The massive door lifted with surprising speed. Sparks flew from the sides as light from the cavern flooded the darkened pen, revealing the outline of a pair of four-legged, two-armed behemoths easily three times the size of an exo.
Erik took a deep breath.
After all this time fighting the conspiracy, a giant yaoguai seemed the logical end of a raid against a major facility. He was happy it appeared to be a monster and didn’t have missile launchers or laser cannons grafted to its shoulders. Given their luck, he’d expected to see a half-Hunter conspiracy assassin show up and try to kill him the next time he had a beignet.
yaoguaiThat left the monsters in front of them—conventional by conspiracy standards, disgusting aberrations by all rules of civilization. Dark green plates covered their
