As his hidden memories returned, Bai Xian's face grew more expressive. Uploading memories meant tearing a life apart. To keep anyone from noticing anything wrong, he had never acted again after his surgery.
Wheeled out of the operating room once more, Bai Xian looked at Zhang Mingli with an entirely different gaze: respect, gratitude, excitement. He knew how much torture Zhang Mingli had endured after Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals captured him, and he understood all too well how important what Zhang Mingli was about to do would be to all of Xinhu.
"I've been waiting for this day."
"Everyone died. I thought about dying too, but I had to stay alive."
Dragging his weakened body along, Bai Xian gestured for Gao Ming and Zhang Mingli to take him away. They got into a car and drove to a long-abandoned street in the Old District.
"Most of the memories in Huang Ying's head concern the Saviors, while the information I know concerns the Black Box. Later, we lost contact with the Savior, and people slowly began forgetting him. The memories in my head became all the more important instead." Leaning on a cane, Bai Xian walked down the dilapidated street. It seemed to have once been a secondhand market.
"The Black Box? What's that?" Gao Ming had seen Li Sansi's Black Box inside the Dark Shrine, then encountered Xinhu's Smart Brain beneath the Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals building—a gigantic black cube. They all seemed to be imitating something.
"I can't describe it to you, because I've never seen it either. All I know is that the Savior only became extraordinary after obtaining the Black Box, and this street is where he found it." Bai Xian pushed open a wooden door that had been burned down to half its original size. Inside, the shelves