Tap, tap, tap—
In the profound darkness, only the counter's crisp sound echoed.
At a time like this, that sound instead became a source of reassurance for everyone.
Of course, it would have been even better if the counter's frequency were a little lower.
Now, it sounded in an orderly rhythm of approximately once every two seconds. Lu Ban looked around. The flashlight's beam reached far, but beyond it, there was still only darkness.
The ground beneath their feet was pitch-black as well, without any texture or outline, like a sheet of pure black glass. The flashlight's beam did not reflect off the ground but was swallowed by it. As a result, they could not see any clear boundary beneath their feet, as though they were stepping through dark clouds.
The flashlight swept in all directions, and Lu Ban's field of vision followed the beam. There was no information around them, only remnants of nothingness.
Lu Ban had originally imagined that there should be countless monsters or a massive amount of pollution in the Deep Well. At the very least, there should have been endless muttering. Yet there was nothing here.
Empty and desolate, like a world that had already gone extinct.
"This is inside the Deep Well?"
Xiya could not help voicing her amazement.
Her voice was absorbed by the darkness as well and failed to travel very far.
"This area is relatively safe because it's still the outermost edge of the ever-expanding space."
Old Song explained.
He casually took a small object from his pocket and tossed it forward. Before it was swallowed by the darkness, it had already traveled far away from them, as though something had pushed it away.
"The farther forward we go, the faster it expands."
He said this simply.
Xiya had initially thought