Forty-nine rules of the end times

Clues spun in Chapter 313
Ban Chin City, Police Headquarters.

After Guan Tong and his group of five arrived, the director of the General Administration immediately led several people downstairs to greet them.

"You've come a long way and must be tired. Please go upstairs to the lounge and have some tea."

The director's smile was somewhat insincere and ingratiating, and it became even stiffer when he saw Uehara Yuki and Suzuki.

Even though both of them are from Sakuragi, they have now been included in the North Star Investigation Team, and the headquarters cannot interfere with their personal freedom.

“No need,” Guan Tong said. “Please give us your identification documents immediately.”

The director looked at Guan Tong, who looked young, but gave him a feeling that he was not easy to talk to. He didn't need to use the polite words he had prepared.

"Alright, alright. Where do you plan to begin your investigation? Should we send some sheriffs to assist you?"

"Need not."

"Do you intend to question the members of the Yuzawa family? We, Yingqi, are acting in an official capacity. After Beixing released the evidence, we immediately took control of all the suspects from the Yuzawa family."

"Oh?" Guan Tong asked upon hearing this, "Is Yu Ze Jun among them?"

The director's eyes twitched a few times: "Divine Child... Mizawa Jun has been assassinated by the Ascended Shadow of your Northern Star Kingdom. The whole world knows this. Doesn't the investigator know this?"

Guan Tong immediately lost interest upon hearing this.

Based on current evidence, several objectives of the gene mixing experiment are related to Jun Misawa himself.

He was both the core leader of the plan and its biggest beneficiary.

As for the rest of the Mizawa family, they were merely insignificant nobodys in comparison. Given Mizawa Jun's ruthlessness, these family members probably wouldn't hold much weight in his eyes.

In Guan Tong's view, the "suspects from the Yuzawa family" that the director is referring to are no different from expendable pawns, and interrogating them is destined to be a waste of time.

"Please give us your identification; we need to investigate."

"That's...ok."

When the police chief saw that Guan Tong was unyielding and even his suggestion to interrogate members of the Yuze family failed, he had no choice but to have his identification documents brought out.

The identification was just a few metal cards with the words "Special Investigation" engraved on them.

After Guan Tong and his group got the goods, they left immediately. The director watched their retreating figures, and the smile on his face vanished instantly.

After leaving the headquarters building, Guan Tong saw Silver Fox fiddling with a metal card and asked, "Is there a problem?"

Silver Fox chuckled: "Want to make a bet? I bet there's a locator inside this thing."

"...That is indeed very possible."

If Sakura wants to keep track of everyone's location at all times, she will definitely install a tracking chip inside this ID.

"Then what should we do?" Shangyuan Zi asked. "Throw it away?"

“If we throw them away, they can find an excuse not to cooperate with the investigation,” Silver Fox said. “Give me all the cards; I have some shielding items that will come in handy.”

The group handed her the cards, and Guan Tong said, "It seems you've prepared very thoroughly this time."

"It was Dr. Zhang who specifically instructed me to do this. In order to enable us to deal with various complex situations, he specially allocated a lot of functional tools for me to carry with me at all times."

"That's good. Let's go, let's head straight to the lab."

Shin, the bodyguard of the goddess Misawa Jun, revealed information about the location of the laboratory while under hypnosis.

It is located in an industrial area in the southern part of Ban Chin. The factories inside are just a cover; the core is a genetic testing area within the region.

According to Xin, the experimental area was as big as a football field, half of which was used to store experimental materials, that is, the poor people who were captured to be used as experimental subjects.

After Guan Tong and the others drove quickly to the industrial area, they found it to be a desolate place, with not a single person in sight, not even a ghost.

"It seems that our guess was correct; the Yuze family had already moved the laboratory ahead of time."

Let's see if we can find any remaining clues.

Guan Tong silently released a large number of shadow lines, searching deep into various parts of the industrial area.

