In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

Su Ran didn't reply, she just stared at the screen.

Old Luke was very good at reading the situation and immediately added a comment.

"Mr. Su, the Beacon of Freedom currently has no evidence pointing to any particular faction."

We dare not act rashly, therefore, we solemnly request the Great Xia government to intervene in the investigation.

He paused.

"If Great Xia requires it, grant access to all camps within the Freedom Lighthouse's jurisdiction."

We will unconditionally disclose all details of the arms inventory, and even the detailed personnel list, and fully cooperate with the Great Xia's investigation!

In the conference room, the officials from the Beacon of Freedom all had tense expressions.

This is tantamount to opening the door and inviting outsiders into the bedroom to rummage through the closets.

Su Ran looked at Old Luke, and after two seconds, nodded.

"You did the right thing; you're still thinking clearly."

Old Luke's shoulder loosened by half an inch.

Su Ran turned to Mo Yun.

"Check the mission records of all missing Awakened in North America, find their last location, check the items they redeemed with points, and find out who they came into contact with."

"From this moment forward, this incident will be fully taken over by Great Xia."

Su Ran nodded, her gaze returning to Old Luke, her tone conveying an unquestionable authority.

"The Beacon of Freedom is responsible for sealing off the scene, reassuring the camp, and prohibiting unauthorized retaliation or scapegoating."

Old Luke responded immediately.

"Understood! The Beacon of Freedom will absolutely obey the supreme command of Great Xia!"

Su Ran stared at the map of North America.

Twenty-seven red dots, like nails driven into the wasteland.

"Old Luke, there's one more thing I need to remind you of."

Old Luke quickly replied, "Please speak."

Su Ran's tone was low, but every word was piercing.

"If this incident really involves a powerful third party hiding in the shadows, then it's definitely not something you can touch."

You'd better not harbor any illusions, or you'll be chewed up even by the bones.

Old Luke was silent for half a second.

"I see."

Communication ended.

In the Freedom Beacon conference room, everyone was still standing.

Hunter looked at his father, his voice hoarse.

"Father...how could you completely relinquish control of North America?"

Old Luke pulled the chair back and sat down.

"Hunter, the concept of control... has never been in our hands."

He picked up the report and turned to the list of missing persons.

Today, all that remains of them is a cold string of numbers.

Old Luke closed the report.

"But at least... this time, we've chosen the right side again."

……

After the communication was cut off, the large screen returned to the map of North America.

The red dot is still there.

Twenty-seven camps, ninety-seven awakened individuals missing.

Su Ran stood in front of the control panel, stared at it for a few seconds, and then spoke.

"Old Mo, raise all switchboards in the North American region to Level 2 response status!"

"It's already being cut!"

Mo Yun's fingers flew across the keyboard. He temporarily lowered the priority of the public channel and began sending out internal instructions one after another.

"Retrieve all operators in the North American region and retrieve the last 72 hours' mission logs of the missing personnel."

"Check their points redemption details."

"Check the last person you communicated with."

"Check the location drift trajectory of the terminal in the 20 minutes before it went offline."

"All cases involving the twenty-seven camps of the Freedom Beacon will be grouped into the same case pool."

The operators in the main hall, who were originally handling bounty missions, quickly redeployed their staff.

A secondary screen lit up.

The North American anomaly event pool has been established.

[Accessing the underlying data packets of Free Beacon.]

[Connected to the Pangu supercomputing North American satellite monitoring link.]

[Accessing a holographic scan of the damaged terminal wreckage.]

Su Ran glanced at the time, her brow furrowing slightly. "Where are the tech team?"

"Groups three and seven, bring your equipment to the main hall."

Mo Yun looked up and shouted, "Don't just bring your brain, bring your tools too."

A dozen seconds later, the side door was pushed open.

The technical team from the Kunlun base rushed in carrying boxes. The leader was a young engineer with messy hair, whose name tag read "Zhou Hang".

"Advisor Su, Director Mo."

Zhou Hang slammed the box down on the table, panting slightly. "Where's the wreckage data?"

Mo Yun granted him the permissions.

"The scanned copy from the Beacon of Freedom is here, but the actual object is still in North America. Take a look at the structural damage first."

Zhou Hang immediately opened the first document.

A completely burned-out terminal positioning chip was instantly magnified on the screen.

He only glanced at it twice before his brows furrowed.

"This wasn't burned by high temperature."

Mo Yun paused, then asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure?"

"I'm absolutely certain."

Zhou Hang zoomed in on the image and placed his finger on the edge of the chip.

"If the damage was caused by a fire-type mutated creature, the heat marks will be very messy, and there will be large areas of carbonization on the outer shell, circuit board, and adhesive layer."

He switched to another image.

"Look here. The outer layer of the positioning module is not completely burned out; only the core crystal oscillator and storage contacts are damaged."

The perpetrator's objective was extremely clear: he simply wanted to invalidate the location and cache.

Su Ran asked, "With current technology, is it possible to complete this kind of rapid processing on the battlefield?"

"able."

Zhou Hang gestured with his hands to indicate the famous machine model.

"Use a directional electromagnetic pulse generator; one shot is enough."

The equipment wasn't very large; similar devices existed in older military and police systems. However, to penetrate it so cleanly, the pulse device was one aspect, but we also needed to understand the internal layout of our terminals beforehand.

Mo Yun paused for a moment while typing.

"So, the other side has studied the terminals we distributed to foreign Awakened individuals?"

"It was at least dismantled."

Zhou Hang spoke very frankly.

"And it wasn't just a rough dismantling. The positioning module, data cache, and emergency beacon were all targeted."

Ordinary double-crossers don't have this skill.

Su Ran didn't reply, but instead unfolded the holographic map of the ruins of the twenty-seven camps.

"Were all twenty-seven batches processed using this method?"

Zhou Hang quickly scanned the group of photos.

"The methods are the same. The tools may not be the same model, but the underlying logic is the same."

Just then, a senior operator stood up and began to report.

"Report! Consultant Su, the mission log for the missing persons has been released."

Switch to large screen.

Ninety-seven names were compiled into a table.

[Unaccepted missions: 62 people]

[Low-risk patrol mission: 21 people]

[Camp Defense Mission: 14 players]

[Tier 3 Bounty in Progress: 0 people]

Looking at this data, the people at the command center all looked up at the same time.

Mo Yun stared at the form, speaking very slowly.

"Those who did not accept the missions actually accounted for the largest proportion of those who went missing."

The operator then projected several records onto the screen.

The first section is about the Ohio camp.

Before the three Awakened Ones went offline, they were patrolling the north side of the camp. Half an hour later, their signals disappeared near the abandoned gas station on the north side.

The second section, Indiana Temporary Fortress.

A horde of beasts attacked the east gate, and five Awakened Ones were ordered to rush to the ammunition depot to provide assistance. During the journey, five signals were lost in succession, with intervals not exceeding forty seconds.

The third section is the Missouri River Valley.

The camp was harassed by a flock of mutated birds, the camp was breached, and seven awakened individuals disappeared.

Mo Yun stared at the screen, gritting his teeth and sneering, "Someone's trying to fish in troubled waters!"

Su Ran's eyes narrowed slightly, her voice turning cold.

"It's like the rats underground, finally unable to restrain themselves any longer, wanting to come out and bite people."