Listening to Little YY's explanation, Angel suddenly stared behind Little YY and froze again.
"Is that a mutated beast too?"
The domestic service robot looked in the direction Angel pointed. On top of a dilapidated factory building stood a solitary figure, eerily still. No one knew when it had appeared; it was so abrupt, as though it had been silently watching from there for a long time.
Little YY paused. As a third-class citizen of Huadi Quantum Technology, it possessed simulations of all the emotional information New Humans had toward Old Humans. This was something the elite decision-makers had preserved after discovering certain flaws in the evolution of New Humans, in order to retain some of the beauty of the past.
"An unknown lifeform, but I detected extraordinarily powerful energy fluctuations from it. I think we've run into trouble, Angel."
Suddenly, just as eerily as it had appeared, the shadow vanished again. Angel and Little YY both froze.
Crackle! Crackle!
The low detonation of an Annihilation Arc flashed past. Light and darkness intertwined and warped. Before Little YY could react, it seemed to melt away in an instant, vanishing into thin air.
Immediately afterward, a figure only half Angel's height stood atop the transparent glass cabin. Its gray-white face held three eyes of different colors and numerous compound eyes, all blinking incessantly. It lowered its head and looked down at Angel, observing her with bizarre curiosity, like a visitor outside a zoo studying a helpless creature trapped in a cage.
"Ah! Citizen number SXY13784387262 requests assistance. This is—"
Zzt, zzt, zzt...
The Heavenly Net signal suffered severe interference. There was no response.
Green stood atop an exquisite miniature mechanical object, staring through a thin glass cover at the terrified humanoid creature inside, utterly stunned.
"What is this? It's actually