"Third Squad, respond if you copy."
"Confirmed. Contact with Third Squad has been lost."
"Humanoid oddity species detected. Unable to upload data. Communications are being jammed!"
The city had been swallowed by monsters.
A thin female figure stood atop the tallest building in the city, which seemed to have been deliberately left standing.
She looked down at the ground.
Behind her, a team from the Oddity Association was engulfed by a vast number of oddity species.
She opened her mouth, producing a voice that sounded as though it had been clipped from an old radio broadcast.
"Seal off the city. Do not allow any humans to escape."
A gigantic radar-like oddity species rotated its enormous satellite dish.
A barrier that killed on contact shrouded the city's perimeter.
Everything here was under this woman's control.
All the oddity species acted in complete obedience to her commands.
But in the city center, the oddity species were suddenly being eliminated at an extremely rapid pace, drawing her puzzlement and attention.
Her viewpoint shifted.
A large bird with a camera as its main body circled in the air and looked down.
She saw a pure-white train and a humanoid mechanism whose frequency was entirely different from that of the oddity species.
There were also dozens of drone soldiers slaughtering oddity species.
And a human.
And the instant she saw this human-
Something inside the woman forcibly made her plunge her hand into her own heart. Then her entire body collapsed inward around her heart and vanished.
Without the slightest hesitation, she fled outright.
Bzz-
The view cut off.
And this happened at precisely the moment Ye Qiyan put the train into the Matrix.
The Azure Roar Thunder Eagle landed in front of Ye Qiyan, clutching the remains of the large bird it had scorched