The scene before them was eerie enough to be terrifying.
They had thought the end of the acid rain meant the prophecy would no longer come true. Now, they suddenly understood-the acid rain Qin Xuan had spoken of might not just mean the downpour itself, but also the rainwater on the ground.
The prophecy had manifested in a way they could not change.
All the time they had spent in Stone City had been futile.
And Qiu Yu, who should have been locked up, stood nearby in a cloak.
For an instant, Ji Yani seemed to forget how to breathe. Anxiety, worry, fear, shock, confusion-all those emotions tangled together, too complicated to put into words.
She had no time to wonder why Qiu Yu was here. Ignoring the acid rain covering the ground, she lunged toward the person lying there.
"Long Tianyu!" Ji Yani cried.
Sheng An and Qi Lingwu were faster. Neither used their superpowers, but the instant they saw Long Tianyu, both lunged forward.
Sheng An pulled Long Tianyu out of the acid rain.
His clothes had already been corroded away, leaving his entire body a mangled mass of flesh and blood. The moment Sheng An's hands touched him, her skin and flesh split open as well, exposing stark white bone.
She neither cried out nor let go, allowing the blood to flow.
Qi Lingwu stripped off his jacket. Sheng An laid Long Tianyu on it and activated her superpower at the same time.
She had already used Time Reversal twice, both times at an enormous cost. When she activated her superpower again, she had barely begun turning time back before the clock behind her wavered and collapsed, unable to hold its shape.
Yet Sheng An did not stop.
It collapsed again and again, and she activated it