The familiar sensation of falling washed over Xia Lun. A familiar violin melody brought him back to his senses, and when he opened his eyes, he was in his Personal Space again.
After several expansions, his Personal Space was no longer as cramped as it had once been. The roominess lifted his spirits.
Images flickered like wildfire in a fierce wind. Xia Lun stepped forward, and they suddenly swelled, flashing before his eyes like slides: towering Cooling Towers, a speeding train, the clock hands in the Waiting Hall spinning clockwise, then racing backward.
A mushroom cloud rose. Blinding white light swept over buildings and streets; flames surged, and cars and pedestrians burned and vaporized. The terror on the ticket clerk's face seized his attention. But in an instant, the clock hands reset, and everything was restored.
Limbs twisted, and strange Nuo Masks covered the crowd's faces. Bloody handprints covered battered, dim concrete walls.
The clock hands spun furiously. Light flashed at the entrance to the Underground Ruins beneath the Winden Thermal Power Plant. Sigils covered magnificent stone pillars over a hundred meters tall, and Cult Leader Nosna spread her arms, her face alight with zeal.
The hands turned back. A mushroom cloud rose, then shrank away. The Numien Mirror floated in midair, spinning without pause.
At last, the montage of images froze on a clock face. The second hand ticked onward.
The clock face suddenly bulged outward and burst apart. Lines of characters spilled out, spinning like second hands.
``` [Results Summary!]
[Games played: 4]
[Scenario: Beneath the Clock]
[Scenario objective: Leave Winden City (Completed)]
[Additional objective: Survive for 12 hours (Completed)]
[Objective completion: 120%]
[Base scenario rating: F+]
[Special performance!]
[Special discoveries: You solved the mystery of the charred corpses; you solved the mystery of the time loop; you