"oh?"

Li Yun immediately turned over and sat up, looking at Dr. Schmidt with sharp eyes.

"It's only been a week. Is little Sigor going to wake up soon?"

"……Yes."

Dr. Schmidt nodded, then said helplessly, "Perhaps due to the influence of the last time I met you, 2-239's mental state was a little too active during her sleep, resulting in her sleep lasting only eighty hours this time."

"According to the observers' estimation, she will wake up in about thirty... no, twenty-four minutes."

"Considering that this anomaly is most likely related to you, the top brass at the base has decided to let you meet her again."

Li Yun laughed and said, "What kind of logic is this? The top management guessed that it was my influence, so why did they still let me meet her?"

Dr. Schmidt sighed helplessly and said, "What else?"

"Letting you meet her can at least have a positive impact. If you are really isolated, the higher-ups are worried that 2-239 will cry and make a scene. The negative impact and reality distortion that would result from this would be much more serious than letting you meet!"

Too……

Li Yun nodded, and then immediately put the books into the storage space, stood up and said with a smile: "What are you waiting for, let's go now!"

…

…

Not long after, in the containment room made of mind-isolating alloy, a little blonde girl with a face as delicate as a doll, hugging soft bedding, slowly opened her eyes and lay on her side with a dazed look on her face.

Of all the reality benders that the organization has contained, 2-239 is the youngest in terms of mental abilities.

She only has the intelligence level of an eight-year-old, and according to the organization's observations, her mind seems to never grow and she will always be an eight-year-old girl.

This is both bad news and good news for organizations.

The bad news is that her mental state is not stable enough and may cause reality distortion at any time.

The good news is that her young mind makes it easy for her to believe what adults say.

The base personnel used this to fabricate a complete past and told 2-239 that she was actually a witch.

In addition to stabilizing her mental state, this also made her believe that she had to recite a 'spell' before using her abilities.

All 'spells' are provided by organization personnel and are reviewed and approved in advance.

In addition, the researchers also told her that this was a world without magic. In order to keep her magic power from being exhausted, she had to stay in this magic house and sleep for twenty-nine days every month to restore her magic power.

Using hypnotic and anesthetic gases, the researchers successfully artificially put her into a 'magic exhaustion' sleep, and convinced her of this setting after she woke up.

From then on, magic power really emerged in her body, and just as it was set, she would sleep for twenty-nine days every month.

This phenomenon makes the containment procedures of 2-239 simpler.

It was not until a week ago that 2-239, who had just awakened, met Li Yun.

That meeting was not really that special. The only special thing was that Li Yun, who met her, appeared in the containment room instead of sitting outside the glass window like other researchers.

Researchers speculate that it might have been this unprecedented close communication that caused 2-239's mental state to fluctuate, causing her to wake up prematurely without having slept for twenty-nine days.

Soon, the little blonde girl sat up from her bed, raised her little hands, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and then looked around with a slightly dazed look.

At the same time, outside the one-way glass window, Li Yun looked at the white single room in front of him with a complicated expression.

Different from his luxuriously decorated residence, Room 2-239 was extremely simple. Apart from tables, chairs and beds, there were no other furniture in the room, let alone any entertainment facilities.

This is because although 2-239 already believes that she is a witch, her subconscious mind still affects reality.

Any object around her, even a stuffed animal, will become her companion or spiritual sustenance in this situation, causing reality distortion, making the stuffed animal come alive.

Worse still, when 2-239 views his stuffed animal as a protector, it becomes omnipotent, even causing a serious containment breach at another base.

As for other entertainment facilities, such as television or fairy tales, they are even worse.

Every time Li Yun mentioned this matter to Dr. Schmidt, the other party's face would change drastically.

Apparently, 2-239 had had a serious accident with this sort of thing.

Li Yun was curious and asked again and again, only to find out that one Christmas several years ago, an unknown researcher who had been fired told the story of "Santa Claus" to 2-239 out of soft-heartedness.

Since then, there has been a new humanoid anomaly on Earth.

Moreover, this anomaly came and went without a trace, possessing a powerful "magic" that could appear at the bedside of any child, and had not yet been caught by the containment personnel of the Ninth Category Affairs Company...

"Remember, you can only have the most basic conversations with 2-239. Any unnecessary conversations may lead to serious consequences. By then, even I will find it difficult to guarantee your freedom of movement!"

