186 – Lies (1)

186 – Lie (1)

This world was no longer the sole property of the living.

The streets were packed with people.

It was a veritable flood of humanity. People from the past and future met, and the world was submerged in a flood called mankind.

The water vein sleeping beneath Gaeryong City was in truth a vein of time stretching from the dawn of creation to the future. A hole had been punched through it, and eternity (永遠) arrived—an eternity in which past and future became meaningless in the age of humankind.

“Repent! Humans! Repent!”

No matter how much time passed, night never came.

I didn't even know what time it was.

Because every clock in this world had stopped.

Infinite time may have rendered the flow of time itself meaningless. And that, in turn, made the distinction between life and death meaningless as well...