Stalemate — The Research Institute.
Within the enormous silver space station shaped like a Rubik's Cube.
Bluish-green warships hovered slowly through the surrounding void. From them, long, strange birds with snake heads and wings flew out in a steady stream. Their bodies were emerald green, and the wings on their backs were several times larger than their bodies.
Led by a strange bird whose skin was slightly darker, the flock slowly descended onto the bridge platform.
Ban Sai and Li Shunxi of the Research Institute had already been waiting there.
Not only them—two other core higher-ups who had formally joined them, two great Ancient Beasts at the Mingluo level, had also come to receive them.
"Baisha Kedefier is here, isn't it? I can smell its aura. It's hiding somewhere here! Tell it to get the hell out and see me!"
The strange bird leader at the front spoke coldly. Though his accent was somewhat odd, the E Language from his beak seemed mixed with some sharp, peculiar birdcall, making it piercing and grating.
The two standing beside Li Shunxi were a bald man with dark red skin named Te Lei.
The other was a woman, though a single tentacle grew from her head. Her eyes were like aquariums, with countless little green worms swimming within them. Her name was Bei Fa Sha, a survivor of an exceedingly rare Ancient Beast race.
"Well, if it isn't the Qing Yang Snake Bird Grand Commander. You've come all this way to our Research Institute—what business do you have here? And let me add this: the one you're looking for isn't here."
Bei Fa Sha did not fear the Qing Yang Snake Bird race, but neither did she want to casually destroy the hard-won peace of her life.
"Bei Fa Sha? You actually ran