After his conversation with Mr. Lee ended,
Yi Chen took the elevator back to the clinic, then followed the stairs to the third-floor dormitory,
Yi Chen had remained remarkably calm throughout the entire process. He even lightly patted Edmund on the shoulder, trying to share some of that "calm" with him.
"Go to sleep. Only with sufficient rest can we fight for an extra chance."
"Mm..."
Edmund, in the lower bunk, let out a long sigh and heavily knocked on his own head.
His mental fortitude had also been shaped by special training within his family.
By closing his eyes and meditating, he slowly forced the matter of the pathogen injected into his body from his mind, suppressing the unease and fury in his heart.
The exhaustion from the night's continued fighting and the tension of venturing into the underground region gradually turned into wave after wave of fatigue. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.
However,
Yi Chen was in no hurry to sleep.
Instead, he poked his head out beside the bed and carefully observed Edmund, who had fallen asleep.
Before long, something strange happened.
The "moonlight," which had originally only fallen on the windowsill, actually began moving like a living thing, actively covering Edmund... In the blink of an eye, his flesh transformed into particles of light and was sent back to the Surface Layer.
It seems that "sleep" and "moonlight" are the key factors in switching between the inner and outer worlds.
The dormitory clearly has four people sleeping in it, yet only Edmund and I were transferred... If the pathogen had been injected into all four of us, it would also have been easier to control us and make us work for him.
*Could he be afraid that too many of us might launch a