Tap, tap, tap--
In the profound depths of this world, 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.
The sound rang out in an orderly fashion, approximately once every two seconds. Lu Ban looked around. The flashlight 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 was not reflected by the ground but swallowed by it, so they could not see any clear boundary beneath their feet. It was as if they were treading on dark clouds.
The flashlight swept in all directions, and Lu Ban's field of vision moved with the beam. There was no information anywhere around them, only remnants of nothingness.
Lu Ban had originally imagined that there would be countless monsters or massive amounts of pollution in the Deep Well. At the very least, there should have been endless whispers. Yet there was nothing here.
Empty and desolate, like a world that had already gone extinct.
"Is this the inside of the Deep Well?"
Xiya could not help commenting.
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 continuously expanding space," Old Song explained.
He casually took a small object from his pocket and tossed it ahead. Before the darkness swallowed it, the object had already traveled far away from them, as though something had pushed it away.
"The farther forward we go, the faster the expansion becomes," he said.
Xiya had