Infant

The east coast where the black gas descended lay about ten kilometers inland from Huaxia Country's landing shoals. The terrain first rose gradually before suddenly dropping steeply.

After passing through a small forest, a sunken region of the island resembling the hollow of a mountain came into view.

Within this basin stood a built-up area resembling human society. An ordinary town occupied a large stretch of land, but every building here had been constructed from sand-like metal scattered across the ground, and even the roads were paved with the same metal.

It was a town made entirely of metal.

The black mist gradually descended onto the town's streets, its aura drawing inward as it slowly condensed into the form of a middle-aged woman in her forties. She wore a long white maternity dress, her skin rosy and supple. Her abdomen was slightly swollen, with faint bulges suggesting a child kicking inside. She looked to be around eight months pregnant.

There was nothing particularly eye-catching about the woman. Even in human society, she would have been nothing more than an ordinary pregnant woman.

The entire town appeared to have been abandoned for a long time, with no one living there anymore. The woman, her belly swollen, walked toward a several-story building beside her.

She stopped before a room on the third floor. Its door was tightly locked, and something unspeakable seemed to be hidden inside.

The woman raised her somewhat fleshy right arm, and a strip of flesh extended from her fingertip and inserted itself into the lock.

Crack! The iron lock opened.

When the woman pushed open the door, the building looked ordinary from the outside, but its interior differed greatly from a normal human room. Most bizarrely, three humanoid metal containers hung upside down from the ceiling of the