Viktor makes a note of a few keywords- Endless Abyss? That sounds like a good thing to be mad about, if he's honest. Then again all the twists of whatever this relationship between teacher and student is seem to be of the grand sort. Acid, torture, abyss.

He startles when the strike comes to Shen Yuan, expecting far more blood and gore, certainly not the sudden shift in perspective. Where they end up is modern, not recognizable exactly but far more familiar to Viktor than the halls of before.

Shen Yuan turns out to be different too, and when he comes scowling Viktor asks, "It seems... complicated. Where are we now? This looks closer to the sort of cities I'm used to seeing." Though even a glance out the window- wow, talk about a huge city. At the very least the Binghe wasn't against trying to push to the heart of the matter either.