In the seventh area of the wasteland, Bai Lian dragged his broken left arm and crawled in the steel cemetery. The red scanning beams of the three Reaper mechas behind him were approaching little by little - that was the price he paid for betraying the "Zero" team three days ago.
His fingers dug into the hot remains of the mecha, and a bone-chilling spasm came from his nerve endings. He was supposed to be an abandoned experimental subject, but the "alien gene" in his body that had never awakened seemed to come alive at this moment, proliferating crazily along his bones. The finger bones deformed, proliferated, and reorganized, and a temporary claw made of bones and broken armor broke out of the skin.
The Reapers ceased fire. They recognized the symbol - the "Zero" bloodline coveted by fragment hunters. Bai Lian grinned, blood dripping down between his teeth. He knew what was buried under this cemetery: an entire advance team that had been wiped out, a secret file that could keep the Federal Parliament awake at night, and... The true source of the set of genes in his body.
Before the next dawn, either he crawls out of the wasteland with the debris, or the entire ruins and him are wiped off the map by tactical nuclear bombs. And those forces lurking in the dark, waiting for him to reveal his position, have already begun to close the net.
