The cold wind howled. The nights across the New Continent had fallen into a strange mixture of silence and noise.
The thirty-third underground level of Qinggang Shelter.
A sudden noise came from the red-lit laboratory. After a burst of venting, the lights above turned green.
Hades emerged from inside, his entire body splattered with blackish-red blood, a deep look of confusion still on his face.
"Something can actually impose such a powerful cognitive barrier on a living creature?"
He pondered this as he went to the changing room nearby, showered, and changed into a fresh set of clothes before coming back out.
He took the elevator to the thirty-fourth floor, pushed open a half-closed door, and walked in.
The space inside was huge, at least five hundred square meters.
Dozens of people were busy processing various data. One wall had been divided into more than a dozen small sections, each displaying the results of interrogating the dwarves in different laboratories.
"Administrator, the target is dead. Should we—"
"No need to replace it yet. We have only a dozen or so specimens left. We can't keep wasting them like this."
Hades answered casually, his eyes settling on the wall.
That had been the experiment he had just conducted. Unfortunately, it had failed again.
Inside the laboratory.
The pitiful dwarf was bound to a bed, floating patches used to monitor his condition covering his entire body.
Complicated images flashed across the instruments beside the bed, filled with dazzling streams of data.
When all the data finally lit up with green indicators, the unconscious dwarf suddenly jerked and woke up.
"What's your name?"
"Xiao Tasha."
"What's your objective?"
"Break through Tian Yuan Territory and capture the human Su Mo alive."
"..."
It was still the same question as before. The dwarf answered with