Sleeping Mountains, northwest corner.
A certain building was half-embedded in the mountain.
The building was enormous, with four orderly, spacious sectors, a heavily fortified security system, an energy system, and even a partially independent ecosystem. It also contained the most advanced laboratory area in the world... On the western side was a highly technological corridor, its entire interior decorated with high-strength new glass, connecting several softly lit rooms.
One wall of the room was made of transparent glass, and the furnishings inside were extremely simple.
There was only a plastic table connected to the floor and a suspended bed extending from the wall.
It was connected to a bathroom that even had a smart toilet.
Wang Jingyun—the cream of the crop among the second-generation researchers of the Crimson Moon Research Institute, as well as a traitor; the man who had once planned the "Escaped Laboratory" incident, founded the Crimson Moon Orphanage, and personally devised seven trials for Lu Xin—was here.
He wore a simple Zhongshan suit, black-rimmed glasses, and a crew cut.
From the outside, he looked somewhat old-fashioned. Other than that, he had no distinguishing features.
He sat quietly on the plastic bed, interlocking his fingers and resting them on the table before him. He maintained this posture for a long time.
His eyes seemed to have lost their focus as he pondered intently.
Next door, Seven from the Crimson Moon Orphanage was sprawled on the plastic bed, occasionally pounding the wall with her fists. She looked extremely agitated.
This was the first time she had ever been locked up—and she had been locked up with absolutely no hope of escape.
As a Ghost-type ability user, this was nothing short of humiliation.
Ghost-type ability users could be regarded as the freest ability users of all, possessing the strongest