Nightmare Corridor!
For a moment, Fu Qian finally realized where he had seen that door before.
In another mission that also began with the number 1, he had once reached a corridor and encountered a human-faced bug.
Back then, that deceased informant had been standing beside a door.
According to what the informant had told him, the doors led out of the Nightmare Corridor, and there were several others just like them.
Those doors had felt very much like the one he had just seen.
"When did you start doing this?"
As he pondered, Fu Qian held the needle up to his head and examined himself as if taking a medical history.
"Not long ago, just over a month."
Loretta hadn't thought much of it. Seeing that Fu Qian was all right, she let out a sigh of relief.
"That's also why I didn't give it to you right away."
"Although it worked very well when I tried it, it hasn't been long enough for me to be certain it's completely harmless."
"I'd planned to test it for a while longer, and once I was sure there were no problems, then..."
"Don't worry. I'm not the kind of person who doesn't appreciate your kindness."
Fu Qian gestured for her not to explain.
In truth, that wasn't what concerned him at all.
His attention was fixed on Loretta's answer: just over a month ago.
Based on what he'd learned earlier, he had fallen ill not long after that.
And the timing also matched the incident in Bee Monkey City remarkably well.
So the Golden Needle in his hand wasn't the problem. Loretta was the key?
But the ultimate goal of his mission was to transcend the nightmare.
Could ending the nightmare that had erupted in Bee Monkey City mean killing the