The Collapse of Dreams

"Team Leader, what should we do?"

"Jailbreak, jailbreak, I want to go home." The Team Leader muttered stiffly.

Before the truth had been confirmed, when he said "jailbreak," there had still been a hint of self-mockery in it. But now, his heart was dead. He truly wanted to flee far away from this place...

No one could endure this kind of deception. The more they had given, the deeper they had been wounded.

"We were thinking about humanity's future. All they thought about was locking us up..."

When a group of idealists' dreams shattered, they could become more extreme than anyone else.

Hu Le had originally been one of those idealists as well.

As an air of despair spread through the Meeting Room, he should have fallen into self-doubt along with the other team members. Yet at that moment, he was inexplicably calm.

"What's wrong with me?"

He touched his chest. His heart was not beating particularly fast.

"It seems like... I'm not very surprised..."

It was as though he had long known that Dream City was a prison. When he saw the information on the electronic screen, he had not been greatly shaken.

Rather than receiving new information, it felt more like memories were slowly surfacing from the depths of his mind. That was why he had accepted it faster than everyone else on the team.

Though he was still despairing, though all his efforts had come to nothing, it did not hurt quite as much as it should have.

Hu Le even realized that he felt somewhat detached, as though none of this was particularly important. Standing among the others, he felt strangely out of place...

As Hu Le wondered why he was so calm, the Team Leader suddenly grabbed his hand.

"Hu Le, is this real?"

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