Hao Ren's face fell when he heard the Data Terminal scream. "It escaped?! But it's right here!"
"Its consciousness is gone!" The Data Terminal repeatedly rammed one of its sharp corners against the outside of the container. "The brain monster left its body behind, but its consciousness is gone! There's nothing inside anymore. It's just an ordinary lump of marbled meat!"
Hao Ren grabbed the Data Terminal. "Could you not disgust me while you're busy? Can you trace how it escaped?"
"No. We never imagined the brain monster had a trick like this." As it spoke, the Data Terminal connected itself to the laboratory's main computer and instantly retrieved all the surveillance logs. "...We were careless. The brain monster's skill in the mental domain is unparalleled. It doesn't necessarily need another body to transfer its consciousness into. That thing must have uploaded its soul through some kind of wireless connection... We thought the protective crystal was foolproof, but it could only stop the brain monster from possessing someone else's body. It couldn't stop its consciousness from slipping out of here."
"It must be because this place wasn't sealed tightly enough..." Hao Ren furrowed his brows. The brain monster's unbelievable escape method had shocked him, but he had seen enough by now to accept the fact and quickly reason out the cause. "Wait. If it could escape this place by uploading its consciousness from the very beginning, why did it wait until now? Wouldn't the best opportunity have been when we first arrived in the Dream Plane?"
The Data Terminal's surface shimmered as huge quantities of data streamed across the holographic projections around it. "It must have been waiting for an opportunity. The laboratory's surveillance was very tight before, and unauthorized data transmission would easily have been detected... Right, it was