The manager acted on his words immediately, sending one of his teammates to notify the Black Blood Society's team.
While the teammate went to deliver the message, Lin Yuan asked curiously:
"What exactly are these 'Crawlers'?"
Judging by how the manager had just looked as though he were facing a formidable enemy, they seemed to be a very powerful hostile faction.
The manager hesitated.
"Actually, I don't know much either..."
Before Lin Yuan could ask further, he volunteered an explanation:
"All I know is that they're a faction from the other side of the Gate of Departure, they're hostile to humanity, and... they're extremely mysterious and bizarre."
"Mysterious and bizarre?"
The manager exhaled, a wry smile on his face.
"By all rights, a faction like that shouldn't be able to influence anything inside Paradise, so our organization hasn't provided any clear information about them."
"But what I do know is that every organization shares two points of consensus and two rules of conduct regarding the Crawlers."
"First point of consensus: the Crawlers are the common enemy of all humanity."
"Second point of consensus: the Crawlers are powerful fighters, but their survivability is ten times greater still."
"First rule of conduct: if you encounter a Crawler and are certain you can kill it on the spot, you must do so at any cost."
"Second rule of conduct: if you encounter a Crawler and aren't certain you can kill it, even if you can defeat it, you must immediately flee at any cost."
Lin Yuan mulled over those four statements. The more he thought about them, the more information they seemed to contain.
When encountering a Crawler, either kill it or flee.
That seemed fairly ordinary. It could apply to encountering any monster.
But the most crucial part of that information was