Just as Doctor Xiang Chai had predicted, the situation had taken a turn for the worse.
Field Officer Su Heng had encountered "Karmic Dream Interaction," confusing Dream and Reality. Believing that the "Dream Net" was available, he had connected to it, hoping to gain power beyond his personal limits. This confirmed that he had been corrupted and infected by the "Dream Divine Abomination."
Professor Lan Zhu and his medical team had interrupted the process before Field Officer Su Heng could absorb excessive power, preventing the "Karmic Dream" from spreading. Their intervention had been timely. However, because Field Officer Su Heng had confused Dream and Reality, he had completely disregarded the consequences and allowed the internal and external environments to fully interact. With a single shift between illusion and reality, his Karmic Poison levels had maxed out, and his Form and Spirit Framework had suffered severe damage. He still had not escaped danger.
Because of Field Officer Su Heng's incident, the Sky Carrier and the Forward Committee Third Bureau were on high alert. Never mind the hard-to-accept fact that the "Dream Divine Abomination" had already reached the Asteroid Battlefield—within the Sky Carrier alone, Field Officer Su Heng's shift between illusion and reality had effectively branded the carrier's zone with a "mark," creating an obvious yet unpredictable weakness. Furthermore, everyone present, and everyone who had heard of the incident, might have been secretly corroded and infected.
One could imagine that the Asteroid Main Base, and even the overall command headquarters for the "Two Star Gate" campaign, were closely watching the situation's development.
"The Dream Divine Abomination is just this troublesome."
Having been gloriously wounded during this operation and unfortunately suffered a mild infection, Doctor Xiang Chai had been admitted to the shipboard hospital and granted an extremely valuable vacation. However, he had