Inside the bedroom.
A man with white hair, but whose hair was neatly combed and who was wearing a green military uniform symbolizing his status as a marshal of the federal army, stood by the window.
His weak body was supported by a black wooden cane in his right hand, and he kept coughing softly.
After reading the message sent by the butler via his personal terminal, he didn't move, but waited quietly for the person outside the door to come in.
"Koukou, Father, I'm coming in."
The male voice outside the door asked almost no questions, simply gave a notification, and then pushed the door open and entered.
He stormed in, but froze when he saw the situation inside.
The old man, who I always remembered as aloof and looking down on others, has now completely changed.
He somehow found himself using the cane that had been given to him before, but which he had always refused to use out of pride.
Her hair, which used to be half black, is now almost entirely white.
When he turned around, the face, half of which was made of electronic materials, was fully exposed to Sai Qin's view, leaving him speechless.
"What exactly is going on?"
Siren coughed a few more times, gesturing for Saiqin to come and sit down.
"You're still the same as before, your face reflects your thoughts. Judging from your angry look, you've come here to confront me, haven't you?"
Saiqin remained silent, his right hand clenched into a fist. He lingered on Siren's face, which looked at least ten years older, for a moment before asking, "What exactly happened? You were perfectly fine a while ago."
"Heh." Siren looked at the rain pattering down outside the window, his cloudy old eyes filled with a depth that Sai Qin couldn't understand. "You said it yourself, it was some time ago. To be honest, did you really care about me, your father?"
"Rumble..."
Just as the old man finished speaking, a muffled clap of thunder suddenly fell outside the window, but the two people inside the room were not affected.
Sai Qin avoided the topic he asked and looked away from his old eyes, saying in a hoarse voice, "You became like this because of the interstellar monster? Otherwise, with your strength, how could you be injured like this?"
“Watch this video, and you’ll understand why, including the answer you’ve been asking for today.”
When Qiao Mei and Ao Cang followed them in, they happened to hear the conversation between Sai Qin and his son stop there.
Immediately afterwards, a projection appeared from the Siren optical brain bracelet, playing a very unreal video.
In the video, many irregular round holes suddenly appeared on the battlefield of the interstellar monsters. Not only were all kinds of interstellar monsters constantly emerging from the holes, but a purple gas was also drifting out from them.
The interstellar monsters touched by the purple gas mutated and strengthened at a visible rate.
Many federal troops stationed near the battlefield were crushed like ants.
The final shot of the video shows the person recording being attacked by a space monster with a huge maw and three heads coexisting on its body, which pierces through the mech's body with its huge maw.
When Saiqin saw this, he was completely stunned. He turned to look at Siren in disbelief and asked, "An SSS+ level mech was pierced through in just one move?"
The highest-level mech in the entire interstellar space right now is the Phantom King, piloted by the Siren.
In the past, almost every battle in which the King of the Underworld participated was a victory he never lost.
And no matter how difficult the battle was, it would never have resulted in the Netherworld King's mech being damaged like that.
This clearly demonstrates just how powerful the mutated interstellar monsters have become.
Qiao Mei was also stunned. The interstellar monsters described in the original book were just ordinary monsters, and there was none of them that looked so powerful.
Not to mention the numerous irregular round holes that suddenly appeared.
At that rate, the encirclement of interstellar monsters that could previously be resisted will soon be broken through.
No wonder the federal army forcibly fed death energy to the students of the federal academy without any warning.
The siren nodded, extending his right hand, which was covered by his clothes. The silvery-white metallic sheen indicated that his right hand had also been destroyed.
"I'm lucky to have survived this battle. Even with my strength, I could barely keep my life. So how long do you think the stable order of the entire interstellar space can last if I don't take coercive measures to taint the students of the Federal Academy with death energy?"
Sai Qin fell silent; the words that had been churning in his stomach for so long were now completely unspeakable.
But he refused to give up, frowning as he asked, "Is this all there is to it? You yourself have been tainted by the death aura; you can't possibly be unaware of how serious its harm is. It..."
"So what?! Are we just going to let the entire interstellar space be buried along with this kind of harm that isn't too obvious in the early stages?! Saiqin, did you even think before you said that?"
The siren was furious; after cursing, she coughed violently a few times.
But this wasn't an ordinary cough; after he stopped, there was a very obvious bloodstain on the handkerchief covering his mouth.
The blood was a strange color; it wasn't red, nor black, but rather a color somewhere between purple and blue.
If you look closely, there seem to be worms wriggling inside.
Qiao Mei felt physically uncomfortable watching this scene, but Ao Cang accepted it well. He even told her what had happened after they went outside together.
"Judging from his condition, he should be almost completely transformed into a Holy Falcon. In the later stages, he will develop in the direction of the Holy Falcon's beast form if he fails to expel all the death energy from his body before that."
"What do you mean? Why would he develop into a beast-like form? Isn't that something that only affects physical health?"
Ao Cang recalled the unusually sharp black fingernails of the Siren earlier, his golden eyes showing a solemn expression: "Logically speaking, yes, but he is different from others. In order to pursue the ultimate improvement in strength, he has replaced part of his bones with animal bones."
He just didn't have a chance to say it earlier.
Qiao Mei said, "Why did I feel so strange when I was looking at the Sirens just now?"
Although they are human, they give off a strange sense of danger and unease.
But what shocked her even more was the fact that Saiqin was actually the son of the Sirens.
The two people who were standing together just now looked almost identical, about 70-80% alike.
However, since she didn't care much about the federal army, she was unaware of this matter.
After understanding the situation in Saiqin, Qiao Mei glanced at the rain outside, which was starting to subside, and decided to leave with Ao Cang.
She had recorded what the Siren father and son had just said, and she would play it for Xu Wenfeng later to see what he thought and planned.
The Sirens' current approach cannot be said to be without problems, but it cannot be said to be too problematic either.
What she was more worried about was how many of those interstellar monsters that emerged from the irregular round holes had actually accumulated.
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