Boss raised her long, slender fingers and gently covered half her face, parting the locks over her forehead between her fingers. Star-like carved marks suddenly appeared in her eyes, cold as a spectral moon. Her gaze fell on Li Huiyuan, but her perception passed through Li Huiyuan's body, fixing firmly on her original body, on the phantom resembling "Between the Sins" that emerged from her.
"How strange-"
"I've searched every fragment of my memories, but I can't find anything like your situation. If you were a new form of structure born after the Black Moon Cataclysm, I wouldn't say that's impossible, but-this world no longer seems to have the conditions needed to produce something like that-"
"Huihuizi, oh, Huihuizi-just what is going on with your form?"
Boss murmured softly. Even with her vast knowledge and excellent memory, she seemed unable to immediately identify the problem with Li Huiyuan.
Meanwhile, after running continuously for a long time under the pressure of Boss's domain, Lin Yi gradually sensed the environment around him beginning to change.
The rubber running track beneath his feet grew narrower and narrower. The entire world around him kept squeezing toward him like a contracting water pipe. Lin Yi kept running, with nothing left before his eyes but the white point of light at the end of the track, as though touching it would accomplish some miraculous purpose.
He ran with abandon, but the track beneath his feet began to stretch. The more he ran, the farther he was from that point of light, as though he could never reach it.
More and more figures slowly appeared on the walls of spacetime around him. He saw countless faces, unfamiliar and familiar. Most belonged to people who were complete strangers to him, and only a very few were people