Chapter 674:

“Allison, going into the lab is too risky for you,” Kellan insisted. “Let me go instead.”

“No, it’s safer if I go. I’m more familiar with basement level one, and…” She paused. “The people there won’t stop me when they see me.”

Everyone assumed Allison had become acquainted with the first basement’s staff, unaware that it was actually due to Verruckt. Only Kellan sensed something deeper.

He remembered what Jareth had said, and things began to add up.

“Allison, does this so-called leader have other intentions toward you?”

grip on his hand. “Right

at the research institute like clockwork. Each time he arrived, Allison was ordered to stay at her designated station. If she left, Jareth would send someone

in her chair, sometimes even glancing Verruckt’s way with the

“Hello, Mr. Shaw.”

expected, she got

treating her like part of the background, regardless of where she stood — whether in front of the glass cabinets or beside the stacks of

first basement level when Verruckt entered the control room, lingering by the lab entrance as if by chance. Bit by bit, even Jareth seemed to grow used to

fourth day, Jareth approached her with what sounded like

stay on the first basement level. Just steer clear of the second basement — it’s reserved

confusion. “Am I a nuisance

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