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After clearing the roadblocks, Long Ao and Hong Yuan returned to the outer perimeter, their bodies covered in grayish-white dust.

Hongyuan asked anxiously, "Did the instrument detect a signal?"

Yin Chen shook his head as he looked at the equipment in the distance: "There is no signal feedback at the moment."

Long Ao stared at the flickering detection screen and stubbornly said, "This is because the equipment you brought is inadequate."

The person in charge carefully explained, "This is the highest-level search and rescue equipment that can be deployed."

Long Ao turned around and glared angrily: "Does the highest-spec equipment absolutely not make a mistake?"

The person in charge wisely retreated to the back and stopped talking.

Su Yuehe stepped forward and gently advised, "Long Ao, don't deliberately make things difficult for them."

Long Ao turned his gaze back to the distant ruins and said coldly, "I'm not making things difficult for anyone, but Chen's coffin can't be searched using such ordinary standards."

Yin Chen chimed in to add to the discussion.

"I have already had the search and rescue team add anomaly comparisons. His black coffin, scythe, and even his usual jacket—anything can now be used as a basis for instrument positioning."

Hongyuan gripped the axe handle and looked into the unfathomable depths ahead, then suddenly said, "What if we can't find any of these things in the end?"

Aside from the roar of machinery, no one answered the question.

Time slipped away slowly amidst the roar of the machinery.

The thick darkness completely covered the sky above Shanghai, and high-powered searchlights illuminated the entire ruins in a ghastly white light. The rescue teams in the core area worked in three shifts, and the search and rescue dogs on the front line were also exhausted and had to be replaced twice.

Su Yuehe sat beside the makeshift medical vehicle, holding a cup of hot water in both hands. An Changqing stood like a statue in front of the isolation line, gazing into the depths of the ruins. Long Ao squatted on the broken curb, staring intently at the core area of ​​the search and rescue operation.

Red Kite leaned against the long handle of the giant axe, her face covered in mud and dust, and refused everyone's advice to rest.

Yin Chen looked at the latest summary table that had just been delivered and began to read the data aloud.

"The first round of life signal screening yielded zero results, the second round of soul wave detection yielded zero results, and the third round of on-site investigation only revealed a large number of traces of demonic power, with no trace of Chen Guan himself found."

Long Ao suddenly stood up from the roadside: "Have people continue searching."

Yin Chen looked up at him and said, "The team has been searching intensively for a full eight hours."

Long Ao took a step forward, his tall figure blocking out the last rays of light: "I'll let you continue searching."

Hongyuan straightened up and loudly expressed her opinion.

"No one is allowed to stop before dawn."

Su Yuehe raised her eyes and stubbornly said, "Don't stop even after dawn."

Yin Chen slammed the summary table in his hand shut.

"I never said to stop. I will immediately have them expand the search and rescue area to the entire collapsed area."

An Changqing strode over from the isolation line.

"Add an underground drainage system as well."

Meeting Yin Chen's questioning gaze, An Changqing calmly added his reasons.

"The coffin may have shifted to other underground locations due to the vibrations from the spatial rift, so we should thoroughly investigate the drainage system, subway lines, and underground refuge areas."

Yin Chen immediately turned to look at the person in charge of the search and rescue.

Did you all hear that?

The person in charge responded loudly, "We heard you all. We will retrieve the underground building survey maps for this area immediately."

The search and rescue operation lasted for another full day and night.

The cold rain in Shanghai lashed down in the latter half of the night, pressing all the dust that had been flying in the air back to the ground with the moisture.

The next morning, a mud-covered rescuer, leading a search and rescue dog, raced out of the core area.

"A major discovery has been made."

All eyes turned to that direction in an instant.

Long Ao charged recklessly across the cordon, yelling, "Give me the person!"

The rescuer, panting heavily, handed out a transparent sealed bag.

"No life was found below, but the search and rescue dogs found this thing under a crack in a severely twisted metal plate."

Inside the sealed bag lay a severely charred fragment of fabric. The fabric's texture had been mostly burned away by the high temperature, with only the edges and corners remaining.

Su Yuehe only glanced at the bag before tears welled up in her eyes.

"This really is his coat."

Hongyuan reached out to touch it, but froze in mid-air.

"Could it be that someone else just happened to be wearing the same clothes?"

Long Ao immediately chimed in agreement.

"Yes, there are so many people in the whole of Shanghai, and people wearing black are everywhere."

Yin Chen reached out and took the sealed bag, handing it directly to the professional testing personnel waiting nearby.

"Get the comparison done immediately. I need the fastest results possible."

The testing personnel quickly ran towards the mobile laboratory with the evidence in hand.

The two hours spent waiting for the test results felt incredibly long.

Su Yuehe stared intently at the door of the inspection vehicle, while Long Ao paced back and forth irritably dozens of times in the open space before An Changqing finally called him to stop.

"Stop walking back and forth."

Long Ao stopped his disordered steps and sighed.

"I'm so agitated, I just can't stop."

Actually, he knows that there is something wrong with his current mindset, but he just can't control it and doesn't want to control it.

An Changqing stared at him quietly.

"Even if you can't stop, stand still."

Long Ao strode up to An Changqing and questioned him.

"Have you already resigned yourself to your fate?"

An Changqing fell into a long silence.

"I don't want to admit it either."

Long Ao raised his chin high: "If you don't want to admit it, then don't. We'll just wait for him to come back here. He always manages to come back after encountering danger."

Su Yuehe nodded vigorously in agreement.

"He'll definitely come back alive this time too."

Hongyuan lifted her muddy face.

"If he really doesn't come back, I'll go and chop all the murderers who killed him into pieces."

Yin Chen calmly pointed out the facts from the side.

"But we still don't know who's behind this. Why did the seal suddenly loosen?"

Hongyuan gripped the axe handle tightly with both hands.

"The mastermind behind this must be those demons. They're the ones who invaded the Demon City. Guan Jinyue was the one who brought us there with the remains of that demon god. They're definitely involved in this whole thing."

Yin Chen spoke up to remind everyone present.

"Guan Jinyue saved the lightning cheetah at the last moment, and she also helped us open an escape passage."

Hong Yuan let out a heavy, cold snort.

"That's because she only cared about and took the leopard with her. Don't forget, that leopard was also a demonic beast, and Chen Guan found it in the wild!"

Long Ao looked at the ruins under the rain and retorted.

"That was Chen Guan's own order to let her go and save the leopard."

After those words were spoken, the people present fell into an unbearable silence once again.

The door of the inspection vehicle finally opened outwards.

Yin Chen immediately strode forward.

"Has the final result been released yet?"

The inspector nervously handed over a printed paper report.

"Young Master Yin, please take a look for yourself first."

Yin Chen reached out and took the report. His gaze swept over only two lines of the paper before his fingers, which were holding the pages, stopped.