A familiar voice rose within her heart. The black-haired girl suddenly opened her eyes, only to find herself surrounded by an inky-black void.
In this world of absolute emptiness, the only thing she could see was her own hands.
"Where am I?" Chen Xi froze briefly, trying to assess the situation.
She remembered activating Countercurrent just before this. Could it be that the restart had succeeded?
No, that wasn't right.
If that were the case, she should have lost her memories.
But...
She reached out and began feeling around, only then discovering wall-like obstructions on either side of her.
Was she inside a passageway?
Unable to make sense of it, Chen Xi could only summon the Hourglass from within her heart first.
She hadn't realized it until she checked. The moment she sensed it, she found that the Hourglass's surface was already covered in cracks, with Quicksand continuously spilling out.
As for the culprit, it was obvious—the withered black hands were tightly gripping it, as though they intended to snap the Hourglass's neck.
It was the Lamenter's interference.
Just like Lin Yue's blessing, she had to get past this hurdle first.
But before Chen Xi could think any further, the Lamenter's hands abruptly tightened upon sensing her gaze, crushing the entire Hourglass into pieces.
At that moment, even without the information panel, Chen Xi instinctively knew that her Regression ability no longer existed.
And she still had to pass through the time-blocking "maze" it had set up.
As the price of using Regression before the Lamenter, that was reasonable.
"What should I do?"
With no instinctive guidance whatsoever, Chen Xi fumbled around in confusion like a headless fly.
With neither time nor space existing here, Chen Xi felt as though she had been searching through this maze for a long