Instantly, darkness enveloped his view.

Numerous disjointed perspectives emerged.

In the collapsing hospital, hollow eyes devoid of light and spirit, dissipating lives, and cold bodies. Walls riddled with cracks, falling dust, and distant, mournful screams.

"Let's try again, doctor, just one more time."

A patient covered in tumors futilely clutched at the doctor's coat; the equally disheveled doctor froze, lips quivering briefly, then hung his head in exhaustion, unable to utter those few words.

"I don't mind if I die, but please, save her..." On the hospital bed, a desperate patient used his last bit of strength to try to grasp his wife's hand on another bed, but he couldn't reach her.

The patient in the other bed was already lifeless.

Thus, he let out a wail.

Crying until death embraced him.

His heartbreaking cries echoed, unable to draw attention.

In the chaotic and collapsing hospital, no one even turned their heads back… because such wailing had already engulfed everyone.

In the temporary operating room, the lead surgeon hesitated for a moment, then put down the scalpel.

"He's bleeding profusely, it's hopeless, let's give up."

"But... there are still patients..."

"We've run out of medicines and equipment! Where's the rescue team?! What about the promised supplies?!"

The furious doctor screamed, his eyes bloodshot, demanding, "How are we supposed to save her? How can we save so many patients outside? By lying?"

Everyone kept begging me, begging me to hold on a bit longer... I've tried my best, I've given it my all! But who can tell me, how much longer must I keep up this lie?"

No one responded, only the sound of soft sobs.

The sound of tears hitting the ground.

The dim shimmer of those tears disappeared into the dust, like a soul leaping off a cliff attempting to reach the sky, only to fall into the abyss.

Tears mixed with blood, reflecting the crimson sky.

Fierce flames spread, thick smoke billowing like columns, holding up the gray-black canopy of the sky.

Sounds of falling echoed.

As if the heavens were splitting apart.

The world plunged into darkness, never to return.

From then on, only echoes remained.

...

...

Cliff City, torrential rain.

Ten minutes after entering the Northern Mountain District, a speeding off-road vehicle had already stopped outside the tightly sealed square.

As Wen Wen jumped out of the vehicle and looked up, amid the thick curtain of rain, she glimpsed a faint vortex.

It was constrained by a force field mid-air.

Unable to move forward.

This was the entrance to the Time Ruins.

Under the command of the craftsmen from Security Bureau Section Three, engineering vehicles were clearing the way, swiftly completing the evacuation, then preparing to tow the secured Time Ruins to a deserted area.

The worst outcome had been averted.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where's the search and rescue team?"

Wen Wen waved away others offering an umbrella, walking straight to Tong Shan at the forefront, "Have they started dispatching yet?"

"The Time Ruins are currently in a lockdown state, its internal mechanism has begun recycling, and it likely won't open again until it finishes."

Tong Shan stood beneath the vortex, sighed softly, "The good news is, after inspection, the security level of the Time Ruins is around the Transformation Rank, it hasn't reached the Rebirth or Transcend stages.

Moreover, Ah Hua is still safe, the Life Lock at home hasn't been triggered. The Star Core Association has offered help, Uncle Four has just rushed back from Tide City, he can provide assistance anytime if the Life Lock is triggered."

"Alright, cut the preamble."

Wen Wen was all too familiar with Tian Yuan's tendency to elaborate anxiously, she flipped her lighter open and closed repeatedly, "Let's just talk about the bad news."

"The bad news is, the detachment of the Time Ruins might have been an accident, but its arrival in Cliff City wasn't."

Tong Shan finally turned around, expressionless, "When the Time Ruins began drifting, the defenders in Hai Province Town had already made arrangements, with the Ship City Security Bureau in charge of execution.

But initially, it was heading out to sea, not toward Cliff City, so that when people from Taiyi Ring and Ship City embarked, they found nothing.

Midway, it suddenly turned and headed straight for Cliff City."

"Is there something in Cliff City attracting the Time Ruins?" Wen Wen frowned.

"Impossible."

Tong Shan shook his head decisively, "Attraction presupposes the observable 'gravitational' force between them, but at such a distance, if a force strong enough to easily attract an entire Time Ruins appeared in Cliff City, the Star Core Association would have already sounded the alarm. It's quite possible that the entire Cliff City would be temporarily transformed into a Crack Realm.

According to its trajectory, it was supposed to head directly for the Municipal Square, but instead, it deviated due to other reasons and we intercepted it on the outskirts of the Northern Mountain District."

Wen Wen's expression gradually turned frosty.

"Meaning... someone did this on purpose?"

Someone wanted it to reach Cliff City, to a densely populated area, and then after worsening, completely explode... At that time, at least two districts would be flattened, and half of Cliff City contaminated.

No, probably not just Cliff City.

"Ten minutes ago, the Tide City Security Bureau also sent an urgent telegram, a Time Ruins appeared within the city limits there too, but because the catastrophe in Cliff City occurred first, they were prepared in advance and successfully intercepted it. But for now, they can't enter the Time Ruins, and must spare manpower to ensure the worst doesn't happen.

Ship City and Jiang City have also shown unusual activities, other smaller cities have no situations yet but fear they could be destroyed at any moment, and have already started requesting support from larger cities around."

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