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Chapter 85

Chapter 85

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The moment I opened my eyes, the blinding sunlight made me instantly shut them again. All around me, I heard the overlapping din of car horns and the noisy chatter of crowds, along with... the buzzing hum of some sort of machinery? "Huanxi!" Shen Yu's voice came from beside me, laced with obvious panic. "Where are we? What are these iron boxes? Those tall buildings... oh god!" I struggled to adjust to the light and opened my eyes. The sight that greeted me almost made us pass out again—we were sitting on a bench by the roadside of a bustling commercial street. All around us, pedestrians dressed in fashionable clothes walked by, cars flowed endlessly down the street, and towering skyscrapers in the distance glistened under the sun.

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