Chapter 1372 (1/2)

Chapter 1372: 450. Round and round_2

From the looks of it, this place must be a warehouse for storing live small animals.

What these small animals are specifically used for remains unknown, as there are no textual informations in the Magic Vision.

The Snow-winged Cat was unable to move, able only to lie on the floor of its cage, curled up into a ball, pretending to be asleep.

Noland Lee cast a detection spell remotely and saw that, just as when he started out, it was under the influence of the “Power of Senati.”

In about five minutes, the “Power of Senati” would disappear.

By then, the Snow-winged Cat would be able to use its teleportation ability to come to Noland Lee’s side.

Using the vision leap, Noland Lee scanned around the warehouse and found a thick Metal Gate.

The Metal Gate was tightly closed without any gap, and there were no handles, keyholes, switches, or password locks on the inside, seemingly only capable of being opened from the outside.

Noland Lee pondered for a moment, making no superfluous moves.

Since the Snow-winged Cat would be able to move freely in five minutes, he might as well wait quietly.

In the short time that followed, there were no changes inside the warehouse.

But when there was only one minute left until the “Power of Senati” dissipated, someone opened the Metal Gate from the outside.

Upon seeing the figure walking in from the door, Noland Lee slightly widened his eyes and thought to himself:

“Isn’t this convenient?”

The people entering the warehouse were dressed in pristine white jumpsuits, their heads protected by hemispheric glass helmets, hairless on the head but with a row of sprayed codes and numeric identifiers on the back of their heads.

Their faces displayed a numbness towards work, like walking machines, unaware of fatigue and always working at their stations until they were discarded.

Indeed, these were the Synthetic Humans from the Metal Creation Group.

After entering the warehouse, these Synthetic Humans checked the small animals in each cage one by one, selecting the lively ones to pack into suitcases and take away.

At this time, being unable to move, the Snow-winged Cat was naturally not chosen by the Synthetic Humans.

Taking advantage of the open Warehouse Gate, Noland Lee performed multiple vision leaps in quick succession, quickly understanding the situation here.

This was a massive space station with an extremely complex internal structure, floating in a starless Dark Star belt.

The Dark Star belt itself had no light sources.

Without a light source, it would not be detected by most observation methods.

A star belt naturally invisible to observation equipment was ideal for setting up secret bases and highly sensitive facilities.

The space station Noland Lee was observing was likely such a case.

It incorporated cloning research, biological modifications, drug refinement, etc., mainly tasked with researching how to transform non-human creatures into synthetics.

Simply put, they were turning small animals such as cats and dogs into synthetic creatures, like the Synthetic Humans, densely packed with electronic components and pipelines.

Well…

Noland Lee remained silent.

He had thought that the Snow-winged Cat had arrived at a tremendously significant research base of the Metal Creation Group.

However, it now seemed this was merely a rather well-guarded scientific research space station.

The research projects involved sounded impressive, but their practical uses and future prospects might not be as extensive as those of the Synthetic Humans.

Noland Lee was no expert in this area, not understanding much about biological modifications or Synthetic Human technology, so he could only draw such a somewhat superficial and one-sided conclusion.

What puzzled Noland Lee was why the Metal Creation Group would place such a research project with unclear application prospects in such a Dark Star belt that would not be detected by the outside world.

“Not clear, not clear, but I should focus on the task at hand.”

Noland Lee shook his head slightly, dismissing stray thoughts.

The last minute of the “Power of Senati” ended, and the Snow-winged Cat regained mobility.

In the cage of the Snow-winged Cat, Noland Lee used the “Veil of Different Worlds” to create a decoy cat for cover, avoiding early detection of the Snow-winged Cat’s departure by the Synthetic Humans.

Then, Noland Lee raised his right hand, suspending it in front of him.

A faint white light glowed, and with a ‘piu’ sound, the Snow-winged cat suddenly appeared, steadily landing in Noland Lee’s hand.

Such swift teleportation was truly astonishing.

The advantages demonstrated by the Snow-winged Cat were not limited to this.