The boundless Black Shadow descended from the sky, stirring up towering waves.
Just as that Black Shadow was about to crash into the ground, the steel floor below silently turned intangible. In almost an instant, it swallowed the Black Shadow whole.
"Snap."
In the void, the crisp sound of a finger snap rang out.
The next moment, as the surrounding world collapsed with a roar, three figures reappeared atop the metal floor.
However, unlike the two figures who remained standing, the last figure to appear lay sprawled on the ground like a dead dog, staring at the sky as she panted heavily.
Her left eye was still intact, but where her right eye should have been was a huge mass of endlessly swirling mud. Clumps of soil occasionally fell from her right eye socket.
It took quite a while before her right eye finally returned to normal.
"Did I lose control again just now?"
Pressing hard against her eye socket with one hand, Hong Ye climbed to her feet and looked at the two people before her with a bitter smile.
"More or less. Compared to last time, the duration of your loss of control increased again."
Adjusting the glasses on her nose, the gray-haired girl in a researcher's white lab coat spoke calmly.
"I told you, you're too eager for results."
"But you clearly could—"
"I stored my brain in advance. You, on the other hand, no longer have a brain left to store."
Cutting her off, Positive and Negative remained expressionless.
"Our research direction is flawed. Results like this can't be promoted on a large scale and have no Adaptation whatsoever."
"Fine, I also think our research direction is flawed."
Reaching out to pat away the mud that occasionally seeped out from somewhere on her body, Hong Ye