He just broke up with his girlfriend and is already living with the devilish rich girl.

Youdu.

That once bizarre and bustling ghost town.

It has now completely disappeared.

On the ground, only a huge, bottomless circular hole remained.

The edges of the hollow were smooth as a mirror, as if some giant object had forcibly "gouged" a piece from the earth.

An elderly man in a white coat, with messy hair, stood with his hands behind his back at the edge of the pit.

They examined the empty space with great interest, as if admiring a work of art.

Behind him stood Tao Ye, Zhou Xuetong, Zheng Yueyao, and another man in a black trench coat with a cold expression.

They were looking at the old man who had suddenly appeared with some surprise.

"Holy crap! You scared the crap out of me!"

Tao Ye was the first to react, shrinking back sharply and watching the old man's back warily.

"Isn't that... Xu Wenda, the director of the Special Administration Bureau's Academy of Sciences?"

The man in the trench coat frowned, stepped forward, and asked tentatively.

"Mr. Xu... Mr. Xu? Weren't you... already... killed by Shenyi...?"

"what?"

The old man turned his head, looked at the man, and gave him a kind smile.

"Oh, right, I got my head chopped off, right?"

As he spoke, he actually reached out and, as if lifting a watermelon, easily lifted his head off his neck.

He held his head in one hand and pointed to the smooth cut on his neck with the other, explaining to the crowd.

"It's just a head; we can replace as many as we need. That's not the key issue right now."

No, no, no, no, no! This is a critical problem!!

Tao Ye, Zhou Xuetong, and Zheng Yueyao were all internally ranting and raving.

They had already heard that the director of the Special Administration Academy of Sciences was a very strange mad scientist.

His whereabouts are elusive, like a dragon whose head is seen but not its tail; virtually no one has ever seen his true face.

But now, watching helplessly as someone whose death was confirmed in the records stands alive and well right in front of me, even performing the amazing feat of carrying a severed head...

This feeling is absolutely terrifying!

The old man seemed completely oblivious to the horrified expressions on their faces.

He put his head back on his neck, twisting it left and right, making a "click-clack" sound.

Then he turned around and pointed to the huge hole, and began his analysis.

"Based on the parameters of energy fluctuations and spatial distortion, this void is connected to another independent space."

"And in that space is the real Youdu, which Qingyao swallowed whole."

"Hmm... So, the few of us are going to jump into that space to rescue people?"

Tao Ye asked tentatively.

"No, that's impossible."

The old man shook his head, pushed up his thick glasses, and revealed a fanatical and excited expression.

"This barrier is the last line of defense that Qingyao built with herself at its core."

"It's impossible to break it from the outside unless... we can find its core nodes from the inside and reverse engineer them."

"Oh, that's great!"

Upon hearing this, Tao Ye breathed a sigh of relief, yawned, and was about to turn around.

"Since we can't break it, it means we've done our best. That's our strength. Let's call it a day. Everyone go home and find your mothers. That's a wrap!"

Before she could take two steps, Zhou Xuetong grabbed her by the back of her collar.

They pulled it back forcefully.

"What the hell is going on... Xue Tong!"

"Bajie, stop thinking about dividing the luggage all the time."

"Did you secretly insult me?"

"Since Old Xu is here, he must have a way. Don't think about protecting yourself alone."

"Xuetong, you just escaped death, and you're going to risk your life again? We can't beat them!"

Tao Ye struggled, looking completely unwilling.

Zhou Xuetong said expressionlessly, "Don't embarrass us S-rank operators in front of our juniors."

Upon hearing this, Tao Ye looked at Zheng Yueyao, who was still in a daze.

Zheng Yueyao smiled awkwardly when she was looked at.

Tao Ye waved her hand: "Oh, it doesn't matter to me."

"The only person I'm interested in is Lady Luo Yao."

"Now that Lady Luo Yao has a man, I have no chance. I'd better go back to thinking about her and keep mining."

Then Zhou Xuetong pulled her back with her other hand.

Mr. Xu Wenda completely ignored the bickering between these women.

He turned his gaze to the trench coat-clad man who had remained silent throughout.

"Ah, Polaris, you're here too?"

"Mr. Xu...wasn't I the first person to greet you?"

The man in the trench coat, Polaris, the second-ranked S-class operator in the Special Administration Bureau, looked speechless.

"Perfect timing, come here for a moment."

The old man waved to the North Star.

"What are you doing?" Polaris asked, puzzled, but still walked over.

"Take off your clothes."

"...?"

"Just take it off when I tell you to, stop talking nonsense."

Polaris's lips twitched slightly, but she still did as she was told and took off her black trench coat and the shirt underneath.

His muscular upper body was exposed.

"Ugh~"

When Tao Ye saw those sharply defined abs and muscular chest, she instinctively covered her mouth, her eyes sparkling.

"This man... has a really good body..."

However, the next second.

Mr. Xu Wenda pulled out a set of surgical instruments that gleamed with a cold light from somewhere.

He started fiddling with it directly on Polaris's chest.

With a series of mechanical clicks, Polaris's chest was opened from the middle like a door!

Inside, apart from the slowly beating heart, all the other organs, bones, blood vessels... everything was made up of intricate mechanical parts and energy pipes that shimmered with blue light!

"Ugh...this man's body...it's disgusting..."

Tao Ye still covered her mouth, but the expression on her face had changed from infatuation to disgust.

Zheng Yueyao, who was standing to the side, also stared blankly at this scene, her mouth agape.

While using all sorts of strange tools to work inside Polaris's chest cavity, which resembled a precision instrument, Mr. Xu spoke to the crowd without looking up.

"I hope you can help keep this a secret."

"But I can tell you that Polaris is not some kind of mechanical being; he is a human being, a purely human being."

He removed a burnt-out energy core from Polaris's "lungs," replaced it with a new one, and continued to explain.

"His special ability is called inorganic matter conversion."

"This is an extremely rare passive ability. Its essence is that it allows his carbon-based life form to engage in deep-level energy and matter exchange with inorganic matter in the surrounding environment."

"Simply put, he can unconsciously absorb and decompose all inorganic matter within a certain range, such as soil, rocks, metals, etc., and directly convert the atomic energy within them into his own biological kinetic energy."

"That is why his body is constantly subjected to tremendous energy shocks and physical pressure."

"The flesh and blood of ordinary humans simply cannot withstand this level of energy conversion."

"Therefore, in order for him to survive and be able to control this power, we had no choice but to replace all of his internal organs, except for his brain which is responsible for thinking and his heart which is responsible for supplying blood, with specially made mechanical prosthetics that can withstand high-intensity energy loads."

After hearing this explanation, Tao Ye waved his hand dismissively.

"Oh well, it doesn't matter how it is."

"Anyway, we already have enough weirdos in our Special Administration Bureau, one more won't make a difference."

"I'm not trying to be mean, sir, but please finish this quickly. Give me a straight answer: are we going to fight or retreat?"