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"Oh?! General Houston, what brings you here in person?"

Outside the incinerator, Shigure, disguised as Houston, carried the frozen real Houston toward them, and wisps of gray smoke could be seen rising from afar.

The plant manager rarely saw Houston come to the incinerator in person. After all, what would a general like him do at the incinerator? Even if he wanted to incinerate something, he could just send his subordinates.

However, he couldn't control what the other party did. At Shi Yu's signal, the factory manager quickly opened the access control and let Shi Yu in.

The incineration plant is very large, with more than a dozen incineration chambers in operation, and flames constantly erupting from the steel-enclosed incinerators.

Shi Yu glanced around, randomly picked a room and went in. It was during the rest period, so there weren't many people here. There was only a guard outside the door, but after seeing the general's figure, he opened the door for him directly.

"This identity is quite useful," Shi Yu thought to himself. He walked into the incinerator and had to do one more thing before burning the corpse.

Looking back at the tightly closed door, and after confirming that no one would suddenly break in, Shigure placed Houston's body next to the incinerator and roasted it for a while.

When the ice on Houston's body had mostly melted, Shigure dragged him out from beside the fire and began to grope his body haphazardly.

When he touched his chest pocket, something hard pressed against his finger.

He opened his pocket and took out a pen made of gold.

【Name: Gold Pen】

[Quality: Gold]

[Description: A gold pen made of pure gold, possessing divination abilities]

[Ability: Divination (Silently recite the object you wish to see three times, then throw it out; the golden pen will guide you in the right direction.)]

Note: Using mediums like paper to aid divination can effectively amplify its effects!

"As expected, there's something good here!" Shi Yu's lips curled up slightly. No wonder Houston was able to find him so quickly.

He was worried that the other side wouldn't be able to find him, so he used Shi Yue's identity to seduce the research institute and made sure the camera captured him.

Otherwise, with his abilities, it would have been impossible for the other party to detect him in the slightest.

Shigure reached out and touched other places, but there were basically no items that could improve combat power.

"Sigh, just one piece of equipment dropped?" Shigure sighed, propped himself up with his right hand and threw it forward, sending Houston's corpse flying directly into the incinerator.

The flames inside began to crackle, the fat began to burn, and it gradually disintegrated Houston's body from the outside, slowly devouring it.

Shigure sat there for a few minutes, then used a stick to push it further in. Only after confirming that Houston was completely burned beyond recognition did Shigure breathe a sigh of relief.

"Now, this GTI branch is under my control." Shigure waved his hand, slung the Ash-12 over his back, activated the Impressionist Masterpiece ability, turning it into an ordinary M4A1, and held the other M4A1 in his hand.

After finishing all this, Shiyu pushed open the door and walked out. The guard at the door didn't even blink, watching Shiyu's receding figure with an expression of admiration.

"No wonder he's the Houston General, even his back view is so handsome!"

However, what he didn't know was that the man who had just been burned to a black body in the incinerator was their General Houston.

Shi Yu returned directly to the command center and found her office using the building's built-in map.

Upon entering the office, Shi Yu locked the door from the inside and then walked over to her chair.

On the desk sat a computer and a photo album, which prominently featured pictures of Houston and his son, the Red Wolf.

Although he rarely played "Black Hawk Down," he did have some knowledge of its storyline.

Shigure's gaze swept across the photo album, lingering on Red Wolf's face for a moment before she couldn't help but mutter to herself.

"By the way, I don't think I've ever seen those operators from the game in the open world."

He only remembered seeing Silverwing birds when he was in the Tower of Babel. He had never seen birds like Red Wolf, Mai Xiaowen, or Wei Long, except for those played by players.

All the operators in the game are based on real people; players simply use their skills. The operators in the Regional Special Operations Unit are not real people; they are just projected data.

"Garlic Bird, we'll talk about it later." Changing the subject, Shiyu turned on her computer and began working on her next tasks.

The current situation presents two challenges: taking over the exploration mission for the colossal diamond and liaising with superiors in Houston and managing interpersonal relationships.

For example, the researcher named Shi Yue, whom he had met before, was only second to Dr. Chen and Chen Ze in terms of skill level, which was enough to show how strong GTI's research capabilities were.

The monitor started to light up, and Shiyu was the first to open the communication bar, where there was an unread message.

He clicked on it and found that it was a message from the commander.

Upon seeing this, Shi Yu sat up slightly and tapped the message with his finger, but the content made him frown slightly.

[Commander: I'll be coming over here in a bit. Please provide backup then.]

After seeing the message, Shi Yu thought for a moment and then replied.

Carl Houston: Okay.

The content was extremely short. After all, the more words there were, the more flaws there would be. Before understanding the two people's conversation patterns, Shigure would not deliberately strike up a conversation, and would avoid answering if possible.

Meanwhile... in the GTI headquarters command center, inside the roundtable conference room...

Four figures sat together, with the commander in the main seat.

Dominic glanced at the other three people, then raised his hand and projected a chat message onto the screen.

The pale blue screen flickered with the conversation between Dominic and Shigure, the former breaking the silence first with his eyes slightly narrowed.

"Who do you think he could be?"

"Not sure, but it's definitely not that guy from Houston."

"Can you provide some useful information? The ventilator shows Houston's vital signs have flatlined. How could it be him?"

"But one thing is certain: this person's strength is absolutely not to be underestimated; at least... Special Forces level!"