Tyranid Biological Signal

The fishing boat silently glided into the private dock of Serene Peak Island, as if unwilling to disturb these waters shrouded in excessive tranquility.

Xisu Star still blazed fiercely, yet its light had strangely lost all warmth, like a cold golden veil lightly draped over everyone's shoulders.

The corpse of the strange fish, imprisoned within a transparent container, gently rose and fell with the antigravity towing device like a massive, slow heartbeat.

Every inch of its skin and every scale spoke of some unnatural origin, becoming a boulder pressing upon the depths of everyone's minds, so heavy it was suffocating.

Auregana rose before the hovercar had even come to a complete stop.

A faint stream of data glimmered deep within her bionic eyes, encrypted data links connecting her directly to the Gabbro in orbit like invisible neural bundles.

Preliminary scan data surged into the shipboard advanced artificial intelligence laboratory like a burst dam, instantly triggering a series of deep-analysis protocols. The hum of the laboratory's server clusters seemed to pierce the clouds and reach the ground.

When she strode into the hastily assembled analysis room, the precision instruments around her seemed to sense her presence and awakened one after another.

Her mechanical fingers danced across the console, so fast they nearly left afterimages. Every movement was as precise as if nanometer-programmed, and tiny arcs of electricity occasionally sprang from her fingertips, reflecting across her focused profile.

Chen Xi did not disturb her.

He stood at the edge of the terrace facing the sea, straight as a blade.

The sea breeze continuously stirred his black coat, yet it could not disperse the deepening gravity between his brows.

The instincts honed through years as an Inquisitor continued to hum within his mind, like a dark and ominous poem of prophecy, every note