"To be honest, I'm scared. I can't see far away, and I always feel like something in the distance is watching me." Mo Ling looked innocently at Lu Youqi and spoke earnestly.
"Really?"
"Really."
"Why do I feel like you're lying to me?"
"Then your feeling is right."
"MO! LING!"
The ever-gentle Glasses Youth was finally driven mad. He grabbed a branch and was about to poke Mo Ling with it when a cool breeze suddenly blew from the direction of the Great Tree Cave.
Mo Ling and Lu Youqi stopped fooling around at the same time and looked up above the Great Tree Cave.
It was as though someone had struck a match across the sky. A streak of light suddenly flashed through it, then tore open the heavens and became a paintbrush, beginning to paint in midair.
The "Light Ink" at the tip of the brush spread into a vast, distinct image. Like the rough draft of a black-and-white comic, it had no color and lacked detail, yet its overall structure was astonishingly complete.
It was a city skyline. The painting had been drawn from a bird's-eye view above the city, making every part of it perfectly visible, as though a God were gazing down upon its development.
Though the "Light Ink painting" had not yet fully appeared, Mo Ling and Lu Youqi had both recognized the city it depicted—the city humanity had built above the Abyss.
Mo Ling saw the monument in the square, an impossible-to-miss landmark, as well as the Great Pit in the center of the city from another angle.
Back at 921 Base, he had stared blankly at the satellite image of the Abyss Entrance more than once. He knew it far too well.
"It really is Abyss City..." Mo Ling said blankly.
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