I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

After saying goodbye to Mann, Zasna returned to the platform and re-boarded the floating pod, slowly leaving this place and returning to the aerial rail. The platform, originally used exclusively for parking flying vehicles, began to transform again, reassembling into a transparent balcony completely isolated from the outside world, allowing Mann to observe the scenery outside.

Zasna withdrew her gaze from the human standing in the room, then looked at the floating pod:

"Let's go, to the Tower of Slumber."

After she spoke, the floating pod began to drive into the distance as if it had a life of its own. In reality, this was indeed the case. The floating pod had a relatively low level of mechanical intelligence. Its self-awareness was not much higher than that of an ordinary animal, but it had an extraordinary understanding and execution ability for language and instructions.

Although this special tool also had a mental structure, it was not a perfect simulation and replication of human consciousness like the Mechanical Titans. Therefore, their mental structure could not be directly compared to flesh-and-blood creatures, so they had no way to misinterpret or violate the Titans' orders.

The most important aspect of this mental model was the ability to immediately understand the driver's language and automatically respond to the external environment according to needs. This ability to understand and act was the meaning of the mental model's existence.

The reason why Zasna didn't talk to the floating pod on the way just now was because she didn't want Mann to immediately realize how powerful Titan technology was. The best-case scenario was that he would remain ignorant of this place until he left.

If he could really leave this place.

At this moment, the expression on the face of the flesh-and-blood Titan standing by the window overlooking the entire city was extremely deep, almost a different person from how she was in front of Mann. No one could tell her true thoughts from her expression.

Although she had always appeared calm about this matter, Mann's appearance was definitely not a trivial matter. When she learned that a human had appeared in the Evernight Forest, she directly abandoned the important work in her hands and rushed to the Evernight Forest with the personal guard left to her by the Ninth King before anyone else arrived, thus saving Mann's life.

If the people from Callett had arrived before her, Mann would likely have met a different fate.

But he must have received the news by now, after all, it was Callett's son, Ilo, who ran into Mann. In fact, he might have thought about killing Mann directly at the time, but ultimately he didn't have a chance to do it.

However, if he had really wanted to force his hand at that time, he would have been stopped by her, who had already received the news—he had secretly reported to her when his adjutant was arguing with him.

So, in fact, after arriving at the location, she waited a few more minutes, pretending to have arrived on short notice. There were naturally very complex reasons for her doing this. In fact, there were people who didn't want to see the appearance of humans.

This person was Callett, the current Chief Strategist of the Ninth City, and also Ilo's father.

"Destination reached," the floating pod said in an emotionless tone.

The floating pod had stopped at the top of the tower, and the door had once again turned into downward steps, but Zasna did not walk down immediately, because there were already several figures standing at the top of the tower waiting for her.

In fact, Zasna had known for a long time that they would stop her in advance. She had deliberately stayed with Mann for a while longer because she didn't really want to see the people in front of her, but she also knew that she would definitely have to face them.

Zasna sighed slightly in her heart and slowly walked down.

"Your Highness Zasna," a warm male voice came from in front of her as soon as she stepped onto the ground at the top of the tower. "It's been a long time since we last met, hasn't it?"

Zasna walked up to the flesh-and-blood Titan, half of whose body was composed of machinery:

"It's okay, I think we've seen each other too much."

Callett said with a smile:

"I heard that my son found a human, and you have imprisoned him?"

Zasna looked at the Chief Strategist, then glanced at the guards behind him:

"That's right, and you are well aware of Mother's attitude towards humans. This is an opportunity for us to make our people and the civilians of other cities realize that humans are no different from us.

"They are not some race inferior to us, but creatures with the same intelligence as us. The lives of those who created us are still important. We cannot use the weapons they created against them."

Callett shrugged:

"Is that so? But I have also seen humans. Eight out of ten of them are lackeys of the gods, and the remaining two can also be said to be extremely vile and disgusting. I don't think this one will be an exception."

Zasna frowned slightly at his sophistry. They were well aware that most of these humans were lackeys of the gods only because the lackeys of the gods were more likely to enter this place.

But she did not try to argue with him here:

"But I have already met this Mann, and I can be very sure that he is not a lackey of the gods, and he is not like those humans we have encountered before. I think he is more representative of the current situation of humans.

"I have confidence…"

Callett sneered:

"How do you know he's not lying to you? Maybe he's just a good actor. Maybe he's a spy sent by some land organization. Do you really think he would be so lucky to appear here?

"Your Highness, I understand your optimism about humans, but you are still too young and have not realized that reality may be far crueler and colder than you imagine. Peaceful transformation is impossible.

"Humans are the claws of the gods."

Zasna said with a cold face:

"So you're going to stop me from waking her up? When she wakes up, she will know about this too."

Callett said with a smile:

"I know, but I'm thinking for our sake. Her new body has not yet been manufactured. Waking her up in advance is not a good thing for us. What if other cities take the opportunity to attack us?

"Besides, I've already said that he may not really be the kind of population you think he is. If he can't accomplish what you want, wouldn't it be in vain to wake up the Ninth King in advance?

"Even if you really want to wake up the Ninth King, you must at least be confident that he can persuade other cities, or at the very least, you must be able to persuade me, otherwise I will regard your behavior as a threat to this city.

"She used three bodies to exchange for the current peace. We can't afford a new war."

Zasna shook her head with a cold smile and said sarcastically:

"You are really loyal to my mother, huh…

"I will let you see whether he can realize our plan or not."