This world seemed to keep repeating certain things: death, fate, tragedy.
As Gao Ming listened to Fu Shu's account, he even began to suspect that everything he had experienced was a false, recurring dream. Perhaps he really had died at some point.
He had truly died when the first loop began, and every restart afterward was merely a fantasy born of obsession.
"Number Two is hidden in that place. Supposedly, it holds Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals' darkest secrets." Fu Shu had yet to notice Gao Ming's strange state. Filled with hatred for the company's executives, he said grimly, "Getting to that room between existence and nonexistence is difficult, but I happen to know a way."
"You know how to get to that room?"
"Through the nightmares deep in people's hearts, you can find the only door at the edge of reality. Put more simply, the path to that room is hidden in the dreams of a few Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals executives." Fu Shu strained to recall. "I can't be certain which person it is, but I can give you a few possible names—Du Jing, Number Zero, Li Xinchen, Tang Ling, and Wan Jie."
"Du Jing is a friend of my grandfather's, and the longest-lived person to have appeared publicly in Xinhu. No one knows exactly how long she's been alive. Right now, she seems to be cooperating with experiments in some Level Five Laboratory."
"At Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals, Number Zero isn't merely a designation. The Saviors' experiment designation used to be zero. After all the Saviors entered the deep world, that designation was stolen. No one knows what face lies behind it now. The sad thing is, the vast majority of people within the company think the current Number Zero is the same Number Zero who saved Xinhu."
"As for Li