I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

As Greck stood up, the mechanical knight reached out and squeezed his throat. Just as he thought his neck was about to be twisted off...

She released her grip, but the cold metallic sensation at Greck's neck didn't disappear.

The heavy thud of his body hitting the ground reached Greck's ears, but he felt an unusual lack of silence.

"This collar will block any detection of you using your abilities. If you try anything, it will kill you directly. But you're probably the first outsider to use it," the knight said, with a hint of mocking pity in her voice. "And it can also stop whatever's in your brain from spying on our world."

Hearing this, Greck reflexively glanced at the hovering panel in front of him, then his heart sank again—it was still there and hadn't triggered any reaction from the mechanical collar, so she wasn't talking about that.

Greck tentatively messaged Mann back:

"Report, I have successfully infiltrated."

After a brief pause, two cold words appeared on the panel.

"Received, continue mission."

A simple declaration.

"Take him," the female knight waved her hand.

A large black cat stepped forward, picked Greck up in its mouth, and tossed him onto its back. It walked to the front of the cat pack, gracefully began ascending the stairs, and always stayed within the female knight's line of sight.

"You said coming here wasn't your intention, so how did you arrive here?" the mechanical knight asked.

"For me, it was completely an accident," Greck slowed down his speech, clearly waiting for orders from Mann.

Greck was now a teleportation station; if Mann wanted, he could deploy a tactical squad using him as a coordinate. If the Moon God didn't exist, Shen Zhihe would have been one of the members of this team.

Based on the current situation, Mann had made a simple deduction:

As long as he had Shen Zhihe and the other employees undergo regular checks and didn't expose truly important information, he could effectively prevent the Moon God from taking the second step.

Because he was still alive.

This proved that the Moon God definitely "couldn't" do anything to him through Shen Zhihe, who was in the Bureau, otherwise she would have already acted.

Therefore, Mann guessed that the Moon God's influence on Shen Zhihe wasn't that strong yet; her state was probably closer to leaving a backdoor in his mind, which aligned with his previous individual contact with the Moon Child.

But the purpose of the current weaker influence was likely to hide her tracks, and the reason for doing so was that the Moon God hadn't really figured out the danger of the Salvationist Covenant and wasn't willing to directly break ties with them.

This meant that she felt she couldn't obtain enough information without attracting the attention of the Bureau, likely because she couldn't invade his thoughts within the Bureau, and therefore hadn't figured out whether she should act.

The second basis for this judgment was that Shen Zhihe had no problems during the inspection. Rather than her being able to completely deceive the Bureau, Mann was more inclined to believe that Shen Zhihe was indeed in a normal state when he was in the containment room.

But there were other reasons that caused him to fall into the Moon God's power, for example, he was actually colluding with the Moon God while consciously, and hadn't accepted any power, merely betrayed his soul.

There were many similar possibilities. In short, the Moon God's current goal was definitely to figure out his information and the essence of the "Salvationist Covenant."

As long as he ensured that the Moon God didn't have enough information, he could make her hesitate to act rashly out of fear.

And in the process, he also had to try to hide the fact that he had noticed the Moon God, so as not to let the Moon God judge that he couldn't pose a direct threat to her immediately.

Mann couldn't let Shen Zhihe realize that obtaining weapons was his way of dealing with the Moon God. If the security here was low, maybe he could handle it alone.

But Mann didn't think the situation would be that simple.

Even the black cat guarding the door was already Tier IV. Although its current combat power was quite different from Mann's, and it should be easy to deal with, it was definitely not the only Tier IV ability user here.

Moreover, this black cat was actually a creation left behind by the Titans, and these humanoid creatures, for some unknown reason, definitely possessed other Titan creations. It wasn't wise to face them alone.

It couldn't just be Mann himself, nor could he rely on Shen Zhihe and the others, who had considerable combat power. Although it seemed like he was encountering difficulties now, Mann had actually already chosen his new exploration team members.

There was a ready-made excellent team in Godwin State, and coincidentally, they wanted to kill him.

"Collect information about the weapon and analyze the combat power required to obtain it," Mann said.

