display on the arm of his Spacesuit, he felt another shock no less severe than before.

—Depth 0

They were still in the Present Realm, not yet devoured by hell. Yet everything had already changed beyond recognition without them realizing it.

"What's wrong, Huai Shi?"

Izzy noticed something strange about him and asked in the public channel, sounding puzzled, "Are you okay?"

"...No, I'm fine. Just catching my breath."

Huai Shi answered calmly. Bracing himself against the jetpack, he resonated through his Spacesuit glove and counted the safety tethers by the echoes of his finger taps:

"1, 3, 3, 2, 4... 5, 5, 7."

There were seven people. That was right!

"Try counting again." Tong Ji's voice rang out, half amused.

"0, 1, 2, 10, 11... 21."

Huai Shi felt even more horrified. There really were twenty-one people!

Wait...

The silent counting in his heart paused. He repeatedly compared it against the records in the Book of Destiny and realized something was wrong.

Why was the result different every time he counted?!

"Because reality has already been altered,