Raised by Monsters [Apocalypse]

At 3:15 p.m., a photo went viral online. In it was a human corpse two or three times larger than normal. The internet erupted. Countless people questioned whether it was photoshopped, but no one could produce any evidence. Stranger photos kept surfacing: a blue bird in a mirror, a pure-black figure beneath a streetlamp... It was as if countless other beings had appeared in the world all at once. At the same time, just after school, Ruan Ting found a crack in the ground that seemed to have no end. He stepped onto it and followed it downward, eventually arriving at a river. Strange ripples rolled across the surface, as if a giant beast were churning in the depths. Ruan Ting stared at them for a while, then walked into the river. The water engulfed him. As his hand instinctively reached out to grab something, Ruan Ting realized he could no longer move. Beneath his dimming vision, a deep green light flickered again and again. * A hundred years later, beneath the abyss where two worlds intersected, countless monsters gathered by the River of Time Lag, where kings were born. They were awaiting the birth of the tenth King in the Sequence. Ruan Ting had just crawled out of the river when a half-mechanical, half-skeletal monster picked him up: ...? P.S. All blurbs are archived as they originally appeared. Theme: Be brave