A breeze brushed against his skin—gentle, alive.
The air flowed naturally here.
It was a world beneath the world, hidden from the sun yet breathing, vast and alive.
Before them stretched an enormous underground world, it was vast and boundless, extending farther than the eye could see.
"The… Hollow?" Shiao Yi muttered without thinking.
It was the name of an old science fiction novel he had once stumbled across while browsing the B.O.W library archives.
It was The Hollow Zero by Masked Scholar.
He remembered reading it as a child and he was fascinated by the idea of a hidden world beneath the earth.
"We've got company," Dominic said quietly.
Shiao Yi turned his head and from behind a cluster of rocks emerged three blue-black beasts.
It's Doshaguma.
They were massive, about the size of a hippopotamus, with long shaggy fur like a mammoth's and four thick arms like a gorilla's.
Their movements were as savage as wounded bears.
