This Isn't Real (Part One)

At that moment, Mo Li's mind had gone completely blank. He had no thoughts, no emotions, and no consciousness. The Mo Li of now was like a walking corpse, while the shadow opposite him melted like a puddle of liquid before finally disappearing completely.

The entire space fell into deathly silence. Even the incessant thudding from before had vanished. Inside the enormous egg-shaped object, the Queen Mother of the West slowly turned around. She stared at Mo Li for a long time before the corners of her lips curled into a strange arc, and she muttered to herself, "This human is rather interesting."

Mo Li felt as though he was in a patch of darkness. There was no light anywhere around him. Judging by the sensation against his body, he seemed to be soaking in water, yet he felt no suffocation at all. This left him deeply puzzled. He did not know who he was, where he was, or why he was here.

Just as Mo Li was puzzling over this, he suddenly noticed a light appearing ahead. A strange pressure emerged around his body, pushing him toward the light.

When he finally escaped the darkness and entered the light, he found that his eyes could see only brightness and blurry outlines. The next second, he heard joyous shouts coming from all around him: "The baby's born! The baby's born! It's a big, chubby boy!"

He could not remember what happened after that. In a daze, he recalled that he had kept crying, then fallen asleep whenever he grew tired from crying. His entire state was hazy and muddled, and it lasted for a long time, until the moment his eyes could finally see his surroundings clearly.

The first thing he saw clearly was a white ceiling. The air was