A Great Price

Enveloped by the frenzied net of electricity, more than a third of the total area of the scrap metal dump site turned into an eerie spectacle. The car wreckages, broken poles, rusty wire mesh, and the piled up scrap, everything in the electric net started to become transparent and slowly lost its original color. The items turned faded, abstract, illusionary, and finally disappeared entirely.

After the scrap metals vanished from view, in their place emerged the aforementioned basketball court-sized area from the future. This strange pit slowly appeared on the ground.

The electrical flashes were even more dazzling in the pit. A few devices could be seen operating crazily at extremely high loads, churning out electric sparks every once in a while. These electrical flashes covered the surface of the spiral pit, effectively isolating the space-time energy from further invading this world. At the bottom of the pit were the Terminators half-kneeling in neat rows!