After paying his respects to his fallen brothers, Jiang Chen returned to the Military Region Hospital.
Dozens of men had sacrificed their lives for him, and he felt consumed by self-reproach and guilt. He knew he had to live on, to carry the mission of those dozens of men and use his own body to protect the country.
In the hospital ward, Jiang Chen retrieved the box he had recovered from the underground cavern. It was black, covered in intricate, mysterious patterns. The box was hermetically sealed with no keyhole, yet careful observation revealed a series of tiny pinholes on its surface. Jiang Chen had noticed them earlier, but the chaos that had erupted in the cavern had left him no time to study or contemplate them.
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