Dizziness, darkness, awakening.
With a powerful sensation of weightlessness, Ye Lin opened his eyes again and found himself in a village.
The sky was gray, and the entire world seemed steeped in monotonous shades of yellow and gray.
Standing within the system's protective barrier, Ye Lin turned to look and saw another team of examinees protected by a barrier not far away.
No newcomers appeared. Judging by the other team's gear, they had entered as a complete squad.
Perhaps because his mental strength had been enhanced, he was the first to wake, followed by An Ke and a young man on the other side.
With the barriers separating them, neither side could hear the other. When the young man woke, he gave Ye Lin a somewhat surprised glance, then cautiously hurried to wake his teammates.
Ignoring the other team's reaction, Ye Lin used the safe period to examine his surroundings.
The village was fairly large, its densely packed, single-story gray-brick houses linked together in a maze. It could probably accommodate a hundred people.
At its center stood an elaborately decorated ancestral hall, with a dead banyan tree by the entrance. The words "Chen Clan" were faintly visible on its plaque. Behind the village was a low mountain, seemingly home to an ancient Taoist temple.
Sand and gravel covered the ground. Judging by the weathering, there had been no sign of human activity for at least two years.
Ye Lin's eyes flickered as he quickly worked out their approximate location.
*There's a banyan tree, which puts us south of the Tropic of Cancer. An ancestral hall and a Taoist temple mean we're most likely somewhere along the eastern coast. All this gravel suggests hilly terrain, and the low mountains run north to south. So we've appeared somewhere near southeastern Minhai, perhaps