"Captain Su Feng, please follow me."
The guiding Soul Reaper walked respectfully ahead, his steps slightly heavy.
The strange sights within the Department of Research and Development were not limited to its utterly different atmosphere; the division members' attitudes were equally odd.
Even with his white Captain's Haori fluttering conspicuously, the busy members of Squad 12 remained absorbed in their own research or work.
They reached the northernmost part of the Department of Research and Development, passed through another three corridors, and stopped at the darkest spot at the very end.
The tightly shut doors ahead were engraved with intricate Kido Incantations that emitted a faint red glow, making the place feel like a haunted house.
The division member stepped forward and clasped his hands before the doors, quietly chanting Kido Incantations. The nature of his spiritual pressure shifted continuously, forming a special signal-like frequency that landed upon the doors.
Once the chanting ended, the doors parted to either side, and viscous white gas spilled out from within.
"Captain Su Feng, please enter. Lord Mayuri is inside."
That division member had no intention of following him in. It was not hard to see from his gaze and expression that he was particularly fearful and wary of the depths of the room.
Realizing that he was about to face someone dangerous in a certain sense, Su Feng discreetly circulated a bit of spiritual pressure around himself.
The moment he entered, the dim surroundings lit up. Dozens of lamps embedded in the walls gave off a pale white glow.
Before him stood all sorts of high-precision instruments and piled-up, bizarre experimental materials. There were even Menos limbs and organs resembling those of humans.
Large amounts of viscous white gas were constantly leaking from a cylindrical instrument.
A figure stood before the instrument,