As the scene before his eyes flickered, Wu Heng's surroundings changed, and he returned to the world of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The last time he had come to this world, he had been in a miserable state, forced into it with no other path to take.
But this time, what met Wu Heng's eyes left him astonished.
Although this world contained all manner of serial killers and nightmares like Freddy Krueger, it had still been a modern, prosperous world filled with skyscrapers and picturesque mountains and rivers.
Yet now, it had changed completely.
With a thought, Wu Heng instantly arrived outside the atmosphere and saw the entirety of the hemisphere.
The once-azure sky now resembled a mold-spotted apple, blotchy in places. Across many regions, the heavens were speckled and covered by thick haze.
Light gray clouds hung like heavy curtains, as though they might come crashing down at any moment.
An oppressive feeling made it hard to breathe. In those regions, even the sunlight could only cast down a few faint rays, unable to disperse the gloom.
The air was saturated with the pungent smell of gunpowder and burning, mixed with chemical odors resembling lime powder and gasoline.
Every breath felt like inhaling poison, as if blades were scraping through his throat and lungs.
Many cities had also become fields of ruins. Towers had collapsed, and shattered walls lay everywhere.
Twisted, jagged rebar jutted from the concrete like fractures piercing through skin, as though the wounded earth itself were crying out.
Many rivers had turned black or green, polluted by garbage. Dead fish had swollen, corpse gas squeezing from their rotting gills.
Parts of the forests had been scorched black, with fires still burning intermittently.
The entire world looked like a battlefield. At the center of every city,