I am Babata! The Demon Babata!

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

"Cuihua! Are you in there?"

If nothing went wrong, Cuihua should have been training at this very moment.

However, there was no response.

One breath, two breaths...

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

The room was as neat as new, and there was even a steaming cup of milk on the table, yet the person was nowhere to be found.

Jiang Nian stood in the center of the empty living room, taking a deep breath to force himself to calm down.

He recalled the way Cuihua had hesitated to speak half a year ago, the secret that the mysterious fellow villager had died refusing to reveal, and combined it with the fact that both of them had vanished at the same time today without leaving a trace.

Jiang Nian suddenly realized something.

Space teleportation technology?

Moreover, it targeted only specific individuals, leaving all other non-target objects along the path completely unaffected!

This kind of power far exceeded that of a War God; it didn't even look like something a human on Earth could achieve.

"Could it really be aliens?"

Jiang Nian dared not delay for even a second.

He immediately turned back to his office, activated his encrypted personal terminal, and began to rapidly draft an emergency report.

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

He clicked send.

This report, marked with the highest red alert level, traveled through the internal top-secret network of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, receiving green lights all the way until it reached the global headquarters.

Hongning Base City.

In a spacious, antique-style quiet room scented with calming sandalwood, two men sat facing each other.

The man on the left wore a simple black training suit; his face was resolute, and his eyes were so deep they seemed to swallow all light.

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

These were the two most powerful people on Earth.

The first, Hong, and the second, Thor.

"What do you think?"

In the silence, Hong broke the quiet first, reaching out to tap the virtual screen on the table.

It was the top-secret report Jiang Nian had just submitted.

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

Thor rubbed his bald head and lifted his eyelids slightly.

"You're asking me about such brain-draining matters?"

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

Thor felt a moment of helplessness, scratched his head, and held up three fingers, shaking them.

"If you ask me, there are only three possibilities for this."

"First, someone on Earth has secretly built a powerful organization behind our backs. This organization possesses advanced technology and has even broken through space teleportation, but you know as well as I do that this is basically impossible."

The Wilderness Zone appeared to be a preserve for humanity, left for those warriors and fighters to explore, but they both knew the true Wilderness Zone was far from as peaceful and serene as it looked.

The true kings of the wilderness were in the oceans, and even if Hong and he joined forces, they could not completely pacify the Wilderness Zone.

Establishing an organization in such a perilous wilderness was unrealistic.

As for the base cities, they were covered in surveillance and informants, entirely under the control of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and other major powers. If a new organization emerged, it would be impossible to hide it from their eyes.

It was even less likely that a so-called large-scale organization could appear overnight.

"Second, someone with extremely powerful mental energy created a large-scale illusion covering multiple people, then took these two away in plain sight, leaving the deceived Jiang Nian to believe he had seen the truth."

"But you also know that such a person does not exist in this world."

Simply deceiving a War General Class fighter like Jiang Nian was not actually difficult; at the very least, a Spirit Master at the War God Level should be able to do it if they went all out to create an illusion.

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

How powerful would one's mental energy have to be to instantly create a large-scale illusion that affected so many people, including two War Gods?

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

Yet, as of now, the only two people on Earth who had surpassed the War God Level were both sitting right here in Hongning Base City.

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

However, the growth of a powerhouse always follows a trajectory; no one can simply emerge from thin air, and certainly, no one can transform directly from a weakling into a powerhouse surpassing the War God Level.

Therefore, this possibility is even more infinitesimal compared to the first.

"As for the third..."

Thor paused, looking toward Hong, his gaze carrying a hint of gravity.

"The one who accomplished this is not a person or faction from Earth at all, but an extraterrestrial."

A trace of gravity finally appeared on Hong's perpetually cold and stern face.

He had actually been thinking the same thing, and now, hearing the exact same answer from Thor's lips undoubtedly verified the conjecture in his heart.

Once all impossibilities are cast aside, the most impossible one is often the truth.

The universe is so vast that the appearance of extraterrestrials seems acceptable; the only uncertainty is whether this extraterrestrial is a friend or a foe to humanity.

"It seems this is yet another autumn of unrest."

Earth.

One hundred and five thousand meters deep underground.

Here, it was pitch black, with no light capable of penetrating the thick layers of rock to reach this place.

Yet, following that distorted white light in Jiangnan Base City, some unknown existence deep beneath the earth suddenly awakened!

"Someone possesses the qualifications."

In the darkness, beams of light suddenly ignited, and soon, a virtual figure composed of data streams appeared inside a modern, high-tech mechanical spaceship.

With the appearance of the virtual figure, the spaceship was fully activated at the same moment.

In an instant, the ship was as bright as day.

"Who am I?"

A long slumber causes abnormalities in any life form, and virtual intelligent life is no exception.

"I am Babata! The devil Babata!"

Amidst this frantic self-questioning, the virtual body formed by the data stream stabilized completely, and the small figure stretched in the cramped space.

On the spaceship, all the data from the period of his slumber began to automatically aggregate, being thoroughly digested and absorbed by him.

"How interesting, this generation of humans appearing on Earth is truly interesting!"

"RR virus?"

"War God Level powerhouses?"

"And existences surpassing the War God Level?"

Even Babata could not help but feel a bit shocked.

He had awakened once before, and at that time, the humans of Earth were still in a primitive state, not even having developed decent technology.

There was not even a shred of talent or possibility for cultivation.

Therefore, he had held no hope for that generation of humans and chose to enter a slumber.

He had not expected that in just a few thousand years of sleep, such a massive transformation would occur; not only could this generation of humans cultivate, but Planetary Level powerhouses surpassing the War God Level had even emerged!

"I can attempt to select an heir."