Reversal

{... ake up…}

Zhou Jie's eyes flickered open, the dusty grit of desert sand filling his mouth. His ears were filled with a horrible ringing, and he thought he could hear a terribly annoying voice yelling at him inside his head–

{Host! Wake up!!}

His eyes shot open, and ignoring the skull-splitting pain in the back of his head, he immediately shot up into the air, gasping for breath as trickles of blood ran down his face.

'Damn it, how did I still take so much damage…?' he thought, vision blurry as he looked every which way for any sign of Ryker. Scanning his surroundings, it was like an explosion had just gone off, a large crater below from which he'd woken up while sand and dust filled the sky, blocking out the sun.