Deity Investigation Report

Chapter 356 The Heir Squad

"Demand payment?"

The old man in the Zhongshan suit wasn't angry at what the well-dressed, handsome young man said. He just smiled and said, "If it's just about demanding a reward, do you need to kill so many of our people and destroy our formation of thirty-six blocking positions right away?"

There's nothing we can do about that.

Chao Xiaobei approached slowly and calmly, and was already thirty meters away from the old man in the Zhongshan suit.

With both sides remaining vigilant, this distance is already considered the limit.

But he showed no sign of stopping and continued forward, smiling easily as he spoke: "I received a message from our team members. They said they have resolved the issue of the Church of Anxi, but you haven't paid them."

"They even used the second-order equation of the Abyss as an excuse to invite her to Zero City for negotiations!"

“Now, I see that Zero City has been sealed off, but neither the ten brain-strengthening injections you promised in advance nor the so-called second-order equation of the Abyss have been seen. So, does this mean that you Guardians are deliberately playing tricks on us?”

"..."

He had now walked to a position of about twenty meters.

Despite her slender figure and seemingly beautiful and harmless appearance, the invisible pressure emanating from her made the night seem to freeze.

Two high priests in red robes who were nearby stepped in front of him without hesitation.

Even the assistant beside the old man in the Zhongshan suit stood firmly in front of him.

Chao Xiaobei stopped, slowly raised his head, a crimson glint flashed in his eyes, and a faint, provocative smile appeared on his face.

"Boss Chao, why are you wasting your breath talking to him?"

On a nearby telephone pole, Bai Shixing held his sniper rifle horizontally and shouted, "We said we were going to surrender before, but they didn't give us any face and actually rejected us!"

"Now that we've raised our flags and are taking matters into our own hands, we should slaughter them to our hearts' content. Anyway, all the brothers are capable, so let's wipe them out before we talk about surrendering. Then we can each earn a noble title to play with..."

Upon hearing this, Chao Xiaobei frowned, but he was already used to it and didn't look at the guy.

"Those two good-for-nothings even agreed to the second-order equation of the Abyss?"

The old man in the Zhongshan suit's face also turned somewhat ugly. His mind raced, and he suddenly looked up and said, "I can give you the cerebrospinal fluid injections I promised you. Not just ten, I can give you twenty. The Abyss Second-Order Equation..."

"It's not that we can't talk. I can even overlook the fact that you just injured someone. But you have to leave this area immediately. That's the condition!"

The Zero City plan was far too important to him now, and he didn't want any complications, so he figured he had provided all the necessary conditions.

Upon hearing this, Chao Xiaobei frowned slightly and smiled, "Our team members are still in Zero City. You won't let me pick them up?"

The elderly man in the Zhongshan suit looked slightly somber and said in a low voice, "I will hand her over to you properly later..."

"Ha ha……"

He lowered his head slightly, then raised it again, his eyes narrowing. He said, "At such a crucial time, you still refuse to give us the second-order Abyss Equation. It's clear that you will never hand over this sequence, which is only for nobles, to us."

"But the fact that you agreed to twenty doses of cerebrospinal fluid without hesitation means that you have them on hand, or even more!"

"You promised to hand the person over safely, which means your target isn't Zero City..."

"The thirty-six high priests in red robes, any one of whom would be a powerful figure in their own right, are now all obediently gathered here making barrels, and even after being attacked, their priority is to maintain the integrity of the barrier around Zero City..."

"..."

At this moment, the entire Zero City was trapped by the eighteen high priests in red robes. The area marked by the blocking position was isolated from the outside world and could not be explored.

Therefore, as latecomers, Chao Xiaobei and the survivor team did not know what had happened inside, and they could not even cross the barrier to sense Miss Ai's presence inside. However, in just a few words of conversation, Chao Xiaobei had already guessed several key points.

This sense of astonishment caused the elderly man in the Zhongshan suit to change his expression slightly.

After Chao Xiaobei finished speaking, he suddenly chuckled, waved his hand lightly, and said, "Enough with the nonsense, let's get started!"

"you dare!"

The elderly man in the Zhongshan suit looked furious and shouted sternly.

"The first thing you asked me when we met was whether I was on the side of the angels of destruction..."

Meeting his angry gaze, Chao Xiaobei merely smiled coldly, then suddenly stepped forward again, a short knife slid out from his sleeve, its blade streaked with blood.
"This already exposes what you're up to. We promised to help you deal with the Angel of Destruction and prevent the catastrophe from happening, but who said we allowed you to secretly capture her consciousness?"

"Hey!"

The short knife in his hand was just pulled from someone in the outer guards' armed forces; it was made of ordinary material and was only twenty centimeters long.

But now, when he was swung back, a streak of scarlet blood light burst forth in an instant.

His movements were unremarkable, but his frenzied mental power raged outwards, striking the two red-robed high priests who stood in his way.

These high priests in red robes, on average, each possessed the strength of the second level of the third stage of the Abyss, and were powerful figures who held sway over their respective regions. However, when faced with Chao Xiaobei's attack, they felt completely powerless to resist it.

