"Yes, you're repeating what's in the Florist's Diary, saying there's an even deeper world within despair. Darkness, Blood City—one alarm after another."
Chen Bing took a sip of tea and handed Xue Se a document. "I've asked everything you wanted to know. After Banban and Doctor Gao entered the Forest, I kept a team behind them to monitor them. I'm the reason they made it out alive. You'd be better off asking me than interrogating that idiot."
"So I should thank you, then?" Xue Se glared at him. He had a terrible temper, and apparently always had. Even in dreams, he was an thoroughly unpleasant fellow.
Flipping through the document, Xue Se discovered that Chen Bing had also highlighted a key point—Doctor Gao could interact normally with a Core Patient, and he had performed the final procedure alone.
"That guy can withstand a highly pathogenic, infectious mental illness? Was he born with antibodies? Or did he take medication, like Banban said?" Xue Se felt as though he had latched onto something. He took the documents away, only opening his phone again once he reached his office to read the last message Doctor Gao had sent him.
"His secret is hidden in that Man-Eating Room?" Xue Se didn't believe for a second that any room in the world could eat people. He felt it was another hallucination caused by some kind of mental mutation, or perhaps a deranged cannibal was behind it.
"What exactly did that guy see after establishing a shared brain with the Core Patient?"
Xue Se was intensely curious. He even wanted to risk establishing a shared brain with the brain Doctor Gao had left behind, but given its unusual nature, the Police Station probably wouldn't approve.
"A shared brain..." Xue Se unconsciously began centering his thoughts on