"The Old Director's secret?"
At that moment, Lu Xin was flooded with all kinds of complicated emotions and did not know what to say.
He was excited to see his orphanage companions arrive together to help him at the moment of despair. He was puzzled by the restraint Fifth Sister and Number Three had just shown toward The Beginning's power. And he was bewildered by what Number Fourteen had said.
He vaguely felt that everything had been connected by a single thread...
But there was still one thing he did not quite understand...
"Brother Jiu, the answer is actually very simple..."
Number Fourteen looked at Lu Xin's confusion and grinned slyly. "Didn't Fifth Sister ask you about it before?"
"Did you never wonder how we were rescued?"
"..."
"How were we brought back to life?"
That question suddenly cleared away Lu Xin's confusion, and everything became clear in his mind.
Countless strange thoughts surged up from the depths of his heart at once.
He could not help turning to look at Number Five. She was controlling the body of the old, burly man, swinging the chainsaw in her hand and viciously cutting into the black tendrils. Somehow, it looked like a bizarrely beautiful dance in a black forest.
Not much of The Beginning's power had seeped into reality, but it was still terrifying enough.
The black tendrils writhed grotesquely, releasing terrifying waves of mental power that could crush any trait.
Yet Number Five's displayed ability was not particularly strong.
No, she was not using any ability at all. She was merely swinging the chainsaw as if she were cutting grass.
But whenever she swung the chainsaw, a strange mental power inside her body vibrated along with it. That power was normally hidden extremely deeply, almost impossible to detect, but amid