One person dodged hastily, while the other gathered all his strength to defend. In the blink of an eye, the one who defended, along with his mutated body, was torn apart.

The person who dodged also staggered backward upon landing, with numerous gruesome wounds appearing on their body, and blood was rapidly seeping out of their wounds.

Scarlet authority, a heart of slaughter!

At that very moment, the other survivor teams also made their move.

Bai Shixing jumped down from the tall telephone pole, holding a sniper rifle in his arms, and quickly fired a bullet.

The bullet deformed and split in mid-air, becoming three bullets that struck the three red-robed high priests.

The survivor team member named Lan Huiguo slowly stepped forward, and from her toes, the sound of countless insects devouring the sand echoed in all directions.

A red-robed high priest rushed toward her, and one of his legs instantly sank into the sand. He sprang out of the sand and leaped into the air. When she looked again, the leg that had sunk in was only broken at the bone.

Immediately following was the woman who appeared amidst the sparks of high-voltage power lines. Her body was semi-transparent and elusive. In an instant, she leaped forward, covering nearly a hundred meters in a flash. Her figure intertwined in this space, as if she had appeared as more than a dozen incarnations.

He single-handedly entangled seven high priests in red robes.

"The key is to break through their defensive lines!"

Finally, Song Chu, in his wheelchair, calmly observed his surroundings and made a judgment: "There's no need to get entangled with these high priests in red robes who have freed their hands. Our priority should be breaking through the defensive line. I believe the people inside will cooperate with us!"

"Okay, bro!"

Song Yushi stood in front of Song Chushi's wheelchair and raised his hand to deflect several bullets.

The next moment, she whispered a spell, and endless twisted trees began to grow all around, each one vaguely resembling a human figure.

"Survivor squad..."

Seeing that the other party acted without hesitation, the old man in the Zhongshan suit gritted his teeth and shouted, "Protect Dr. Han!"

Logically, he shouldn't reveal his core information at this time.

However, he knew the survivor squad well, especially their leader, who appeared polite but was actually shrewd, decisive, and very difficult to deal with.

The reason why the Guardians have been unable to subdue or eliminate this special survivor team for so many years is not only due to their fear of the team's strength, but also because of their captain.

Now that the other party doesn't seem to mention it, they must have already realized Dr. Han's importance. Instead of hiding it, they might as well send important people to protect Dr. Han.

He himself didn't even need to put on airs anymore; with a slight focus of his gaze, he suddenly took a step forward.

With his fingers slightly clenched, he fiercely grabbed at the survivor squad leader.

By personally taking action, he sent a signal to these proud red-robed high priests that they must be careful.

Every member of this survivor team is a wild heir, a consequence of the failed plan ten years ago. Among these wild heirs, there are five freaks who have become so afflicted by the spread of natural disasters that they have even developed divine traits.

If they wanted, they could even transform directly from heirs into gods!
Of course, that would annihilate their own consciousness, so they not only dare not do it, but also constantly suppress it with cerebrospinal injections. But since they can do this, then they are a deterrent weapon against the Guardians of the World and against the world itself!
"The key to everything lies in whether this surgery is successful!"

Wherever his fist struck, the surrounding air contracted violently, and his mental energy was quickly transmitted to his assistant beside him: "Keep an eye on that prisoner, make sure he completes the surgery, and if necessary, use your life to shield him from attacks."

"If we can complete this surgery, this world-destroying machine will be at our disposal, and these five standby gods will become our weapons!"

……

……

"They actually have such abilities?"

Meanwhile, in Zero City, Han Su suddenly felt a lightness in his body, because half of the thirty-six barriers had been removed.

He saw the survivor squad that had arrived at that moment and was attacking the Guardians.

Looking at Chao Xiaobei, Song Yushi, Lan Huiguo, and the others, who were once children in the castle whom he hadn't had time to rescue, he realized that they had all grown up along this path of life, and each of them had even demonstrated formidable strength.

When I first met Li Manman, I thought she was strong enough, but Li Manman also said that she wasn't the strongest.

The scene unfolding before his eyes now confirms this statement.

"What level are these people at exactly?"

"Anyone who gets pulled onto the 01 life line would have the ability to single-handedly destroy a city and wipe out a patrol knight squad!"

"Except for Bai Shixing..."

"...How come this guy's strength is only at the level of an independent investigator?"

"..."

However, amidst this shock, he immediately realized that the Shou Shiren side had made far too many preparations, almost as if all the nobles were making a desperate gamble.

Even with the strength of the survivor squad, the half of the red-robed high priest they had spun off was already enough to keep them occupied, and the massive operation was still ongoing.

The doctor surnamed Han was still meticulously carrying out his transformation of Miss Ai.

"We have to use that method!"

A fierce determination arose in Han Su's heart.

He was very clear about his own position. Faced with the current situation, his level of four-stage golden cell division was almost like that of a child who had not yet graduated from elementary school. He had no ability to fight back. The only thing he could use was his own special ability.

