Xu Yanxing was somewhat puzzled.
But he quickly figured it out and understood what was happening.
The figure that appeared on the buffer platform before them was an old man. His back was bent and hunched, and he was short and frail. His face was deeply furrowed and covered in wrinkles, while the skin exposed outside his clothes was covered in brown age spots.
He looked to be at least eighty or ninety years old.
He wore a set of faded coarse-cloth clothes and black cloth shoes, and he was looking at the three of them with a smile.
"That wandering old man?"
Xu Yanxing immediately remembered that his initial plan with the Recorder had been to find a Weird Old Man wandering around the fifth floor and use his identity card to leave the research institute.
That old man was said to be extremely strange.
The ordinary staff and researchers at the research institute could all see him strolling around the fifth floor, yet the institute's higher-ups could never detect him. Because of this, the higher-ups had even issued an order forbidding discussion of anything related to the old man.
All information mentioning the old man was to be treated as rumor.
It was somewhat amusing.
If such a thing happened in the ordinary human world, it would truly feel like trying to deceive oneself.
But the Supernatural Circle...
Things probably weren't so simple there.
Before enforcing this order, the research institute's higher-ups had once invited a top-tier big shot. Only after that big shot left was the order issued.
The meaning behind it.
Even an idiot could see it.
There was just one thing that still puzzled him.
Logically speaking, if this were truly an evil entity even the research institute could not deal with, then it would