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Chapter 25 - Directionless
I was sucked back to my world, guided back by the light of our world. The energies sent me into a tailspin and I fell to the ground as ripples of pain shot up my back. I threw up.
“Dr. Ant!”
It was Leng, and with her was Razali, and the other men. I noticed there was an uprooted tree with broken branches. One huge, 6 foot long, was just a feet away from me.
“What, what happened?” I asked feebly.
“There was a strong gale, and a tree was uprooted,” Razali explained. “Totally unexpected.”
“No, it was a result of the fierce fighting I had in the other dimension. It’s rare, but such things do happen.”
I glanced at Leng, who wore her trademark reassuring smile. She had something in her hands, something I asked her to prepare as an insurance against another disaster - a rooster.
I had asked her to get it from one of the farms in Lim Chu Kang that were managed by my frien
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