Ren had not managed to solve the puzzle in time... Yet, he had never stopped looking for a cure, and the statues remained safely stored in the castle purely due to his stubborn refusal to abandon anyone.
Wei, however, possessed zero time to dwell on the two hugging dormant statues.
He had Finch and Klein laid out flat on the heavy analytical tables. Both young men exhibited the exact same wrong, unnatural tremor. The same microscopic thread of pure corruption was actively coiling itself deep within their systems, anchoring in a location the advanced instruments could barely register. It was a subtle, insidious anomaly that they had been completely unable to perceive prior to the sudden power spike in the mutant horde.
So he connected the golden network to their bodies.
