Li Huowang lay on a clean hospital bed, his eyes opened as wide as they could go as he looked at everything around him.
Li Huowang looked around, then looked at himself. He seemed to understand something, yet seemed to understand nothing at all.
As the ringing in his ears gradually faded, a familiar voice rang out. "Li Huowang? You're finally awake? That's wonderful!!"
Li Huowang turned toward Yi Donglai beside him and found him looking at him with a face full of concern.
"I... woke up. I finally woke up. Those hallucinations were terrifying, but thankfully they were fake. Thankfully, they were all fake." An exceptionally relieved expression immediately appeared on Li Huowang's face.
"What do you mean, fake? It was all real! Time has looped back again! Only the point it returned to was different! Haven't you noticed you only have one eye left?" Yi Donglai's tense voice rose a notch.
He looked utterly terrified, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins.
Li Huowang looked at him strangely, studying him with great care. Then, all of a sudden, he smiled.
"Doctor Yi, stop testing me. I'm really cured. I understand now that everything before was fake."
"I know that everything that happened in those hallucinations was merely an outward manifestation caused by my fluctuating emotions."
"But don't worry. I've completely awakened now. I'll never hurt myself or try to kill myself again."
Yet at that moment, the atmosphere in the room began to change. Brightness turned into darkness, and Yi Donglai's upper body gradually grew larger, nearly reaching the ceiling. An incomparably chilling laugh came from him.
"Hahahaha! You think you succeeded? How ignorant and foolish!"
As Yi Donglai turned around, everything around them began to change. Black water started flowing across the floor, the entire ward began to