"It's alright, you'll find out soon enough. You'll soon know those secrets hidden in the filth and darkness..."

As he spoke, his body began to swell, and cracking sounds of unbearable strain emanated from within.

The voice squeezed out from the deformed cheeks also became inhuman.

"Those still living in a dreamlike safe zone should wake up... The world outside the Federation has long been itching to get their hands on this place, hahaha!"

Gu Li's heart trembled.

The world outside the Federation?!

He Shiyi's calm voice echoed in his mind: "Kill him."

Gu Li quickly snapped out of her panic and, her body moving faster than her thoughts, almost as soon as He Shiyi finished speaking, she turned her knife and charged forward.

The man in black had swollen to his limit, and when the long knife slashed down, Gu Li felt as if he were slashing down a dough ball.

"boom--"

The sound of flesh tearing and something bursting out rang out at the same time. Gu Li was hit hard in the chest and sent flying backward.

She instinctively tried to use her wings to stop herself, but amidst the clamor of exclamations, she barely managed to pull back her movements.

no.

It can't be now, and it can't be here.

She hesitated for a second before her entire body was slammed into the battlefield, the enormous impact destroying the walls of the house.

She fell into a pile of bricks, gasped for breath, and only then did she regain her senses from the immense pain.

Gu Li gritted her teeth and was pulled out of the ruins by the arriving Saide.

A subtle, persistent pain gradually spread throughout the body.

She casually wiped the blood from her lips, her pupils reflecting the alien species that practically filled the entire space on the stage.

"...Was it that person who transformed?"

Said hoisted her arm over his shoulder, gritted his teeth, and led her outside: "Hurry! This is no longer a place for us to interfere. The First Legion is here!"

Gu Li leaned against Saide and looked up at the sky.

A dense mass of warships bearing the insignia of the First Legion pressed in from the horizon.