As the release of the domain, Golden Ingot bore the maximum mental load, but even in its over-clocked state, it still led the charge.

Fine golden electric arcs wrapped around its body, not for attack, but to repel the solidified Poison Mist ahead using electromagnetic effects.

Following closely behind was Lan Yueliang. She didn't use skills that could completely freeze the Poison Mist, as those skills would cause too much commotion.

Even if Dark Demon Kela was controlled by the domain, who could ensure there weren't other surveillance devices in that building?

So they couldn't use skills that caused a lot of commotion.

This was also why Golden Ingot didn't use Wind Dragon Twister to clear the way.

Lan Yueliang had retracted the Elemental Rejection she used on herself, but her body still floated steadily in mid-air.

Because Little Silver Flower was controlling her body with telekinesis.

"Ling!"

Lan Yueliang used all her Elemental Rejection on the Poison Mist.

Making the Poison Mist 'voluntarily' move away from their surroundings.

Helping Golden Ingot carve out a clean and hidden passage.

Once the passage appeared, the five of them didn't stop, darting out like lightning.

Among them, Little Silver Flower was the busiest. Not only did she have to use telekinesis to control Lan Yueliang's body to 'catch up' with them, but she also continuously healed everyone with Holy Radiance Prayer.

After all, this Poison Mist was diffused in the air. Even if it was repelled to a certain distance, because they didn't want to attract attention, the passage jointly created by Golden Ingot and Lan Yueliang was actually very small, only allowing them to pass through with their smallest body size.

So there was still a high possibility that they would inhale it.

To avoid being poisoned, Little Silver Flower's healing was indispensable.

Fortunately, Little Silver Flower was no longer what she used to be and was fully capable of sustaining the release of two skills.

After all, her laziness and the laziness of the Sea Sand Four Ox were still very different.

Black Pearl and Xue Qingting, on the other hand, did not make a move. They both possessed purification abilities, so they were assigned to be on alert, only acting if they detected any anomaly.

Five figures, five completely different methods, yet they cooperated flawlessly, like five colored streams of light, flashing through the forcibly opened passage!

Eight seconds... six seconds... three seconds!

In just five seconds, the figure of Dark Demon Kela appeared in the sight of Golden Ingot and the other four.

They reacted swiftly, and all but Black Pearl simultaneously donned Light and Darkness Ni裳 with stealth capabilities.

The moment their figures disappeared, they had actually all rushed out of the thick mist.

At the same time, Desire Stasis also disappeared.

Dark Demon Kela, who had been sleeping, eyelids twitched slightly, then slowly opened, with lingering confusion and doubt in her eyes, "...Rulu... Kela?"

Was something not quite right just now?

She felt her body suddenly become very heavy for a moment, and then suddenly became exceptionally light, as if she had turned into a bubble and floated up.

But... she vigilantly looked around, and even stood up to patrol the area twice.

She wandered through every nook and cranny twice, even activating her Fairy-type clairvoyance skill.

But there were no discoveries, everything was normal.

It must have been a hallucination.

Then everything was fine.

Finally, she returned to the Poison Mist area, lay down on the flat rock, pulled over the energy pellets placed nearby, and began to eat them slowly.

Not long after eating, she yawned again, lay down, and her breathing became heavy.

She was sleeping soundly.

She was certainly not a Sea Sand Four Ox; she was so sleepy because she had also been affected by Sweet Dream One Month.

When Black Pearl approached earlier, she had dripped a drop of Sweet Dream One Month into those energy pellets.

Sweet Dream One Month is theoretically not a poison, but a nutrient, harmless to both humans and Transcendent creatures.

So even if Dark Demon Kela was a pet beast contracted by a Beastmaster, her Beastmaster would not notice her falling into a deep sleep.

"Hoo—"

Once Dark Demon Kela was confirmed to be asleep, Golden Ingot and the other four, who were huddled in a narrow rock crevice, all let out a long sigh of relief.

Fortunately, they reacted quickly enough.

Before Dark Demon Kela's patrol, they had thrown the man who had knocked Bright Crystal unconscious into Little Silver Flower's Eighteen Bodhi.

Otherwise, whether they would be discovered was unknown, but Bright Crystal, who had already entered the building using that man's identity, would definitely be discovered.

Although Bright Crystal was very much a secret agent, she was rather heedless of the consequences.