Chen Na also used her ability, activating her sensory domain to detect if any survivors remained in the area. She quickly shook her head in disappointment: "Besides us, there's no one else left in this place."

Guan Tong's telescope didn't find anyone, but it did locate the experimental area, so he led a few people there immediately.

The entire experimental area consists of dozens of interconnected houses.

A few of the rooms were extremely enclosed and sterilized, presumably for experimental purposes.

Most of them are spacious large rooms, like those used for mass detention or accommodation.

Silver Fox crouched down in front of a room and examined the floor, which was covered with many metallic scratches.

She speculated, "It must have been left behind when large experimental equipment was moved or transported."

Guan Tong noticed that several of the larger houses had signs of being burned.

He estimated that the Yuzawa family burned a lot of documents and some evidence that they couldn't take with them in order to completely eliminate clues.

"Look here!"

Suddenly, Shang Yuanzi's shocked and angry voice came from not far away. When the group went over, they found that in the large metal room in front of her, the ground was covered with a layer of solidified bright red that was several centimeters thick.

If you look closely, you can even find black hairs in this bright red cream, making it all the more obvious what these things are made of.

"Well……"

Chen Na covered her mouth, feeling an urge to gag.

“It must all be the blood of victims from failed experiments.” Silver Fox was much calmer. After examining the blood carefully, he looked at Guan Tong and said, “We need to find the location where the laboratory has moved as soon as possible, otherwise more people will be harmed.”

"I know. But we need to find clues first."

“I’ll give it a try,” Suzuki said. “They didn’t move for too long. I might be able to recreate parts of the scene in my mind through profiling and find clues.”

"can."

Guan Tong originally decided to bring Suzuki, whom he couldn't fully trust yet, because he valued her [profiling] ability; it would be great if it could come in handy.

Under the watchful eyes of the four, Suzuki took out his sketchbook, took a deep breath, and used his ability.

The scene immediately appeared in her mind in the form of a kind of "modeling," and the scene kept replaying itself as time went backward.

Soon after, images of a raging fire appeared, showing the Yuzawa family burning evidence. Further ahead, blurry figures could be seen moving experimental equipment, and the sound of conversations could be heard.

These voices were very low and indistinct, as if they were heard through a curtain of water. Even with Suzuki pushing his abilities to the limit, he could only make out a few words.

A moment later, the effect of her ability wore off, and she quickly drew the images that appeared in her mind on a blank sheet of paper, and finally wrote down a few lines of dialogue that she could barely make out.

"That's all I can profile."

She handed the sketchbook to Guan Tong, and Silver Fox and the others gathered around him to look at it together.

The scenes depicting the events that had occurred earlier were remarkably accurate, demonstrating Suzuki's exceptional descriptive skills. However, these scenes offered no real clues; what was truly useful were the few lines of dialogue she had clearly overheard.

Guan Tong slowly read aloud: "'The clan chief instructed that... everything should be transported there...', 'Seeing the sea makes me sad, earthquake rules... my hometown...', 'Hurry up and get to work... set it on fire...'"

The few sentences Suzuki wrote were incomplete and unclear at first glance.

However, after reading it, Silver Fox immediately grasped the key point.

"The sea? Those people mentioned the sea?" Silver Fox's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of the key.

"Sister Silver Fox, does that mean they moved the laboratory into the sea?" Chen Na asked.

Silver Fox looked at Guan Tong: "You guessed it too, didn't you?"

“Hmm.” Guan Tong nodded. “I guess the Yuze family must have moved the laboratory to a ship. It’s very well hidden. It would be hard for ordinary people to imagine that they would do such a thing.”

Shang Yuanzi frowned: "A ship? It must be a big ship to hold so much equipment and personnel."

“That’s right,” Guan Tong said. “To accommodate a large amount of experimental equipment, researchers, and even victims and experimental subjects, etc., we need a large ship. This is good news for us because such a large ship cannot be hidden.”

(End of this chapter)