"Attention, all cat personnel. Attention, all cat personnel."
"The human-faced rat materials have arrived. The human-faced rat materials have arrived. All experimental procedures suspended due to insufficient materials are now re-entering the sequence. Re-entering the sequence."
"..."
Even with the excellent soundproofing on the upper floors of the ecological laboratory, Jiang Han could still hear faint meow-howls.
She let out a long breath.
Standing before the enormous floor-to-ceiling window of her office, she held a Cat Cup and looked down at the ecological park below.
The ecological park was divided into eight sections, each separated by exquisitely designed, unclimbable stone mountain ranges. Ecological experiments were being conducted in every section. Her attention was entirely fixed on a group of long-eared sprites in Zone A-4, creatures without breath that looked like living corpses.
These little monsters resembled goblins. They were cheap and suitable for experiments, though their inferior soul quality meant many advanced experiments could not be performed on them.
But today, this "unsuitability" would be removed...
Beep!
Beep!
As the two alarms sounded, a sturdy supermetal bridge slowly extended from the area beneath the glass before Zone A-4, connecting to A-4's guard post—a research outpost. Then around six large trucks, driven by Cat Lamp drivers, entered. The journey took a little over a minute, crossing the supermetal bridge over the void that separated the areas.
After watching for a couple more moments, Jiang Han put on her white research coat, picked up her notebook, and headed into the corridor. She went directly to the laboratory passage leading down to Zone B-4.
For safety, and to prevent the cats from probing into one another's "real progress."
Jiang Han had established special research zones B-1 through B-8, corresponding to A-1 through A-8. The passages for each experimental zone only led