Watching the battlefield footage transmitted by the drones, Hao Ren and Vivian frowned at the same time.
Vivian lightly tapped the Crystal Panel on the console with her finger. "That just now... did you see it?"
"I did." Hao Ren nodded. "In the final moment, those monsters suddenly seemed to show signs of reason?"
"It might not have been reason, but they very clearly became orderly. They even knew how to cover one another and coordinate between different unit types... What do you think happened?"
"Super Evolution in the middle of a fight? Their intelligence suddenly made a huge leap?" Hao Ren racked his brains in confusion. "Or did they suddenly break free of Lord of Madness's influence to some extent and become capable of controlling themselves?"
Vivian shook her head. "I don't think it was either. The coordination those monsters displayed at the end was nothing like the result of suddenly figuring things out on the battlefield. Besides, hundreds of monsters acted in perfect order at the same time. Did they all break through simultaneously?"
Yet no one could answer those questions.
The monsters had all been eliminated. These creatures tainted by Lord of Madness's aura of corruption were extremely dangerous, and Hao Ren had never planned to capture any alive during their first contact. However, X Sector was vast. Hao Ren firmly believed that this group of Lord of Madness's minions was not the only one in the area. He would have plenty of opportunities to figure out where these things had come from.
"Logistics drones, move in. Clean up the battlefield and recover wreckage samples." Hao Ren glanced at the battle report Nolan had sent over and spoke casually. "Focus on the corrupted monsters whose original biological forms can roughly be identified, as well as those things