The Entire Force Wiped Out! The Eerie Mist Storm

After putting an end to the chaos Lald had caused, Su Yi ordered the crews to finish the remaining fortifications and lay the necessary pipelines under their team leaders and captains.

Lald, whom Su Yi had warned, seemed thoroughly frightened. He caused no further trouble afterward.

Su Yi turned his attention to the mist completely enveloping Lal City.

He first tried calling Cole, a Hound Gang leader he had traded weapons with before.

As expected, every signal in Lal City had been blocked.

Su Yi could make a fair guess: the mist was probably the Steel Virus released by the Holy Body Cult.

It was one of the cult's signature methods. Spread through the air and by contact, it turned the bodies of organic beings into inorganic matter.

The cult's members were fanatical extremists who worshipped the Mechanical Father. Though they had once been human, they despised humanity's fragile flesh.

They were madmen bent on mechanical ascension.

Su Yi had a rough grasp of the situation, but one question remained.

Which faction did this group from the Holy Body Cult belong to?

Even within the cult, there were many factions.

Some were natives who had earned the Mechanical Father's favor. Others came from ancient religious traditions. Still others were organizations of mad scientists formed during the last Great Cataclysm...

Some were no longer human at all. The Wildfolk, for instance, had a considerable number of Mechanical Father worshippers among them.

As Su Yi thought, he wrote his ideas in the notebook before him.

After listing his first question, he added another crucial one.

"Who sent the invitation that brought so many organizations here?"

"And judging by Ilis's tone, those allowed in were only small advance parties."

"These organizations may have arrived at Rhode Star with entire fleets."

"Nothing like that