Severe pain.
This was Su Li's first feeling after regaining consciousness, as if all the bones in her body had been dismantled and reorganized. A biting cold seeped into her limbs and bones along the moist soil, and in her ears was the constant buzzing of some giant insect, occasionally mixed with strange howls from the distance that definitely did not belong to any creature she knew.
She opened her eyes suddenly, and the sight that greeted her took her breath away.
Towering ancient trees rise from the ground, their canopies blocking the sky and cutting the sunlight into broken golden spots. The air was filled with a thick, sweet scent of humus and exotic flowers. The oxygen content here seemed to be astonishingly high, and every breath brought a sense of abundance that burned her lungs, but also made her dizzy.
She remembered that a second ago, she was conducting geological sampling in a glacier crevice on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. A snowstorm swept in without warning. The ice beneath her feet suddenly cracked, and the feeling of weightlessness swallowed everything...
