When the dry, hot wind brushed across Hu Xuan's cheeks, the Sage of Birth stood on the slope below the mine, gazing up at the unmistakable Abyssal Volcano with shock in her eyes.
She recognized the place before her, of course, but she was not certain where beneath the earth she actually was.
That was right—this could only be underground!
After Cheng Shi, inside the Experiment Field, grasped the Truth Limit—the key that could pry open the entire experiment—not long afterward, the few players intercepting the Grand Scholars outside the Experiment Field suddenly felt the world spin around them.
Immediately afterward, their vision went black. When they opened their eyes again, everything before them had changed.
Tusnat was gone. The Twilight Church was gone. The Grand Scholars were gone. Even Galiusha was gone. All that remained were six—no, five players!
The group turned back in shock and suspicion, only to see that Cheng Shi had already vanished from the direction of the Experiment Field that had originally been behind them. Only Wei Zhi remained. At that moment, Wei Zhi was also staring blankly at everything before him, muttering:
"Door of Falling..."
"The Door of Falling!?" Square and Round's heart sank. He had a feeling something had gone wrong with the trial. "How could this be the Door of Falling?
"Isn't this the Brotherhood of Extreme Desire's forward base, Galiusha's old home underground?
"What is Cheng Shi doing? Why did the experiment change instead of ending?"
At those words, the group wore different expressions.
Meng Youfang and Chen Yi looked toward Wei Zhi. They could not help feeling that this resurrected president of the Rationality Association had tampered with something and caused the experiment to go awry.
Hu Xuan, meanwhile, looked around with slight worry, searching hard for Cheng Shi's figure.