Pain.
Pain spread through his entire body.
It was as though he lay in boundless darkness, every inch of skin and every bone crying out in agony. From the crown of his head to the tips of his toes, not a single part of him was spared.
Amid that extreme pain, Bo Yi slowly opened his eyes.
The Laboratory ceiling lay before him. He exhaled softly. Although he had already had certain "expectations" about "having an NPC help remove the chip," knowing that letting an NPC do it might not end well, the pain spreading through his whole body still left him dazed for a moment.
It had been a very, very long time since he had felt this way-
Every part of his body wailed in despair. A boulder seemed to weigh on his chest, leaving him breathless, and every breath brought a tearing pain. His limbs were heavy as lead, his joints throbbing with sharp stabs that felt like fine needle points, yet also like thick chains wound tightly around him, leaving him helpless and unable to move.
Even the beating of his heart brought waves of dull pain.
-as though he had returned to... the childhood he never wanted to remember.
He tried lifting his arm. To his surprise, he could still raise it. For some reason, though, Bo Yi kept feeling that something was wrong, until-
He saw his hand.
"!!!"
Bo Yi's pupils contracted as he stared in shock at a hand the size of a seven- or eight-year-old child's:
Unlike an ordinary child's plump hand, its thin fingers and scrawny back were covered in large bruises and marks left by needles and tubes. Below it, his slender wrist bore the marks of restraints, as well as a metal identification tag.
Bo Yi looked at