In Jiang Mian's perception, more and more people were suddenly falling into a deep sleep without warning, sprawled across the floor in every direction.
At first, they were all ordinary people.
But as time passed, Awakened had begun to fall among them, too.
"Qiuyu?"
Her heart lurched as she looked toward the tall girl in front of her.
"What... is it?"
Shen Qiuyu touched her forehead in confusion. A sudden, overwhelming drowsiness swept over her, and her eyelids grew too heavy to lift.
Jiang Mian hurried forward to support her.
As soon as she got close, her bracelet activated on its own, releasing a faint glow that quickly enveloped them both.
"Thank you."
Shen Qiuyu struggled to stay alert and managed to steady herself. Gratitude and lingering fear flickered in her eyes.
Without the Radiance crystal in Jiang Mian's bracelet, she would probably have collapsed helplessly under this unknown mental attack.
Jiang Mian said nothing. She spread her perception across the entire train, but sensed no Calamity aura.
Only a few Awakened who remained conscious had noticed something was wrong. They hurried toward the cars up ahead to investigate.
She looked out the window. Beyond it lay a darkness so dense it seemed impossible to dispel.
When her perception touched that shadow, which seemed almost solid, it was as if it had been severed in midair.
She couldn't tell whether the train was still moving normally, or where it was now.
What's more, that Calamity was still spreading, isolating the train cars one by one, intending to separate all the remaining Awakened.
As the cars became cut off from each other, the range of Jiang Mian's perception shrank as well.
If not for the layer of [Radiance] covering the train's exterior, the darkness would have invaded the inside long ago.