"Quick, check his mental fluctuations first!"
"Doesn't this kid recognize a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear? Why didn't he press the Rescue Signal Device?"
"Neural feedback is still rising. Sever the connection immediately!"
The anxious voices reached his ears in broken fragments, as though through a thick curtain of water.
Tang Wulin's consciousness slowly floated up from the darkness.
His hearing returned first.
Then came the cold and numbness spread throughout his body.
The sensation was not intense, but it was exceedingly strange. It felt as though his body remained frozen at the instant the Dark Gold Dreadclaw had sliced him horizontally in two, an invisible fissure still separating his upper and lower halves.
But as his awareness returned, that fissure rapidly closed.
The numbness receded.
Feeling returned to his fingers.
A real, steady heartbeat sounded within his chest as well.
Clack—
The scrape of metal sounded beside his ears.
The sealed capsule lid slowly opened to either side, and dazzling light spilled through the gap.
Tang Wulin instinctively narrowed his eyes.
I'm back.
I'm all right.
That was the first thought that surfaced in his mind.
But a trace of confusion immediately followed.
Just now, the Dark Gold Dreadclaw had clearly sliced him apart at the waist.
Even if injuries suffered in the Spirit Ascension Platform did not actually carry over into reality, the intense pain and neural shock capable of deceiving the brain should not have vanished so easily.
When the Man Faced Demon Spider had first pierced Wang Jinxi's body, he had taken a long time to recover.
Xie Xie had just been torn apart by the Dark Gold Dreadclaw. His condition could only be worse.
Yet apart from feeling mentally drained, Tang Wulin experienced no obvious physical discomfort.
Even the pain had left only a faint, blurred