"You're right..." Aston muttered. He tapped his chin calmly and thought about Song Lei's words a little bit more.
"Why didn't they..?"
As Aston kept thinking, the noises started crawling back up. It was faint but noticeable.
"It's coming," Song Lei said. "You guys should step back a little," Song Lei ordered to the trainees that were lying on the ground. Heeding his words, all of them crawled away slightly.
As the noises became more and more disturbing, Song Lei's face soured.
Suddenly, the earth Clark was lying on shook and cracked. As if the world was ending, this crack turned into a rupture. If it were to expand a little bit more, Clark would probably fall into it.
"Shit..." Song Lei muttered.
Suddenly, the whole field went silent. This made every little voice more audible to the people there. Then from inside the rapture that had formed on the ground came out a wave of red gas. This red gas started condensing around Clark.