May 10, Year X023, 2:23 a.m. Beneath the Quantum Giant Bell, "Sanctuary," in the Art Building's Clock Tower, endless blasts of air gushed down from the bell's mouth, engulfing Lin Yi like the flames of a rocket.
Beneath that terrifying blast, Lin Yi was reduced to a charred silhouette. His body seemed to have become nothing but a skeleton...
May 10, Year X023, 2:23 a.m.
At the same moment.
Lin Yi felt his consciousness shatter into countless fragments. Scoured by Sanctuary's blasts of air, the world before his eyes looked like scenery seen from a speeding train.
He saw Super Night-Walking Species covering entire walls as densely as ivy, along with those evil Night-Walking Species amid the twisted cracks and crumbling spaces. Their viscous bodies seemed to have developed insect limbs and reptilian scales, yet they also had the teeth and eyes of beasts...
They crawled and leaped through the collapsing space, letting out piercing shrieks. Those sounds stabbed into his brain like countless needles, bringing him to the verge of mental collapse...
Then he saw a deep, secluded Covered Corridor. He could see its end at a glance, yet now it seemed to have become an endless abyss. Every step forward felt like treading in place, or suddenly crossing a vast distance. The distant door was right before his eyes one moment and impossibly far away the next, as though space were constantly folding and stretching...
He saw many things overlapping, saw an icy downpour pouring down as though it had seeped through the Art Building and fallen into some corner...
Suddenly, he saw a group of Art Students!
In a Lecture Hall resembling an opera house, large numbers of Art Students had slumped to the floor. Their hair was as tangled as dead grass, their faces covered