I manage female characters in all the heavens.

He had fought in the apocalypse for decades and witnessed countless bizarre events, but seeing his son turn into this state still caused him excruciating pain that made him almost unable to stand.

Faced with his son's constant words of happiness, he finally couldn't hold back any longer. He took a step forward and slammed his right fist into Ulan Haisang's left cheek with a whooshing sound!

"You bastard! Wake up! You don't have a girlfriend! You have nobody around you!"

Ulanhaisang was sent flying, rolling twice on the ground. His left cheek swelled up rapidly, and a trickle of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

But before he could even get up from the ground, he quickly turned to the empty seat beside him, his face full of anxiety as he reached out his hand: "Xiaorou, are you alright? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, my dad didn't mean it—"

His gaze followed a mass of air that no one else could see, and an outstretched hand carefully supported something, as if he were helping a woman he cherished up from the ground.

"Dad! What are you doing!" Ulanhai Sang finally got up, his face full of disbelief and anger. "How could you hit Xiaorou?! What did she do to offend you?!"

"There's nothing around you! There's no Xiaorou!" Ulan Aodeng roared, his voice trembling uncontrollably. "Open your eyes and see clearly!"

"She's right here!" Ulanhaisang exclaimed anxiously. He grabbed "Air's" wrist and pulled it up in front of Ulan Aodeng. "Look! Look! This is her hand! She's right here! Warm! Soft! How can you say she isn't?!"

He pointed excitedly at the nothingness, his voice growing louder and louder.

Ulan Haisang couldn't understand his father's words. What did he mean by "girlfriend doesn't exist"? She was clearly right beside him, checking the injuries on his face with concern and soothing his pain with her soft, delicate hands.

He was completely baffled and got into an argument with Ulan Aodeng. He tried various methods to verify Aodeng's girlfriend's existence, but of course, it was all in vain. Only he himself could still sense his girlfriend's presence.

Suddenly, he seemed to understand something. He realized that his father might be expressing his disapproval of his girlfriend in this way.

He turned to Bai Yuekui, his voice pleading, "Boss Bai! You're the best! Please help me persuade my dad. He doesn't seem to like Xiaorou, but I'm determined to marry her!"

Bai Yuekui looked at his eyes, which were red from anxiety, paused for two seconds, and gently shook his head: "Hai Sang, you have nothing by your side."

Ulanhaisang's expression froze for a moment, like a sculpture that had just experienced an earthquake, beginning to collapse from the inside out.

He staggered back a step, then turned to look at Xia Tianlai, "Uncle Xia, can't you see either?"

Xia Tian stroked his beard and said sadly, "Xiao Hai, you're probably under too much pressure. Take a rest, you'll be fine. Trust Uncle Xia's expertise."

Ulanhaisang took another step back, his gaze falling on the last straw, "Maido..."

Maido stepped forward, patted Wulan Haisang's arm, and said solemnly, "It's just a fantasy girlfriend, what's the big deal?"

"If a comic book character can be a wife, but a fantasy girlfriend can't? That doesn't make sense!"

"Brother, don't worry, your sister won't discriminate against you because of this. Everyone has the right to pursue their own happiness, regardless of whether that happiness is reasonable in the eyes of others."

"Go ahead and love, get married, have children. If Lao Deng objects, I'll beat him up. If Lao Xia objects, I'll beat him up. Whoever objects, I'll beat them up. I swear to defend your happiness to the death!"

In the past, such thoughtful words from "Maido" would have made Ulan Haisang so happy that he would roll on the ground in joy, but now they only made him more devastated.

"Impossible...impossible..." His lips trembled. "You're lying to me...you're all in cahoots to lie to me!"

He looked down at the direction he was supporting, his eyes suddenly becoming tender and painful, as if something was crying in his empty arms.

He tightened his arms around you, whispering comforting words, "Don't cry, don't cry, I believe you, I believe you..."

At that moment, an extremely faint, non-material spiritual fluctuation gently brushed past Ulan Haisang's body from the void.

