Qi Yan's icy voice rang out in the Laboratory. "Indeed, a player suddenly vanished in full view of everyone. Unless he could turn invisible, the only other possibility is that the Nightmare World took him away."
Qi Yan stared fixedly at the empty operating table, as though trying to find some clue in the air above it.
Su Bai had indeed treated that player a short while earlier, stripping the power of the low-grade contract from his body in the process. Once its restraints were lifted, it was entirely possible for the Nightmare World to suddenly take the player away. The Nightmare World had always had rules of its own. All Su Bai could do was pray that the player would regain consciousness as soon as possible after being pulled into the Nightmare Game.
Perhaps, for a mutant who had received treatment, the Nightmare Game would be more comfortable than this Laboratory.
That was why Su Bai remained calm when he saw the player on the operating table disappear.
Qi Yan and the others, however, clearly had not anticipated this. As far as they were concerned, the players serving as experimental subjects should have been firmly bound by their contracts. A sudden disappearance like this should have been impossible. The unexpected turn abruptly tightened the atmosphere throughout the Laboratory, filling the air with an eerie silence.
Jiang Hong frowned beside them, confusion flickering in his eyes. "Could our earlier assumption have been wrong? Is this what happens when we keep putting off those experimental subjects' entry into the Nightmare World? They get forcibly pulled in?"
"I thought they would keep putting it off until the day their life force ran out." Jiang Hong stared at the empty operating table.
"Impossible." Qi Yan's tone was utterly certain. He shook his head