He just broke up with his girlfriend and is already living with the devilish rich girl.

Police quickly cordoned off the scene.

In less than ten minutes, the Special Administration Bureau took over the entire residential building.

Field agents in black uniforms moved in and out of the building, while a pale gold barrier was erected around the perimeter of the blockade, completely isolating the entire building from the outside world.

In the Information Management Section, a young man wearing glasses is registering resident information door-to-door.

When he walked up to the man who was holding his daughter and huddled in the corner of the stairwell, he squatted down and was about to ask him a question when he suddenly froze.

"Dr. Kang?! Dr. Kang Zhengyuan! I still remember you!"

The young man pushed up his glasses, his tone carrying a hint of surprise and delight.

"You, you are...?"

"Don't you remember me? I'm Xiao Lu, Lu Ming. You taught us during our onboarding training, the course on biological mutation and alien gene fusion. You were an excellent lecturer."

Kang Jung-won unconsciously tightened his arms around his daughter.

He lowered his head, placed his palm on the back of his daughter's head, and gently pressed her face into the crook of his shoulder.

It was as if she wanted to use this posture to block all the gazes that were directed at her.

"Hmm, hello..." His voice was muffled.

The officer from the enforcement team who was taking a statement looked up.

"Xiao Lu, do you know this person?"

"Let's get to know each other."

Lu Ming stood up, his tone carrying a hint of admiration that is common among young people.

"This is a senior figure in our Special Administration Bureau, Dr. Kang Zhengyuan, the former technical director of the Biological Management Section."

"He has published several core papers in the field of heterogeneous gene research and participated in several top-secret projects back then. His academic achievements are very high."

"But for some reason, he suddenly left the Special Administration Bureau ten years ago."

As Lu Ming finished speaking, he realized something and his voice gradually lowered.

"Dr. Kang, where did you go afterward? How did you end up being attacked in a place like this...?"

The officer from the execution team nodded, and when he turned to face Kang Zhengyuan, his expression had already switched to work mode.

"Since you're a veteran, you should know the rules well. Tell us what happened tonight?"

Kang Zhengyuan stammered as he spoke, his gaze never lifting.

"I...I don't know. I was resting in the living room when that thing suddenly rushed in from the ceiling...I don't know anything, I just wanted to protect my daughter..."

"Dr. Kang."

The team member interrupted him, his tone not harsh, but every word precise and to the point.

"This building has eighteen floors and fifty-four registered households."

"We've just done a preliminary search, and the monster didn't attack any houses, but it just happened to sneak into yours, and you're a former Special Administration Bureau researcher."

He paused, his gaze falling on Kang Zhengyuan's pale, paper-white face.

"Was there any contact during this time?"

Kang Zhengyuan raised his head.

Only then did he truly see the person standing in front of him who was asking him questions.

He was a boy carrying a peach wood sword.

She looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, with a slender figure and delicate features.

Yet he possesses a composure beyond his years.

The sword case on his back gleamed with a deep brown luster under the dim light of the corridor, and he stood there, looking dashing and heroic.

Kang Zhengyuan was taken aback: "You...you are...?"

"Oh, hello, I'm Zheng Xingguang, an A-rank operator from the Supernatural Management Department."

Zheng Xingguang nodded slightly, his tone calm and polite.

"Oh, so you're Commander Zheng's..."

"Zheng Ningyuan is my father, but standing before you now, I am merely a field agent."

"So I hope you can tell me the truth, whatever the clues may be, I hope you can tell me."

Kang Zhengyuan remained silent for a long time.

He looked down at his daughter in his arms; the little girl was looking up at him with her wet eyes.

Her little hand gripped his collar tightly.

"I...I don't know anything." He repeated the same sentence.

Zheng Xingguang looked at him for a few seconds, but did not ask any further questions.

"Alright, then please come back with us to give a statement, Dr. Kang. This is standard procedure; you should know it better than I do."

"Yes...but my daughter—"

"Rest assured, our Special Administration Bureau now has a dedicated department responsible for arranging family members. Someone will take good care of your daughter and ensure her safety. If needed in the future, we can also provide you with asylum."

