Saine's laboratory had not truly been quiet recently.
The aftershocks from the main battlefield of the Evil Swamp were still being transmitted back through the Sky Net Central Hub, and battle reports from the Demon Cave Time-Space kept refreshing as well.
But Saine Himself had already shifted most of his attention back to Yanxian, whom he had just captured alive.
This Level-12 Temple Lord had remained in the highest-level containment state ever since being captured alive.
Yanxian did not possess complete conscious awareness.
It was more like a mass of lingering Evil Swamp Origin echoes, soaked for years by the Lord of Evil Swamp, repeatedly modified, and ultimately transformed into something deeply rule-based.
From the outside, its Rule True Body was not stable.
At times, it looked like a puddle of Soul-Drowning Mire.
At times, it looked like a half-melted Evil Swamp Temple.
At other times, a large number of blurred faces, overlapping one another, would appear.
Those faces had no self. They only kept repeating certain whispers whose meaning could not be clearly heard.
When Saine first tried to analyze those whispers, even the Sky Net Central Hub briefly produced static.
Later, Wall-E classified them under the "Highly Polluted Emotional Echo" sequence.
Ordinary mechanical lifeforms were no longer permitted to approach Yanxian's Containment Chamber.
Even the Level-10 and level-11 upper echelons of Mechanical Civilization could only observe through external projections.
The only ones who could truly stand inside the core Experimental Zone were Saine, Wall-E, and a small number of High-Dimensional Probes reinforced by the Cube Time-Space.
Saine was not in a hurry to dissect Yanxian.
For a sample that had undergone such deep alienation, crude dismantling could easily destroy key circuits.
He first had the Dimension-Severing Cage project itself, peeling away the outer layers of Yanxian's Rule True