Chapter 1042: Arguments
Perhaps because the young woman's voice was too soft, or perhaps because Victoria's attention had already shifted elsewhere, she did not immediately grasp what the young woman meant. She merely stared at the opened door.
The thought that the reason so many Quicksilver Needles had defected might be hidden behind that door made her hold her breath.
"Are you listening?" the young woman asked again.
"What?"
"I was just telling you about..."
"Constraint Time?" Victoria glanced at the girl. "What about Constraint Time?"
The other woman shook her head. "...Never mind. This way."
She pressed a switch on the wall, and a corridor leading deeper underground lit up section by section. There were no longer any heavy blast doors here. It looked like an underground research station.
"What I'm about to show you is something we have never shown anyone else before. You'll understand."
The farther they went, the more Victoria felt that the place resembled the Chelated Being combat rooms at the Reserve Base—the places where those Quicksilver Needles underwent their Secondary Awakening. Yet there was hardly anyone here. The entire snow-white corridor held only the two of them as visitors.
The young Quicksilver Needle arrived at a laboratory and pressed a switch. A beam of harsh light shone on a cage farther ahead. Victoria saw a disheveled child curled up inside. He had been asleep in the darkness, but the sudden light hit his face, making him raise both hands to shield himself.
"Who is that?"
"An example we brought back from the southern part of District 12," the young woman said. "Wait a moment."
The young woman flipped several levers, and the spotlight aimed at the cage grew brighter. The boy, abruptly awakened, also noticed the visitors in the distance. He began furiously pounding