Dr. Schmidt whispered instructions to Li Yun.

Li Yun agreed with a smile, and then walked into the corridor where the mind-isolating alloy was cast under the supervision of many researchers.

Passing through many alloy doors, Li Yun walked into the extremely monotonous white room.

The little blond girl sitting in the bed immediately became excited as soon as she saw him, her originally depressed spirit.

She jumped down from the bed, ran to Li Yun with her bare feet, raised her head, and said happily: "Li, you come to see me again!"

"yes."

Li Yun smiled and stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to rub her head.

But then he suppressed the impulse, smiled and sat on the only chair in the room.

Seeing this scene, Dr. Schmidt and the researchers outside the window couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"How was your sleep this time?"

Li Yun asked with a smile.

The blonde girl sat on the bed, swinging her legs and pouting, "Well, I feel a little tired."

Li Yun smiled and said, "That may be because you haven't slept enough for twenty-nine days, and the magic power in your body is not enough to support your activities."

"……Yeah?"

The little blonde girl blinked her emerald green eyes, and the magic power in her body began to fluctuate rapidly, soon dropping to the level of seven days of sleep. It seemed that she was really becoming a little sleepy as Li Yun said.

It was obvious that the child had complete trust in Li Yun's words.

Li Yun actually felt a little guilty about this.

However, now is not the time to tell little Xigeol the truth.

At least under that guy's nose, you must not do anything out of line.

Thinking of this, Li Yun couldn't help but glance at the man standing next to Dr. Schmidt outside the window.

His name is Madden, codenamed "Observer". When Li Yun had contact with other anomalies before, this man named Madden had actually been among the crowd nearby.

But for some reason, Li Yun always easily ignored his existence.

Until the last time he had contact with Sigor, when he was trying to communicate secretly with Sigor using his spiritual sense, this guy named Madden suddenly spoke up to stop him.

This means that Madden can at least sense or even observe his outward spiritual consciousness.

It was after this incident that Li Yun began to pay special attention to this "Observer" whose presence was minimal.

Then he discovered that this guy seemed to have an aura similar to that of the [Crimson Devil].

In addition, whenever Li Yun did something out of the ordinary, one could sense a vague sense of threat from him.

It is obvious that this man named Madden definitely possesses an extremely powerful abnormal ability, and is very likely the real supervisor hidden behind the Purple Fire Team.

Thinking of this, Li Yun stopped looking at Madden out of the corner of his eye, and instead continued chatting with Xiao Xigor with a smile.

After a while, the little blonde girl rubbed her eyes and seemed to have become extremely sleepy.

Li Yun stood up with a smile, picked up the little blonde girl in the nervous and astonished eyes of Dr. Schmidt and others, then put her on the bed, covered her with a quilt, and tucked in the corners of the quilt.

Little Xigor opened her eyes wide and stared at Li Yun's every move. A strange emotion seemed to rise in her heart.

Before this emotion could really ferment, Li Yun smiled and put his hand on her head, gently stroking her soft golden hair, and said with a smile: "Go to sleep obediently, I will come again after you wake up."

The gentle words interrupted the little blonde girl's thoughts.

"……Um."

She blinked her emerald eyes, nodded heavily, and then obediently closed her eyes with a happy smile.

Soon, the little blonde girl fell into a deep sleep, her mental state gradually returned to normal, and the reality distortion index around her finally stabilized.

Seeing the index fluctuations on the screen in front of him, Dr. Schmidt breathed a sigh of relief.

The many base personnel who were watching nearby also relaxed from their tense state.

"laugh--"

The alloy door opened and Li Yun walked out with a smile.

Dr. Schmidt came forward and complained, "I told you not to do unnecessary things, why didn't you listen?"

Li Yun glanced at him and said, "Isn't this good? Or do you have a better way to make Xiao Xigeol fall asleep as soon as possible?"

"You know that's not what I'm talking about." Dr. Schmidt frowned and said, "Let alone your dangerous behavior of touching 2-239, just the last sentence you said makes me suspicious..."

At this point, Dr. Schmidt sighed and said, "Li, we are old friends. Just speak your mind. Your last words forced us to arrange for you to meet again when 2-239 wakes up next time."

"Lee, I really want to know why you want to meet 2-239 so much?"