Leveraging, Part One

As everyone knew, whether Planet 184 actually had Fission-level behemoth soldiers remained an unsolved mystery.

Of course, Wei He had said this in front of Katri as the research center's overall director.

It was, in truth, a worry born from his care and concern for his subordinates.

So in the end, if they failed to find any behemoth soldiers, no one could blame him for making a mountain out of a molehill.

After all, he was merely too concerned about his subordinates' safety.

Wasn't he?

On Planet 184's surface, in a vast desert thousands of kilometers away from the Whispering Forest.

Ansaya led over thirty body frames as they searched everywhere for the collection task Wei He had assigned them.

Deep within this place known as the Black Wind Desert lived a colony of contaminated beasts called Sand Crabs.

Their task was to capture the Sand Crab king alive and bring it back.

If they only needed to kill it, Ansaya would not have needed to come personally.

But since they needed it alive and had to preserve its body as intact as possible, he naturally had to make the trip himself.

After all, Katri was absent. On the entirety of Planet 184, he and Wei He were nominally equals.

But if Wei He used experimental research needing materials as an excuse, Ansaya could only be forced into letting himself be ordered around.

Whoosh!

Just as the group flew swiftly at low altitude over the dunes, the ground suddenly heaved up in wave after wave of sand.

Yellow crabs over five meters tall forced their way out of the sand and lunged at them.

"Split up and deal with them. I'll handle the largest." Ansaya remained calm.

These monsters were fairly fast, each capable of roughly twice the speed of