Wang Yu felt as though he had slept for a very, very long time.
For a while, he had instinctively wanted to wake up, yet his body refused to obey, remaining sunk in a deep, drowsy sleep. Occasionally, he could hear faint, indistinct noises and sense flashes of white light before his eyes, but his consciousness seemed frozen, leaving him utterly unable to form a thought of his own.
After an unknown stretch of time, a bout of violent shaking finally stirred a faint trace of awareness within him. He vaguely felt his body spinning without pause, as though heaven and earth were whirling around him, yet his eyelids remained unbearably heavy. He could not open them even a crack.
"The examination is over. Put him down."
An unfamiliar voice speaking the language of Huaguo suddenly sounded nearby. His body slowly stopped turning, and he felt someone fumbling around his wrists and ankles.
After several sharp clicks, something seemed to unlock at his hands and feet. Several hands carefully helped his limp body down from whatever he had been on, then laid him onto something soft.
"Careful. Be very careful."
Someone else gave a warning. With a soft prick, something like a needle pierced his arm, and he vaguely felt something being injected into him.
A profound drowsiness welled up inside Wang Yu, and he sank into sleep once more.
Amid a burst of rapid breathing, he unknowingly woke again and instinctively opened his eyes.
"Bubble, bubble."
All he saw was translucent liquid. Bubbles kept escaping from his mouth and nose, yet he felt no suffocation at all, as though he had long since grown used to this.
Startled, Wang Yu barely managed to lower his head. Only then did he see that his entire body was immersed in the