Inside the long hall of the White Rock Building, Ryan and several V Asia family managers sat before a field screen. Displayed on it was the scene inside the Ancient Museum at that very moment.
After carrying the case to the middle of the isolated storage facility, the man placed it on the conveyor belt above.
The case was slowly transported toward the rear of the exhibition hall. The floor there gradually sank, descending more than a hundred meters underground, where two people in protective suits came forward and carried the case away.
They carried it through three layers of security doors before finally arriving in an all-metal vault. The room was filled with a pale green spore mist. Anyone who had not taken the specified medication would be unable to protect themselves, even while wearing protective gear.
The two opened the case and removed the item inside. Under everyone's watchful eyes, they could see that it was a red skull—an enormous one that nearly filled the case, which stood half the height of an ordinary person.
One could imagine just how strong and massive the skull's original owner must have been.
Everyone before the screen stared without blinking. This item had recently been found by the West Coast government in a First People ruin outside the Convergence Zone. They had asked for it to be stored here, spending over half a month coordinating with them, because the Lockdown Hall possessed the most rigorous ritual defense system on the entire West Coast.
This was the legendary Paparu skull.
In the early history of the First People, there had been a vanished bloody regime. Its rulers and subjects had all lived in the Convergence Zone. They had been the First People's earliest rulers, while the rest of the First People had