20:58.
To be more precise, it should be—
20:58:23, 20:58:24...
Time was moving, but it was 20:58, not 21:26!
And so, increasingly fractured and starkly contrasted images began to emerge around Lin Yi...
One was of the Heretical Choir nodding and swaying their slender bodies in song, with the time on the clock face frozen at 21:26;
The other, was nothingness, with only a watch whose hands moved with the time, at 20:58:45 and still ticking away.
With the appearance of the stuttering frames, the sound of a train "rattling" through a tunnel grew louder in Lin Yi's ears, but just like a train thundering by, this roar of sound soon disappeared along with the vanishing frames.
Lin Yi found himself back in the layer where the Heretical Choir stood.
He slumped to the ground, letting Wei Liang lean on his knees; he had not even the slightest spirit left to wonder about the watch in the other scene.
He was just too tired, oh so terribly tired...
