Captivated by the Ruler of the Underworld
Chapter 78 Lela Decides to Be Honest

Sunlight...

Lela slowly opened her eyes and reached up with her hand, trying to grab it, but she couldn't, yet she could feel it.

The sunlight was warm.

She liked it very much.

Getting up from the bed, Lela sat as if she hadn't fully awakened from her dream. She touched her face with her hand, but it wasn't damp. She had cried so many times, she couldn't shed tears anymore.

Lela pursed her lips and glanced down at the clothes she had already changed into. She furrowed her brow.

Who changed her clothes?

It didn't matter. She had slept so heavily, she needed to get up.

Lela thought she was in her room, but as she looked around, she saw some cold instruments and her face turned pale.

She felt uncomfortable in this place and she wanted to leave.

With that thought, Lela got off the bed and ran barefoot outside the medical room...

...

Sylvester walked out of the medical laboratory towards the medical room. As he reached the door, he froze with panic in his eyes.

Lela's figure was nowhere to be found on the bed.

His panic escalated, and with a growing sense of disbelief, he frantically searched the room. She wasn't in the bathroom, and there was no trace of her petite presence anywhere in the space. Sylvester almost rushed out of the medical building.

As soon as he ran outside, he froze again.

Outside the medical building was an artificial forest. Lela stood there wearing a pink princess pajama dress, barefoot under the sunlight, her head facing the dappled rays, her eyes slightly closed. Her fair skin seemed to shimmer under the sunlight, like a beautiful nymph in the jungle.

Sylvester was dumbfounded by what he saw.

Sensing someone's eyes on her, Lela dipped her head slightly and shifted her gaze in the direction from which the scrutiny seemed to originate.

She saw the tall Sylvester standing in front of the medical building, his gaze almost infatuated as he looked at her.

It then occurred to Lela that this man had awakened her fearful memories.

He must be bewildered now!

Lela averted her eyes, ignoring him, and turned to run towards the artificial forest.

Sylvester was completely panicked.

Normally, Lela always had him in her eyes and heart, but now she didn't even spare him a glance.

She must be angry.

His face darkened, and he followed after her.

Lela was like a joyful little deer in the forest, running swiftly with a light body. Sylvester had never expected this small presence to be able to run so fast. It felt like a lifetime had passed.

Inside the forest was an artificial pond. Lela stopped running and stood by the water, looking at the scene before her with a touch of nostalgia. Sylvester followed Lela all the way here and watched her back, hesitating to approach.

After much deliberation, he called out, "Little one."

His voice was filled with endless guilt and tenderness.

He wished to express...

"I'm truly sorry," but in that very instant, he grasped the profound powerlessness that these two simple words, "I'm sorry," carried.+

It was him who had turned the little one into this.

Lela didn't turn back, keeping her back to him. After a long moment of consideration, she asked, "Sylvester, are you surprised as to why I am a mutant?"

Knowing Sylvester's methods, it would eventually be discovered, so it was better to tell him in person.

Sylvester was stunned, looking at Lela's figure in disbelief.

The little one was about to confess everything.

Before Sylvester could speak, Lela continued, "Since the age of three, I have been taken away by the research facility. Not just me, but all of my kind were captured, and none except me have survived to this day." "The Immortal Peak regarded as the epitome of the world's research institutions by humans," Lela remarked with a hint of disdain, as she extended her hand to grasp a ray of descending sunlight.

The Immortal Peak symbolizes incompleteness and disaster.

More accurately, it embodies a fusion of imperfection and catastrophe.

She, Lela, stands as the calamity of her entire clan.

What kind of belief is that!

"I was taken away and subjected to non-stop research in various fields," Lela explained, turning around to look at Sylvester.

With her right hand making a cutting gesture towards her left hand, she continued, "So every day, I had to endure hundreds of cuts, fingers and toes chopped off, just to see the results of their research."