Martin grabbed her icy foot and yanked her out of the pillar of light's range, split open the wall, and dragged her outside.
The white pillar of light behind him had already spread throughout the entire room.
Watching the strange woman lying motionless in the corridor, Martin remained on guard and assumed a stance ready to attack at any moment.
After about a minute, the strange woman on the ground's eyelids twitched slightly.
Mental fluctuations appeared from her, who had originally been in a deathly still state.
Another three minutes passed.
The woman opened her eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling. There was not the slightest hint of emotion or thought in them—not even the panic, attack, or confusion Martin had expected.
As though she had no desires or demands, she simply lay there quietly.
Martin's heart sank at once. This is bad!
This strange woman had clearly been exposed to the white pillar of light for too long. In that thoughtless state, she had remained dormant for far too long.
She had become an idiot!
Her brain might even have forgotten how to think!
"Can you speak?" Martin poked her with his foot, as though poking an animal.
"Speak!"
"Can you hear me? Give me some kind of response. Hey."
Faced with Martin's prodding, the woman finally shifted her gaze from the ceiling to Martin beside her.
":\2`5N$}(|#w:j"d." The woman made a sound.
Her eyes were utterly dull and vacant, and her face was completely stiff. The sentence came from her throat; it seemed she did not need to open her mouth to pronounce it.
Instead, she relied on the forked tongue in her throat, like a snake's tongue.
Martin was at a loss for words. He could not understand what she had said at all, but the