My head... hurts...
What happened?
My head felt like a bowl of mush, with all sorts of chaotic things stirred together, making it impossible to find the information I wanted no matter how hard I tried.
It took more than ten minutes before I gradually regained control of my thoughts.
Ah! Right! I remembered! Before I passed out—Qian Qian and I had been standing at the school gate. A student from the school across the street was bullying one of his classmates, and it looked like a fight was about to break out. Qian Qian and I, unwilling to get involved, were preparing to leave quickly. Then what?
I started looking for a brick... Oh, that plan was canceled. I tried to glare that young master to death instead. At the time, I thought the world would be such a better place if I could beat him up.
And then...
Suddenly, everything returned clearly to my mind. The countdown from that mysterious "Zenith Ranged Strike System" seemed to echo once more.
"Qian Qian! Run!" I shouted, jerking upright, only to realize that I was no longer at the school gate.
"This is... that dream?" I looked around and found myself surrounded by the same gray metal buildings from the dream. Without a doubt, after losing consciousness, I had returned to this strange place.
Rubbing my forehead, I looked around again and suddenly realized something was off. It seemed... too dark.
So I looked up...
The next second, I felt like my heart skipped several beats!
The enormous metal sphere in the sky was already so close to the ground that it seemed almost within reach. Its vast surface blocked nearly half the sky, pressing down like another continent. I could clearly see the complex metallic structures on its surface. Some