401 Back To The Land Of The Living

As the door twirled open, a tall woman in a white and pink nurse uniform stepped into the room.

She was carefully reading through the stack of paper that she held in her hands. Suddenly, she froze as she lifted her gaze to look at the patient – me.

"Haa!" The papers dropped to the floor as she covered her mouth, failing to stifle a shocked gasp.

But she quickly regained her composure and addressed me, "Cadet Lucas, you're awake! Please wait here. I need to alert others!"

With that, before I could even ask who these "others" were, she hurriedly left the room in a panic, leaving me bewildered.

"Oh-kay," I frowned, genuinely perplexed by the nurse's erratic behavior. "That was very strange."

Shrugging slightly, I took a hand out from under the blanket and tried to summon a water bottle from my smart bracelet.

But to my dismay, nothing happened – no ethereal sparks appeared, no object manifested, no bottle conjured.

"What the fuck?"