Iron Cells

These were zombies!

He saw quite a few humanoid zombies amid the piles of corpses, even some rare mutant plant zombies.

What on earth had killed these terrifying monsters here?

They had been stacked into a mountain of corpses. The strangeness here was unprecedented.

Or rather, the entire continent had become incomprehensibly bizarre.

"C-Captain, should we retreat?" Someone was trembling with fear as he stared into the gloomy depths of the factory workshop, his legs going weak.

"Let's go in and take another look. If you're afraid of dying, you'll die sooner or later anyway."

A fierce glint flashed through the captain's eyes. "You need to understand: where is there still a way out for us in this world? If we don't figure out the source, death awaits us sooner or later. When we encounter something strange, if we don't investigate it immediately and deal with it early, should we wait for it to evolve and mutate again?"

This captain was clearly a Ruthless Person. Choosing him as the leader of the Exploration Team had been the right choice.

Tap, tap, tap.

They forced themselves onward.

At this moment, they held the Empire's most advanced equipment in their hands—miniature Space Orbital Cannons, the kind of weapons they normally could not even imagine possessing.

It was clear that no expense had been spared.

Their equipment was already the Empire's finest.

Crack!

They continued forward. The thermal illumination goggles on their foreheads lit up one pitch-black, sinister workshop after another. Even the dark and gloomy factory buildings appeared as bright as day in their vision.

"Wuna-na-na-na~~"

The deeper they went, the louder the mechanical roar became, as though some enormous living creature were making wheezing sounds.

As they approached, vast sections of the workshops had collapsed, revealing a broad, level expanse of