After the vacation in Saipan, Alice returned to the Hurricane Group to complete some paperwork. She was expecting to travel back and forth between the mainland and the Hurricane Group for some time afterwards, so that she could monitor the stability of Natalia's condition.
Alice settled into the villa that Gong Jie had purchased for Hua Jin and Natalia. After a few days of monitoring, however, Alice discovered something of relative importance. And that was… Natalia's particular restlessness in the absence of the crystal ball.
At night, the girl had great difficulty falling asleep. Often, even after she had fallen asleep, she would be plagued by nightmares, as revealed by quality-of-sleep tests. Continuous nightmares had a serious impact on the quality of her sleep, and this indirectly led to her fretful mood.
That meant… The crystal ball had some sort of mysterious effect on Natalia.
