Half an hour later.
Experiment ground's stone house.
Four people were bound together in pairs, with rags stuffed in their mouths. Paliya slowly woke from her unconscious state.
In the dimly lit room, lights flickered, and tables laden with various experimental tools stood before them, stained with copious dark red blood traces.
Paliya heard one voice asking another.
It was a young male voice.
"Why are there only three rules to meditation?"
"I... I don't know, I only know that if I do as our mentor says, I can feel the fluctuations."
"What are the fluctuations? Some kind of vibration?"
"I don't know, I really don't know, please let me go! I've told you everything I can!! I've said everything!!" The male mage who was being questioned cried bitterly, letting out a wail of despair throughout the room.
"No, I have a greater interest in you," Li Chengyi was still smiling.
"You said earlier that you like music?"