Chapter 153: Three Stones Art Museum

He quickly arrived at an exhibition room and stood at the door. He first saw a girl in a short-sleeved dress, or at least what looked like a girl judging from the long black hair cascading down her back. Guan Lei could not discern much else since she faced away from him.

The skinny girl suddenly turned around. Guan Lei tried to see her face, but a strange, hazy fog occluded her features.

Several indistinct blurs raced around the girl, trapped in a loop. Guan Lei felt his concentration snap as the girl's shrill voice cut through the intervening space, the distance separating him from the exhibition hall. "Go! Run!" She shouted, her words overcome with terror.

Guan Lei did not have any time to act. An explosion rocked the building, causing his ears to ring. A wave of fire washed over him, a hellish deluge that shook him to the core. The pain was all he felt as he shot up, his eyes flaring open.

"Ah!"