"Could it be that in the last case, what you encountered was a real remnant of an ancient species? Not an illusion?"
"...Illusion?"
"Yes, those tentacles you saw in the black fog were not real remnants, but illusions created by some powerful entity using energy."
Yi Nanping's face paled instantly: "...Just illusions are that powerful?! If it were the real thing..."
It was unimaginable! Meng Guanghui knew what he was thinking, and shook the sniper rifle shell in the transparent evidence bag at him: "Is it this kind of bullet?"
Yi Nanping composed himself, carefully examined the transparent evidence bag, and nodded solemnly: "Yes, it's these bullets. Huh? Why are there so many? I only remember one..."
Kang Shanxing, recalling the sky full of tentacle illusions, slowly said, "...Perhaps, they fired more than one shot."
Yi Nanping frowned, carefully recalling the situation at the time, suddenly seemed to remember something, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Chief! That person must have been trying to help us! I remember now! When we were first ambushed in the South District, there were two small aircraft dogfighting in the sky above the South District!"
Huo Yushen, standing behind the medical bay, was always calm, ruthless, knowledgeable, and had seen it all, even a supernova exploding in front of him wouldn't change his expression.
But after listening to Yi Nanping's description, his brow gradually furrowed.
Kang Shanxing was even more surprised: "You mean, those illusory tentacles also wanted to destroy that aircraft, but only managed to pierce it from the top, and then that tentacle disappeared into thin air?"
"Yes, it disappeared into thin air! At the time, I didn't understand what was going on, but now that you say those weren't real remnants, but illusions, that makes sense."
Only illusions can disappear into thin air when they are punctured.
Huo Yushen's doubts deepened.
He had directly competed in mental strength with the distant entity behind the illusory tentacles, forcing it to retreat.
Before him, someone else was able to use mental strength to eliminate those illusory tentacles? What level would that be...
He frowned in thought.
In that black fog, he could indeed feel that in a certain direction in the night sky, there seemed to be some material existence.
But he didn't feel any malice, so he didn't bother to investigate further.
It seems that the material existence should be that small combat aircraft that was not destroyed by the illusory tentacles.
Yi Nanping, seeing Kang Shanxing frown, thought he didn't believe him, and said nervously: "Chief, our helmets have automatic video recording equipment, you can watch the playback, I'm not lying!"
Kang Shanxing, hearing Yi Nanping mention this, sighed and shook his head: "I just checked the equipment you were carrying, all the electromagnetic components are damaged, there are no video recordings left."
Since Huo Yushen said that the tentacles in the black fog were all illusions created by energy, that explains why the electromagnetic components were damaged.
Because there was a large-scale magnetic field disturbance in that area.
Yi Nanping's face fell, very worried that the chief suspected he was lying, and hurriedly said again: "Before, our team handled the remnant hostage incident in the North District, there is also video, and it has been uploaded to the Special Security Bureau's Mulan City branch cloud system. Chief can check! I'm really not lying!"
Huo Yushen remained noncommittal and quietly turned to leave.
Kang Shanxing hurriedly comforted Yi Nanping a few words: "Take care of your injuries, we'll talk about it after you recover."
Then he hurriedly left.
Huo Yushen returned to his private office in the Bat-style Fighter Jet, and immediately opened the Special Security Bureau's internal account to view the action video Yi Nanping mentioned.
Meng Guanghui and Kang Shanxing followed in at this time, nervously watching him.
Comparing it with the action log submitted by Yi Nanping, Huo Yushen finished watching the entire video, his expression extremely calm, and simply said: "There's a problem with the video."
"What's the problem?! Do they dare to tamper with the video?!" Meng Guanghui and Kang Shanxing were both shocked.
Since Huo Yushen took office, no one in the Special Security Bureau has dared to do such a thing! Huo Yushen's expression was indifferent, but his eyes were very dangerous, as if on the verge of rage, but with great restraint, like a volcano in the deep sea that has not erupted.
His hand rested on the desk in front of him, tapping lightly.
Kang Shanxing was the more careful of the two adjutants.
He went over and carefully looked through the action log again, and then recalled the video he had just watched, and suddenly said: "There seems to be a problem with the video, we have to ask Yi Nanping again."
"What's the problem? Why didn't I see it?" Meng Guanghui bent down, staring at the action log, squinting his eyes to look again and again, while saying: "The log says that according to the information obtained, the cult organization Judge captured hostages to conduct a once-in-three-year Human Sacrifice Ceremony."
"They arrived and found twenty-three abducted young boys and girls, but they were all dead. The video also shows the exact same content... Where's the problem?"
Kang Shanxing glanced at Huo Yushen, and seeing that he didn't mean to stop him, he softly explained to Meng Guanghui: "You also said that the cult organization Judge captured hostages to conduct a once-in-three-year Human Sacrifice Ceremony."
"According to our information, this Judge organization needs twenty-four young boys and girls for their once-in-three-year Human Sacrifice Ceremony. So there should be twenty-four hostages, but Yi Nanping's video and action log only show twenty-three people, obviously missing one person."
