Chapter 397: Conjecture × Stalemate × Breakthrough
Deep in the woods, they could see large numbers of withered poplars.
The pipes connected to the poplars had detached from their withered branches and trunks, but some residual stains were still visible on the pipes.
"Their life energy was probably drained dry." This hardly counted as analysis, since anyone with eyes could see what had happened here.
After all, large numbers of drooping plants still stood along the boundary between the withered and flourishing sections.
"Perhaps once all the trees here have been drained of energy, this city will enter another stage-a stage where it truly begins heading toward destruction and decay," Joey said with some feeling.
Everything in this city seemed to function normally only because the research institute existed.
And the most important thing in the research institute was probably the life energy here.
Brion needed life energy to grow, the creation of the Uniformed Personnel required life energy to gestate and nurture them, and even the birth of those Mechanical Monsters was inseparable from life energy.
The God Script enhancements on their bodies required an infusion of life energy.
Even among the Cleaning Monsters found in every corner of the city, the biological types needed life energy to be created, while the mechanical models needed regular recharging to move.
The Wild Cats, too, needed life energy to exist.
"Wait." At this thought, Joey suddenly stopped.
He recalled what they had seen when they first entered the city. Monsters had appeared in the station and installed streetlights along the street, seemingly intending to extend it outward.
But the Wild Cats had attacked them!
Judging by what Joey and the others had seen now, the Wild Cats should have been on the same side as those Mechanical Monsters. Why would they