Time turned back one day.
Yang Yi's flesh-reconstruction plan was in its final, critical stage.
The Burning Giant's Heart kept beating underwater, causing quite a commotion.
A special form of acoustic energy spread outward and was picked up by a machine-the specialized instrument the Deathbirth Society had developed to monitor the Giant Knight.
Not far away, aboard the Deathbirth Society's Four-Ship Base Ship.
Commander Gilbert was reviewing the documents his subordinate had handed him, because the acoustic detector they had been planning to scrap had actually registered something again.
"Could the Giant Knight have come back to life?
How is that possible...?"
Gilbert spoke in disbelief, carefully examining the two waveform curves recorded in the documents.
One was the heartbeat recorded while the Giant Knight was active. Its amplitude was enormous, but its frequency was not high.
The other was the unusual heartbeat they had just detected. Its waveform resembled the Giant Knight's, but its amplitude was somewhat smaller and its frequency much higher.
This did not seem to be the Giant Knight.
The Giant Knight's heartbeat frequency and amplitude usually increased together. It would not have a low amplitude but a high frequency.
"What on earth is going on? Another Giant Knight?"
Gilbert frowned, feeling that the situation had developed beyond his understanding.
"Commander, should we request visual footage again and take a closer look?"
His subordinate made the suggestion beside him.
"All right. Contact headquarters tonight.
Also, the corpse samples we sent earlier should be arriving soon. Ask them whether it's a new Death Plague subtype disease."
Gilbert accepted his subordinate's suggestion, but they would have to wait until nighttime to obtain footage.
During the day, to reduce the Death Plague's ability to spread through the atmosphere, their headquarters in the sky-the enormous artificial celestial body also known