The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

The eerie old man glanced at Miss Butterfly.

"Oh dear, a troublesome fellow has arrived. Well, it seems I have no choice but to retreat for now. Damn it, I won't be able to sleep if I don't fulfill my host's long-cherished wish. Oh~"

Is he going to run away?

Without saying a word, Song Gua activated Thorne's forbidden spell.

Bye-bye~

The forbidden spell was successfully activated, but it only struck a gradually transparent figure.

The eerie old man has disappeared.

"What's going on? Super long-distance teleportation? That's too overpowered! Is it even playable without nerfing it?"

Miss Butterfly landed and looked at the Special Bureau and fake bandits lying all over the ground.

"It's not teleportation, it's the ability of the Dark Pocket Watch."

"Can the Dark Pocket Watch really teleport people?"

"He turned back time to the past; he returned to his place in the past."

"Can he travel through time?"

"It's not that serious yet; the location has changed, but the timing hasn't."

"temporary……"

"That's right, the ultimate power of these dark artifacts will all be at the rule level. Aren't you interested?"

Before Song Gua could reply, Miss Butterfly suddenly looked towards the eastern sky.

"I'll contact you later. The Special Affairs Bureau and the Professionals Association's assistance will be here soon. I have to go."

After saying that, Miss Butterfly took to the air and flew away quickly, disappearing from sight.

"This woman appears and disappears without a trace, what's her background...?"

In the distance, a dozen armed transport helicopters were approaching in the afterglow of the setting sun.

These reinforcements were already on their way when the bombs here were detonated.

Direct teleportation is certainly faster, but there are no large teleportation arrays here.

Anchor point teleportation, which only requires setting up an array at one end, can only teleport one person at a time.

Therefore, the main force had no choice but to travel over.

From the helicopter's current position, it's impossible to see the situation on the ground.

Song Gua looked around.

Special Bureau, fake bandits—this group of people experiences both life and death.

As long as you and your men leave in time, you can make the fake bandits who can't leave take the blame.

Anyway, the original goal of this group was to steal the mutant beasts.

I guess I hitched a ride.

"withdraw!"

All the bandits disappeared into the thick undergrowth as quickly as possible.

Then Song Gua recalled all his clones and swapped positions with another security guard in the warehouse.

The security guard, cursing and swearing, waded alone through the muddy swamp towards headquarters.

"Shameless old thief! I'm the one watching the warehouse, and I'm the one walking back home. I can't take this anymore!"

……

About five kilometers from the battleground, on a hillside.

Zhao Wuji, Zhao Can, and a group of people dressed in silver-white hazmat suits were waiting anxiously.

Suddenly, their instant messaging devices rang.

"We did it! We did it! We opened the cage! The monster has been released!"

That voice belongs to Hong Zhong from the fake bandits.

Zhao Wuji immediately ordered the group of people in hazmat suits behind him, "Quickly! Bring the experimental subjects back!"

The Zhao family's plan was not actually to directly snatch back the mutant beast.

This thing is so big, it can't fit in a backpack.

Even if the entire Zhao family were to mobilize, it would be highly unlikely that they could be brought back under the very nose of the Special Affairs Bureau.

Their actual plan was to release the mutant beasts and control them remotely to make them run to a designated location on their own.

There, the Zhao family had already set up an ambush, which would not only allow them to capture the mutated beasts and bring them back, but also prevent the pursuers from getting a chance to catch up.

After Zhao Wuji gave the order.

The group of researchers then began operating a huge machine.

soon.

"Test subject #97 successfully received the command! Awakening!"

At that moment, the mutant beast's eyelids twitched slightly.

Before Zhao Can and Zhao Wuji could even rejoice.

"Huh? The signal feedback has disappeared. Is Aberrant Beast #97 dead?"

This is the moment when the mutant beast's skull was cracked open by Song Gua.

Zhao Can was the most excited, grabbing a lab worker's shoulder and shaking him vigorously.

"Impossible! There were so many people there! Didn't you say the more people there were, the stronger the monster would be?! How could it have died so quickly?!"

"This is what the researcher said helplessly."

"Well, that's not always the case. They have to show negative emotions like fear, tension, or sadness..."

"What?! This is so troublesome?!"

Zhao Can was naturally excited.

If this plan fails, Experiment No. 97 will not be able to return, and he will also be unable to return to the Zhao family.

Zhao Wuji remained calm and waited for a while. When the experimenters told him that No. 97 was indeed dead, he turned and left.

"Dad! Don't go!"

Zhao Wuji ignored him.

Zhao Can broke down.

"The Zhao family can't just abandon me like this!! I'm a member of the Zhao family, I'm your son!"

Zhao Wuji still ignored him.

"Aren't you afraid I'll reveal the Heavenly Soldiers Project to the Special Affairs Bureau?"

If there is an afterlife, I will remember everything from this life.

Zhao Can swore that this was the most foolish thing he had ever said.

But at this moment, facing the prospect of losing everything and the possibility of living in the slums, he was no longer capable of thinking calmly.

A broadsword, commonly used by warriors, pierced through Zhao Can's abdomen, and blood dripped down the blade.

"Dad, you..."

Zhao Wuji was ruthless, his eyes bloodshot.

"Bury it."

The entourage remained completely silent, as quiet as cicadas in winter, and simply did as instructed.

……

The bandit headquarters.

"Damn it! Why can't I absorb it?! Damn scales, are you kidding me?!"

After the battle ended, the first thing Song Gua did was to take out the beast core and let Dark Balance absorb it.

There was no reaction at all.

He grabbed the dark scales in his hand and angrily slammed them onto the table.

"You have to give me an explanation today!"

In this battle, he self-destructed two clones. When the old man went on a killing spree, he also killed two more—they self-destructed before they died.

When the third-tier expert from the Special Bureau fought the old man, the residual force of the battle affected his two clones, crippling them.

These two disabled individuals are currently receiving professional trauma treatment from Dean Ouyang. Once they are no longer in pain, Song Gua will take them back.

When there are more clones like this, Song Gua will arrange for them to be resurrected from the dead.

Just like last time, exploit this bug to reshape the physical body.

The loss is so great.

Although they obtained the Illusionary Divine Stele, this was an unexpected gain; the beast core was the real target.

The evil spirit of the scales, after repeatedly manipulating the power of the dark scales, came to a conclusion.

"This is a fake beast core."

"You fucking thing, aren't you a fake Dark Artifact?!"

"Don't you know whether the original is real or not? The fact that the scales can't absorb it only proves that what you got is a fake."

"How could that be? I clearly ripped it out of the mutant beast's brain!"

"It's possible that this mutant beast is also fake."

"Don't you know whether it's fake or not?"

"The real person isn't outside, how would I know if it's fake or not?"

"Hey! Curious Bro, kick him!"

Song Gua made a gesture as if he was about to smash the scales.

Jiuwan quickly stopped it.

"Boss, boss! Calm down! You already let Blood Brother level me up to level one, and then you throw the scales down, so all my sacrifice was for nothing!"