It was like a film had reached the middle, only for someone to abruptly press the mute button.
Everything lost its sound.
All they could see were beams of concentrated Brilliant Light falling endlessly from the sky. Soundless, even the thunderous booms were compressed into that inch of destruction, followed by hundreds upon hundreds of raging waves sweeping in every direction.
Air currents surged. Countless flakes of snow swayed painfully in the wind, forming a new storm that blew in all directions, brutally uprooting and hurling away everything on the ground.
The world trembled like a resonating chamber beneath an invisible bow. What followed was a full, impassioned echo of hell.
Behind layers of cover, Lin Zhongxiaowu at the foot of the mountain instinctively tried to shield Anna behind him, only for Yuan Yuan and Anna to join forces and pin him to the ground first.
He could only feel the terrifying aftermath from afar through the agonized spasms of the earth. Through the constantly cracking shelter, he could glimpse a fragment of that savage destruction.
Amid the melting snow and ice, Lin Zhongxiaowu sucked in a breath of icy air and burst into a violent coughing fit.
What the hell was this?
Teacher, did someone steal your account too?
Could he have taken a desperate risk and gotten hold of the Astronomical Society's orbital weapons launch codes from somewhere?
This was the kind of thing that got you sent to Trench Prison!
Even though he knew the possibility was incredibly slim, when he considered his teacher's vast and bizarre network of connections, it somehow seemed... perhaps... maybe... not entirely impossible?!
But he quickly dismissed the absurd thought himself.
Behind the shelter, the three of them looked at one another and saw the shock in each other's eyes.
What Yuan