Time rewound.
Laboratory building.
Conference room on the top floor.
The room was brightly lit, soft without losing its brilliance, illuminating the floor with crystalline clarity like the moonlight in an ancient text, pooled in the courtyard like standing water.
The conference room was neat and spacious, devoid of unnecessary decoration. Only a redwood round table stood at its center. Fine ceramic tea bowls held amber tea, from which a delicate fragrance curled upward.
In this plain conference room within Donghai University's top-tier laboratory complex, the door opened softly. One after another, broad-shouldered, powerfully built Special Forces soldiers entered, their movements crisp and capable, their entire bodies packed with bulging muscle and their faces radiating hard-edged vigor.
Their sharp gazes swept the conference room before they immediately began their inspection.
Every one of them was a top soldier king from the military, tempered on battlefields of blood and fire, with physiques far surpassing those of ordinary people. They were absolutely first-class elite troops and formidable generals.
Not to mention that, beyond this conference room, Donghai University's security had deployed as many as three hundred members of a Special Forces Team. Every elevated sniping position had been occupied, all routes leading to the top floors and upper levels had been sealed off, and everyone coming and going was subjected to layer upon layer of screening. Their defenses had been thoroughly prepared.
A short while later, once the inspection was complete, one after another, the Human Civilization Federation's top academicians entered the conference room under the guidance of their escorts.
None of their faces could be called striking, yet they were exceptionally amiable. Time had clearly left countless marks upon them, but those marks only added to their wisdom and composure.
Even with snow-white hair and bodies already weathered by age, their