"Huh? No, listen to me—"
Gu Mo was slightly taken aback. What was going on?
Instinctively, he stretched out his hand, stepping forward to try and grab the seemingly very angry Monster Maiden, only to find that his movements were exceptionally slow. What should have been a lightning-fast reach turned into something like the bullet time effect in movies, advancing frame by frame at a speed visible to the naked eye.
And the most frustrating part was that as his movements proceeded, the distance between them not only failed to decrease, but even widened.
Wait! Is she really that angry?!
Gu Mo's heart thudded, and in that instant, he realized it was a matter of "fast" versus "slow," with the directions of "forward" and "backward" completely reversed.
In just that brief moment, the rift in space had already vanished.
"..."
"..."
