The first manager mission after the restart showed signs of ending, though its conclusion remained hazy and its mysteries unresolved.
For some, they had been lucky, because they had never entered any of the doors.
Yet they had also lost all control over the situation, leaving them more helpless than ever before.
The moment Xue Tingtao opened his eyes, he felt as though the entire world had turned a swirling dark green. Those colors spread like a sky on the verge of collapsing, bearing straight down on his face.
Strange, inexplicable presences began drifting around his exhausted body, seeping into him strand by strand through the pores of his skin.
He did not even know what they were, but he felt that something terrifying and dangerous was about to awaken.
Dong, dong, dong!
While his awareness was still returning, a clock suddenly chimed somewhere.
Xue Tingtao jerked his head up and looked toward the sound. An old quartz clock hung near the edge of a dark green wall, its hands pointing to precisely six in the evening.
His surroundings had returned to a cramped, narrow two-bedroom apartment.
Now he saw many familiar faces lying on the floor nearby: Li Yi, Gu Xingjian, Luo Xian, Xiao Qian Duyue...
And Cheng Lvtong?!
Overwhelmed with surprise and relief, Xue Tingtao crawled across the floor to his side without a second thought, reaching out with a trembling hand to touch him.
Cheng Lvtong's body was riddled with wounds, and the blood on his clothes had already dried. Yet it did not look as though a ghost had inflicted them. They looked more like the backlash from a sin object.
He was still breathing!
He had never imagined that Cheng Lvtong was still alive, that he could have survived this long. For a moment, it