Internet Addiction's synthesized voice echoed through the room. "Hour 21 of Balance Field operation. Energy consumption remains stable at 97.3% of the projected value. Hell Gate output is constant."
"Environmental parameters: average temperature in the upper isolation zone, 28 degrees Celsius; lower constant-temperature zone, 15 degrees Celsius; humidity, 42%; demon aura suppression layer thickness, 3.02 centimeters; concentration, 0.7 standard units. No threat to humans. Manifestation sensitivity calibration complete."
"Very good." Wu Heng nodded. This was the battlefield he had chosen, as well as a place to screen angels and demons.
This place served as their lair, but the war was not confined to it alone.
"Open the outer security perimeter. Allow the test subjects to enter according to plan."
The so-called test subjects were drawn in by bait intelligence deliberately released by the Demon Hunter Guild, claiming that an artifact capable of "enhancing angelic and demonic power" had been discovered within the Balance Field.
The information had been spread through several controllable black-market channels, with the aim of luring supernatural beings hiding within human society into investigating.
The first morning passed peacefully.
At 15:27 in the afternoon, three minor energy disturbances were detected, but the targets all lingered at the edge of the field before leaving.
On the second day, the real show began.
At ten in the morning, a vagrant carrying a battered hiking pack and wearing a filthy outdoor jacket entered the field from the west.
He looked no different from countless scavengers who searched alongside highways for discarded metal to sell, until he stepped into the space more than five centimeters above the ground.
The instant his right foot rose five centimeters off the ground, a red dot suddenly lit up at his location on the main control room's screen, and identification data automatically appeared beside it: