The next morning.
Barry's enormous snore woke him up, and as he sat up in the large bed, he caught sight of Yi Chen meditating on the sofa. His state was extremely strange.
His entire body had grown metallic, needle-like spikes, as though the spikes were part of Yi Chen himself.
Just looking at them gave Barry a faint sense of pain. He absolutely did not want to touch those spikes.
Just then, the spikes slowly retracted, and Yi Chen opened his clear, translucent eyes.
"Barry, are you awake? Let's go downstairs for a meal, then set out directly."
"Okay." As Barry stood and put on his armor, he was still somewhat concerned about the spikes he had just seen. "William, what's with those metal spikes growing inside your body? I remember that when I fought you, I didn't sense anything like that in your body."
"I got them from the Old World not long ago."
"Besides the relic, you gained something extra physically as well?"
The moment Barry said this, he instantly felt that the gap between himself and Yi Chen had widened considerably.
"By the way, nothing happened last night, right?"
As Barry asked this, Yi Chen glanced at the hammer emblem between the large shields. "Nothing happened."
When they took the elevator to the Dining Hall on the second floor.
Yi Chen found that the gentlemen eating there all looked gloomy and completely lacked energy. They were entirely different from the vibrant young people inside Zion.
Barry explained from the side:
"Those who couldn't remain in Zion and were assigned to cities under the organization's control basically have no future ahead of them. Of course, that excludes clinic apprentices and certain special staff.
"These gentlemen have generally passed the best age for breakthroughs, so their potential