Lin Mu's voice made everyone open their eyes, and for the first time in a week, they spoke.
"Finally!" Meng Bai exclaimed. "This is so much better! I felt like I was suffocating!" The boy let out all the frustration that had been building up inside him.
"Amitabha, while I am not one to speak much, just the feeling of being watched was far worse," Monk Hushu added, his voice laced with quiet relief.
"That was tiring," Daoist Chu admitted with a sigh. "If it weren't for the alarms, we could have finished the work within a day." His tone carried a note of frustration.
"Yeah, but at least we can move around in the room for now and speak freely," Lin Mu replied.
"Will they not know that we're doing all this, though? Even if you turned it off, won't they come to check?" Meng Bai asked, his brow furrowed.
"No, we changed the array so that it simply loops three days of recordings. To them, it will just seem like we're sitting around cultivating," Lin Mu explained.
