He carefully applied two layers of camouflage film to the surface of the Mysterious Card, turning it into an utterly ordinary Three-Star Energy Card. To throw others off, Chen Mu had deliberately put several more Three-Star Energy Cards in his card pouch. With real and fake mixed together, telling them apart became even harder. Following the earlier example, Chen Mu had made a remarkably convincing counterfeit. Even he would have struggled to pick the Mysterious Card out from the other Three-Star Energy Cards without examining them closely.
Once he finished, Chen Mu breathed a small sigh of relief. Rather than immediately accepting a commission, he gave himself a thorough examination. Over the past week, nothing like the incident on the long Shuttlecraft had happened again. That hair-thin Green Line had vanished without a trace, and his body appeared completely normal.
In truth, Chen Mu very much wanted to cut open the muscle in his arm and pull out the Green Line. It was the only solution he could think of. But now that the Green Line had suddenly hidden itself, leaving no trace, he could do nothing.
His heart was full of worry. The sudden pain that day had nearly brought him down. The thought that these symptoms might recur regularly sent a chill through him.
Forget it. Stop thinking about it.
Chen Mu soon adjusted his mindset. He had already harbored a vague suspicion, so when he actually had to face it, he found he was not as frightened as he had imagined.
To some extent, he had long since grown accustomed to a life filled with helplessness, accustomed to facing things beyond his control.
He promptly put the problem out of his mind. Since he could think of no solution, what was the point of dwelling on it?