Dizzy.
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His head felt heavy and dizzy again.
It was as though a sponge soaked full of water had been stuffed into his skull, heavy and constantly dragging him downward.
Hiss... In his daze, He Xi tried to raise a hand to rub his forehead and open his eyes, but his arms felt as though they did not belong to him. They were too heavy to lift, and even his eyelids seemed to be plastered shut by something viscous.
"What's going on?
"When I entered the first-floor illusion before, aside from that instant of weightlessness, there was nothing like such severe aftereffects.
"Did Reese infect me with some bizarre disease that makes your brain go fuzzy whenever you enter an illusion?"
Stray thoughts drifted through his muddled mind. He Xi reined in his thoughts, trying to gather them together and shake off this drowning-like helplessness.
At last, in the gaps between wave after wave of vertigo, he gathered a little strength and slowly opened his eyes.
At first, his vision was a blurry grayish white. As his pupils gradually adjusted, the scene around him came into focus bit by bit.
As far as the eye could see, the trees' branches were twisted and shriveled, their bark a lifeless gray-brown, like desiccated corpses baring their fangs and claws.
There was no birdsong in the woods, nor any chirping of insects.
Pale gray fog flowed slowly through the forest. Though it blocked his view, it did not prevent the bleak light from filtering through.
He Xi instinctively raised his head, his gaze passing through the upper layers of thin mist.
There was a faint source of light in the sky. It seemed to be daytime.
But that "sun" radiated an indescribable strangeness.
It gave off no blinding rays, nor