"After all, you are our senior."

Zheng Xingguang's tone left no room for negotiation, but it wasn't aggressive either.

It's just stating a fact.

Kang Zhengyuan knew that the Special Administration Bureau was now the safest place.

If that thing could find him the first time, it could find him the second time.

He no longer cared, but his daughter couldn't be harmed.

He nodded. "Alright then."

He stood up, holding his daughter, and followed Zheng Xingguang toward the black car parked downstairs.

The night wind, carrying the smell of disinfectant and dust, blew in from the stairwell.

Zheng Xingguang handed his daughter over to the female officer in charge of resettlement, gave her a few instructions, and then turned to open the car door for Kang Zhengyuan.

Just as Kang Zhengyuan bent down to get into the car...

I caught a glimpse of the area outside the police cordon out of the corner of my eye.

Among the busy figures of the agents stood a woman in a black dress.

She held up a black parasol, and the moonlight shone on her face, revealing a smile he would never forget for the rest of his life.

Luo Yao looked at him as if he were a mouse already under her paws.

She didn't speak, but smiled silently, and then mouthed a sentence to him.

Kang Zhengyuan let out a scream.

He stumbled back two steps, bumping into the car door, one hand pointing desperately in that direction.

His voice cracked and trembled like a leaf.

"It's her!! It's her!! She's here—!"

Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing.

There was nothing there, except for the old locust tree outside the cordon, rustling in the night wind.

Kang Zhengyuan seemed not to hear at all, slumped against the car door, and kept repeating the same words.

"They're back...they're really back...They won't let me go, they'll never let us go...None of them will escape, no one will get away—"

Zheng Xingguang frowned, stepped forward to separate him and his daughter, raised his right hand, and had a yellow calming talisman between his fingers.

He decisively placed the talisman on Kang Zhengyuan's chest, and the moment it touched his clothes, it turned into a faint golden light and entered his body.

"Dr. Kang, calm down, your daughter is watching you right here!" Zheng Xingguang's voice was not loud.

Kang Zhengyuan shuddered violently, his rapid breathing gradually subsided, and his pupils refocused.

It felt like someone had pulled me out of a basin of ice water.

He raised his hand to wipe the sweat and tears from his face, lowered his head, and dared not look at anyone.

Especially the little girl behind them, who was being held in the arms of the female agent and was about to cry from fright.

"I'm sorry... I... I just—"

"Get in the car, we'll talk at the station."

Zheng Xingguang opened the car door for him, and after he got in, he closed the door and patted the roof of the car twice.

Signal the driver to depart.

He stood downstairs watching the black sedan drive out of the community gate, its taillights fading into the distance in the night.

This is definitely not normal.

Kang Jung-won's reaction was definitely not that of a simple victim.

And just now, when Kang Zhengyuan saw something, he pointed in that empty direction and screamed; that fear wasn't faked.

Who...? Who did Kang Zhengyuan see that could terrify him to such an extent?

Zheng Xingguang withdrew his gaze and marked the matter heavily in his mind.

He turned and walked towards the few operatives who were still finishing up.

Almost simultaneously, the Blood Church trio's action report was also transmitted to the Special Administration Bureau's information center via an encrypted channel.

The three have successfully located the predator's trail and launched their first engagement.

The target escaped using an unknown sonic attack during the engagement.

Arya, one of the governors, has placed a tracking anchor on the target and is currently tracking it.

Director Zou An sat in his office with two reports spread out in front of him.

One of them is a preliminary on-site report that Zheng Xingguang just sent back.

The other document is a tracking progress report transferred from several clergy members abroad.

He picked up his thermos, took a sip of goji berry water, and put the thermos back on the table with a dull thud.

How can such a tiny city like Ninghai have caused so much trouble in such a short time?

First it was Beast Breath, then the Deputy Minister's betrayal, and now this Predator thing has appeared.

He leaned back in his chair, staring at the fluorescent light tube on the ceiling that flickered on and off.

Suddenly, I realized that when I was the deputy director of the logistics department in Tianhai City, I lived a pretty comfortable life.

What the hell am I doing here as the bureau chief?