Chapter 367: Epilogue — A Few Loose Ends
“Rumble… r-rumble…”
Everly stood on the inflatable dinghy, still rejoicing over her successful escape, when a violent tremor suddenly came from the island beside her.
She looked up at the sky and saw that the moving black dot above the sun had, without her noticing, disappeared from the sun’s edge.
The transit of Venus was over.
The island had begun to sink.
The enormous island was like a colossal ship on the verge of sinking. It slowly descended into the sea, emitting a low, humming vibration all the while.
Sounds from a specific frequency range reached Everly’s ears like an earthquake in the auditory realm, causing her breathing and heartbeat to resonate with them. The fish in the surrounding seawater were affected as well, frantically lashing their powerful tails and turning into streaks of silvery lightning as they fled in terror away from the island.
The island was simply too enormous. Even though only a small portion had sunk, the waves it displaced nearly overturned Everly’s dinghy.
Staying there any longer was extremely dangerous.