Shadow City Fortress, First Research Center, Carbon-Based Lifeform Facility, Third Laboratory.
Tawell's senior assistant technician was in charge of receiving us, a young scientist who was stern and efficient. With all the expert teams focused on overcoming the technical hurdles of the "Sovereign" and building Deep Diving Ships, Tawell could not spare more personnel to help us analyze what was going on with a mutated crow. Finding us a senior assistant technician had already been no easy task.
The three crows, which clearly no longer belonged to any normal species, had been sent over yesterday. In a single day, Imperial scientists had completed a full scan of all three creatures from head to toe and conducted every experiment they could. Since the prerequisite was not harming the three crows' lives, there were not actually that many experiments they could perform.
"We assigned the samples numbers. The two adult specimens are Number One and Number Two, while the juvenile specimen is Number Three." The young assistant technician opened the huge container in the center of the laboratory, which looked like a silver-white cargo container. The metal cover panels silently slid into the floor beneath it, revealing a space inside separated by transparent barriers. "As ordered, all three samples have been placed in environments most suitable and familiar to them. Only Sample Number Two received a slight fright. Everything else is fine."
Inside the transparent barrier was a small artificial ecosystem, complete with a patch of grass, several shrubs, and even a small spring. The crow nest that had been brought over with them sat atop the shrubs, while a large water bottle containing half a bottle of water stood beside the spring. A large pile of pebbles lay nearby. "What's with that bottle?" Lilina pointed at the water bottle in the