"Is the ground... falling?"
Mo Ling could not believe his eyes. At first, he had thought the earthquake had shattered the ground, but after watching more closely for a while, he finally confirmed that the chunks of earth really were "falling downward."
The pitch-black clouds swirled, their center a tornado plunging deep underground. Like a massive black serpent, it twisted as it drilled into the depths. Every twist smashed the surrounding earth apart, and the fragments followed the black serpent's scales downward, falling into bottomless darkness.
Mo Ling could not see what lay within that darkness, but merely looking at it filled him with a profound terror.
"That must be incredibly deep..."
Otherwise, how could all that falling debris still fail to fill it?
The clouds overhead continued to gather, madly pouring into the darkness. The ground at the edge of the void continued collapsing, and what had once been solid concrete now crumbled like a broken cookie, endlessly shedding pieces.
What kind of force was that?
Had something hollowed out the earth, causing the city to collapse?
Mo Ling looked outward along the edge of the darkness and discovered that the entire city had "tilted." It was precariously on the verge of falling, forming a dangerous slope. Some old buildings near the vortex had already begun slowly sliding into it.
The tremors were shaking the whole city into "cookie crumbs," then sifting them into that gigantic funnel.
Mo Ling could no longer control his heartbeat. Amid the relentless thunderous noise, he could actually hear his own heart pounding.
"Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump!"
His heart seemed to have formed some strange resonance with the sound of the collapsing earth, making his chest swell and churn with nausea.
Mo Ling did not dare keep looking. He was afraid his heart