A silver-white artificial object that looked completely out of place in Dark Alley stood at the crossroads at the end of the alley, emitting a low hum, while black webs that had spread from nowhere covered the surrounding area.
The entire device was roughly a person and a half tall and about half a meter in diameter, with an almost cylindrical shape. Slender pale-purple crystals were embedded at regular intervals in its silver-white shell, while complex grooves encircled the crystals. Faint lights could be seen moving inside it, brightening and dimming in time with the device's humming.
The thing was clearly operating, but... what was it for?
Yu Sheng couldn't help feeling somewhat wary. He carefully circled the device twice, then took out his phone and photographed it from several angles before turning to Little Red Riding Hood and Zheng Zhi. "Does any of you recognize this thing?"
"Never seen it before." Little Red Riding Hood immediately shook her head. "It's obviously not an Otherworld product, and it doesn't look like anything from the Special Operations Bureau either."
As Eileen fiddled with Yu Sheng's hair, she muttered, "...Could this be something that Black Dot Group made?"
"It's Black Dot Group," Huli immediately corrected her from the side.
"Can't rule it out." Yu Sheng frowned. At the same time, he glanced again at the mass of webs surrounding the silver-white device, then recalled the information King had previously obtained from those black cats—the webs had begun spreading from the crossroads.
Could the web covering all of Dark Alley have been "drawn" here by this device? Was this Black Dot Group's doing?
What kind of conspiracy were they plotting by setting something like this up in Dark Alley?
Just as Yu Sheng's thoughts raced, Huli seemed to notice something else. She leaned