"Haha, that's really great." Ji Minghuan rolled his eyes, "Knowing I won't be secretly killed by you all, I can sleep peacefully at night."
"Heh... let's end this conversation here, get some rest." With that, the Mentor quickly left, and then the cold-colored lamps in the dome gradually went out row by row.
In the pitch-black confinement room, Ji Minghuan sat quietly for a while, then lay back on the bed.
In the darkness, his consciousness gradually deepened and he fell asleep.
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July 10, 2020, the time is 3:30 PM.
China, Li Jing, Gu Yima District, inside a three-story residential building.
[Welcome back, consciousness has been loaded into Game Character No.1 — "Gu Wenyu."]
[Due to increased fame, the codename for this game character has been updated.]
[Your current codename is — "Black Cocoon"]
Listening to the cold prompt, a young man in a hoodie opened his eyes in the room.
He stared at the ceiling for a moment, his eyes slowly becoming clear.
Sitting up straight, he was greeted by a clean room. In the dead silence, the electronic screen flickered with black and white snowflake patterns. The television hissed, creating subtle, fragmentary noise.
Turning his head to look outside the window, it was midsummer, the clear sky was vast, and the sunlight entering the room was slightly blinding, so bright it made one momentarily dazed. The warm wind carrying the breath of summer blew through the branches, while the cicadas chirred incessantly.
After a moment, Ji Minghuan came to his senses.
He lifted his hands and lowered his eyes as the pitch black restraint erupted from his body surface, then snaked out from the sleeves of his clothes like black snakes, tirelessly coiling around him.
One of the restraint belts uniquely extended upwards, its end sticking to the ceiling before hoisting his body up, flipping it once in mid-air.
The remaining restraint belts began to spread outward, forming a ring. They eventually created a black circle, enveloping his inverted body within. Then, numerous restraint belts abruptly retracted inward, tightly adhering to Ji Minghuan's body, wrapping him into a giant "cocoon."
That other restraint belt remained attached to the ceiling, keeping the "cocoon" securely suspended below.
Stilled beneath the ceiling, the boy's body was shrouded in the cocoon's darkness. After a while, the restraint covering his head opened a narrow slit like a mask.
Through this slit, his eyes motionlessly observed the full-length mirror in the room, scrutinizing the reflection of himself on the mirror's surface.
The appearance in the mirror, and the photo of the Superpower User pressed on the table by the Mentor...
Could be said to be exactly the same.
"'Black Cocoon'... In less than half a day, they gave me a codename, how interesting."
Ji Minghuan softly mumbled to himself, moving his gaze impassively away from the mirror.
"Step by step, the primary goal is to find the exact location of that laboratory, and after that, try to discreetly bring my 'real body' and Kong Youling out."
At this moment, the pitch black restraint frenziedly recoiled towards his sleeves, like snakes returning to their nest.
Without support, Ji Minghuan's body inevitably fell from mid-air, and with a dull thud, spread out onto the soft bed, raising an arm to slowly cover his forehead and eyes.
Recalling Kong Youling's face, a glimpse of violent intent flashed across the corner of his eyes.
"In the end... if absolutely necessary, slaughter them all."