That afternoon, Wei Heng found Gu Xi just as she was waking up. "Huang Er sent a reply."
"What did he say?" Gu Xi asked, cradling a bowl of rice porridge and sipping it slowly.
Wei Heng opened his personal terminal and tapped the screen. "He agreed to your terms... And as a show of good faith, he threw in a piece of information for free..."
"Oh?" Gu Xi looked up, raising an eyebrow.
Wei Heng turned the Light Screen to face her. "Huang Er said that the three wanted criminals who were taken away yesterday were locked up in 176 this morning..."
From the tone of his voice, Gu Xi guessed there was more to this "176."
After a moment's thought, she asked, "What is this place, 176?"
Wei Heng lowered his gaze slightly. "Every large base has a 176. It's a place for locking up... monsters."
Gu Xi paused mid-sip.
Yesterday at the South City Restaurant, she hadn't sensed any sign of mutation on those three...
'They were human. Why would they be sent there?'
