The atmosphere of tension, widespread discussion, or covert investigation he had anticipated did not materialize.
The staff at the Investigation Bureau were either processing documents at their workstations or gathered in small groups discussing trivial daily matters.
Occasionally, someone would mention last night's explosion at Cloud Rest Villa, but it was treated merely as a routine terrorist attack investigation, without any link to supernatural powers or internal conspiracies.
Yue Shi quickly realized that an information gap had been created.
At the level accessible to the public and ordinary investigators, information was strictly controlled within the framework of a "terrorist attack."
The rocket explosion was an undeniable physical phenomenon that could not be hidden, but the transcendent combat involved had been skillfully erased.
This was especially true for the Special Operations Section. To them, a simple terrorist attack targeting a charitable organization was far less noteworthy than a new supernatural incident; at most, it was worth a brief discussion.
Yue Shi raised an eyebrow, walked to his workstation, and sat down. He turned on his computer, the screen's light reflecting off his expressionless face.
Everything seemed calm.
Like his colleagues, he browsed through insignificant daily tasks in the internal system, as if the person who had killed several transcendents the previous night was not him at all.
...
Elsewhere.
Amber City Investigation Bureau, Director's Office.
The atmosphere here was a stark contrast to the calm outside, so heavy it was practically palpable.
Tang Zhuhe sat behind her large desk, her fingertips lightly tapping the surface in a rhythmic pattern.
Opposite her sat a large man—the same muscular man who had accompanied Su Yuanhe to the meeting that day.
Currently, the man's expression was grim as he tightly gripped a specialized playback device.
The device's screen was playing a bloody scene: inside the top-floor suite of Cloud Rest Villa, an invisible enemy was brutally torturing Su Yuanhe, grinding him against the wall until he died. Finally, a rocket smashed through the window, turning everything into a sea of fire. The footage stopped abruptly there.
The man's Adam's apple bobbed, and veins pulsed at his temples.
Tang Zhuhe looked at him and chuckled, breaking the silence with a teasing remark. "Speaking of which, it's quite interesting. You're clearly a rare 'Diviner,' yet you've trained yourself to look like a Berserker?"
The man known as the Diviner took a deep breath and answered in a low voice, "Director Tang must be joking. While divination is a rare ability, it offers almost no combat capability. Making my body stronger is just a means of survival to increase my chances of self-protection."
His explanation was logical, but his tense posture betrayed the pressure he was under.
Silence fell over the office.
After a moment, Tang Zhuhe spoke again. "So, what were the results of the divination? After such a massive commotion, surely there must be some harvest?"
The Diviner shook his head, his expression darkening further. "I am completely unable to divine the target's whereabouts. The opponent is too cautious and seems to possess some means of shielding themselves from divination..."
"Enough." Tang Zhuhe raised her hand slightly, cutting him off. "Failure is failure. I don't want to hear boring excuses."
Her gaze swept over the Diviner and finally settled on the device in his hand. "The Amber City Investigation Bureau played along with this big show for you, and now you're telling me you found nothing?"
Just then, the screen of the device in the Diviner's hand flickered, and a featureless black silhouette suddenly emerged.
Seeing the shadow appear, the Diviner immediately looked relieved. He bowed his head with immense respect and turned the device's screen toward Tang Zhuhe with both hands.
Tang Zhuhe leaned forward slightly, looking directly at the shadow on the screen. Without any pleasantries, she said directly, "Fine. We've gone through all this trouble, played the part, and taken the loss. Now, shouldn't we talk about the most critical issue?"
"What exactly was the original source of the information regarding the 'Otherworld'?"
The shadow on the screen seemed to have expected this question. Without any hesitation, it dropped a world-shaking piece of news:
"Seven years ago, we captured a transmigrator."
Tang Zhuhe's finger suddenly stopped tapping the desk. Her eyes widened slightly, a flash of genuine surprise crossing them.
The shadow said no more after that sentence.
The Diviner timely produced a pre-prepared top-secret paper report and respectfully placed it in front of Tang Zhuhe.
The cover of the report was marked with the highest security classification. Tang Zhuhe picked it up and began flipping through it quickly.
It was a containment report.
Project Name: 【Otherworldly Visitor】
Project Class: ██
Special Containment Procedures: 【Otherworldly Visitor】 is to be contained within a standard humanoid containment unit.
All interaction with 【Otherworldly Visitor】 must be approved and conducted under the surveillance of at least two armed security personnel.
It is strictly forbidden to reveal any historical, technological, or cultural information to 【Otherworldly Visitor】. All conversation logs must be archived for analysis.
Description: Physically an 18-year-old male named "Xin Mufeng," whose body has been occupied by the anomalous entity 【Otherworldly Visitor】.
This entity was discovered on ██/██/██ in the southeastern coastal city of "Shizhu Port."
Summary of Discovery and Containment Records:
Initial Anomaly: On the morning of ██/██/██, Xin Mufeng was discovered by his family to be acting abnormally. He claimed not to remember his identity, family, or past experiences, yet his language skills and basic motor functions remained intact.
Family Suspicion: The family initially accepted the explanation of "amnesia" and attempted to help him recover his memory. However, the following anomalies quickly aroused suspicion—
Linguistic Habits: The vocabulary used by 【Otherworldly Visitor】 contained many unrecorded linguistic variants, grammatical structures, and entirely incomprehensible idioms.
Historical Cognition: 【Otherworldly Visitor】 displayed complete ignorance or cognitive errors regarding basic common knowledge of world history.
Knowledge System: Xin Mufeng was originally an ordinary student with average academic performance. However, 【Otherworldly Visitor】 demonstrated deep knowledge of toxic chemicals and had attempted to manufacture highly lethal toxins using household chemicals.
Micro-expressions and Reactions: Xin Mufeng's mother stated that when 【Otherworldly Visitor】 looked at the family, his eyes lacked any emotional connection. Furthermore, he showed clear disgust when hearing music that Xin Mufeng used to love, which was completely contrary to his past preferences.
Exposure and Escalation: Approximately one month after the anomalies were discovered, Xin Mufeng's father questioned 【Otherworldly Visitor】 for the first time based on the aforementioned points. However, he did not suspect a transmigrator; instead, he suspected that 【Otherworldly Visitor】 was a supernatural creature.
【Otherworldly Visitor】 continued to use amnesia as an excuse to brush it off, temporarily fooling them. That night, 【Otherworldly Visitor】 displayed extreme malice, murdering the father and disposing of the body before proceeding to murder the rest of the family members one by one.
Containment: Glory Association transcendent ██ subdued 【Otherworldly Visitor】 as it was preparing to destroy the city. A medical examination of the physical body confirmed that it remained Xin Mufeng himself.
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