I shut my eyes and waited for my brainwaves to be controlled. What I waited for did not come, but Lifu did stop knocking his head against the vehicle.

'Success!' I thought in joy.

But when I opened my eyes again, I saw myself in a world of white. I was surrounded by white fog, and the ground I stood on was loose and sandy. A doppelganger that looked exactly like me stood facing me.

'Is this a mirror?' I thought as I stretched out my hand. However, my doppelganger actually stepped away from me.

'I'm not haunted, am I?' I thought, alarmed.

My doppelganger appeared to be in an unstable state as its body kept flickering in and out of view in a semi-translucent state. I suddenly realized that this doppelganger might be a form created by the creature. I might have been brought into the creature's four-dimensional world after my brainwaves fell under its control.

"Hello. We won't harm you. I'm Li Canyue. Can you understand me?" I tried asking.

My doppelganger opened its mouth to talk, but the only sound that came out was an ear-piercing static,...