Reason told Sun Hang that this sentence could not possibly have been written for him, yet another voice in his mind kept telling him—the "you" in that sentence referred to Sun Hang.
Just moments ago, he had inexplicably felt the urge to take the camera apart and inspect it. Even Yano's warning had failed to stop that impulse, as if something inside the camera had been "calling" to him.
Was it this slip of paper?
Sun Hang turned the note over and examined it several times. Other than the signs of great age visible everywhere on it, he found nothing unusual. Once he had dismantled the camera, that mysterious pull vanished completely, as though it had never existed.
Sun Hang could not help recalling the dream interrupted by Three Monkeys. That strange sense of familiarity, coupled with this mysterious note... all those clues pointed to the same fact: Sun Hang had once lived in the Nameless Island research facility, and for quite a long time at that.
"Could it be... I used to be one of the test subjects in this facility? Then an accident happened inside, I escaped, and I've been lying low ever since?" Sun Hang began to doubt his own origins, but he quickly felt that the theory simply did not hold up.
Setting aside the issue of his age, the scenes in his memories alone proved that Sun Hang could not possibly have been a test subject.
He realized that he was familiar with every corner of the research facility. Test subjects could never have visited every corner of the facility; as research subjects, their lives would only have been more monotonous than those of office drones commuting between home and work.
"Maybe I devoured the memories of one of the researchers?" Sun Hang tried to