Irina turned her head slightly and looked at Liam with open surprise.
"How come you don't know these things?" she asked, genuinely confused. "Were you grown in a lab or something?"
Liam did not answer.
He just smiled faintly and kept walking behind her.
But inside his head, her joke did not feel like a joke.
Grown in a lab.
The thought stuck.
His mind drifted back to that day. The day everything changed. The day he was hit by that car. The screech of tires. The sharp impact. The cold pavement against his skin. The feeling of his vision fadind.
He remembered closing his eyes, certain that was it.
And then waking up.
Back in his room.
No hospital. No explanation. No scars.
Just that message floating in front of him.
System awakened.
He knew someone had taken him there. He did not teleport himself. He had been unconscious. But who? And how? And why?
Did someone pick up his body? Did someone experiment on him? Did someone install whatever this system was inside him?
