“Let’s stop here for now. It’s time for breakfast. Not eating properly will affect your development, and you must develop well.”
The Female Dean said, pulling him up.
Xin Nan felt that this person really liked such intimate gestures.
He could feel that the Dean was a very powerful Transcender, yet she could patiently and continuously interpret his problems and had been encouraging Xin Nan in her own way.
“Although it seems perverted, she appears to be a very gentle person.”
As he was thinking this, Xin Nan heard a voice from the whale behind her—What a cute test subject.
Heh, as if I didn't say anything.
The conversation was now over, and Xin Nan, having understood his environment, couldn't help but voice the request he had suppressed for a long time.
“Can I contact the outside world now?”
The Female Dean patted his head, realizing something.
“You want to call your Younger Sister?”
“Yes.”
Xin Nan’s only relative, and the existence he wanted to protect.
Although she was aloof, and although she had grown up alongside a terrifying monster, she was someone Xin Nan had watched grow with his own eyes and had taken care of for six full years since she was eight.
That little monster was his responsibility.
After their parents had died, it was a responsibility he had to bear.
“What? So you’re a siscon? Hahaha, but she’s very cute, that child.”
Siscon?
That wasn't it at all. His relationship with her wasn't good; after all, he always wanted to discipline her, and he was afraid of her because of the monster in her background painting.
Such complicated emotions could not be hidden between two people who spent all their time together.
That was why she didn't want to return home after entering junior high, preferring to live in the school dormitory.
Xin Nan ignored the Dean’s teasing and reached out, saying, “So, the phone.”
“Hehe, you’ve wanted to contact her for a long time, haven’t you? But because of the unfamiliar environment and my sudden appearance, you chose to observe first, and then you told me all this? Don’t suppress your emotions, it’s very dangerous, boy.”
A trace of strangeness arose in Xin Nan’s heart. Don’t forget, he also understood Psychology, and due to being studied by others for many years, he was very sensitive to this aspect.
Was the Dean trying to study his psychological reactions through this probing?
The research into his psychological state had probably already begun.
From this perspective, she was indeed a psychologist.
Xin Nan extended his hand without a word, his expression unchanged.
“Alright, alright, here you go, little guy.”
The Dean handed him a mobile phone. Watching Xin Nan take it, her gaze dimmed slightly, as if she had thought of something.
Xin Nan, meanwhile, had already dialed the number and sent a text message.
I’m fine.
After a long while, a reply came back—I know.
Xin Nan closed the phone with satisfaction.
The Dean beside him couldn't help but comment.
“Tsk tsk, I thought you two would have some earth-shattering exchange. Normally, shouldn’t you be more excited? At least make a phone call.”
Is that necessary?
But this was how he communicated with his Younger Sister.
So he handed the phone back and said:
“I want to see Yan Yu. I wonder if she’s in the hospital now?”
“She is. That girl decided to join us three days ago, starting her emotional sedimentation accumulation even earlier than you.”
“To touch the Veil of Reason earlier, she is now undergoing training in a Containment Facility under our Materialist Bureau, which you can think of as a cell. You’ll see her during breakfast.”
Another term the Female Dean mentioned caught his attention.
“Containment Facility?”
“Yes, the essence of being Transcendent isn't just about making the element itself indestructible; sometimes, the carrier of the element is also indestructible. Those Aberrations that are difficult or impossible to destroy are what we call Weirdness. When we face things that cannot be resolved by force, we can only consider containment.”
“Beneath this Mental Hospital lie many indestructible Weirdness that have been born on the Earth of Yang Province.”
“The most terrifying among them can, in an instant, cause pollution, madness, and mutation in tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people.”
Why would such a dangerous place become Yan Yu’s training ground? Wasn’t she afraid of accidentally releasing something terrifying?
A thought flashed through his mind, and Xin Nan asked curiously, “Could it be that the emotional sedimentation required for her element’s essence is related to fear, struggle, and restraint?”
“That’s right. Speaking of which, you also played a part in it.”
The Female Dean looked at him deeply.
“Since you remember she was very close to you then, you should know how terrified she was. Before her sleepwalking, her Spirituality was not enough to support the wave that could break through the Veil of Reason. But during her sleepwalking, in extreme fear, she finally touched the Essence of the Universe.”
“Her element therefore condensed.”
So, in simple terms, Xin Nan scared her into becoming Transcendent.
This pitiful guy, since meeting Xin Nan, first faced the Boss Lady, then Ye Lan who was already using his power, and finally Xin Nan’s mutation caused by looking directly at an Unspeakable Thing.
It could be said that it was only natural for her to break through to become Transcendent, having endured such dense pollution in just a few hours without going mad or mutating.
The two walked out of the room where Xin Nan had been temporarily resting, and before them was a clean and bright passage. The morning sun in the distance had just risen.
Judging by the positions of other tall buildings around as reference, this was likely in the city center of Yangcheng.
And the excellent soundproofing allowed Xin Nan to not hear the noisy traffic below.
After walking a few steps, the Female Dean suddenly remembered something, turned around, and asked curiously:
“I almost forgot, three days ago, a big event happened, right around the time you mutated.”
Xin Nan’s heart skipped a beat.
“That night, I personally saw the Moon inexplicably turn back to its original position within ten seconds, and then in the past few days, it began to turn again. Also, the Moonlight was stained red by something, and it has been pouring scarlet light for three days. I want to know, before your mutation that day, did you see anything?”
Hesitating for a moment, Xin Nan rehearsed the words in his mind, but still dared not spit them out.
In the end, he raised his right hand, extended his index finger, pointed upwards, drew a circle in the air, grasped the circle with his hand, and finally pressed his hand to his eyes.
The Female Dean was slightly stunned, then her expression became solemn.
She did not press Xin Nan for the specifics of what he had seen.
Because in the field of Transcendent beings, there is a common understanding: that which cannot be spoken must possess unimaginable aspects.
Pressing for details often leads to consequences beyond imagination.
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