Having made his decision, he fiercely swept his gaze across Miss Ai's already extremely weakened consciousness, then through the mechanical fragment No. 04 in his hand, he swept it across the thirty-six high priests in red robes outside the city, the old man in the Zhongshan suit, the Dr. Han, and Chao Xiaobei, Song Yushi, Lan Huiguo, Meng Qingtong, and others who were fighting fiercely with this group of guardians of the world. His voice squeezed out from his chest:

"You've all made such a fuss, have you forgotten that I was the one who orchestrated this whole thing?"

"..."

This angry shout was accompanied by the transmission and spread of spiritual power to the surroundings. He suddenly grabbed the No. 04 mechanical fragment with one hand and raised it in mid-air. Then, he released the black briefcase with his free hand and pressed it out in front of him.

The voice was deep and resonant, as if it didn't belong to him: "I am a god, issuing this decree!"

The fishermen's chants, which had not been uttered for a long time, were recited by him with a completely new mindset.

But it's not for the outside world, it's for oneself.

In an instant, Han Su felt himself enveloped by a dense spiritual force, his brain felt as if it were being torn apart, and a consciousness that had been forcibly suppressed by the cerebrospinal injection not long ago was awakening under the call of this incantation.

At the same time, what awakened was also the sense of control over the chaos of the entire city, the precise grasp of spiritual power, and the mockery of the world.

This is Han Su's insane plan.

Amidst such high-level chaos, one can't actually offer any help, but the emperor's consciousness within one's mind can.

Then awaken him.

The reason I felt fear about this distortion and change before was because I had unknowingly been influenced and distorted by the other party.

At this moment, he awakened the emperor's consciousness while deliberately maintaining his own clear mind, and immediately used all the techniques he had learned from the Four Heavenly Kings to resist the influence of invisible will, calmly feeling and "observing" himself.

These are experiences recorded in Lee Moses's notes.

When faced with the influence of a mysterious will, one should not avoid it, but rather confront it head-on.

Once you sense the presence of the mysterious will and try to escape, you will eventually be captured by it.

Because when one first senses the existence of a mysterious will, it is actually when the mysterious consciousness is at its weakest. One's own cowardice and fear will only fuel the growth of this will.

Of course, if only Li Moxi had pointed this out, Han Su would not have believed it so readily. The key point is that Zhang Chiguo and others had also expressed similar opinions.

However, awakening the emperor's consciousness was only the first step.

At this moment, Han Su only felt as if another "self" appeared in his mind, but that self did not rush to do anything rash. Instead, it seemed to be in the dominant position.

So Han Su didn't hold back either. On one hand, he gritted his teeth and frantically poured his mental power into the mechanical fragments, and on the other hand, he reached out beyond the party.

This infusion of spiritual power, regardless of cost, resulted in more mechanical fragments being prevented from being damaged.

The signs of the surrounding area being frozen are beginning to loosen.

In the next moment, Han Su had already drawn in the spiritual energy outside the party, like a lake flowing into the mechanical fragments.

With his own strength, it was absolutely impossible to resist the manipulation of the mechanical fragments by those outsiders. Therefore, Han Su thought of the real-world environment. Since he couldn't do it himself, he would draw upon the spiritual power of the entire Zero City to unfreeze as much spacetime as possible.

"Crunch, crunch..."

From all directions, a sickeningly loud sound rang out.

It's Miss Ai!

As more and more of the frozen time and space in Zero City were unsealed, she gradually began to recover her body.

She began to resist.

If she was originally strapped to the operating table and had no choice but to undergo surgery, then at this moment she has begun to wake up from the anesthesia.

This was also what Han Su had thought of. This surgery was too massive for them to stop; only Miss Ai's own resistance could stop it. Although he wasn't sure what stage the surgery was at, he was glad that Miss Ai had started to struggle.

Not only could he regain the right to return to the castle at any time, but he also began to have more leeway.

Sizzle...

Throughout the city, endless sparks and flashes of lightning began to appear, like a series of writhing electric snakes, rampaging and spreading.

Miss Ai's will, which had not yet been distorted, began to struggle desperately.

Han Su clearly felt that the mechanical fragment in his hand was becoming more and more obedient to him. It was the mental power he had activated that began to resist the external spell and forcibly rescued Zero City from the freeze of this time and space.

The night sky above Zero City, and even the frozen lights, were breaking apart one after another like ice breaking, gradually becoming vivid and lively piece by piece.

At the same time, the entire city was bustling with activity. Lu Neng, Lü Xiaoba, Guogaitou, and even the old vampire that Lu Neng had lured there all keenly noticed the changes in the city.

As members of the castle team who have come this far with Han Su, their individual abilities may be limited, but their instinct to seize opportunities is exceptionally sharp, and they rushed out of the party at the same time.

Within the newly unsealed Zero City, several fierce figures, like sharp swords, slashed outwards.

Meanwhile, the survivor squads outside Zero City had also gathered their strength and were attacking the blockade that was trapping Zero City.

Amidst the interplay of internal and external forces, the castle squad and the survivor squad faced each other from afar, while standing at the very center of Zero City were Han Su and Li Manman, whose face was filled with confusion.

It seemed like fate's arrangement.

(End of this chapter)