"Well gee, they really played with fire."
Even Tao Yu was gobsmacked listening to Park Ji-hyun's story.
Able to willingly sacrifice themselves, forcefully withstand the darkness's erosion—can be aptly described as a paragon of virtue—ended up being 'destructively exploited' during a voluntary experiment. Killed the goose that laid the golden eggs and then messed up?
So now the subject is brain-dead, and the suppressed monstrous part has escaped?
What kind of otherworldly operation is this?!
Even the message sent to Xu Yijing was sent by them, just as the subject was on the brink of collapse.
It seems they wanted to capture Xu Yijing to see if they could rekindle the subject's will to live, but before she could arrive, the subject had completely broken down.
After that, Tao Yu started thinking about some of the abnormal aspects of this world.
"Right, this place is a fragment of the world; I can't base my judgements on my past experiences..."