Bai Ye tapped his fingertips against the matte metal rail beside the hospital bed. The crisp tapping spread slowly through the recovery room, which was quiet enough to hear the drip of the IV.
He looked up at Gao Shanhe, his gaze passing over the lingering weakness on the man's pale face, and said thoughtfully, "Two things."
Gao Shanhe perked up at once and struggled to sit a little straighter, making the transparent IV tube sway gently.
"Just say the word, Mr. Cunning Rabbit!"
"The first concerns the forbidden domain."
Gao Shanhe looked slightly puzzled. "The forbidden domain? You mean the forbidden domain that caused the great cataclysm?"
Bai Ye nodded, not at all surprised that he knew about the forbidden domain. A figure as important as North Mang's richest man would naturally know many secrets.
"The forbidden domain opened again recently."
"What!?" Gao Shanhe's expression changed sharply.
From his reaction, Bai Ye knew that he, too, had been unaware of the forbidden domain reopening.
"Some Transcendents have already been infected with forbidden aura. Even the nightmare virus in your body is connected to it.
"By the way, how did you contract the nightmare virus?"
Gao Shanhe forced down his shock. A bitter smile tugged at his lips, and his voice grew quieter. "I don't know how I caught it either. A while ago, I went to sleep as usual, only to find myself plagued by nightmares.
"I suspect someone used a taboo object to harm me, or a Transcendent was behind it."
Bai Ye pondered this. Gao Shanhe wasn't a Transcendent, so in theory, he couldn't be infected with forbidden aura. The forbidden aura in his body had been carried there by the nightmare virus.
Could a Transcendent infected with forbidden aura have done this?
"Who do you think