Lin Yi surveyed his surroundings again. He even began walking toward the Covered Bridge, then tried reaching out to gently stroke the Covered Bridge in this world.
Feeling the rough grains of sand and gravel on the cement wall scrape across his palm, Lin Yi began to marvel at how realistically this imagined world responded...
Yet that single touch brought a faint surge of fatigue.
"Fatigue...?"
His vision suddenly blurred for a moment, and the fatigue seemed to deepen a little.
He seemed to understand something, then suddenly rushed toward the Covered Bridge.
The warped surface of the Covered Bridge was riddled with bumps and hollows. Those few meters left Lin Yi stumbling and nearly falling, and he only managed to enter the bridge with difficulty by supporting himself against the cement wall.
He leaned over the Covered Bridge, fighting the pull of that fatigue inside him, and strained to crane his neck out for a look beneath the bridge!
"Just as I thought...!"
Lin Yi's pupils contracted slightly. Beneath the Covered Bridge lay a world shrouded in white fog. The terrain of the Mountainous Region and the Pebble Road that should have been there were gone. Even the Wooded Belt was nowhere to be seen!
The white fog did not spread upward, either. It simply stopped a little above the bottom of the Covered Bridge.
The line formed by the white fog coincided precisely with the straightened line of moss, becoming the boundary between the bare and moss-covered sections of the bridge.
As he looked at the white fog, it gently surged like waves along a shore, submerging the area beneath the bridge's middle that was almost entirely covered in moss.
At the same time, a clammy chill he had never felt before began spreading up from the white