Splat!
Ouyang slammed heavily into the ground.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" Ouyang scrambled awkwardly up from the ground, spat the sand and dirt out of his mouth, and stood there looking utterly bewildered.
"What is this place?"
He was standing in a yellow desert, with nothing but dusty yellow stretching before his eyes.
Not a blade of grass grew on the parched, cracked yellow earth, which stretched as far as the eye could see.
Occasionally, a wind howled past, whipping up sand and dust until he could almost see the shape of the wind.
He looked up. The sky was not azure blue either, but a murky, dusky yellow.
All of heaven and earth lay shrouded in that somber yellow, and it seemed he was the only person left between them.
"Hey!" Ouyang cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted.
His voice carried far, but there was no echo.
Ouyang dusted himself off and muttered, "This side-quest game really is strange!"
He recalled how, just moments earlier, those three old geezers had forcibly locked him in a man sandwich in midair when a system panel suddenly lit up before his eyes.
Side quest triggered: Your Name! Quest description: Once the quest begins, the system will provide no further prompts. The host must explore all plot developments on his own. This quest offers a high degree of freedom and plenty of fun! Quest activation requirement: fifty years of lifespan! Accept quest? Quest introduction: Young man, do you want to become stronger? Go forth and search! I left power in the deepest reaches of the world! Quest reward: unknown!
When he saw the quest panel before him, Ouyang could clearly feel time around him stop once again.
It seemed that the frozen time would only resume once he made his