An Zhe hadn’t slept for 20 hours. It had been around five or six hours since the incident with Madam Lu and it was now midnight. He didn’t reveal anything to the doctor so once the time limit passed, the senior colonel lost all patience and ordered he must be tortured to extract a confession.

The interrogation room was well-equipped and the method of human torture didn’t cause blood and flesh to fly. It was very civilized and in the form of electrocution. The current passing through his body felt like thousands of highly venomous ants gnawing at the nerves in his entire body at the same time.

It hurt. He had never experienced such pain before.

An Zhe closed his eyes and gasped, trembling all over as sweat flowed down his body, every skin cell twitching. Had his spore ever been treated like this in the laboratory? Perhaps.

An Zhe lost almost all sober consciousness in the midst of the boundless pain. He mind was chaotic and he seemed to think a lot, but he didn’t know what he was thinking. He just felt it was very important.

He didn’t know how long it had been. This painful ordeal stretched out every second and was as long as a lifetime. Suddenly, he heard a noise coming from the corridor outside.

“Doctor—the frequency of the magnetic field is increasing!”

This shout that was like thunder sobered up An Zhe’s mind. The atmosphere of the interrogation room also changed. An Zhe’s heart jumped a few times. The magnetic field frequency was increasing, meaning the magnetic field was recovering. This meant the Underground City Base had been saved. It also meant that Lu Feng was coming back, if he was still alive.

The doctor’s eager voice could be heard. “Increasing? Isn’t this a big deal? Can it be restored to the normal frequency?”

“I don’t know.” Someone unknown replied. “However, the aurora has already appeared and the frequency fluctuations show that the Underground City Base is performing a manual frequency modulation, indicating that they are safe.”

“My god…” The doctor’s voice trembled. “It… it was really saved. Communication? Is communication restored? Quickly contact the military and have them open an emergency channel. What happened here was too big. We have to tell Lu—”

“Doctor.” Seraing suddenly interrupted. He whispered, “I just received an urgent message from the military, telling us that we’re not to contact the colonel in any form.”

There was a brief silence before the doctor asked, “Why?”

“I…I don’t know.” Seraing stuttered. “Perhaps it is because of Madam Lu and An Zhe.”

In a flash, An Zhe suddenly remembered what he had been thinking about. He was the one who stole the important sample. Madam Lu was a heterogenous who infected the Garden of Eden. Both he and Madam Lu had a direct connection to Lu Feng.