Staring at the phone in her hand, hatred filled Anna's eyes. After hesitating for a moment, she pressed the green answer button. The low-pixel screen flickered a few times before the Brass Puppet appeared.
"Miss Anna, you're still alive. That genuinely surprises me. You actually managed to escape the ambush by Sigma-66 'Forest Hunter' and Tau-2 'Red Eye'."
The God of Shattering clearly already knew what had happened. He had betrayed Anna. This was a setup, a trap orchestrated by the God of Shattering and the IMF.
Although Anna was furious enough to tear his heart out right now, she couldn't show it. She still wanted to use him to escape her desperate situation.
"Absorbing the anomaly is a minor issue," she said. "No matter what the IMF offered you, I can give you more."
"I'm sorry, I can't cooperate with you. I have no way out," the God of Shattering bluntly rejected her.