"...Couldn't it be that the Judge organization abducted someone from somewhere else? It's a pity that all twenty-three people are already dead, otherwise, we could ask them to find out how many people there were..." Meng Guanghui muttered, still feeling that Huo Yushen and Kang Shanxing were making a mountain out of a molehill.
Kang Shanxing frowned and said, "Little Meng, your reasoning doesn't align with the Judge organization's operational norms. We should still find Yi Nanping to investigate, ask him carefully about all the details of the last operation. If necessary, we can use a brain-computer interface to have mechanical intelligence examine all his memories."
Huo Yushen raised his head, looked at Kang Shanxing indifferently, and said only one word: "…Check."
Kang Shanxing understood Huo Yushen's meaning. Whether one person was missing, or someone was abducted from somewhere else, they had to find out what was going on.
Huo Yushen didn't say a word, watching them leave his office, his gaze returning to the virtual display screen in front of him.
No matter what, he knew that one person was indeed missing.
Who was this missing person? Where did they go? Why was one person missing? Huo Yushen would never let go of any detail.
At this moment, for Huo Yushen, even the matter of killing a remnant species with thermal weapons was not so important.
...
As the Bat-style Fighter Jet and Kun-style Transport Aircraft brought by Huo Yushen stealthily left, Xia Chujian was also speeding away.
From the moment those three people suddenly appeared in the black fog, and conjured a silver bow and a golden arrow out of thin air, Xia Chujian's intuition went into overdrive.
At this time, she had only one thought, which was to run as far as possible. She didn't want to get involved with these people.
She drove the team's small combat aircraft, flying north all the way, and finally arrived at the Dark Night Hunter's branch in Mulan City again.
At this time, Ye Shijie, Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong had also woken up one after another.
"What happened?"
"I remember it seems like... the aircraft took the wrong route?"
"No, it seems like someone attacked us..."
They chatted with each other, and then all turned their gazes to Xia Chujian: "Chujian, what's going on? How come you're okay again?"
Xia Chujian thought for a while, and decided to say nothing for the time being, only guiltily looking at the hole in the aircraft's cabin roof, and said, "After Team Lead Ye and the others fainted just now, this aircraft's autopilot system was remotely controlled. I had no choice but to cancel the remote control system and operate it manually."
"Someone did attack us. The other party launched an attack and damaged our aircraft."
She pointed to the hole in the top of the aircraft.
Ye Shijie glanced at it, and didn't think it looked like a hole made by conventional thermal weapons.
But it was hard to say, what if the other party had some new type of weapon?
He calmly said, "It doesn't matter, the association can fix it anyway. This time we'll rest for a longer period. People need to rest, and machines need to rest too."
Li Fu rubbed his temples in the back seat, and said with a headache, "Being mentally attacked twice in one day, I feel like my mental strength is about to degenerate into that of an ordinary person."
Song Mingqian collapsed in the back seat with an "apathy greater than death" look, not wanting to say a word.
Ping Qiong moaned and stretched out her hand to Xia Chujian: "Chujian, give me water, I'm almost out of energy."
"Don't talk nonsense." Xia Chujian scolded her lightly, and handed her a bottle of drinking water.
Ye Shijie also rubbed his temples, looked at Xia Chujian again, and asked, "What about you? We were all mentally attacked, but the other party let you go?"
Xia Chujian nodded solemnly: "I was wearing a helmet and using soundproofing equipment. The other party probably knew I was an ordinary person, so they didn't launch a mental attack on me. Later, I launched a miniature missile in time, catching the other party off guard."
Ye Shijie's face immediately turned green: "Miniature missile?! Xia Chujian! Are you not going to rest until you've exhausted all my ammunition!"
Xia Chujian thought for a while, and turned on the aircraft's built-in camera system: "You might not believe it, but it was really the other party who attacked first! I was just acting in self-defense!"
After the other four people on the aircraft watched the thrilling scene just now, they were all stunned and speechless for a while.
They knew that Xia Chujian was very talented in thermal weapons, but they didn't expect her to be so excellent! "Chujian goes on an expedition! Truly, not a blade of grass grows!"
"Chujian is awesome! Chujian is awesome!"
"Chujian, Chujian, I love you! How can I live without you!"
Everyone sang and laughed, somewhat hysterically after surviving a disaster.
And it was surviving two disasters in one day.
With this probability, they could go buy a lottery ticket.
Because they all knew that if it weren't for Xia Chujian, the people who would have died without a burial place would have been themselves! Xia Chujian was also watching the surveillance footage.
She was surprised to find that the scenes that followed in the thick black fog were not recorded at all.
The entire recording stopped abruptly when she blew up that shuttle-shaped aircraft.
Song Mingqian dazedly said, "...To be able to escape from an aircraft locked on by a thermonuclear targeting device with such skillful maneuvers... Chujian, you could go to the association headquarters and be an instructor!"
Ping Qiong looked at Xia Chujian with admiration, leaned on the back of her seat, and said with a smile, "Chujian, I'm so glad to be in the same group as you! Being your enemy would give people nightmares even when they're sleeping!"
Li Fu was so excited that he didn't even care about his headache, and said repeatedly, "Captain, Captain! Look, look! Look how fiercely Chujian fought back! She absolutely didn't give the other side a chance to survive!"
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