Mao Feiyang's words gave Lin Yi a moment's pause, but he said nothing more and stepped through the illusory portal wreathed in Gray Fog.
As he passed through the portal, a dreamlike sense of nothingness instantly enveloped him. Intense dizziness made his limbs tremble and his steps unsteady.
The instant he crossed over, Mao Feiyang braced a hand against the wall in front of him and began panting heavily. "Hah, hah, hah..."
"Crossing Layers repeatedly in such a short time is getting to be too much for both my Cognition and my body..."
His face was pale, and faint, illusory ripples appeared across his body, interspersed with a sculptural, bluish-gray texture.
Only as he caught his breath did his body gradually recover.
"Are you okay, Maozi?" Lin Yi asked with concern.
"Hah, hah... As long as I'm not dead, it's nothing serious." Mao Feiyang waved a hand lightly and looked around, soon finding the Clock Tower's "door"-the illusory portal covered in a layer of intangible medium that possessed the "Door Attribute."
Without giving himself much time to catch his breath, he walked straight toward it.
Lin Yi had two major questions on his mind: what exactly had happened between Maozi and the first payment, and whether Maozi knew where the Stairwell beneath the Clock Tower led.
He remembered very clearly that when he had come here with Lao Mo last time, they had also entered somewhere in the middle of this Stairwell. He had always been curious about its lower half...
But seeing Mao Feiyang move without pausing, he swallowed the questions he had been about to ask.
The instant they crossed that membrane-like portal, Lin Yi saw the twisted, kaleidoscopic abstract space through Mao Feiyang's eyes, accompanied by a sharp, babbling noise that set his teeth on edge.
When