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Chapter 301 Suspicion, War Meeting (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
"Black pupa?"

Gu Qiye looked up at Qiyuan Liuli and slowly uttered the name.

“That’s right, black pupa.”

Ruri Urushihara looked at him and smiled, "I remember when you were still a heretic in Lijing, he once asked to meet with you alone? There were quite a few rumors circulating online back then."

With a clang, the elevator's metal doors closed.

A feeling of weightlessness came over them, and the elevator car they were in made a rumbling sound as it descended to the tenth basement level of the Empire State Building.

Gu Qiye thought for a moment: "It's just that he's been harassing me without my consent, and I haven't paid any attention to him. I haven't seen him since I faked my death under the identity of 'Blue Arc'."

"Oh? Really?"

Ruri Urushihara raised an eyebrow and looked directly into his eyes.

Gu Qiye didn't avoid her gaze, nor did he rush to respond. He knew that Urushihara Ruri was a member of the Salvation Society and that he couldn't casually discuss the Black Chrysalis with her; the Black Chrysalis had also reminded him of this matter in a text message earlier.

Gu Qiye had heard that Black Chrysalis was a highly sensitive figure within the Salvation Society, but she didn't know the specific reasons.

A brief silence fell over the carriage, with only Esther's incessant yawning audible.

The two-hundred-year-old doll-like girl was looking at the two of them speechlessly, as if watching two little kids with bare bottoms holding tree branches, wrestling and squabbling together.

"Why do I feel like our great hero is avoiding the topic?" Ruri Urushihara pressed. "Why aren't you saying anything?"

"Interpret it however you like, I can't wake someone who's pretending to be asleep," Gu Qiye said expressionlessly.

"I'll return that line verbatim." Ruri Urushihara shrugged. "So, who's pretending to be asleep?"

The elevator was still rumbling down, getting closer and closer to the tenth underground floor.

Just then, Yuriel's fingers, which were playing with the tablet, suddenly paused.

Without looking up, she said, "Please stop babbling; it's not good for my ears."

"What are your thoughts?" Ruri Urushihara asked her.

Yuriel slowly raised her head and glanced expressionlessly at Urushihara Ruri. "That wanted criminal called Black Chrysalis also approached me at the amusement park before, saying he wanted to cooperate with me. It's clear he has no self-awareness; anyone can become a collaborator in his eyes. Therefore, I don't think it's unusual for Gu Qiye to be targeted and harassed by Black Chrysalis; it's just a normal phenomenon."

She paused, "And you, you've never even met that wanted criminal, so how can you be so sure about his relationship with Gu Qiye?"

Gu Qiye was taken aback.

Then, he turned to look at the ice-sculpted girl, nodded, and smiled in agreement:
"I agree."

Ruri Urushihara glanced at Yuriel, then at Gu Qiye, and sighed softly, "Alright, since even we emotionless girls are protecting you like this, then I won't interfere anymore."

"I'm not protecting anyone, I'm just telling the truth." After saying that, Yuriel looked away and continued to play with the tablet.

"Alright, alright, I'll tell you the truth." Ruri Urushihara twitched the corners of her mouth and stopped looking at the two of them.

"Get out of the way, you little brats, I'm about to fall asleep in the elevator..." Esther raised her head and broke the silence, giving a cold look at the three people in front of her who were on the verge of exchanging blows.

With a "ding-dong" sound, the elevator doors slowly opened, and she slipped through the gap between the three people and entered the conference room first.

Following closely behind, the three people behind him also entered the conference room in an orderly fashion.

Gu Qiye stood at the elevator entrance, silently raising her eyes to look around at the figures sitting around the long table.

When his gaze swept over the eerie man in the oversized trench coat with bandages wrapped around his face, a barely perceptible chill flashed in his eyes.

"The father of puppets... the man who killed my mother is right in front of me," he thought.

