"Cough-!!!"
Li Xian's eyes snapped open, and he sprang up from the bed.
He looked around, gasping for breath, and discovered that he was somehow back in his room.
Li Xian immediately scanned the room-the furnishings were exactly as they had been when he first saw them...
"Achoo!"
Li Xian suddenly sneezed. The chill radiating from his body made him instinctively rub his arms, and he abruptly realized that someone had changed him into the slightly musty clothes from the wardrobe.
...Huh?
Puzzled, Li Xian examined his body and found a faint red mark still circling his ankle.
The sinking ship, the shadow, the tentacles, the whirlpool...
Everything he had experienced flashed through his mind. The red mark on his ankle told Li Xian that none of it had been a hallucination.
But why was he back on the ship?
A series of groans suddenly came from outside. Li Xian immediately got up and went to the door, where he found the other players sprawled across the deck, struggling to stand.
The deck was soaking wet, and their drenched clothes clung to their bodies. They were in far worse shape than Li Xian, looking as though they had just been fished out of the water.
Zhang Yuyao pushed herself up on her arms, but her strength had yet to return, and she shakily collapsed back where she had been.
The other two weren't doing much better. Hoodie Woman was still half-conscious, muttering something with her eyes shut, while Ke Yi slowly shifted his body until he could rest his back against the wall and sit for a while.
Ji Xie wasn't among them.
Li Xian frowned and crouched in front of Ke Yi, who currently seemed the most lucid, to ask:
"Do you remember what happened?"
After taking a moment