She still needed to grow.

At this moment, Bright Crystal, who was being criticized in various ways, had successfully entered the building.

Maintaining her human form, she was hunched in a loose, gray-white work uniform, pushing a material delivery cart loaded with several energy pellet food barrels, walking along the cold, smooth metal corridor of the base with a focused gaze.

The identity she was impersonating was a low-level material assembler, responsible for delivering the required material lists, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner, to various departments and units.

Don't ask her how she knew.

The magnetic card she obtained not only had the person's name, position, but also their job content and activity area.

And the cart was placed next to the exit door.

Although Bright Crystal was reckless, she was actually quite clever. She immediately guessed that the cart was 'her' work tool.

After entering the door, she pushed it along very naturally.

Only then, under the cover of the cart, did she clearly see all the contents on the magnetic card.

Thanks to that woman Mingxi, because she didn't allow them to be illiterate, she was able to read these words.

When she snatched the man's magnetic card, what she first paid attention to was his personal terminal.

But she found that the man did not have any personal terminal-like object on him.

Her Beastmaster once said that only humans born on barren planets who had never entered the six major main stars, and humans who had been trained from a young age to do illicit business, would not have personal terminals.

If it's the former, we can treat them politely, and within reasonable limits, even offer appropriate help.

But if it's the latter, then we must be extra vigilant and careful.

It was clear that the human she was currently impersonating was very likely the latter.

He had no personal terminal; his identity was a magnetic card.

There was a problem, a big problem.

Bright Crystal tried her best to mimic a human's walking posture, although it was a bit stiff, it wasn't noticeable in this cold and quiet base.

In the vast, pure white hall, only her figure moved, pushing the cart.

Just as she turned a corner, a man wearing a similar style but slightly lighter colored work uniform walked towards her. The other party familiarly raised his hand and greeted her.

Then he looked down at the cart: "Hey, Carl, is it your turn to deliver feed to the core area again today? That's rough."

His voice was a bit distorted through the mask.

Bright Crystal's body stiffened slightly, but she immediately controlled it.

She didn't stop, just turned her head, and through the dark mask, faced the approaching person, then... "Cough cough! Cough cough cough—!"

She suddenly coughed violently, bending over as if her lungs were about to come out, while her free hand painfully clutched her throat, and the other hand waved wildly in the air, pointing to the front of the corridor, indicating that she had to leave quickly.

Seeing this, the colleague immediately showed an understanding but slightly disgusted expression, subconsciously stepping back half a step, and his voice also lowered: "You haven't been contaminated by those things in the core area, have you?

I heard Emma from your team was accidentally contaminated and went from a delivery person to an experimental subject. Don't you follow in her footsteps."

Bright Crystal didn't expect the other party to react so strongly.

Her cough, used to conceal her inability to speak 'human language', was actually interpreted as contamination.

Contamination?

Could it be the abyssal silence will contamination?

"Alright, alright, hurry up and deliver! Don't infect me!"

As he spoke, he quickened his pace and brushed past Bright Crystal, as if avoiding Plague.

Bright Crystal breathed a sigh of relief internally and continued pushing the cart forward.

She didn't know where the core area was and could only observe and search for the correct direction.

There weren't many Staff Members encountered along the way.

Even if they did encounter them, they didn't seem to care about a delivery person.

What's more, she occasionally let out one or two suppressed, hoarse coughs, perfectly creating the image of a "delivery person suspected of being contaminated but still insisting on working."

So no one was even more willing to approach her.

Bright Crystal had probably already determined that this place was an experimental base.

As for what research was being conducted, she, a Transcendent creature, couldn't understand.

The only thing that could be confirmed was that experiments with potions and item crafting were being carried out here.

She had already seen several related laboratories.

Pushing the cart, she arrived at the isolation gate leading to the core area, based on a building floor plan she had managed to find on a wall.

Bright Crystal swiped her card, and a red light scanned her and the cart.

As a creature with a legacy of unknown years and various legends, Bright Crystal indeed possessed a great heart that ordinary people did not.

She calmly allowed the red light to scan her.

Heartbeat stable, blood pressure stable, pulse stable, as if she were Carl himself.

And not a Transcendent creature disguised by a Transcendent skill.

Was it that she had too much confidence in Emerald Green's skills?

A little, but not much.

