"Hm?" Liangzi raised an eyebrow, pausing his cracking of sunflower seeds.
The image on the screen, which had been displaying a clear afternoon sky, was now marred by a sudden and deeply unnatural azure halo. Like ink dropped into clear water, it rapidly spread outward.
"The hell... Is the monitor broken?" Liangzi muttered, reaching out to tap the screen.
But the blue light remained, growing brighter and more intense. It expanded rapidly from a tiny dot into a patch that stained the on-screen sky an eerie blue.
What made Liangzi's scalp prickle was that the blue light wasn't static. It pulsed with a rhythmic ebb and flow, like a living thing breathing. Faint, ripple-like waves of light emanated from its center.
This familiar sight...
Liangzi shot up from his lounge chair, his hefty body displaying an agility that completely betrayed his size.
His eyes, normally narrowed to a squint, were now wide open, glued to the screen.
