"A coffin?!" Xu Ye murmured, staring at the various readings on the vehicle's display. "What's inside it?"
A technician gave a bitter smile. "It's a hundred meters underground. With our current equipment, this is all we can see through the soil. Something seems to be blocking us."
"If we dig, it'll probably take over a month. We'll also need some Sequence 7 Awakened and Rank B Taboo Objects on standby."
He had originally wanted to suggest bringing in the Chief Captain, but remembering that the Chief Captain hadn't left home in ten years, he changed his wording.
Xu Ye nodded, stepped back a few paces, and opened the Big Black Umbrella, looking ahead.
The flames had already charred all three buildings black. The fluctuations in spiritual qi nearby had reached a level that any Awakened with slightly heightened spiritual sensitivity could detect without an instrument.
In the torrential rain, the reinforced-concrete stairways visibly burned into black dust, then collapsed without a sound.
It was as though a sheet of paper were burning rather than a building.
The [Silent Forest] had long since been deployed around the area, isolating the Rose Residential Complex from its surroundings and obscuring the scene inside. Otherwise, the sight would have been far too shocking.
"Is the thing underground the Eternal Church's real target?"
"What exactly is it? The Eternal Church exposed it, then just left it alone?"
"Bandit Lord, why aren't you thinking about taking a sip?" Xu Ye asked tentatively.
His heart throbbed twice before the Bandit Lord replied, "Kid, don't try to fool me. I'm just a fragile little heart. I can't take a fright."
"Weren't you willing to drain even the Three-Eyed Giants?"
"That's what's strange. Ah, my memories have become such a mess." The Bandit Lord thumped away.
"It's the aura