A cup was placed before the elderly McCleary. White steam rose from it, carrying the aroma of coffee and spreading through the air before he inhaled it.
McCleary raised his head. His gaze fell on the gray-haired girl, and he smiled. "Thank you for making the coffee, Belle."
The young major of Freedom Wings shook her head, looking at the documents beside McCleary with some curiosity.
"Are these things useful?"
They were intelligence reports recently submitted by Qiao Mai Xun, one of the Water Drops. They contained information about the Sky Ghosts, the Nameless Void, the Nether Capital Stone, and more.
McCleary smiled bitterly. "Useful, but not especially useful."
He casually picked up a photograph. It showed a black, funnel-shaped space connected to the ground.
"Take this photograph, for example. This black funnel is the Nameless Void."
"However, based on the intelligence Qiao Mai Xun collected, all we know is that there are dense Nether Particles inside and around this space."
"But his intelligence contains no mention of how it formed or how it came into being."
McCleary put down the photograph and continued searching through the documents before taking out a sketch.
"This is Qiao Mai Xun's own drawing of the Sky Ghost. The Sky Ghost in the drawing appeared in the Fenshui Region. From the sketch, all we can make out is that it looks human. As for the rest..."
The old man shrugged.
Belle gently covered her mouth with her hand. The Sky Ghost in the sketch was extremely crude, barely better than a child's scribble. It had been colored red with a crayon, with some explanatory text written beside it.
McCleary stood up, picked up his cup, blew on it, and took a sip of coffee.
"Most of the intelligence Qiao Mai Xun submitted is like