The main reason was that she was fearless.

If discovered, couldn't she just fight?

"Identity confirmed, delivery person Carl."

"Cargo confirmed, high-purity energy pellets, active stabilizers, special 'experimental subject maintenance package'..."

"Permission granted, access allowed."

This scanning red light clearly did not have the ability to see through disguises.

What it scanned was precisely whether the body's blood pressure, heartbeat, pulse, and other data were stable, whether there were any abnormalities, to judge if the person had any issues.

One could only say it was a lucky hit.

With a big heart, anyone can be extraordinary.

The heavy alloy gate slid open silently, and a complex scent mixed with disinfectant, strange chemical agents, and a faint hint of blood and char wafted out.

Bright Crystal composed herself and pushed the cart in.

The core area had a vast interior space, divided into multiple zones by transparent reinforced glass.

"Hey, delivery person over there! What's wrong with you today? Why are you so late?"

Bright Crystal was currently struggling with which area to go to; going to the wrong place would definitely expose her.

Just then, a stern-faced man with glasses shouted from not far away.

Bright Crystal thought that her luck today seemed exceptionally good.

She had completely forgotten.

She still had a Word-Unraveling Worm inside her.

When she was acting as a secret agent, wasn't luck what she needed most?

"Time is life, understand? Hurry up and deliver the meals, stop dawdling!"

The glasses man's attitude was very rude, but Bright Crystal didn't punch him.

After all, she still needed him to lead the way.

She ducked her head and followed behind the glasses man into an exceptionally spacious laboratory.

Bright Crystal, while placing the food barrels full of energy pellets onto the designated buffer zones as instructed, suppressed her breathing and observed everything around her.

The sight she beheld at that moment almost caused her energy core to boil out of control!

In transparent cages, a large number of wild Transcendent creatures were imprisoned, their eyes either terrified, numb, or full of aggression.

Most of them were connected to various tubes; some were listless, some were unusually irritable, and some were already on their last breath.

And in the very center of the laboratory, within several huge, energy-encircled isolation spaces, familiar things were confined.

They were constantly twisting, flickering fragments of rules.

And pollutants as thick as asphalt!

A group of researchers in protective suits were carefully guiding energy through precise instruments, attempting to strip away rule threads and pollution from them.

These were not what shocked Bright Crystal the most.

What truly horrified her was on the other side of the laboratory, where another group of researchers were forcibly integrating the extracted, highly unstable rule threads, or 'purified' polluted energy, ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) into the bodies of Transcendent creatures fixed on operating tables, through high-pressure injection or energy infusion!

Those Transcendent creatures let out incomparably shrill screams; even with sound-insulating glass dampening most of the sound, it still pierced her heart!

Their bodies underwent terrifying and uncontrollable mutations under the conflict of rules or the erosion of pollution, just like the synthetic beasts they had discovered in the laboratory in Saint Shield City of Xiao Li Country.

On other experimental tables, experiments were being conducted to fuse rule threads or pollution with items and potions, also emitting dangerous and ominous energy fluctuations.

She even saw an item that had successfully fused with rule threads.

That aura was clearly that of a forbidden item!

Bright Crystal was utterly stunned.

Someone was actually mass-producing forbidden items using rule fragments and pollution!

And their methods were clearly anti-human.

Bright Crystal suddenly realized that this place might be another experimental base of Descent?

It wasn't that she was so suspicious; after all, all the non-human anomalies she had encountered over the years were almost all related to Descent.

Now, with such an experimental base appearing deep under the sea, conducting such dangerous and anti-human experiments, who else would she suspect if not Descent?

Bright Crystal forcibly suppressed the urge to immediately destroy the place.

She calmly noted down the layout of the laboratory, key instruments, and the locations of the imprisoned Transcendent creatures, then composedly pushed the empty cart, playing the role of an ordinary, honest, and numb delivery person, and quickly left the core area.

Reckless as she was, she wasn't so reckless as to insist on fighting a hundred alone.

That wasn't recklessness; that was having a brain full of seawater.

She believed that after seeing all the various things in this experimental base, her companions must already be taking action.

If they were going to act, they would have to wait until they rendezvoused with them.

And what she needed to do now was to temporarily lie low, and if possible, it would be best to find the base's monitoring center.

Oh, and if she could find the place where forbidden items and forbidden potions were stored...