Zhao Bainiao scanned through the document at a speed of ten lines per glance, then announced to her colleagues, “The patrol officers detected an abnormal energy fluctuation at the edge of the city while checking the status of the [Suppressor]. There’s a high probability that a new instance is about to be born.”
The colleague who had just dealt with the Nestle Park incident looked shocked.
“Is it the Pseudo-Adept’s doing again?”
Zhao Bainiao pondered, “It’s hard to say. According to the detector’s results, that area seems to have both life and creation energies present simultaneously. Under normal circumstances, these two forces belong to the domains of ‘Flesh and Life’ and ‘Craft,’ respectively.”
The colleague added, “Many Pseudo-Adepts use the aura of props incompatible with their abilities to cover their tracks.”
Zhao Bainiao agreed with this point, but she said, “I feel that if the cause of the instance’s birth is related to the Pseudo-Adepts, it wouldn’t have been discovered this early.”
Pseudo-Adepts are keen on creating chaos and are good at it.
To avoid being blocked by enemies from the start, their initial actions tend to be low-key.
Just like Nestle Park, by the time the Special Affairs Bureau discovered the problem, the internship incident had already been going on for a long time.
If they had waited another two days, some students might have been able to turn regular directly.
However, the energy fluctuation detected this time gave off an unmasked feeling.
It was quite arrogant.
Zhao Bainiao wiped her face and said, “The bureau must send someone over immediately to stop it.”
The former Special Affairs officer, who had been quietly holding a cup of coffee, raised it towards her colleagues and said resolutely, “Cheers.”
The colleagues:”…”
Everyone drained their cups, calmly accepting the reality that they would be on duty at half past one in the morning.
After years of accumulation, the Special Affairs Bureau had already mastered certain ways to interrupt the birth of instances.
After receiving the alarm, Zhao Bainiao and others immediately applied for the corresponding props according to the procedure.
The application was quickly approved—the bureau’s regulations stipulated that in emergencies, the prop application process could be shortened, but only for those below Class B.
Investigator: “Do we need to apply for another batch of special bullets for this mission?”
Zhao Bainiao: “No need, this instance does not have entities in the real world.”
After obtaining the props, Zhao Bainiao and the others set off for the area of the energy fluctuation.
Life and creation can be restrained by death and decay, and vice versa.
Zhao Bainiao applied for a peculiar, darkened finger bone.
This finger bone was a relic obtained by a former ability user from a certain instance.
According to the detection, the dark spots on the finger bone were marks left by a deadly poison.
The marks could not be removed, and direct contact would cause the user to gradually weaken due to poisoning, eventually leading to death.
If the poisoning was mild and the user was isolated from the prop in time, the above process could be interrupted and health restored.
At 1:45 in the morning.
Fine rain threads drifted in the sky, like mist, gently enveloping the city of Sanjiaorong.
The smell of sulfur and rust drifted in the boundless darkness.
The plants by the roadside, which had not been cleaned up in time, tenaciously withstood the erosion of the acidic liquid—life that had survived the great disaster was the strong selected by nature.
Zhao Bainiao, who was driving, held the steering wheel with one hand and slightly impatiently tugged at her collar with the other.
The rain mist always brought her a feeling of stuffiness and suffocation, making her very uncomfortable.
Twenty minutes later, the vehicle arrived at the destination.
This area was near the suburban area, and it was usually sparsely populated.
If the patrol officers had not strengthened the alert because of the Nestle Park incident recently, by the time the Special Affairs Bureau discovered something was wrong, the instance might have been successfully born.
The patrol officers, dressed in waterproof long coats, mostly came from the mobile squad under the jurisdiction of the Special Affairs Bureau.
They had already sealed off the relevant area according to regulations before Zhao Bainiao and others arrived.
Zhao Bainiao swung her long legs out of the car door.
She was also wearing a waterproof long coat and put on a pair of dark and bulky gloves.
The use of props must be careful.
Zhao Bainiao carefully took out the black finger bone from the sealing box with gloves and placed it at the location calculated.
In theory, an instance in the state of birth is easily affected by external forces.
The poisonous finger bone with the breath of death would react with the new instance and destroy its formation.
Next, the special affairs officers just needed to wait.
Time passed by second by second.
The black finger bone still lay quietly on the ground, without any change, as if it had not sensed the existence of the repulsive force around it at all.
The originally confident special affairs officers fell into silence, and an inevitable gloom appeared on their faces.
Zhao Bainiao stood still, and time quickly passed for more than an hour.
A middle-aged man in uniform, with a scholarly air, glanced at his watch.
He let out an imperceptible sigh and then announced the result:
“The interruption this time is confirmed to have failed. To avoid falling into the instance, please evacuate as soon as possible.”
The other special affairs officers had already mentally prepared for this, but before they left, they all looked up at Zhao Bainiao.
Zhao Bainiao is the head of the Investigation Department’s Group 3 and has higher authority in field missions.
The safety of the city and the lives of the investigators are both important parts that cannot be ignored.
Zhao Bainiao pursed her lips and said, “The others retreat to more than five hundred meters away first, and I will wait for another quarter of an hour.”
The composed middle-aged man wanted to say something, but in the end, he closed his mouth and silently carried out Zhao Bainiao’s order with his colleagues.
Zhao Bainiao’s hands hung by her sides, and her expression was particularly serious.
