Suddenly, he felt an intense sense of weightlessness, his entire body plunging downward at an incalculable speed.
Boom!
His head buzzed, his vision turned completely white, and he could see nothing.
About four or five seconds later, he heard several voices conversing nearby, and someone speaking right next to his ear. A hand was even resting on his shoulder.
"Hmm, a shoulder?"
At that moment, Yan Junze felt his body again. The white haze in front of him quickly receded, revealing a laboratory scene that felt simultaneously familiar and strangely unfamiliar.
The room was an off-white space. The walls and ceiling were made of special materials designed to insulate against sound and radiation. A large quantum collider was operational in the lab.
On the other side was what the lab staff called the "Void state"—a quasi-vacuum environment isolated within a special polymer container about the size of a dog crate.
