Dimensional Hotel

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Yu Sheng was back—back in this strange, peculiar place known as the Boundary City.

This city had felt like an enormous, eerie labyrinth not long ago, unsettling him deeply. But now, as he looked at the familiar streetlights, buildings, and the streets bathed in early morning light, a wave of unexpected nostalgia washed over him. It was a feeling he barely understood. After being trapped in that nocturnal valley, the sense of returning to Boundary City was almost like coming home.

But the next moment, his dizziness returned, triggered by the relentless blood loss. He glanced down sluggishly, noticing bright red blood pooling beneath him. His body had been pierced—a gruesome wound, one that could kill him within minutes. Even though his body had remarkable healing abilities, he knew the truth: he was dying—again.

He was getting quite used to that word “again.”

Nearby, the cause of his injury lay still—an odd, scaly “tail” severed from the body of a monstrous creature. It had tumbled out of the doorway alongside him. To his surprise, the thing still seemed to possess some life or maybe even a flicker of thought. It writhed sluggishly in the growing pool of blood, almost as if it was trying to slither away from him.

Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow, half amused and half baffled. Was the severed piece… afraid of him?

With a grimace, he forced himself to stand, his body swaying under the strain. His home wasn’t far off, and as he glanced toward it, he reached down, grabbed the twitching, scaly tail, and started staggering forward.

“Aren’t heroes supposed to be fine after escaping death?” Yu Sheng mumbled to himself through gritted teeth. “Why’s the wound still here after the map’s loaded? What kind of lousy game design is this… Damn, this hurts…”