This fluctuation was almost immediately perceived by Bai Yuekui and "Maido," as well as captured by the equipment controlled by Qiu Shi. The signal source was a valley dozens of kilometers away.

Bai Yuekui narrowed his eyes and immediately used the communicator to dispatch the nearest Awakened Walker squad to the location of the signal source to investigate.

Ulanhaisang suddenly shivered, and when he looked up again, his eyes had changed.

The original pain and confusion subsided, replaced by a paranoid, almost manic calm.

He stared intently at his father, his tone eerily calm: "I understand. Dad, you just want to break me and Xiaorou up. You think she's an outsider and don't want her to join Dragon Bone Village."

“Xiao Rou knows everything.” His voice grew colder. “She said you would use this method to deceive me, making me think she was fake. But she is real! More real than any of you!”

He abruptly shielded the "air" behind him, assuming a fighting stance: "I will not allow you to hurt her! Not even you!"

Maido stood beside Ulanhaisang, supporting his decision: "Yes, no one will do!"

"Maido, stop causing trouble!" Ulan Aodeng roared, and "Maido" retreated in embarrassment.

Without another word, he crouched down, lunged forward, and lashed out with his right arm like a steel whip, aiming straight for Wulan Haisang's shoulder and neck.

Ulanhaisang roared and threw a punch to meet the attack.

I will defend my love with my fists!

Five seconds later, Ulanhaisang was pinned to the ground, his face bruised and swollen, his hands and feet bound behind his back with a strong rope. He was still screaming incoherently, "Let me go! Xiaorou, run! Don't worry about me!"

Chapter 197 The Intruder, Interrogation

Ulanhai Sang twisted his body desperately, the rope digging into his flesh and leaving bloody marks.

But he seemed completely oblivious to the pain, struggling wildly like a wounded beast.

His eyes were fixed on a certain direction in the void, and tears kept sliding down his cheeks.

Ulan Aodeng squatted down, looked at his son's appearance, his Adam's apple bobbed, and then he delivered a clean and decisive chop to the side of his neck.

Ulanhaisang's body went limp, and he finally fell silent.

“Old Xia.” Ulan Aodeng slowly stood up, his voice hoarse.

Xia Tianlai had already squatted down next to Wulan Haisang, placing his fingers on Wulan Haisang's wrist pulse, while his other hand took out a palm-sized disc-shaped device from his waist bag and placed it on Wulan Haisang's temple.

The instrument emits a soft beeping sound, and strings of data flow across its surface.

A few minutes later, Xia Tian stood up, his face serious.

“There is no physical damage.” He spoke slowly, carefully choosing his words, “but information that does not belong to him has been mixed into his life essence and has become entangled with his own essence. Ordinary methods cannot separate them.”

Seeing the confused look on Ulan Aodeng's face, he put it more bluntly: "Simply put, Hai Sang has been mentally invaded."

“The other person’s spirit has taken root in his body and is almost merged with Hai Sang’s spirit. That foreign spirit is the girlfriend that only Ulan Hai Sang himself can feel.”

Ulan Aodeng's fists clenched so tightly they cracked: "Why is this happening?"

Xia Tian sighed and stated his deduction based on the available information: "There is a high probability that this is a mental ability user who has abandoned their physical body and transformed all or part of their information structure into a quantum mental state."

"The spiritual body in this state is extremely well hidden and is virtually undetectable without conscious active observation. Projecting a portion of its spiritual body into the village using some spatial means would be an excellent way to gather intelligence."

"As for Hai Sang, something unexpected happened, and he actually merged with this part of the other party's spiritual body. What bad luck."

Everyone fell silent; it was indeed bad luck for both sides.

Those who awaken their source potential are not unique to Dragonbone Village.

Since the awakening of source potential does not depend on resources, many survivors who have survived on the ground and endured life and death have a chance to awaken it on their own, but it is not as systematic and path-oriented as in Dragonbone Village.

This isn't the first time that outsiders with special abilities have coveted Dragonbone Village. Several of the Awakened Walkers in Dragonbone Village joined after being defeated.

