The sound of the military grenade completely vanished the exact second they fell backwards into the swirling green energy of the portal, and it was like someone just flipped a switch to turn off all the sound in the entire universe.
But there is a problem in jumping blind into an unstable interdimensional tunnel while running for your life.
The silence was immediately replaced by a horrifying, crushing pressure that squeezed every single inch of Julien's body from all directions at once without giving him any time to prepare.
It felt like a hundred concrete blocks were suddenly stacked right on top of his chest while a giant invisible hand wrapped tightly around his throat.
He tried to take a desperate breath of air to calm his racing heart, but his lungs were completely flattened inside his ribs and refused to expand at all.
