Everyone watching the recording fell silent as Victor and Cecilia instinctively turned toward Leah.
Sensing their gazes, Leah, who had not taken her eyes off the man in the image, spoke in a plain tone of voice.
"I don't know him."
The man was in his twenties and was male, so there was no possibility that anyone could mistake him for Elena.
Yet the strangest thing was that when the authorization crystal displayed that name, no one around him reacted. The guards did not ask any questions, and the other researchers did not even look at him, as though the words "Elena Vane" had never appeared before their eyes.
"Amplify the sound," Victor suddenly said.
The knight operating the crystal obeyed, and the background noise faded. Within the recording, a guard accepted the young man's identity card and casually remarked, "Researcher Ron, you're here early today."
The man smiled. "The sooner we finish, the sooner I can go back to sleep."
Ron?