At this moment, all twelve members of Rainbow Wing had gathered. They were all sitting at the table, some with their eyes closed, others silently waiting for the meeting to begin.
Only Fan Dongqing was lounging casually against the back of her chair, playing on her phone without even looking up.

Gu Qiye and You Ruier sat down together, their seats next to each other.

"The father of puppets... Ruri Urushihara, Hideaki Oda, and the polar scholar 'Karina'."

Gu Qiye silently recalled the list of Salvation Society undercover agents that Hei Yong had told him, and looked up at Oda Hideaki directly opposite him.

The elderly Japanese man, dressed in a black kimono, lowered his head, tucked his crossed arms into his sleeves, and leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes to rest.

Just then, Ruri Urushihara sat down to the right of the Puppet Father, and the Gothic doll "Esther" and the twin-tailed girl "Tsukumo" dressed in Russian military uniform sat side by side.

Gu Qiye glanced again at the blonde woman named "Kalina," who was wearing a white lab coat and goggles.

At this moment, Karina was looking down at a anatomical report of a light-eating bee, a wide smile of interest on her lips.

After everyone was in position, with a "snap," the huge projection screen at the end suddenly lit up. Then a beam of light shot out, projecting a huge human figure onto the table.

The figure is a Chinese woman wearing a suit and glasses.

The woman's name was Chen Qian, and she was one of Rainbow Wing's combat commanders. Most commanders were just figureheads, leaving Rainbow Wing personnel to do as they pleased on the battlefield, but they still had to give briefings at combat meetings.

Every time a combat meeting began, the twelve members of Rainbow Wing had to listen to her long-winded introduction, but it was an unavoidable part, so everyone had to get used to it. Chen Qian's projection only showed her upper body. She raised her hand to adjust her frameless glasses on the bridge of her nose and glanced around.

After confirming that everyone had arrived, she began to speak:

"Now, let me introduce the operation plan for this mission. During the Light-Eating Bee investigation mission on August 8th, our personnel captured several humanoid creatures called 'Light-Eating Bees' in Osaka, Japan."

"They possess intelligence comparable to that of a twelve- to fourteen-year-old teenager, and therefore know how to hide in the city and come out at night to hunt prey."

As soon as he finished speaking, a video was projected onto the huge screen at the end of the conference room. It showed an izakaya (Japanese pub) with lanterns emitting a red glow, where the staff, manager, and customers were all lying on the floor.

There was also an old song from the Showa era playing in the store, with a melodious tune.

Meanwhile, a half-human, half-bee creature sat at the bar, holding a plate in one hand and a knife in the other. It tore a customer's body in half and placed it on the table, then used the knife to cut off various organs from his body, catching them on the plate and quietly savoring them.

The twelve members of Rainbow Wing remained expressionless. They were used to big scenes and man-eating creatures were nothing to them. Only the Overloader "Garrfield"—the thirteen-year-old boy in the black turtleneck sweater—sighed.

"Disgustingly ugly," he said expressionlessly.

Chen Qian glanced at the manuscript in her hand and continued, "It is currently known that the Light-Eating Bees can acquire the memories of the humans they eat, which means that they can continuously evolve their knowledge and cognition through devouring."

She paused for a moment: "They don't need to learn, they just need to take. Therefore, their evolution speed is very fast. After an ordinary adult light-eating bee eats a human's brain, its cognitive level will be greatly improved, and it will far surpass that human's."

"Eating humans can improve their physical condition; and if the humans they eat are superhumans, they may even be able to evolve corresponding special abilities."

"In conclusion, the evolutionary ability of the Light-Eating Bee colony is exceptionally dangerous, and its reproductive ability is also quite strong."

"In the hive, only the queen bee can reproduce, while the other bees provide her with the nutrients needed for reproduction."

"Therefore, most of the Light-Eating Bees will take the remaining 'prey' back to an island on the other side of the sea after they have finished eating. The hive of the Light-Eating Bee clan is located on that island."

