Carrying Quan Yuxun out of the house and looking at the narrow street outside, which resembled the scene of a heinous crime, Xia Chujian sighed.
She didn't feel fear, only disgust.
Looking around, Quan Yuxun's bodyguards were acting separately, protecting them from a distance.
But at this moment, their fates were uncertain.
Fortunately, they were far away; otherwise, the flesh and blood of that eyeball monster's explosion could have wiped out another group of people.
Faced with this horrifying and chaotic scene, Xia Chujian knew she couldn't handle it.
She could shoot, but she was never the one to clean up the mess after shooting.
Xia Chujian deeply missed her Dark Night Hunter Association Team.
Because as long as she worked with her team, she could kill without worrying about the aftermath.
But that wasn't possible now. She couldn't involve her team; they couldn't handle anything related to Quan Yuxun.
But Quan Yuxun couldn't have an accident here.
Xia Chujian had no choice but to open her Quantum Optical Brain, find Huo Yushen's Quantum Optical Brain number, and send a message: "Help!"
Huo Yushen replied almost instantly: "Where are you?"
Xia Chujian sent a video call request and synchronized her location.
At this time, Huo Yushen was in the most heavily guarded conference room at the Special Security Bureau Mulan City branch, listening to his subordinates' report on the accident investigation at Plaza Garden.
Kang Shanxing said, "Marshal Huo, after our investigation, the Mulan City Plaza Garden is a dilapidated commercial area. Major businesses moved out long ago, setting up branches in the West District or East District. The ones that remained are either small businesses that couldn't afford to move or landlords who couldn't sell their properties."
"We haven't found any reason yet, and it's unclear why those high-level Gene Evolvers would target that place."
Huo Yushen asked, "What about the deceased? Have they all been identified?"
"Because the land there is cheap, the shoppers are the most ordinary, lowest-level civilians. The results we obtained from our biological information retrieval are the same. The vast majority of the deceased are ordinary civilians with no prior criminal records, and they are at the very bottom of the civilian population."
"There were also a few Gene Evolvers among the dead. After comparing biological data, we found that they were all wanted criminals from the empire in recent years, who couldn't survive on other planets and had to hide on Guiyuan Star. There's less surveillance here, the technology is backward, and there are no major Nobles stationed here, making it a paradise for wanted criminals."
"As for the enemy's six high-level Flying Vehicles, after we checked the Flying Vehicle models, we found that they were all stolen from other planets. The original buyers had reported the thefts, but the thieves were never found. It turns out they were transported to Guiyuan Star."
Huo Yushen was thoughtful.
Kang Shanxing asked again, "Also, according to eyewitness testimony, the gray-robed high-level Gene Evolvers who committed the crime, after examining the biological information fragments collected at the scene, were found to have a very high degree of contamination. We couldn't find any similar biological gene fragments in the empire's biological database. Only one person's biological information fragments were relatively complete. Should we continue to investigate?"
Huo Yushen was silent.
Just then, Xia Chujian's distress message arrived.
Huo Yushen waved his hand slightly, "You can leave first. I have something to attend to. We'll talk when I get back."
After Kang Shanxing left, Huo Yushen accepted Xia Chujian's video call request and saw the chaotic scene behind her, resembling a major criminal case.
Huo Yushen subconsciously asked, "...Did you kill someone again?"
Xia Chujian was indignant, "How can you say that?! What do you mean 'again'?! Why is it me killing people? Isn't it others killing me?!"
Fortunately, she had the foresight to turn on the camera in advance; otherwise, it would have been difficult to explain.
The flesh and blood of that half-person-high giant eyeball after it exploded was comparable to poisonous bullets, far beyond Xia Chujian's understanding.
She had been a Bounty Hunter for three years and had never seen such a monster, which disgusted her even more than Remnant Species.
Huo Yushen pursed his lips, his tone icy, "Stop talking nonsense. What happened?"
He looked at the coordinates, "...Why did you go to the South District?"
Xia Chujian said, "I came with Chief Quan. Didn't I tell you before? Chief Quan wanted me to be his bodyguard, and you agreed."
Huo Yushen frowned, "You didn't say you were going to the South District."
He didn't expect Quan Yuxun to personally go to a place like the South District...
Xia Chujian knew she was in the wrong, so she pretended not to hear Huo Yushen's question and quickly switched the video call camera to face herself.
As a result, she forgot to take off her Face Mask.
When Huo Yushen saw the face appearing on the video, he suddenly stood up, his fingers trembling.
The girl's image on it was not Xia Chujian, who he remembered with a red Other Shore Flower birthmark, but... but the image of his sister that the mechanical intelligence had drawn that one time!
However, Huo Yushen immediately realized that Xia Chujian was wearing a Face Mask.
In that instant, many thoughts flashed through Huo Yushen's mind, and he decisively said, "I'll come alone, don't move."
The video call ended, and Huo Yushen put on a disguised Face Mask, changed his clothes, and quietly left the Special Security Bureau's branch base without letting anyone know where he was going.
...
Ten minutes later, Huo Yushen, piloting an invisible Small Combat Aircraft, hovered over Wuyou Lane in the South District 404 area of Mulan City.
