(Heartfelt thanks to Yume no Shouyou and Lei Xiang for their tips!)
(By the way, I only found out today that there were actually lots of unlucky authors who got confessed to...)
When consciousness returned to his mind once more, Wu Yan felt groggy and let out a pained groan...
Shaking his head, Wu Yan clutched it and struggled to get up from the ground. Only after standing fully upright did he slowly open his eyes...
The first thing that entered his vision was the twilight glow cast by a blood-red setting sun...
And upon seeing the dusk scenery, Wu Yan froze in place, astonished.
"Sunset? Dusk?..." Wu Yan touched his head in confusion.
Clearly, before losing consciousness, he had still been in a world filled with nothing but green, trapped within green mist.
Why had everything before his eyes returned to normal the moment he woke up?...
"Could the mist have dispersed? Is this what the misty land truly looks like?..." Wu Yan tilted his head, unable to figure it out.
"So there are normal places in the Land of the Gods too..."
Wu Yan shook his head slightly and said that with a mocking tone, but then he remembered something and abruptly raised his head.
Hilif!
Hilif was gone!
Thinking of this, Wu Yan instinctively swept his gaze around, only for the sight before him to leave him stunned once again.
Not only had the green mist dispersed, the green world vanished, and the sunset appeared, but even the entire scene had completely changed!
At that moment, Wu Yan stood on a red carpet with long fibers. Wooden benches were arranged around him in two neat rows, stretching all the way to the end ahead. Petals carpeted the surroundings, while clear bell chimes echoed through the air, somewhat