An Zhe froze. He looked up and saw a door on the other side of the glass open. Seraing and another judge came out and stood behind the doctor. He stared at the side of his interrogation room that was a smooth mirror.

“It is a one-way mirror. Seraing has been watching you,” the doctor explained.

Seraing watched An Zhe. “According to the rules of the Trial Court, I still think he is human.”

“I think so as well.” The doctor seemed to finally sigh with relief. “Even Lu Feng left An Zhe safely by his side.”

“Lu Feng…” Suddenly, the doctor’s eyes widened. “If Madam Lu was already infected and gradually became stimulated, infecting Sinan without losing her mind completely, why didn’t Lu Feng see it?”

“Sorry,” Seraing lowered his eyelids and stated, “The Trial Court can never judge if the ladies of the Garden of Eden are infected or not.”

The doctor hesitated. “Why?”

“The environment in which they grew up is so different from ordinary humans that no woman would meet the standards of the Trial Court.”

The doctor was startled. Five seconds later, he burst out laughing. He bowed his head, his body trembling as his hands clung to the armrest of the chair. He laughed for three minutes before his expression became blank. The colour in his cheeks faded, leaving only paleness.

“The source of the disaster in the outer city not long ago, do you remember?” The doctor suddenly asked.

“I remember.” Seraing replied. “It was the arthropods’ breeding season.”

“This can explain why Madam Lu infected so many people. She wanted to leave the Garden of Eden, whose sole purpose is human reproduction. Even if she abandoned her human form and consciousness for this purpose, so that she could be free… the moment she completely got rid of her human body, she was controlled by the biological instincts of the queen bee… now it is the breeding season of the arthropods. What she did as a human and what she is doing as a queen bee, she…”

The more the doctor spoke, the more intermittent his voice became. In the end, he closed his eyes in pain. “She can never get rid of it.”

After a long silence, his voice was hoarse. “She can’t escape.”

An Zhe’s eyes widened as he realized what the doctor was saying.

A creature’s instinct was to live and to reproduce. No one could escape it. The lady had fallen into it forever. Perhaps it was only in that moment, the fleeting moment when she had become a bee but wasn’t a bee, that she briefly got what she wanted. Then the eternal, ignorant black curtain fell over her eyes.