However, such a situation, which directly endangers the families of the core team in Longgu Village, is extremely rare in the decades-long history of Longgu Village.

Qiu Shi immediately retrieved surveillance footage from various locations in Longgu Village and discovered that a month ago, Wulan Haisang had been frequently heading towards the edge of the village.

She continued to analyze the video footage meticulously and finally determined the exact time when Wulan Haisang was mentally invaded, which happened to be the same time when Jiuge and his group invaded Longgu Village!

At that moment, Ulanhaisang was patrolling near a warehouse on the edge of the village. In the footage, his body stiffened slightly before returning to normal.

But ever since then, he has frequently gone to the edge of the village.

On the holographic screen, the timestamps jumped clearly.

Everyone's faces darkened as they looked at that time.

While sending people to directly invade and attract attention, they secretly deployed mental entities to steal the base.

The faces of the group turned grim, because it meant that the 13 newcomers recruited into Dragonbone Village might be spies deliberately sent there by the enemy.

By treating them according to past practices, they fell right into a trap!

If I hadn't been bored and followed Wulan Haisang to find out who his girlfriend was, and accidentally discovered his problem, who knows how long this hidden danger would have remained buried, and how much damage it would have caused to Longgu Village in the future!

Bai Yuekui's usually indifferent face turned unusually cold. He led everyone, including the bound Ulan Haisang, back to the center of the village and immediately summoned the 13 newcomers, including Jiuge.

Antarctic Star had already returned to the village center ahead of time and quietly completed the evacuation and early warning arrangements.

When Bai Yuekui and his group brought the unconscious Ulan Haisang back to the village's central square, the atmosphere had completely changed.

The square was crowded with people, and a dozen or so Awakened Walkers stood in a loose formation, surrounding the playground of the entire science hall.

Before long, thirteen newcomers, including Jiu Ge, were brought from their respective residences and gathered in the square.

Their expressions varied; some were uneasy, some were bewildered, and some had gloomy faces.

The area was filled with villagers who had rushed over upon hearing the news, and the air was filled with buzzing discussions.

"Maido" stood at the edge of the crowd, with "Ulanchagai," the falcon she had raised and whose feathers were growing thicker, perched on her shoulder. She teased the little falcon with her fingertips while discreetly observing the expressions and eyes of each of the newlyweds.

Ulan Aodeng could no longer contain his anger. He strode up to the thirteen men and, like a volcano about to erupt, bombarded them with questions in a booming voice:

"Do you have any accomplices outside?!"

"Are you spies who deliberately infiltrated Dragonbone Village?!"

"What ulterior motives do you have towards our Dragonbone Village?!"

"Confess honestly!!"

The barrage of questions was swift and sharp, giving no one time to think.

Several of the more timid newcomers were already pale with fright and trembling; some looked at each other, bewildered; others frowned, showing displeasure.

Maido's gaze instantly locked onto the two people.

One of them was the bald guy who had interacted with Xia Dou about apples in class before, and the other was Jiu Ge.

When the bald, burly man heard the word "accomplice," his pupils contracted very slightly—so quickly that it was almost imperceptible, but "Maido" still caught it.

As for Jiu Ge, her body stiffened slightly for about 0.3 seconds before her breathing returned to normal. However, her originally indifferent gaze shifted subtly when she heard the word "spy."

The reactions of these two individuals were fundamentally different from those of the other newcomers who were simply bewildered, angry, or fearful.

At that very instant, two soft beams of light, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, silently shot out from Bai Yuekui's drooping fingertips.

The light fell precisely on the bald giant and Jiu Ge, forming a force field similar to the principle of optical tweezers, and before the two could react, it pulled them directly out of the crowd!

The bald, burly man was suspended in mid-air, bound by the force field. He was stunned for a moment, then his face turned red, and he roared:

"What are you doing! What are you doing! I didn't do anything! Why are you arresting me! Are you just looking for trouble because you don't like us outsiders!"

Bai Yuekui didn't even look at him, he just waved his hand lightly.

The force field suddenly flipped, slamming the bald man to the ground like a fly being swatted!