Chapter 49: News

Han Ning felt as if his head had been smashed into boiling hot gravel. It was hot, swollen, and the world before his eyes turned into a bizarre, kaleidoscopic blur.

The walls seemed to warp, the curtain of rain outside the balcony transformed into an upside-down, blood-red waterfall, and Snow Cake's meaningless roars echoed in his ears. His sense of touch became chaotic; one moment he felt like he was floating in the clouds, and the next, he was encased in heavy sludge.

"Ugh... I must have eaten some magic mushrooms," Han Ning groaned. He stumbled against the wall for support and shook his head vigorously.

This dizzying, sensory-scrambling sensation came fiercely and left just as quickly. Although it only lasted a few short seconds, his forehead was already drenched in cold sweat, and his heart was beating like a drum. The intense vertigo and auditory and visual hallucinations gradually faded away completely.