[Main Universe]
Deep in the pitch-black reaches of space, it was as deathly silent as a burial ground.
A faint halo flickered, almost imperceptibly.
Lynn instantly appeared in the depths of the void, a bone-piercing chill washing over him.
Zuo Zuo regained her sight, and the scene before her almost instinctively drew a look of shock from her. Lynn immediately reached out and covered her palm, preventing her from making a sound.
Lynn transmitted his voice: "Shh!"
Only then did Zuo Zuo stiffly bob her hand up and down.
But that hair-raising sensation still washed over her, making her entire left hand tremble.
Because at that very moment, right before them, the darkness stretching across the Star Universe lay like a vast ocean, spanning their path and cutting off the endless void.
It was Chaos. It was Calamity.
It had not gone anywhere. It was right in front of them!
Even Lynn had not expected that Calamity's projection not only to remain, but to have grown even larger than when it had pursued him. With such an enormous bulk, it had probably already surpassed Painter's scale. It waited here, as though certain he would appear.
Lynn dared not leak even the slightest trace of his presence, and Zuo Zuo hardly dared breathe.
Lynn waited for over ten seconds.
Then he finally began to confirm that this Outsider power really could shield him from that Calamity's gaze and perception.
Because if it could not, he would probably have died a dozen times over during those seconds at such close range.
"Did... did it work?"
Zuo Zuo quietly transmitted her voice.
Lynn dared not relax in the slightest. Narrowing his eyes, he transmitted:
"It looks like it should work."
"At its current stage, that Calamity still hasn't truly developed an