I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Greck and Radi rested for a while in the containment room, re-submitted requests for various equipment, and replenished consumables needed for a long operation. Then, they set off again on the road to the tower.

Having experience, they appeared quite familiar with the route, maintaining vigilance as they advanced. The journey to the tower was much farther than within the town, but thanks to their respective extraordinary powers, they only needed to rest a few times each day to maintain their combat power, aside from sleep. Moreover, they could maintain a decent speed by relying on their abilities.

They encountered no obstacles on the way.

Similar to the situation in the town, they did not encounter any living or dead things trying to hinder their progress. It was as if the black cat that had attacked them was the only creature left here, which made Greck instinctively sense something was wrong.

Because not long ago, there was a town standing here. According to their observation of some of the corpses, their time of death was conservatively estimated to be no more than ten years. Therefore, the absence of any living things here made him feel somewhat puzzled.

Ma Wei, who was monitoring them, also noticed this phenomenon. He knew who the murderer who killed those townspeople should be, so he could deduce some seemingly reasonable conclusions.

Perhaps it was something Qin Luan could leave behind, after all, she could see the future. Maybe this behavior had some other meaning, or maybe it had only recently arrived here, and other living things had died at Qin Luan's hands in the past.

The basis for the second speculation was that there were no other animals present. If the black cat needed to eat, it might not always live here, but it might also be surviving by consuming other energy sources. But overall…

It was reasonable that they didn't encounter any "hostile" living things.

"Not far now," Radi said in a low voice. He was raising his head, looking up at the tower that was almost looming over them. The tower was about twenty meters in diameter, and its height was difficult to judge with the naked eye without special tools.

But it was very tall.

Greck replied:

"There should be a special weapon inside, it looks like it might be a sword, or something else, but we have to find it and take it out. Then we can apply for a retreat via teleportation. The time required depends on how deep we go."

The nearly three-meter-tall bone monster hesitated for a few seconds, but mustered the courage to ask:

"Greck, do you think we can regain our freedom?"

Being in a monitored state, he knew very well that he couldn't hear any truly useful answers from Greck's mouth, and he might even be noticed by those bastards because of this question.

But he could discern the other party's tone. They had been comrades-in-arms for more than a decade.

Greck replied firmly:

"I think we can."

This was a definite tone.

This dispelled some of the worries in Radi's heart.

Although Radi didn't show it, he had been worried about his future fate ever since he was captured. Their previous team had been broken up by these bastards who claimed to be saviors, and all his former companions had died at their hands. If it weren't for Greck, he might have killed himself by running into a wall long ago.

He had only slightly restrained his urge to escape after seeing Greck's calm demeanor. However, Greck could only discern some subtle movements of tension when facing the Savior Alliance's attack, but there was no fear on his face, so he asked this question.

"We're here," Radi said in a heavy tone.

They finally reached the tower. After a few turns, they found a door about three meters high.

At this distance, the two realized that the dark tower body was made of some unfamiliar alloy, rather than the stone wall they had thought it was when looking at it from afar. This was good news for them, as their team had a metal controller.

Greck raised his hand, and simply manipulated the metal door to move it away. Behind the door was a spiral staircase, with a width of ten meters, the same as the tower's radius. Radi didn't need to undo his transformation to enter.

Greck raised his leg without hesitation.

[Teleportation Time: Two minutes and thirty-seven seconds]

He stepped on the steps.

[Teleportation Time: Three minutes and thirty-seven seconds]

Ma Wei immediately noticed the change in time, but when Greck took his second step, the teleportation time did not immediately give feedback, and was still quietly positioned at four minutes and thirty-seven seconds.

Second step, third step, fourth step…

They turned around inside more than a dozen times, and when Greck stepped on a step corresponding to the earliest position, the teleportation time jumped again.

[Teleportation Time: Four minutes and thirty-seven seconds]

The time jump was repeated a total of ten times.

When Greck stepped out of the last step, what he saw was a hall more than ten times wider than the tower's footprint. The ground and walls were made of black unknown alloy, and there was no furniture or other objects in the hall.

But there were more than a dozen black mechanical cats, not much different from the ones they had seen, lying there.

Greck immediately pressed the teleportation panel on the panel.

Then he saw a countdown of twelve minutes.

"Oh, this is a bit bad."

The black cat lying lazily at the back was a circle bigger than its counterparts, and its eyes swept coldly over the two people walking into the stairs. Then, the mechanical structure on its body transmitted a familiar voice.

"Confirmed as human, not infected by God, no need to carry out disinfection procedures, will be killed according to standard procedures."

At the same time, the other black cats seemed to have received an order, and the laziness in their eyes disappeared. They all moved nimbly towards their position, and the final leader also stood up. The shoulder height of that black monster was already approaching Radi's chest.

After only half a second of eye contact, Greck came to a conclusion.

They can't win.

"Push into the stairs, hold on until the teleportation time," Greck said urgently. At the same time, countless delicate metal weapons surged out of his surroundings like butterflies, flapping their wings and flying towards the first few black cats.

When they came into contact with the big cats, they tore off large chunks of flesh from these beasts, which effectively prevented them from advancing, but did not cause truly fatal damage.

After seeing this scene, the other black cats behind them all began to advance cautiously, and nimbly dodged the metal butterflies controlled by Greck alone.

The last black cat king was still standing in front of the stairs with an elegant posture, and casually waved his palm to shoot down a few metal butterflies that were trying to approach it, directly tearing them into pieces with its claws.

"The closer to the bottom of the tower, the shorter the teleportation time. The time outside the tower is two minutes and thirty-seven seconds," Ma Wei's words appeared in the ears of their two escapees.

