His head felt as though it had been struck hard with a sledgehammer.
Heavy and swollen, dizziness engulfed Xeno's entire skull and spread through his blood vessels to his limbs.
The world before his eyes doubled, blurred, swayed, and twisted in disarray, like a mirror shattered by a gale. Heaven and earth kept spinning.
A buzzing filled his ears. Every sound seemed muffled by a thick layer of cotton, leaving him unnervingly stifled.
In his daze, he vaguely heard someone calling his name.
Over and over.
Someone was calling him.
But the sound was too confused for Xeno to tell where it came from.
Overlapping echoes surrounded him, burrowing into his brain and only intensifying that swollen, dizzy feeling.
Xeno could not focus at all.
He was in terrible shape. His consciousness floated in midair, unable to find purchase. His body was beyond his control, leaving only a mechanical instinct that numbly moved his feet forward.
He was still walking.
Behind him, Li Xiang followed closely.
She jogged after him, anxiety filling her eyes.
[Damn it, how was he moving so fast?]
[How were those legs even built?]
Um...
"Xeno, I really didn't mean anything by that. I was just curious," Li Xiang ventured awkwardly.
"Li Xiang, let's not talk about this anymore..." Xeno felt awkward too.
"Okay."
Okay, my ass!
On the screen, Li Xiang dared neither fall too far behind nor get too close.
Afraid that approaching recklessly would agitate Xeno, she could only hurry after him with all her strength, her gaze fixed unwaveringly on the figure ahead, not daring to let her guard down for a moment.
The wind carried a bone-piercing chill against her skin, yet it could not disperse the tense, suffocating atmosphere.
The path was narrow and uneven, with a bottomless