Life!
Fu Qian leaned against the bench, watching the colorful crowd passing by.
A woman in a business suit took two long gulps of milk, tossed the carton into the nearby trash can, and hurried toward the bus pulling into the stop...
A little kid with a backpack nearly half his height hopped along, gesturing as he chatted with his friends...
An old man who seemed to have completely outgrown the need for sleep strolled leisurely and aimlessly with his cane...
It was a perfectly ordinary morning in the human world. Sure enough, no matter which world you were in, ordinary people seemed to live much the same way.
As Fu Qian mused, the crowd's movements came to a brief halt.
One after another, people looked up at the sky, their exclamations rising all around.
"Is that a rainbow?"
"Did it rain? How strange."
"Why is it round?"
The reason for their reaction was that a brilliant halo had appeared above their heads at some point.
Its layers of overlapping colors looked a little like a rainbow at first glance, but unlike an ordinary rainbow, this one formed a complete circle.
Bands of color converged toward the center, one ring at a time, dazzling to behold.
The crowd was understandably awestruck by such a strange sight first thing in the morning. Even after squeezing onto the bus, the woman with the milk couldn't resist craning her neck through the crowd to stare out the window.
This was a pretty big spectacle. Was this why Li Min had hesitated?
Fu Qian turned his gaze away and glanced behind him.
Behind him stood a row of classical buildings stretching as far as the eye could see. They were clearly old, but still in use.
Just before sunrise, Li Min had gone inside