He also did not expect that the exploration of the tower would immediately encounter obstacles. Although this was the reasonable situation, the dangerous weapon had its holder or guardian, but Qin Luan had been here in person a few years ago.

Could it be that her prophecy showed that she could handle these problems herself, or that this part of the situation was not in her prophecy at all.

After receiving the news, Greck and Radi immediately began to retreat at high speed towards the stairs. The bone monster directly hugged Greck in his arms, and then showed a movement speed no less than that of the black cat.

However, his degree of flexibility was far inferior to the former. Therefore, he crashed into the wall several times as soon as he started, and in order not to turn Greck into minced meat, he had to maintain a relatively low speed.

The metal butterflies built a solid defense line behind them. Although those black cats were chasing after their asses, none of them dared to test the sharpness of these metal blades.

The black cat king was still standing in front of the stairs at this moment, and the metal hall behind him slowly opened.

A humanoid machine about two and a half meters tall walked out of it. It deftly flipped onto the black cat, and then this creation of mechanical and biochemical technology took the first step down.

Bang!

The black cat knight landed heavily on the steps, and the two heavy bodies did not deform the metal steps in any way. In an instant, it jumped between the walls more than a dozen times, and the figures of other black cats also appeared in front of them.

[Teleportation Time: Six minutes and forty-nine seconds]

The metal butterflies instantly gathered towards them, and the black cat just opened its mouth slightly.

Boom!

The air was directly stirred up by its roar, and the originally flexible and high-speed butterflies suddenly stopped in place as if they had hit a wall. And at this moment…

All the black cats jumped over them and increased their chasing speed.

When those metal butterflies returned to Greck's control, it was already too late.

"Give me some time to delay," Greck rolled out of the bone monster's arms, manipulating the complex metal butterflies to form strange shapes in the air, as if preparing something.

Radi stopped without saying a word, and reflexively launched a charge towards the black cats on his body, the high-raised bone blade seemed to be about to tear them apart in the next moment.

The black cat knight turned around and roared a second time at the gathering metal butterflies, and they were instantly blown away, but they were still continuing to gather. Seeing this, it directly pounced over.

The other dozen or so black cats pounced in front of the bone monster. Facing such a number of enemies, even the battle-hardened Radi couldn't see any chance of survival. He could only place all his hope on Greck.

Damn Savior Alliance.

Thinking this, the monster waved its blade at them, but the cunning black cats didn't give him any chance to attack at all, easily wandering nimbly around him relying on their numerical advantage.

They attacked from all directions at the same time, ready to retreat at any time, and as long as he didn't pay attention, a brand new scar would appear on his carapace.

The first few scars did not affect its offensive, but as the injuries continued to accumulate, the carapace on Radi's body had gradually begun to show signs of shattering, and those black cats could push away before he counterattacked.

After all, there were more than a dozen of them.

Radi looked despairingly at the metal butterflies whose aggregation speed was getting slower and slower in the distance. If Greck couldn't think of anything, they might have to die here.

But it's okay, he should have died when he was found by the Savior Alliance.

Those damn lunatics.

Suddenly, the black cat knight stopped trying to attack the metal butterflies, and then immediately turned around and launched a swift charge towards the position where Radi was standing. It fell in front of the bone monster like lightning, and the humanoid machine on it was almost thrown off.

This swift speed had exceeded the scope of Tier III.

They didn't die unjustly.

Pa!

Radi heard the sound of mechanical structures operating in his ears, and then the black cat's metal claws accelerated instantly and slapped on his head, easily shattering the already scarred bone carapace completely, and the metal claws also inserted into his head.

But at this time, Radi seemed to be on his deathbed, staring wide-eyed at the metal butterflies that had already completed their aggregation.

Nothing happened.

He closed his eyelids sadly.

The black cat knight retracted its claws, and then immediately rushed out towards the empty space behind Radi. As early as when it turned around to deal with the group of metal butterflies that only repeatedly gathered, Greck had disappeared.

But they must kill him, otherwise the tragic fate of the neighboring town might fall on them.

Greck's speed exceeded the black cat and the knight on it's judgment. With his speed, there was no need for the bone monster to take him away at the beginning, but the monster picked him up without thinking at the time.

It was as if Radi was very sure that Greck couldn't move as fast as himself.

But even so, he was just a plaything under the black cat's claws.

At the same time that the knight saw Greck's back on the stairs, the black cat had already pounced on him heavily.

"Wait!" Greck shouted hoarsely, "Don't kill me, we just strayed into here."

[Teleportation Time: One minute and forty-two seconds]

The black cat's claws hung over his head.

A clear female voice came from its body:

"Coward, the guy who abandons his companions is not qualified to ask for forgiveness. If he begged me for mercy, I might consider it."

Standard Federation language.

Greck immediately replied:

"No, you don't know who he is. The people Radi killed can pile up into a small mountain, and he raped and killed hundreds of people with that face. How can I have any pity for such a demon?"

Hearing this, the woman's few sympathies for Radi instantly disappeared.

[Teleportation Time: Fifty-seven seconds]

Greck continued:

"I am from the outside world, it was not my intention to break into this place, please spare my humble life, or I am willing to exchange my life for information…"

"Tch," the woman said disdainfully, "You who are traveling with him are probably not good people either."

Greck said with despair:

"No, we were coerced into going here, I have never seen him before, but if you insist on killing me…

"At least tell me the reason?"

A brief silence.

"Stand up…" she said.

[Teleportation Time: Two seconds]

Greck pressed "Cancel."

He stood up.

Greck's former mercenary group members had all perished, yet he remained alive, walking a path filled with hope and opportunity…

He continued to move forward.