Chapter 381

"If I have been dwelling in darkness, please don't expose me to the light... If you choose to bring me into the light, don't then thrust me back into the darkness where I can't even see my own hands." Suddenly, the room's lights flickered on, revealing a pure white wall. To my shock, I found these two sentences written on the wall in what appeared to be blood. My eyes struggled to adjust to the sudden brightness, causing me to instinctively shut them. I was overcome by such intense fear that I began trembling uncontrollably. Wiping away the tears caused by the intense light, I nervously observed my surroundings. I awoke on an old operating table, my wrist adorned with an IV needle. Looking upwards, I discovered it to be connected to a nutrient drip designed for vegetative patients. This was the same drip that had sustained me when I was preserved and exhibited in a glass display. I looked down at my body in fear. My clothes were gone, replaced by a hospital gown. Panicked, I hastil