"Among the people who came to pick her up, is there a warrior with a long sword?" Ke Lan pointed at the sword in Asano Akira's arms behind him, "Something like this."

"I didn't pay attention to that..." Manstein shook his head. "I was lying on the ground pretending to be dead at that time. I didn't dare to move. How could I pay attention to the equipment of those people..."

"Then how do you know she's a spy for the Mitsui Group?"

"Those people...they communicated with each other in Japanese, and their clothes were all printed with the Mitsui Group logo..."

"What about Liao Zilang?" The Hound asked, "Since he is not dead, where is he now?"

"I don't know... I waited until the sound of the plane faded away before I got up from the ground. By then, Mr. Liao Zilang was gone."

"You don't know the answer to any question. What's the point of keeping you here?" The Hound cursed angrily, but did not resort to violence against Manstein again.

"I...my secretary can also testify. She...she was with me at that time." Manstein said quickly, and the secretary, who looked frightened, nodded frantically.

Ke Lan glanced at the two of them, then pulled Hound and the others to the other side and said in a voice that only they could hear: "Even if what Manstein said is a little different, the facts should be pretty close. I worked backwards based on these clues, and this should be the most reasonable explanation."

"Damn it, I didn't expect that bitch would trick us." The Hound said hatefully, "We must avenge this, and we can't let that bitch die too easily... It would be best if we strip her naked and throw her into the nest of hookworms, so that she can feel the feeling of having her stomach cut open and torn apart bit by bit from the inside out!"

Ke Lan sighed and said, "That woman's behavior along the way was probably just acting. We were all fooled by her. But there is one thing I doubt... Manstein said that those people had the logo of the Mitsui Group on their clothes... Are these guys so sure that no one will survive in this base? They didn't even have the most basic identity disguise... Or do they want to put the blame on others?"

"There are only three large conglomerates controlled by the Japanese, Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Arasaka...but the focus of the Arasaka Group is on manufacturing and banking, and they have not set up a base in the Corpse of Leviathan, so the only one left is the Mitsubishi Group..." Ke Lan muttered to himself.

"So, that bitch is from Mitsubishi?"

"No, we almost got fooled! They were deliberately misleading us! Manstein should have been discovered by those people when he pretended to be dead, but he was no longer of any value at that time. It didn't matter whether he was killed or not. He was left behind by those people to mislead us... They wanted us to think that they wanted to put the blame on others... If I remember correctly, although the controllers of Mitsui and Mitsubishi are both Japanese, they seem to be mortal enemies..."

"What you said is too confusing... What you mean is that this group of people were sent by Mitsui, right?" The Hound said with a frown.

"This is just my guess. The Soma Group will definitely investigate this matter. There is no need for us to get involved in this mess... The most urgent task now is to find a way to find the missing Liao Zilang, and to ensure everyone's safety." Ke Lan turned her head and looked out the window. The giant cocoon was still standing quietly in the square, without any movement.

"Mr. Manstein." Ke Lan walked up to Manstein again, "I have a few more questions I need to ask you... Where did those monsters go after they broke into the base? Also, what's going on with this giant cocoon in the square outside?"

"Oh, you mean the huge flower bud outside? ... That, that grew out from the ground... As for those monsters, they crawled into the flower bud and never came out again... Oh, by the way, they also threw the bodies of the fallen soldiers in the base into it. I saw it with my own eyes from upstairs!"

Flower bud? Ke Lan took another look at the giant object outside the window. Indeed, the shape of this thing was very similar to a flower bud. And if, as Manstein said, this thing grew out of the ground, then using the word "flower bud" to describe it would be more appropriate than a giant cocoon.

Wait? This thing grew out of the ground?

Ke Lan's mind flashed back to the blueprint of the Soma Consortium's base that he had seen in the documents before. If he remembered correctly, this base was built on the spine of Leviathan...

Then doesn't this thing grow out of Leviathan's spine? !

If this thing is not an incubator and is not used to "mass produce" those "anemone heads", then what is the purpose of those monsters throwing the corpses into it?

An indescribable feeling of fear suddenly surged up...

"Manstein! Do you know how thick the rock layer beneath this base is? How far is it from Leviathan's spine?" Ke Lan asked anxiously.

"The rock layer... is probably less than 150 meters thick, right? The base was originally located here because the rock layer here is the thinnest, closest to the Leviathan body, and the building stability is the best..." Manstein answered a little confused. He didn't quite understand why Ke Lan suddenly asked this question.

"What about the foundation? How deep is the base's foundation?"

"Of course it's because they drilled right through the rock!"

"The situation doesn't seem good..." Ke Lan walked to the window with a serious face, staring at the bottom of the bract... There was a large pool of blood formed by the gathering of plasma. As for what was under the pool of blood, it was probably hard to say...

"What's wrong, Ke Lan?" The Hound, Ivan, and Layton all followed over. "Is there something wrong with this big guy? But we've been here for so long, and it hasn't been moving at all, has it?"

"There is a problem, a big problem..." Ke Lan pondered for a moment, thinking about how to express it...

"This thing...may have grown directly from Leviathan's spine."

"Leviathan... maybe he's not dead yet..."

After saying this, the Alpha characters on the black stone tablet appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes again, "The place where the giant beast that rules the sky rests"... Ke Lan realized that he had previously misunderstood this sentence with the inertia of human thinking - the language logic of humans is completely different from that of Alpha civilization. In Alpha language, long sleep means a long period of hibernation... It does not mean death at all!

The reason why there are no powerful indigenous creatures around Leviathan is not because those indigenous creatures are afraid of the residual power of this prehistoric beast after its death...

But because it is still alive!