"If you didn't see this skeleton as a skeleton, but as a normal creature's head; if you treated its eye sockets not as hollow cavities but as pitch-black eyes; if you ignored the chibi art style misleadingly suggested by the hammer and assumed it simply looked this smooth and rounded to begin with..."
Lee Stein smiled. "As far as I know, this should have been the classic image of aliens in pre-Cataclysm Era civilization. All kinds of fantasy works borrowed more or less from its defining elements. So, should I call you the Natural Disaster Defense Association... or the Extraterrestrial Disaster Defense Association?"
This was all merely Lee Stein's speculation. There had never been much certainty or evidence behind it, but considering the Disaster Association's future creation of the Mechanical Cruiser Legion to maintain order, along with the information Luna had previously revealed about modified Cruisers already being manufactured, he could now be ninety percent certain.
And Zhou Song's drastic change in expression, along with the way he grabbed Zhou Lulu and retreated nervously, completely confirmed Lee Stein's words.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
Uniform yet exceptionally heavy, dense footsteps suddenly rang out from every direction around the meeting room. In the next instant, holes were smashed through all four walls, and countless infrared dots bathed Lee Stein from head to toe in glaring red.
"Looks like I was right."
Though countless gun barrels were trained on him, Lee Stein showed no sign of panic. Instead, his smile became even brighter. He gave Zhou Lulu, who was standing behind Zhou Song's protection, a thumbs-up. "Not bad, little Luna. The student has surpassed the master!"
The figures surrounding them were two-meter-tall robots. They were not humanoid; each had four mechanical legs beneath a round, ball-like body. But those spheres were anything but