2:01 AM.
Divine Heart Association Base, Basement Level 3.
The cold light in the surveillance room cast its pale blue-white glow on the floor, making the surroundings feel even more chilling and murderous.
The entire room was surrounded by dozens of monitors, displaying real-time footage of the base's various corridors and laboratories, large and small.
On the laboratory screens, each frame revealed chillingly grotesque scenes—those being experimented on were all Spirit Beasts under second-level to first-level protection, whose capture and trade were strictly forbidden by Great Xia.
A Moon Shadow Deer, once silver-white and elegant, was now shackled to an operating table, its limbs tightly bound by heavy metal chains, its antlers entwined with wires, and the energy symbolizing moonlight charm was being forcibly extracted and converted into a viscous silver liquid;
