Lu Yuan's heart sank halfway the moment he realized where he was.
But now was not the time to think about that, because leaving was impossible at this moment.
Since this thing could not affect him, he might as well take this chance to figure out what had happened to the Tower of Erudition.
Lu Yuan pushed that sense of oppression to the back of his mind.
His attention returned to the twenty-three rigs in the inner circle.
Twenty-three students. Perhaps only these twenty-three students had qualified.
Their brains were still active, but their bodies had been hollowed out, replaced by worms, and remade into vessels.
All of this had been authorized by the Empire.
As Lu Yuan looked at those rigs, an indescribable emotion welled up inside him.
At that moment, the Symbiotic Link throbbed violently.
The Worm of Knowledge completely woke from its slumber. Clearly, it had sensed those Knowledge-Derived Worms as well.
But the Worm of Knowledge reacted only with disgust. Clearly, Lu Yuan had overlooked one detail all along.
His Worm of Knowledge seemed completely different from the worms Laurina and those students had researched.
His worm had been fished out of the Sea of Knowledge, while Laurina and the others had created theirs through knowledge conversion.
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan gently soothed the Worm of Knowledge.
The little thing clearly did not want to look any longer. It curled up in the deepest part of his left eye, shrinking itself into a single point.
Lu Yuan withdrew his attention from the Symbiotic Link.
At that moment, the barrier around the inner circle became hazy again. Clearly, the adjustments inside had ended.
He looked away.
Closest to him was a square-faced Night Watcher, a man in his early thirties. The square-faced Night Watcher seemed to