I Am Babata! Demon Babata!

Before long, Jiang Nian rushed to the entrance of Cuihua's private training room. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Cuihua! Are you in there?"

If nothing unexpected had happened, Cuihua should have been training at this moment!

Yet there was no response.

One breath, two breaths...

In his anxiety, Jiang Nian kicked open the heavy alloy door!

The room was spotless. There was even a steaming cup of milk on the table, but the person herself was nowhere to be seen.

Jiang Nian stood in the middle of the empty living room, took a deep breath, and forced himself to calm down.

He recalled Cuihua's hesitant appearance half a year ago, recalled the secret that mysterious fellow townsman had refused to reveal even at the cost of his life, and considered how the two had vanished without a trace at the same time today.

Jiang Nian suddenly realized something.

Spatial teleportation technology?

And it only targeted a specific person, without affecting any other non-target objects along the path at all?!

That kind of power had already far surpassed a War God, and it did not even seem like something Earthlings could achieve!

"Could they really be aliens?"

Jiang Nian did not dare waste a single moment.

He immediately turned and returned to his office, activated his highest-encryption personal terminal, and rapidly drafted an emergency report.

He recorded every detail: Cuihua and Dai Mubai's appearance, the abnormalities in their physical data, the many taboos during the interrogation, and the strange white light from today that ignored all defenses.

He selected send.

Marked with the highest red alert level, the report passed unimpeded through the Extreme Martial Arts Hall's top-secret internal network and went straight to the global headquarters.

Hongning Base City.

Inside a spacious, classically decorated meditation room filled with calming sandalwood incense.

Two men sat facing each other.

The man on the left wore a simple black training uniform. His face was resolute, and his gaze was so deep that it seemed capable of swallowing all light.

The man on the right was completely bald and wore a loose white robe. His expression was solemn, while the occasional sharp glint in his eyes made him impossible to look at directly.

The two most powerful people on Earth.

The strongest, Hong, and the second strongest, Thor.

"What do you think?"

In the silence, Hong was the first to break it, reaching out to open the virtual screen on the table.

It displayed the highest-level classified report Jiang Nian had just submitted.

The details described in the report were simply inconceivable, especially that mysterious white light that had ignored several hundred meters of alloy defenses.

Thor rubbed his bald head and slightly raised his eyelids.

"You're asking me about something that requires thinking?"

Hong's gaze remained firm as he continued looking at Thor.

Thor instantly looked somewhat helpless. He scratched his head, raised three fingers, and waved them.

"If you ask me, there are three possibilities."

"First, somewhere on Earth, someone established a powerful faction behind our backs. This organization possesses advanced technology and may have even mastered spatial teleportation. But you know as well as I do that this is basically impossible."

The Wilderness Zone appeared to have become humanity's private domain, allowing those Martial Artists and War General Class fighters to explore it freely. Yet they both knew that the true Wilderness Zone was nowhere near as peaceful and tranquil as it appeared.

The true kings of the Wilderness Zone were in the ocean. Even if Hong and Thor joined forces, they could not completely wipe out the Wilderness Zone.

It was unrealistic to establish a faction in such a perilous Wilderness Zone.

As for the Base Cities, they were blanketed with surveillance and informants, entirely under the control of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and numerous other factions. The moment a new faction emerged, it would be impossible to hide from their eyes.

It was even more impossible for some so-called large faction to appear overnight.

"Second, someone with extremely powerful spiritual power created an illusion encompassing many people, then took those two away in full view of everyone, causing the deceived Jiang Nian to believe he had seen the truth."

"But you also know that no such person exists in this world."

Simply deceiving Jiang Nian, a War General Class fighter, was not actually that difficult. At the very least, a War God Level Spirit Master giving it their all to create an illusion should have been able to do it.

But Jiangnan Base City also had Zhou Yongzheng and Jiang Fang, two War God Level powerhouses, stationed there.

How powerful would one's spiritual power need to be to instantly create such a large-scale illusion affecting so many people, including two War God Level powerhouses?

The answer was obvious. Only someone beyond the War God Level could do it.

Yet by this point, the only two people on Earth beyond the War God Level were both staying in Hongning Base City.

Unless a third person beyond the War God Level had appeared on Earth.

But the growth of a powerhouse always left a trail. No one could simply appear out of nowhere, much less go directly from a weakling to a powerhouse beyond the War God Level.

Therefore, compared to the first possibility, this one was even more unlikely.

"As for the third..."

Thor paused, looking at Hong with a grave expression in his eyes.

"The one who did this was not a person or faction from Earth at all, but an alien."

At last, a trace of gravity appeared on Hong's eternally cold face.

That was what he had thought as well. Now that he had heard the exact same answer from Thor, it undoubtedly confirmed his suspicions.

After ruling out every impossibility, the most impossible answer was often the truth.

The universe was so vast that the appearance of aliens did not seem impossible to accept. They simply did not know whether this alien was humanity's enemy or friend.

"Looks like another troubled time is upon us."

Earth.

One hundred and five thousand meters underground.

This place was already utterly dark. No light could penetrate the thick layers of rock and reach it.

Yet along with that distorted white light in Jiangnan Base City, some unknown existence deep underground suddenly awakened!

"Someone meets the qualifications."

In the darkness, beams of light suddenly lit up one after another. Soon, a virtual figure formed from streams of data appeared inside a modern mechanical spaceship brimming with technological sophistication.

As the virtual figure appeared, the spaceship was fully activated at the same moment.

In an instant, the spaceship became as bright as day.

"Who am I?"

After a long slumber, any lifeform could become abnormal. Even a virtual intelligent lifeform was no exception.

"I am Babata! Demon Babata!"

Amid frenzied self-questioning and self-answering, the virtual body formed from data streams completely stabilized. The small figure stretched lazily in the cramped space.

All the data accumulated aboard the spaceship during his slumber began automatically gathering, and he thoroughly absorbed it all.

"How interesting. This generation of humans on Earth is truly interesting!"

"RR Virus?"

"War God Level powerhouses?"

"And beings beyond the War God Level?"

Even Babata could not help feeling somewhat shocked.

He had awakened once before, when Earth's humans had still been in a primitive age. They had not even developed any respectable technology.

They had possessed neither the talent nor the possibility to cultivate.

Thus, he had held no hope for this generation of humans and chosen to enter hibernation.

He had never expected that after merely a few thousand years of slumber, such enormous changes would take place. Not only could this generation of humans cultivate, but Planetary Level powerhouses beyond the War God Level had even emerged!

"I can try selecting an heir."