You had to hand it to Researcher Li Wei—he was truly meticulous, leaving her no chance to refuse... Well, even without all this, Mora had no room to refuse anyway.
"Mentor, you've thought of everything."
Mora gave a couple of heh hehs, wasted no more time, and swiftly finished gearing up. Not wanting to deal with Li Wei at close range anymore, she waved a hand and hurried forward along the edge of the "Lava Waterfall," stepping across the surrounding framework of interwoven rock strata and metal.
Along the way, Mora experienced another outward expansion of the "Lava Waterfall." Since she was fully equipped now, she moved closer on purpose and let herself be drenched in high-temperature lava, using her armor's sensors to measure its temperature.
Damn it, this watery lava was actually close to 2,000 K. If she remembered correctly, that was already the temperature found four or five hundred kilometers underground, under extreme pressure. Given the nature of lava, it could never reach that level in the relatively normal environment of the present. It was also beyond the usual temperature range for steel smelting. Yet the frameworks of these functional zones could withstand it, and she had been walking barefoot nearby for so long without being roasted alive. Clearly, their materials were anything but ordinary.
As she pondered the information hidden behind those details, Mora suddenly sensed something and looked ahead.
On The Other Side, a figure was clearly walking toward her. He staggered as though he might collapse at any moment.
Mora stopped, but the other person showed no reaction. He continued dragging himself forward with difficult steps and soon brushed past her.
The man's clothes barely covered his body. Flesh, skin, muscle, bone, and machinery had been pieced together, and the most eye-catching feature was the