The vision of the future shattered into fragments. Space and time seemed to have blurred into a tangled mess.
"Ansu, did you feel it?"
"Feel what?"
"Time was reset."
"No. I didn't feel a thing."
Lu Cang was testing whether only his own time had been reset, or whether Ansu had been affected too.
If they had both been reset, then Ansu should have memories of it as well.
But if it was only him...
Then it would be as if he had returned to the past, and Ansu shouldn't remember what happened afterward.
Now it seemed...
He really didn't know what had happened after that point.
"Actually..."
Lu Cang had just started to explain.
But then—
Tick—
A crisp echo rang out, like someone had forcibly turned a clock's hand backward by one notch.
Lu Cang found himself back at the very beginning.
At the start of the corridor...
At the far end of the corridor stood the same door he had just seen.
"A door?"
Ansu's thoughts came to him.
He was astonished that a door had appeared here.
His reaction was exactly the same as when they had first entered...
"Ansu, it seems time is flowing backward."
Lu Cang spoke with utmost seriousness.
His thoughts surged as he quickly relayed the situation to Ansu.
Ansu thought for a moment, then was just about to answer Lu Cang...
Tick—
The sound of a clock being turned came again.
When Lu Cang looked up, he was already outside the ruins.
He had left the corridor and reappeared in the vast darkness from before.
He didn't even need to think it through. The answer came to him at once...
I've been reset again, and this time I've gone further back.
The time that had just passed was exactly the period