Liu Miao explained, then told us why he had originally come to Yangshan District.
"Our boss suspected there was a portal to another dimension here, so we came to look for it. We'd already gotten a lead; all that remained was to pin down its exact location. He and I split up to investigate. But halfway through, I suddenly felt myself blacking out. When I came to, I was slumped over a table in a fast-food restaurant. I'd lost part of my memory, so I called the boss, but his phone was off. Not long after that, I realized something was wrong here."
Putting the information from both sides together, we could more or less explain what had happened.
The reason Yangshan District had been isolated and turned into another dimension had to be that portal.
It had to be a major undertaking, something only Heaven could pull off. And only Heaven would have a reason to do it.
Back in 2017, it had still been insane. Its personality was that of a lunatic.
Compared to dealing with the new thing running a restaurant, Heaven had clearly been much crazier in 2017. Or perhaps it had been more powerful then, able to pull dozens of square kilometers and several million people into another dimension, rather than merely driving away a ghost.
"Then the key is that portal. If we can seal it, this place should be able to reconnect with the real world. Hmm..." Liu Miao mused.
Nan Tian asked, "You said you came here to investigate with Ye Qing?"
I froze.
The skinny guy slapped his thigh. "Right!"
Ye Qing's soul was still in the real world. He'd even spent several years at the office.
He hadn't been trapped here.
If dying meant you could escape, then had what