Brando believed that by defecting a day early, he could find Dis and serve as a guide to Hua Ji.
Little did he know that Dis had already destroyed his spores.
The signal source displayed on his radar was not Dis, but Mu Yuan.
At that moment, Mu Yuan was being hunted by something terrifying.
"Dis! You're Dis, right? I'm not Hua Ji—I was impersonating him!"
Mu Yuan wore an upgraded and optimized second-generation Iron Battle Suit, frantically fleeing through the air at fifteen times the speed of sound.
Behind him, a three-meter-tall "Silver Winged God" was pursuing him.
Though it was called a Winged God, it was actually an entirely different model. Its streamlined body was covered in feather-like scales, making it seem slimmer and more slender than the Shao Hao Armor.
It had no eagle head. Instead, long indigo feelers grew from either side of its head, their front ends shaped like triangular pyramids resembling demon tails, like a pair of antennae.
Its face resembled a human's, but its gem-like crystal eyes were enormous. Overall, it looked like an "ant's head."
Rings were also worn around its ankles, shaped respectively like "6" and "9." Long little tails extended from the rings, their tips likewise triangular pyramids.
In the language of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas," this appearance could perhaps be described as "a human face, bird body, wings, with two Azure Serpents hanging from its ears and two Azure Serpents beneath its feet."
The "Azure Serpents" danced wildly in the wind as the Silver Mecha clung to Mu Yuan's rear flank at tremendous speed. No matter how Mu Yuan changed direction, he could not shake it off.
Mu Yuan rolled over, circled around, even slammed toward mountain cliffs before suddenly diving close along their surfaces.
It followed