Chapter 556: Contact

"Before we know more, we can't recklessly perform destructive testing on this material—especially after confirming that it has a living heart inside,"

Ted Riel said while opening his hefty tome, retracting the "stethoscope" back into the pages. A complex expression appeared on his always tired-looking face.

"Frankly, this is the strangest 'thing' I've ever seen in my life. I've seen plenty of indescribable entities that invade the real world, but a pulsing metal mass is not so common, and it's so... quiet,"

"Quiet?" Lucracia asked, unconsciously frowning upon hearing this.

"Yes, quiet, almost harmless," Ted Riel nodded, "As you have seen, its 'shell' has almost solidified. According to the field team, it had a brief period of vigorous activity just after it entered the real world, but it quickly changed into this 'solidifying' state. Moreover, it hasn't shown any 'active characteristics' like trying to escape containment, contaminate the guards, or resist external probing..."