Below, a lonely country girl in a red-and-white floral padded jacket stood, carrying a man wearing an equally rustic padded jacket.
She could only carry him because the alley in front of her had been so corroded that there was almost no place to stand.
Huo Yushen sent a message to Xia Chujian: "I'm here."
Then he handed the Flying Vehicle over to the mechanical intelligence to control, and jumped down from mid-air, standing side by side with Xia Chujian.
He had changed his appearance with a Face Mask, but Xia Chujian didn't seem surprised at all.
Because this person's disguise was not excellent, his extremely cold and unapproachable aura had not been concealed.
Xia Chujian glanced at him and said, "Do you need to disguise yourself? The surveillance here is probably gone, right?"
Huo Yushen glanced at the sentry towers on the high walls and said softly, "There are cameras on those smart machine guns."
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
How could she forget that?!
Since those smart machine guns could perform image recognition, they must have cameras! Xia Chujian was momentarily apprehensive.
But Huo Yushen continued, "I just checked the surveillance system of those smart machine guns. Their image recognition function has been destroyed. There was a large-scale magnetic field disturbance here before, and the network connection within a ten-mile radius was interrupted for about ten minutes. They will repair the image recognition system soon."
Xia Chujian was afraid: "Fortunately, it recovered, or I wouldn't know how to contact you."
Knowing that the "surveillance system" of the smart machine guns here was temporarily destroyed, Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's with the large-scale magnetic field disturbance?" Huo Yushen looked at Xia Chujian, feeling awkward looking at her face, and quickly shifted his gaze.
Xia Chujian showed Huo Yushen the small program interface on the Quantum Optical Brain: "Look, this is the Mental Strength attack level here at that time. I guess this is what caused the so-called large-scale magnetic field disturbance."
The pupils in Huo Yushen's eyes contracted almost imperceptibly when he saw that string of blood-red numbers.
Such a strong Mental Strength level had already exceeded the so-called Rank S...
Huo Yushen pressed his finger on the small program on Xia Chujian's Quantum Optical Brain, performed a few simple operations, erased the data record just now, and said calmly, "...The program is malfunctioning, the data value is not that high."
Xia Chujian: "..."
So the program was malfunctioning?
She looked at Huo Yushen suspiciously: "...Really? Is your program so unreliable?"
Huo Yushen's expression remained unchanged: "There was a large-scale magnetic field disturbance here before, which affected all electronic equipment."
Xia Chujian's heart sank.
Damn, could the video she just recorded be affected?
Before her thoughts could run wild, Huo Yushen quickly asked, "What's going on here? What are you doing here? Why are you wearing such a Face Mask? Do you want to die?"
In the last sentence, Huo Yushen's voice was soft, slow, and cold, like the perennial snow piled up in the Restricted Life Zone of the extremely cold land. The tone in it made Xia Chujian shudder, as if he could break her neck without hesitation if she said a wrong word.
Xia Chujian took a deep breath.
She had told Huo Yushen that Quan Yuxun had hired her as a bodyguard, but she didn't say where Quan Yuxun was taking her, which was her fault.
Xia Chujian calmed down and subconsciously started answering from the question Huo Yushen was most concerned about: "This Face Mask was given to me by Chief Quan. He hired me as a bodyguard to investigate the case of the Humanoids Slaves and Lowly People colluding in a riot in the South District last year."
"After coming in, I recorded a video, but after hearing you say that there was a large-scale magnetic field disturbance here just now, I don't know if it was recorded." As Xia Chujian spoke, she began to operate, exporting the video from the Quantum Optical Brain.
Then she opened the player and fast-forwarded to a scene where a big man wrapped in animal skins fell from the sky.
Starting from here, Xia Chujian said awkwardly, "It turns out that Chief Quan hired me not as a bodyguard, but as bait."
She pointed to her Face Mask, "That big man should have wanted to abduct me, so he attacked Chief Quan first."
Huo Yushen watched the video intently until he saw an eyeball-shaped monster, about half a person tall, jump out of the shattered head of the large man.
The subsequent images began to break up intermittently, obviously affected by a large-scale magnetic field disturbance.
But the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha developed by Su Buyan was indeed extraordinary.
Although there was large-scale magnetic field disturbance, and some images were not very high-definition, the entire process was still recorded, and it was not completely destroyed like the "monitoring systems" of those smart machine guns.
Xia Chujian also noticed this and was very happy in her heart, vowing to work hard with Su Buyan in the future and learn more skills.
After watching this video, Huo Yushen understood what was going on in this place.
This scene, resembling a major criminal felony site, was purely caused by the self-explosion of that half-person-tall eyeball monster.
Huo Yushen said, "Send me the second half of your video, starting from when Dalahe appeared."
Xia Chujian: "...What is Dalahe?"
"It's that eyeball monster." Huo Yushen was a little impatient. "I'll call the Special Security Bureau Special Operations Team to handle it. You and Chief Quan leave here first."
The second update is at one o'clock in the afternoon. Continuing to ask for monthly tickets! Where did you all go for the May Day holiday?
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