Li He immediately shook Su Yuqing awake.
"Yuqing, look at that sign."
Su Yuqing followed his gaze. When she made out the blurred words, she sharply sucked in a breath.
"Limbo—the border of Hell—" she murmured. "How could it be this place? That's impossible. It's only a concept from myth and legend. How could there actually be a place with that name?"
"Even if it were called that, it shouldn't be a train station—
"Wait? Could we actually be dead? No, that's not right—but that collision just now? Could that train have been heading to—?"
Su Yuqing was clearly in a state of confusion.
Li He gave her a shake. "Calm down. Have you forgotten our objective? This is a barrier created by the target. Anything could happen here!"
"...Mm, you're right." Su Yuqing patted her head, driving away those chaotic thoughts, then looked toward the sign as her mind raced.
"I was a little muddleheaded just now—thinking about it now, this isn't reasonable."
"Our enemy is only a lingering fragment of an Artificial God's consciousness. According to General Qin's intelligence, Its power level should be around
the middle of the fourth rank."
"Under normal circumstances, It couldn't possibly construct such a complete little world out of thin air."
Li He asked, "What do you mean?"
"I think this space wasn't created by It. Rather, It took advantage of some existing rule and merely projected Its will here, shaping this place into what It wanted."
She pointed at the utterly motionless wreckage of the train. "Like this Rule Wall. It's so sturdy not because Its power is that great, but because It used some underlying rule of this space."
"Likewise." Su Yuqing's gaze swept over the other set of tracks stretching into the depths of the darkness. "These tracks, this