The Heaven Dou Crown Prince's carriage stopped in front of Nuoding City's steel gates.
Xue Qinghe (Qian Renxue) drew back the curtain. As she gazed at the steel behemoth before her, as though it had come from the future, even her usually placid eyes narrowed.
She had spent years in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and considered herself well-informed.
But this...
What was this thing?
The walls stood a hundred meters tall and were made entirely of some unknown black metal, gleaming coldly in the sunlight. There were no guards on the walls, only rows of mechanical devices she couldn't make sense of. Red lights swept back and forth like eyes.
Most absurd of all, there was no moat at the gate—only a wide, unnaturally smooth black road, marked with white dashed lines.
"Your Highness, this... Qin Feng is far too disrespectful!"
The captain of the guards fumed. "You are the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire! He didn't even come out to greet you? There isn't even a gatekeeper!"
Qian Renxue waved a hand, signaling him to be quiet.
Officially, she had come as the Heaven Dou Empire's representative to "inspect" the fief. In truth, she was following her grandfather Qian Daoliu's orders to find out what Qin Feng was really about.
Bo Saixi had gone missing.
That woman, who claimed to be invincible in the sea, had vanished from the world like water vapor after arriving in Nuoding City.
It had filled Qian Daoliu with a fear unlike anything he had ever known.
"Since we're here, we may as well make the best of it."
Qian Renxue straightened her clothes, resumed her gentle, refined Crown Prince persona, and stepped down from the carriage.
The instant her foot touched the black road—
"Welcome to the Umbrella Corporation's Nuoding