She originally thought that as a special affairs officer, she had already understood quite a lot about the hidden side of the world.
However, as the number of missions increased, the sense of confusion and the feeling of the unknown became stronger and stronger.
Just like this time, the detector clearly detected the traces of life and creation, but when using the prop with repulsive force to interrupt it, the expected result was not obtained.
Zhao Bainiao carefully recalled the content she had heard during employee training – according to the general procedure, after failing to resist life with death, she should try to resist creation with destruction.
However, destructive props are relatively rare.
In addition, Zhao Bainiao always had an intuition that she inexplicably felt that even if she brought props containing destructive power, the expected result would not change.
An uncertain thought rose in Zhao Bainiao’s heart.
She suspected that the dominant force in the new instance about to be born was not the two detected.
However, the detector carried by the patrol officers was already the largest detection range detector in the Special Affairs Bureau.
Even some extremely rare abilities would at least show an “other”.
Zhao Bainiao felt a little anxious and did not understand where the problem was.
She even suspected that she was really so unlucky that she encountered the event of “accidentally hitting a special power that has not been statistically registered” with a theoretical probability of almost zero.
While thinking, a quarter of an hour passed.
Zhao Bainiao took a deep breath and prepared to exit the instance area.
She first put the finger bone back into the box, and suddenly, a river-like undulating ripple appeared in her field of vision.
The ripple was dark and profound, faintly showing a light silver pattern.
Zhao Bainiao only glanced at it and was firmly attracted, almost unable to move her eyes away.
The illusory river in front of her seemed to contain strange knowledge and power, which could easily arouse the curiosity of the observer.
Zhao Bainiao felt a buzzing sound like a moth flapping its wings in her brain.
Reason told her that she must leave immediately, but her legs were as if they had sunk into the swamp and could not take a step.
Her struggle did not last long.
A line of slightly distorted characters emerged from the void –
[After detection, the participant meets the conditions for the game to start]
[“Fire” wishes you a pleasant game]
The special affairs officers who had retreated to more than five hundred meters away had been paying attention to the movements on Zhao Bainiao’s side all the time.
They took turns monitoring in order, and the rest were responsible for observing the status of these monitors.
As soon as it was fifteen minutes, the special affairs officer who was looking at the corresponding area with a telescope had a dazed and empty look in his eyes, and even began to walk towards Zhao Bainiao’s direction.
The middle-aged man, who noticed something was wrong, decisively stepped forward and knocked out the junior who had been unexpectedly hit.
-In the Special Affairs Bureau, even researchers mostly have combat qualities worth mentioning.
After knocking out the junior, the middle-aged man looked towards Zhao Bainiao again, and his expression suddenly froze.
-In just this moment.
The head of Group 3, who had just picked up the finger bone and was preparing to retreat, disappeared into thin air.
The surroundings were quiet, and all that could be heard was the sound of the rain threads falling.
Disappearing in the instance area was obviously a very bad thing.
The Special Affairs Bureau had no understanding of the new instance born in the suburbs, and even if Zhao Bainiao was a senior special affairs officer, the probability of death in this exploration was more than half.
After a while, the middle-aged man spoke and made arrangements for the next steps:
“Continue to monitor and be prepared for the worst.”
His voice was a little hoarse.
Sanjiaorong City has always had another side hidden under the stable appearance.
The middle-aged man was not the first time to face the death of colleagues, but he could never completely maintain the stability of his mind.
The special affairs officers were also silent.
The logistics personnel were ready to collect items.
Although they might not be able to wait for Zhao Bainiao, they had a chance to find Zhao Bainiao’s relics around the new instance birth area.
Fortunately, things did not develop to the worst situation.
Just 3 hours later, the special affairs officers who had been mentally prepared with difficulty saw the living head of Group 3 on that vacant land.
The way she appeared was as traceless as when she disappeared.
Although she looked very ragged and haggard, she was indeed not in danger of life.
Zhao Bainiao, who successfully got out of an unknown instance, was quickly transported to the medical department by his colleagues after a basic check.
Zhao Bainiao: “…… I can drive myself.”
The investigator in charge of taking care of him pressed the group leader who wanted to flip like a carp back and said gently, “No, you can’t.”
Zhao Bainiao:”….”
The birth of a new instance and the involvement of a senior investigator directly shocked the Magpie Street.
The medical department members had already prepared to call their director back from the Seventh Hospital to the urban area for overtime, but Zhao Bainiao’s check results were unexpectedly healthy.
The members of Group 3 looked at the on-duty doctor’s expression and felt a bit collapsed:
“Is there still a problem with Director Zhao?”
The on-duty doctor stared at the detection instrument, his expression slightly serious:
“There are indeed some places that I don’t quite understand.”
He shrugged, “I’m curious, where exactly does she need treatment?”
Group 3 members:”….”
When the doctor describes the patient’s condition with too many twists and turns in his words, it is really a test for the recipient’s spirit.
Five o’clock in the morning.
The director’s secretary, Fu Shouzhong, came to visit Zhao Bainiao and asked about her condition.
Zhao Bainiao: “Everything is fine. I can return to my post now.”
She paused for a moment and added, “Of course, it would be better if I could take a nap first.”
Fu Shouzhong smiled and said, “This is really good news.”
He added, “In ten minutes, the director will come to talk to you.”
“There are some aspects of the newly discovered instance that are worth investigating in depth.”