Lin Lan's consciousness felt as if it had been shoved into a rapidly spinning washing machine. The violent dizziness made her stomach churn. When she suddenly opened her eyes, she saw not the familiar special forces training base, but an eerie crimson sky. The air reeked strangely of rust mixed with rotting plants. What reached her ears wasn't her comrades calling out, but unfamiliar roars, as if some enormous creature were bellowing nearby.