Three days later, a piece of news spread simultaneously across Miken's major social networks: Recently, a special mysterious material from Mist Pockets was being sold in the Underground Market. It was incredibly effective and could grant people special powers... but Otherworldly Species were required in exchange.
Naturally, Maple Father and the other two had spread this news together.
With Heaven's Mandate Society's years of accumulated influence, spreading a false rumor was effortless.
After releasing the news, they kept a close eye on Sir Cross's every move.
Sure enough, Sir Cross made his move.
He went beneath a swimming pool. After swimming around down there a few times, he started diving, only resurfacing after a long while.
The four immediately understood that the place where he stored his Otherworldly Species was beneath that swimming pool.
They soon found an opportunity. Once Sir Cross left the estate by car, their "Gundam," assisted by several servants, entered the swimming pool.
After searching for a while, Gundam quickly discovered that this was the entrance to an underground passage.
They opened one of the drainage covers and crawled in through the Drainage Outlet, entering the underground passage.
Statues were neatly lined up against both sides of the passage. They were gray and dusty, yet lifelike, their expressions vividly rendered. Every one of them wore a look of shock and terror.
"Those statues seem strange. Could they be some kind of defensive measure?" Birch noticed something off in the footage Gundam sent back.
"They aren't defensive measures. They're workers he killed and turned into stone statues. That must be one of Sir Cross's abilities," Dr. Stein said directly.
He also held a doctorate in medicine. Otherwise, he could never have led the research into Brain-Plugged technology, which was closely related to Brain Science in the first