Hearing this, Gu Qiye took a deep breath, thinking that this island would become the place where he and his enemy would fight to the death.

The message was relayed between the group by the black cocoon, indicating that Gu Zhuoan, Su Wei, and Lin Yilong would arrive on the island to join forces and kill the four Salvation Society spies in Rainbow Wing.

The first to bear the brunt was naturally the enemy who killed his mother—the father of the puppet.

Thinking of this, Gu Qiye raised her head again and glanced at the man in the trench coat and bandages sitting in the corner out of the corner of her eye.

The Father of Puppetry listened to the commander's battle briefing without moving, his arms crossed, like a robot. Because his face was wrapped in bandages, no one could see his expression or demeanor.

The commander's voice drew Gu Qiye's thoughts and attention away; she said:
"With the help of Rainbow Wing members who participated in the mission—Hideaki Oda, Karina, and Garfield—we successfully located the nameless island."

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge map appeared on the projection screen.

On the map, a striking red dot is flashing. When the location of the red dot is magnified, it appears to be an isolated island situated at sea.

Strangely, in this satellite view, the island is currently buried in complete darkness, while the surrounding area is still daytime, yet the area near the island appears to be shrouded in night.

"The Light-Eating Bees can absorb sunlight, so the light on Nameless Island is extremely thin, as if it's shrouded in a dark, heavy cloud," Chen Qian explained.

Gu Qiye looked up at the strange scene on the screen and raised an eyebrow.

After a long silence, Commander Chen Qian continued:

"Without a doubt, if the queen bee is allowed to reproduce and feed in this way, then in the near future, humanity will face a catastrophic disaster... But such conditions alone are not enough for the authorities to designate the light-eating bee as the highest priority target for extermination."

She lowered her voice: "They are so dangerous because the queen bee recently laid four 'queen candidates,' which the bee colony calls the 'Four Queen Bees.'"

"Currently, we haven't seen any of the 'queen bees' in person. But we've extracted a lot of information from a captured Light-Eating Bee. From the information, we can foresee that these four queen bees are exceptionally strong, far exceeding the average level of the entire species, and stand at the pinnacle of the entire species."

“It may even have reached the intensity of a ‘catastrophe’.”

Upon hearing the words "Cataclysmic Level," the twelve members of Rainbow Wing remained calm, even flippant, as if Cataclysmic Level opponents were commonplace for them.

After a pause, Chen Qian continued, "And the most powerful queen bee will become the next 'queen bee,' enjoying all the 'human resources' brought by the worker bees. Through massive consumption, she will continuously evolve and eventually lead the Light-Eating Bee clan to rule the human world."

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of snickering laughter suddenly came from the long conference table.

Everyone turned their attention to the source of the message, which was being sent by Fan Dongqing, who was playing with his phone. Throughout the meeting, he hadn't even looked up at the projection screen once.

Ke Qing, sitting next to him, crossed his arms and sighed softly.

In the silence, another yawn was heard.

Looking in the direction of the sound, one could see Esther, a girl in a gothic dress, holding a rabbit doll, her head bobbing up and down in mid-air, her eyelids drooping, as if she would fall asleep at any moment.

Chen Qian remained expressionless.

She was already used to the flippant attitude of the Rainbow Wing members, and gave a lukewarm reminder:
“I must warn you, this is not an easy task. Since the birth of the queen bee, the rate of evolution of the bee race has been accelerating... The longer this drags on, the stronger they will become, to the point that it will be unstoppable.”

"Therefore, in order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, the UN high command decided to send the entire Rainbow Wing team. In other words, you will be traveling to Osaka, Japan, over the next week to investigate the island where the Hive is located, formulate a combat plan, and then..."

At this point, Chen Qian looked up from the document, her gaze sweeping over the twelve members of Rainbow Wing, and emphasized almost word by word:
"By August 15th, the entire Light-Eating Bee clan will be wiped out within one week."

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(End of this chapter)