Chapter 204: 223. Awakening
When Xu Zhi woke up, she had not yet had time to make out her surroundings. The moment she realized she had "woken up," a thought surfaced first in her mind: I'm actually still alive?
Her thoughts were still somewhat muddled, but not so muddled that she could not remember who she was or what had happened.
Xu Zhi vaguely remembered that this was not the first time she had awakened after leaving the Federation world. The last time, she had only been conscious for a dozen seconds, perhaps even less. The last thing she had seen had been the silhouette of a woman.
At the moment she had passed out, countless unpleasant possibilities had flashed through her mind. The one possibility she had never considered was being properly cared for until she woke up.
So, had that woman done something?
Xu Zhi instinctively ruled out the possibility that the other woman had simply taken her home out of kindness.
But before she could think any further, the intense stabbing pain and dizziness in her head seemed to warn her that now was not the time to think. She needed to rest.
Yet unless she figured out her current situation, Xu Zhi could not rest easy no matter what. When she tried to observe her surroundings, she realized in confusion that she could not see clearly.
She had thought that, in the rain, she had merely been too exhausted and fatigued, which was why her vision had blurred. But now that she had opened her eyes again, everything before her was still hazy, as though she were looking through a thick fog. Everything was an indistinct blur.
She tried to raise her hand, but when she braced it against the bed and attempted to exert some