Outside the collection room, light suddenly flickered in the eyes of the two resonators stationed there.
Bian Zhijie suddenly sensed something and glanced back outside. The door had been left open, and when his gaze fell on one of the resonators, he stiffened slightly.
"And this one!"
Ge Jixiong called out, "Come take a look at this, you two."
Bian Zhijie's attention shifted back to him. Ge Jixiong hurried over to a tall cabinet and removed its covering cloth, revealing a glass case. Inside stood a crimson humanoid, a little over two meters tall. It looked like a person who had been stripped of their skin, but its surface was actually smooth, and its features were somewhat strange.
Bian Zhijie examined it and asked, "What is this? A creature from the Convergence Zone?"
"No. We caught it while searching for ancient plants in an underground cave. Unfortunately, it resisted too fiercely and took several shots. By the time I arrived, it was already on its last legs."
Ge Jixiong said, "It might have been an inhabitant of this ancient land, or perhaps a new species created by contamination. We analyzed its tissue, which fell somewhere between plant and animal. But there are too many similar things in the Convergence Zone for it to have much value, so in the end, we could only turn it into a specimen and keep it here as a collectible.
"But I discovered something unusual..." He gazed at it with an entranced expression. "Don't you two think it's beautiful? Compelling?"
Wang Tongshan and Bian Zhijie exchanged glances, then looked at the specimen again. They could sense something different about it, as though it possessed some power to amplify a domain field.
Just then, one of the resonators outside turned around, blue light flashing in his