Had Miss Beigong Ling's interrogation ended just like that?
-Of course not.
Just as Beigong Ling had guessed, Jonas had indeed tried many ways to weaken her psychological defenses, including their conversation just now.
Most of what Jonas wanted to know could be learned from Beigong Ling... so he had no intention of letting her go before he had wrung every last bit of value out of her.
Meanwhile, in the detention room, Beigong Ling's thoughts still lingered on what he had just said.
She did not understand how Jonas knew those secrets, and those unknown factors cast a shadow over his identity and intentions.
Even when she forced herself not to think about his questions, Beigong Ling could not help recalling that day buried deep in her memory.
An endless day, light and shadow, humans... and many indescribable creatures.
That was the day she had awakened, when an ordinary girl had been chosen as humanity's future... and the beginning of every strange thing that had happened to Beigong Ling since.
Although she had forgotten almost everything that had actually happened that day, Beigong Ling still remembered what those figures of light and shadow had called her.
"Forerunner."
The restorer of the old civilization's glory, the forerunner of the new civilization's development.
She was certain it had not been a dream... just as she still could not explain the strange things happening to her.
As that intuition led her down the right path time and again, Beigong Ling gradually came to believe in that identity.
-She was the Forerunner of human civilization.
This was the secret hidden in the deepest recesses of her memory, an identity she could not reveal even in death.
But now, someone else knew that secret... and he was an enemy with whom she had a