The bells rang.
Above the sea, Amber and Xiya heard some grand and indifferent voice ringing out.
They searched for the source of the voice, but it seemed to be coming from inside their own minds, making it impossible to tell which direction it came from.
The withering of Lu Ban's flesh worried them both deeply. They had no idea what had happened.
But at that moment, all they could do was trust Lu Ban.
Amber instinctively raised her head.
She saw that the black sun in the sky seemed to have changed.
Then, accompanied by a clear cracking sound, a fissure suddenly split open across the black sun.
Crack, crack, crack—
Another series of cracking sounds rang out. The enormous black sun scattered like a shattered glass cup, countless fragments falling toward the sea as they disintegrated into dust.
And behind the sun, something even more bizarre seemed to be slowly emerging.
Outside the storm, in the city.
People who knew of the unprecedented typhoon only through Internet news suddenly felt the sunlight grow somewhat dimmer.
Many of them looked up, only to witness an extraordinarily strange sight.
Beside the small, dazzling sun that could not be looked at directly, there was another object that was gradually growing larger.
The object resembled a planet and was rust-colored. In an instant, it had already grown larger than the moon at its fullest, hanging in the sky like a basketball.
Before people could figure out what was happening, the gravitational effects brought by the planet had already arrived.
The most obvious effect was on the tides. In an instant, most of the seawater across the globe surged toward the planet, causing tsunamis over a kilometer high to slam into the coasts.
The tsunamis moved at speeds approaching those of high-speed trains.