Loyal! Cabinet! (Big Chapter Seeking Monthly Ticket)

The air in the night had congealed into an airtight cement wall. The man wedged between two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents hunched over, his muscles tightening like a fish hauled from the water onto land.

He pressed both hands against his chest, trying to tear apart that invisible pressure, but all he held was his own chest heaving with rapid breaths.

Amid the pattering rain, it was as though someone had lightly flicked a switch, or as though a king gazing down from on high had mercifully withdrawn his gaze.

That terrifying pressure, like death itself, finally began to fade.

"Ha—hoo—"

The tension in Li Weisi's muscles suddenly released. He raised his head and gulped down air like a drowning man dragged from the water. Beads of sweat seeped from his cheeks like raindrops, soaking through his clothes.

He blankly looked around, his face naturally showing the dazed relief and joy of surviving a disaster.

"Can we talk now?"

A gentle, kindly voice sounded by his ear. His body trembled instinctively as he lowered his head and looked at the upright, mild-mannered Old Man before him.

That familiar appearance seemed no different from what he had seen before. Even the feeling the man gave off remained the same as ever, gentle and kindly, like a respected old doctor.

Everything was so ordinary, as though nothing that had just happened had ever occurred.

He raised his head and glanced at the two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Exoskeleton Armor beside him.

Their expressions remained steady and natural. They seemed not to have received the attention of that terrifying, deathlike pressure at all. They merely looked at him in confusion, finding his current state somewhat strange.

Had that really just been some kind of illusion?

Li Weisi raised his head