As the largest power in the otherworld, the Laboratory's reach was vast enough to span the globe.
The Book of Creation had been the Laboratory's treasure ever since its founding. More precisely, the Book of Creation had been the reason its founder decided to establish the Laboratory in the first place.
According to legend, the Laboratory's founder had heard God's call in a dream and received His guidance, which led him to find the Book of Creation in an unremarkable library. Its pages were blank, but the founder knew that just a few strokes upon them could change the face of the entire world.
Of course, that might have been an exaggeration.
Still, the book truly possessed a terrifying power. If the researchers' data was accurate, then barring any surprises, it was the very source of the world.
It was now stored in one of the Laboratory's highest-level containment research institutes, deep within the Arctic. This institute possessed the Laboratory's latest technology, which was also the most advanced technology in the world.
Even Hu Songlin would have to put in considerable effort to get inside.
Just as now, merely passing through the outermost perimeter had triggered the alarm.
Every defense system activated, and even the air seemed to stop moving.
Hu Songlin hid around a bend, sitting in a corner with his head resting on his knees. Dejected, he said, "They have weapons specifically designed to counter me, developed to target the Club. Let's forget it. I don't want that thing anymore."
"But darling, you haven't even given it your all yet. The Book of Creation belongs to God, and you're God's favorite. It should be yours to begin with."
The demon stared at him with beguiling, blood-red eyes, a smile in his voice. He spread both hands before his