"Then I'll be careful and try not to interact with it-" Lin Yi said.
Boss shook her head slightly. "Not necessarily."
"Oh? How so?" Lin Yi pressed.
Boss considered briefly. "If you're summoning the Ark and setting off soon, whether you interact with it doesn't seem likely to make much difference. In fact-with your particular traits, interacting with some of its aura first might be better."
"Huh? Why?" Lin Yi was puzzled. Just as he was about to speak, Tian Bufan's voice suddenly rang out in his mind. "Boss is right."
"You already encountered the Angel's aura in the land of Time Exile. If you can come into contact with a few scattered traces now, it'll be like a vaccination, letting you start 'adapting' in advance. Once we set out to sea, we'll be facing it at full strength-"
"And when that time comes, it won't just be the Angel. There'll also be-the Root."
The Root, which was like a god to the entire world, to the entire Time Dimension.
Lin Yi suddenly felt suffocated, but immediately nodded and said with utter seriousness, "All right, I understand."
"Mm." As Boss finished speaking, her long legs carried her out of the Safety Passage and into the enormous Gymnasium Giant Dome.
The Gymnasium Annex, the Giant Dome, looked just as it always had: green turf gleaming beneath enormous LED Lights, a huge running track and playing field. The dome overhead wasn't closed either. It looked like an oversized soccer field.
Both levels of platforms inside the Giant Dome were deserted. The three of them entered alone.
In the vast, deathly silent Giant Dome, a falling pin would have been audible. A faint wind swirled beneath the dome. Though it was still afternoon, the place felt indescribably eerie.
Lin Yi instinctively glanced at