The night was still long.
"We still have at least six hours of safe time."
A young woman glanced at her phone as she spoke to her two companions.
The two burly men nodded respectively and lifted a terrified, completely naked woman onto a steel plate.
This was a metal processing plant in the suburbs. It was already deep into the night, so naturally, there was not a single employee around.
The two burly men circled the naked woman, studying her back and forth. There was not the slightest lewdness in their eyes, only serious observation. Yet that made them seem even more terrifying to the naked woman.
Because the looks in their eyes sought neither money nor sex. They were something far more terrifying—looks ordinary people could not comprehend, yet would be enough to make their souls shudder just by seeing them.
Yes...
They were the eyes farmers or shop clerks had when killing fish or chickens...
One of the burly men said, "Our previous tests have already shown that the human bodies here are no different from those outside—purely mortal traits. But this place seems to reject the influence of pollution and the supernatural. At present, it appears that through control of the body, we can bring out the power and transformations belonging solely to flesh and muscle. The degree is rather difficult to control, because once we exceed a certain threshold, we can no longer revert to human bodies. If we are widely identified as nonhuman, we may die suddenly."
The other burly man said, "Then we'll first test bodily transformations. We need to determine the transformation threshold for human bodies in this space, so we can switch at any time—allowing us to grasp the most suitable and powerful physical form, as well as the threshold at