Happy Valentine's Day

! Pulling out her ID badge, Lin Muwan noticed it was glowing faintly, but the light quickly vanished.

Her mind was in turmoil in these surroundings. Everything that had happened felt unreal, and she wasn't even sure whether the flash of light she'd just seen had been a hallucination.

Jiang Cheng, however, seemed to have figured something out. Clenching the badge, he said, "Looks like this badge is an important item for the mission. I think Yuan Xiaotian's body came back to life because the badge was taken away."

Hearing that the corpse's bizarre behavior might be connected to the badge, Lin Muwan tensed instinctively and looked fearfully at her chest.

Just to the left of the soft rise of her chest was another badge. It belonged to her.

Each of them had a corresponding badge. They had no names on them, but each bore a different number, and every badge was unique.

Captain Xia had analyzed it earlier, saying that the badges might contain other information that they simply couldn't see yet.

Noticing Lin Muwan's gaze, Jiang Cheng explained, "There's nothing wrong with the badges themselves. On the contrary, if we lose our own, we'll be in serious trouble."

"It..." Jiang Cheng stared at Yuan Xiaotian's badge in his hand, then glanced at his own. His tone was uncertain. "It feels more like a symbol. Maybe it represents our existence—our existence in some sense. Do you understand?"

Lin Muwan's expression made it clear that she didn't. She was an honest girl.

Jiang Cheng had no intention of explaining further. He couldn't put it into words himself.

It was just a vague feeling.

What bothered him more was the strange, inexplicable thought that lingered in the back of his mind: he seemed to have overlooked an important clue.

He'd missed