Wu Pifu felt utterly groggy, unable to tell east from west, north from south. He seemed awake yet not awake, dreaming yet not dreaming. To put it plainly, he had become a vegetable, barely any better than someone with dementia or severe intellectual disability.
Inside the entire vehicle, two crystals rolled about—one named Taiyi, the other named World. At the same time, a young human called Qing acted like a complete lunatic, vanishing without warning and suddenly reappearing. Sometimes he grinned like an idiot; sometimes he looked profound like a fool. From time to time, he turned into one person, two people, three people... countless people.
Male or female, old or young, each with different expressions, appearances, and states, as though a panorama of all living beings had unfolded upon him.
Other than Wu Pifu, who had become a vegetable with no sign whatsoever of recovery, and Qing, who had split into billions and was still endlessly multiplying, the other five logistics personnel had completely vanished. Apart from a faint imprint in the deepest memories of Wu Pifu and Qing, not even the slightest trace of their existence remained. Past, present, and future—they had all disappeared without a trace.
Only Wu Pifu and Qing remained in the vehicle, drifting through this nightmare, unaware of time, space, or even logic...
In contrast to Qing's endless proliferation, Wu Pifu's vegetative, addled state showed no change whatsoever. The essence that had allowed him to recover countless times before seemed to have reached some critical point this time, or perhaps exceeded its limit of recovery. He remained continuously in a vegetative state of essential collapse. Although his overwhelming "magnitude" kept him from dissipating entirely, there was no foreseeable sign of recovery.
This continued until the Fish, with only half an intact body left, could