Tianfu City Anomaly Research Institute, Combat Command Center.
"Report! Four minutes ago, Bunker One at the forward observation post lost contact with us!"
"A drone is being dispatched to the forward observation post!"
"The drone has arrived at Bunker Two!"
"Drone signal lost!"
"Bunker Two has lost contact!"
One piece of bad news after another came from the front. The entire Combat Command Center was almost thrown into complete chaos.
"Quick, dispatch a mobile unit to the forward observation post immediately! No, a mobile unit isn't enough. Are there any Hunters currently on standby?"
"My suggestion is to deploy Garuda directly!" a military staff officer said.
"No! Garuda is too large a target! It could easily provoke an extreme reaction from Chimera Seventeen!" A researcher in a filthy white lab coat slapped the table as he retorted. "According to the latest observations, the organ Chimera Seventeen uses to fire energy beams has undergone as many as four mutations in six days. No one knows how far its energy beams can reach now. If Garuda gets shot down, can you afford to take responsibility?"
"When we collected the Meme sample last time, didn't we use drones to trick Chimera Seventeen into triggering a stress response? Can't we just do the same thing this time?" another staff officer said.
"Heh... Do you really think drones are unlimited? Or that we can just press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy more—