I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

"Who is it?" Callett asked, sounding puzzled.

"It's me." A familiar female Titan voice reached Callett from outside the door. It was one of the senior strategy officers in the Strategic Department, second only to him in status, but she would normally never come to his private residence so casually.

As soon as she finished speaking, the female Titan standing outside the door pushed it open and walked in, causing Callett to narrow his eyes slightly with wariness, because the door to his residence had just been locked, and she didn't have permission to enter.

"We need to talk," the senior strategy officer said.

Sensing that something was wrong, Ilo immediately looked up at Callett, who, seeing this, said:

"You can go back now."

Ilo nodded quickly:

"Then I'll be leaving."

The female Titan watched him leave before slowly turning to Callett:

"A secret envoy from the Second City has arrived."

Callett said with a slight surprise:

"A secret envoy, at this time?"

Each city in the Titan Ruins has its own envoys, a position created because they couldn't communicate freely within the Titan Ruins. Secret envoys, on the other hand, were the highest-level envoys, dispatched only in emergencies.

Under normal circumstances, these secret envoys would only communicate with the Thirteen Kings. They were basically there to represent the will of a certain Titan King, and their appearance always meant they had important news to convey. In the past, ninety percent of the news they brought was related to the Gods, and it was usually because the Gods had come up with some new methods that needed to be guarded against.

"That's right," the female Titan replied. "All the verification procedures have been completed, confirming that he is a secret envoy from the Second City. What should we do now?"

Normally, only the Ninth King had the right to meet with secret envoys, but when she went into slumber, she had already allowed Callett to meet with envoys on her behalf in such situations. However, the current situation was somewhat special.

Given the current state of the Ninth City, the Ninth King was expected to awaken in a few days if there were no unforeseen circumstances. So, if they were willing to wait, she could indeed meet with the envoy herself.

This was why she was asking.

Callett also asked:

"Did the envoy say anything?"

The female Titan shook her head:

"He won't say anything until he sees the Ninth King or you."

This was to ensure that there would be no leaks, but it also meant that they couldn't know how urgent the envoy's message was. Therefore, after thinking for a moment, Callett made a decision.

"Let me meet with him first," he said. "We can't risk delaying the secret envoy's message."

The senior strategy officer nodded and said:

"Then I will take you to see him."

After saying that, Callett followed the female Titan out of his residence, got into a skycar in the backyard, and traveled through half the city to the Strategic Department, before changing several modes of transportation to reach the meeting place.

Callett pushed open the door in front of him and walked into the meeting room, which was isolated from the outside world.

The secret envoy sitting inside was draped in a dark robe, and beneath the robe was a silvery-white metallic sheen. This envoy was an extremely pure mechanical Titan, and such pure mechanical Titans were not common in the Ninth City. In the Ninth City, even if the interior of a mechanical Titan was purely mechanical, they would use fake skin to decorate their exterior.

In the Titan Ruins, with the exception of a few cities, the dominant members of most Titan cities were of a single race, and the dominant races of these cities were often the same as the Thirteen Kings of each city.

After all, if flesh Titans and mechanical Titans required completely different facilities, and neither could use the other's infrastructure, it would require a huge investment of resources to build cities that could simultaneously meet the basic and advanced needs of both races. For the sake of convenience and economy, different Titans would choose to live in different cities.

Moreover, the differences between mechanical Titans and flesh Titans were becoming increasingly obvious. For example, many Titans in the Second City no longer wore fake skin like their ancestors, and were keen to fully expose their mechanical bodies, taking pride in it.

Interestingly, contrary to the ideas of most Titans today, this division of cities was originally entirely for the sake of resource utilization, and not because of the differences in personality between flesh Titans and mechanical Titans.

Many young Titans today believe that there is an insurmountable and astonishing difference in the essence of consciousness between flesh Titans and mechanical Titans, but this idea is actually a gross underestimation of ancient Titan civilization.

Although the underlying principles of their consciousness were completely different, the ancient Titans used very clever techniques and methods to twist this difference, allowing both flesh and machine to perfectly simulate human consciousness.

Even if their consciousness had subtle differences, they couldn't perceive it.

The differences in thought between mechanical Titans and flesh Titans today were actually born slowly after they separated and lived in different cities, re-influencing the two races. Therefore, there were sometimes minor frictions between mechanical Titans and flesh Titans.

So, when he saw this mechanical Titan envoy, Callett was still somewhat wary. However, his wariness of mechanical Titans was far lower than that of humans. Although they and humans were made of flesh and blood, they and mechanical Titans were truly the same race—they simply had different external characteristics.

"You are Callett." The mechanical Titan slightly adjusted the angle of his head, looking at the Titan opposite him. "I have heard your name. You are the Ninth King's most trusted subordinate."

Callett sat down opposite him:

"What news does the Second King have for us? Is it about the Gods?"

The secret envoy, as if he hadn't heard the question, said:

"And I heard that you are also very loyal to her, which is a problem for us."

Immediately realizing that something was wrong, Callett stood up again and took a few steps back:

"What do you mean?"

The secret envoy stared at Callett with emotionless mechanical eyes:

"I'm not here to find the Ninth King. I'm here to find you.

"You found a human today, didn't you?"

Callett looked at him warily and said:

"You have spies here."

The mechanical Titan showed an extremely stiff smile:

"Of course, you also have spies in our place.

"There's no need to say more about such tacit things. We did receive news, and a little more than you might have imagined. We heard about that human's proposal.

"You should know that many Titans disagree with contacting humans, but as long as she wakes up, she will definitely be able to unite with several other Titan Kings to put forward this absurd request that doesn't put the safety of the Titans at heart."

Callett stared at him intently:

"So…"

The mechanical Titan remained motionless, maintaining a frozen smile:

"You guessed right. I'm here to stop you from waking her up early."

Happy 5.1 everyone, I hope everyone can have more holidays in the future~