Yet this was no ordinary light—it was... Honkai energy!
Several deer were wandering across a snow-covered mountain range a few kilometers away. When the giant tower's radiance shone upon them, they couldn't help raising their heads to look toward the light.
The moment they looked... their bodies began to change. Honkai energy eroded their bodies, rapidly causing them to mutate.
In the blink of an eye, unnatural keratinous growths sprouted from their heads and necks, defying all biological logic. Even their eyes began to glow pink.
The deer stopped and looked at the steel giant tower, sensing deadly danger. Without the slightest hesitation, they instinctively turned and fled.
However... they hadn't noticed that their limbs had already begun transforming into the organs of Honkai Beasts.
It wasn't only these deer. Animals across the Siberian snowfields were slowly beginning to mutate.
"Ah!"
At that moment, screams continuously rang out from the laboratory, accompanied by frantic fleeing footsteps.
Several researchers in white coats were running wildly toward the exit. From time to time, they looked back, as though something terrifying was behind them.
It was as if they had seen a ghost!
Perhaps because they had been running too desperately, their breathing was extremely heavy.
"Run faster! That monster is about to catch up!"
The researcher at the front looked back at the others and shouted anxiously in panic.
The people behind him had no time to answer. They could only run even harder.
"Hehehehe..."
Just then, a girl's voice came from behind the researchers. It sounded pleasant... but to their ears, it became a death-bringing demonic tune, making them even more terrified.
Then... a strange little girl, almost like a ghost, slowly walked out step by step.
Chapter 25: Ghost~
"Huff, huff..."
As they ran faster and faster with all