After receiving the order, Greck began to build up his emotions.

He raised his head, looked straight ahead, and asked heavily:

"You're taking action because..."

The female knight said coldly:

"You're quite bold, aren't you afraid I'll kill you for being verbose?"

Greck said resolutely:

"I want to know the reason before I die."

After a brief silence, the female knight chuckled arrogantly a few times:

"Alright, I'll satisfy your curiosity.

"Because you are human."

Greck waited for the next sentence:

"So..."

The female knight looked at the metal door that was slowly opening:

"That's the reason.

"We will kill all humans who come here, because you are the perfect hosts for evil monsters, and there is a risk of bringing the monsters in your bodies into our home. Although you and the one just now are not infected, you both have the risk of breeding them.

"Where there are people, there are gods."

The knight jumped off the black cat, then walked to Greck's side, patted him, and motioned for him to come down:

"Follow me."

Behind the door was a spacious metal corridor, which looked like a secret underground base of some federation, but in fact, it was located in a tower that used space technology.

After walking a few steps, a strong man with a metal structure all over his body walked out of the shadows. His face was basically an iron face, but the eye sockets still contained normal human eyes.

As he continued to move forward, fleshy liquid flowed out of the gaps in the metal structure, and quickly formed tissue similar to skin all over his body. A seemingly normal adult male appeared in front of them.

The female knight looked at her father and continued the previous exchange in the internal communication network:

"I didn't actually expect you to agree to let me bring him in."

The man looked at her and replied in the communication network:

"Although they are indeed very dangerous, the agreement that all humans who are seen must be killed immediately is a bit extreme. Even if humans with normal test results are not killed directly, it won't matter much.

"I ask you to carry it out more out of habit and respect for those who break free from their restraints.

"And in fact, when I was young, I also caught a few humans from the outside world. Most of them were worse and more pitiful than the sages described, but one of them possessed wisdom that even I respected, and I even allowed him to live to the end of his natural life.

"Sooner or later you will have to come into contact with them, but I didn't expect it to be so early."

With the sound of machinery operating, Greck noticed that the humanoid mechanical body began to deform outwards, revealing the flesh and blood body that was tightly protected inside. A woman who looked quite beautiful walked out.

Only then did he realize that this woman was wearing mechanical armor, and she was so beautiful that it was somewhat unreal.

But then Greck immediately remembered that the other party was probably not the human he knew either. Underneath that seemingly flawless skin was probably cold metal machinery.

The female knight walked behind her father, looked straight at Greck, and solemnly asked:

"I am Mira, daughter of Antum, guardian of the Black Tower. Now answer me, what did you mean when you said you were coerced into coming here?"

Greck lowered his head slightly:

"I am an ordinary ability user outside, but one day I was suddenly captured by an unknown organization and sent here by a method I couldn't understand. They told me this was an alien dimension and asked Radi and I to explore here.

"Then we strayed into this place. I'm sorry for offending you.

"If you don't want us to come, I can go back and tell the guys who sent me what you think."

Antum's answer did not exceed Greck's expectations:

"Good idea, but before that, we have to make sure you're telling the truth. During this time, I will 'imprison' you in the tower. Don't worry, I don't mean throwing you into prison.

"Before you leave, I want to make you aware of how powerful we are, so you can bring back accurate information, and you can also introduce us in detail to the place where you used to live, and how far the civilization outside has developed now.

"And my daughter Mira will accompany you during this time."

Or rather, monitor and watch over him. Although he was once again deprived of his abnormal abilities, this actually made Greck feel at ease, because he could clearly see that the technology they and Mann possessed was not at the same level at all.

And now it seemed that although these two people in the tower called themselves "humans", they did not behave too differently from the humans Greck knew. By Federation standards, they were at least considered demihumans.

This meant that his previous experience could be used on them. Obviously, they wanted to use the so-called imprisonment to extract the information he possessed, and would kill him after obtaining enough information.

But as long as they still lived in the logic he was familiar with, he was confident that he could find a way out.

"Thank you," he said with a face full of gratitude and expectation, "I promise to convey what you want to say."

Returned from the Fairy Realm