This was a suburb far from the city.
A newly paved asphalt road seemed to run down from the highway, stretching all the way toward the distant mountains. Amid those mountains stood a research institute resembling a base.
On the map, this place was listed as the Ping An Technology Research Base, registered as a legitimate research company.
In reality, it was merely a cover.
The weather today did not seem very good. The sky was dark and overcast, rain drizzled down, and the winter air had turned damp and cold. Unless something important had come up, few people would choose to go out in weather like this.
But just moments ago.
A figure had suddenly appeared on the asphalt road, which had previously held neither vehicles nor pedestrians.
The person walked alone beneath the unceasing drizzle, seemingly intending to follow this road all the way onward.
Yet the figure did not remain on the road for long.
In the blink of an eye, the figure vanished again. The road returned to being empty, as if that person had merely been an illusion and had never appeared at all.
"Here?"
Yang Jian stood before the gates of the Ping An Technology Research Base. He slightly raised his eyes and looked inside. Under the surveillance of an eerie red gaze, many secrets were revealed.
Yet there were even more areas that could not be investigated.
"I'll send you in first."
Yang Jian's gaze shifted as he found a relatively concealed place where it would not easily be discovered.
The next moment, a child with bluish-black skin flashed past him. It disappeared in the blink of an eye, and when it reappeared, it was already standing before the window of a building inside, looking around curiously as if trying to find something