I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

This man is definitely extraordinary; he was able to severely injure the powerful Wuming. In addition, considering the arm that blocked my attack earlier, the monster that attacked this place the night before last is obviously here as well, and there might be other enemies lurking in the shadows.

The situation is... a little bad.

"You must be Mr. Li Cheng?"

The man floating in the air bowed politely and spoke in a calm tone.

"I'm sorry for damaging your house to this extent. However, due to the need to recycle 01, I really can't back down."

01? !

Recalling the words uttered by the mad sorcerer earlier, and looking at Remilia in the man's arms, Li Cheng suddenly realized something.

"It seems you already know something. Did you bypass the restrictions using some method to obtain the information?" the man said thoughtfully. "It seems that there are indeed formidable experts hidden in this island in the Far East. No wonder my men have suffered repeated failures."

"but--"

Smiling, the man turned slightly to the side, dodging a punch that Li Cheng swung from behind him through a gap.

"At least for now, I have achieved my basic goal."

Extremely complex cyan patterns, resembling constantly shifting mathematical sequences, coiled around the man's body. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers lightly. The surrounding space instantly froze, fixing Li Cheng's body in mid-air, unable to move. Then, he touched Li Cheng's body with his finger.

"Calculate and expand, 12 times the volume, condense, release."

The magic power, condensed to an astonishing degree, touched Li Cheng's body as lightly as a tiny dot. But immediately afterward, the surrounding air was completely distorted, and the cyan energy exploded violently in front of Li Cheng, sending him flying through five or six houses before crashing into a busy highway, carving a deep trench seven or eight meters long in the ground.

"Is 12 times the power really too much? But it's fine, creating this kind of chaos is just right for me to escape."

Ahead, beside Li Cheng, who lay motionless amidst the rubble, tide's figure emerged from a gap and ran to his side. The man, witnessing all this, chuckled softly and paid no further attention.

Right now, it's not the time to need her. For now, let her continue as she is.

Muttering to himself, the man's figure gradually faded into the air and slowly disappeared. But just as he was about to vanish, the man suddenly frowned and turned to look at the dilapidated apartment building in front of him.

Wuming, who was already seriously injured, appeared on the shattered windowsill on the second floor at some point, holding a longbow with arrows containing powerful magic, pointing them at his brow.

"What are you planning to do with this kind of move in the city?"

The terrified man tried to defend himself with a blue spell, but before he could complete the movement, a blood-red arrow pierced the air and precisely struck his head. The next moment, the extremely unstable magic, along with the arrow itself breaking apart, transformed into an unparalleled explosion that engulfed the entire apartment building and the surrounding roads.

……

Five hours later, at the sixth group's branch building.

Holding a small knife, he painstakingly pried out the pebbles embedded in his flesh, letting them fall to the ground, stained with blood and flesh. Li Cheng sat on a stool in the conference room with a gloomy face, circulating his demonic power to slowly heal his injuries.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the room, Rin Tohsaka placed her hands on the back of the shirtless Wuming, performing healing magic to heal his wounds.

tide was sleeping on the sofa at one end of the room, holding the fox plush pillow that Li Cheng had found in the ruins of the apartment. It was a miracle that the plush toy hadn't been destroyed in the explosion.

"Who exactly is that guy?"

After a moment of silence, Li Cheng finally raised his head, looked in Wuming's direction, and asked.

“I’m not familiar with that guy, but we had a few encounters when we were mercenaries,” Wuming said calmly without looking up. “That guy is very strong and has a deep background. I’ve tried to investigate him many times, but I’ve never been able to find out his true identity. However, when he’s out in public, he usually uses the identity of ‘Dr. Carter’.”

Dr. Carter?

Recalling the man's polite demeanor and certain characteristics in his speech, he did indeed bear some resemblance to the PhD student. However, surely no PhD student would actually send someone flying hundreds of meters?

With a click, Kiritsugu Emiya, carrying a stack of documents, pushed open the conference room door and entered.

"how is the situation?"

Li Cheng asked the question.

"A total of 23 people died and 37 were injured, with significant property damage. The majority of the deaths were caused by vehicles and pedestrians hit by the blast, as well as by the victims inside the apartment building."

He tossed the documents onto the table, pulled out a chair, and sat down while speaking.

“The dead in the apartment were all dead before the explosion,” Wuming said without looking up. “They used magic attacks with poison and curse attributes during their attack, and the people living in the apartment were already dead at that time.”

Are they really going to such lengths to stop at nothing?

Li Cheng felt deeply aggrieved, and his hand, resting on the conference table, sank slightly into the surface.

Three times in a row, each time they were hit in the face. The investigation failed to uncover the enemy's origins, and despite having a prisoner, they couldn't obtain any useful information. Each time they were forced into a defensive posture, this frustrating situation was infuriating.

We have to come up with a solution.

Li Cheng said in a low voice.

"Um, sorry I'm a little late. Has anything happened during this time?"

Just as the atmosphere inside the room was somber, someone walked in and said somewhat apologetically.

Touma Kamijou, a newcomer who had been temporarily absent from the Sixth Squad's operations due to some troublesome incidents recently, has finally resolved his personal issues and returned to the organization today.

Kiritsugu Emiya handed him the documents and briefly recounted the events that had occurred recently. The boy, who was initially somewhat bewildered, quickly became angry.

"How could they do something like this? We must stop them!"

“Of course we have to stop them, but the problem is we don’t know who they are or what intelligence we have,” Wu Ming sighed, rubbing his head with a headache. “Every time we encounter them, it’s an attack initiated by them. We can’t find their location at all.”

All previous intelligence methods have become ineffective, an unprecedented situation that has left everyone in an extremely passive position.

"But didn't we catch a criminal?" Touma Kamijou asked curiously. "Can't we get information from him?"

“That guy has a spell in his brain that prevents him from revealing any important information,” Rin Tohsaka interrupted Touma Kamijou without hesitation. “We only managed to find a way to barely bypass that restriction this morning, but we still couldn’t get any useful information. So this path, at least for now, is completely blocked, Rookie.”

In the end, Rin herself sighed. She had been busy for two days and two nights, but in the end, she had no solution, which made her feel extremely desperate.

However, to Rin's surprise, and to everyone else present as well, after hearing so much hopeless news, Touma Kamijou only paused slightly, then turned to Rin standing behind Wuming, and asked with a somewhat strange expression:

"Tohsaka-senpai, what you just said... was a technique, right?"

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Finally, I made it...

Section 163, Chapter 22: The Catalogue of Forbidden Books and Siblings

In the afternoon, the clock struck 2:10.

In the interrogation room of the sixth division, a little girl with waist-length silver hair was carefully observing the sorcerer who was bound to a chair.

"Can this child really do it?"

Standing outside the interrogation room, Li Cheng could see a window pane inside. He looked at Touma Kamijou standing beside him and asked, somewhat uncertainly.

“No problem,” Touma Kamijou nodded, without a doubt. “If it is indeed a spell, Index will definitely have a way to deal with it.”

Although everyone knew that Index's background was extraordinary—a girl with super memory who retained forbidden magic from the Freedom Alliance, a walking Index—these were all known to some extent through Kiritsugu Emiya's covert investigation. However, given the intricate formula on her head, the difficulty of observing it was unimaginable. Even Rin, a magician who could be called a genius, was still clueless after two days of continuous work. Li Cheng really didn't have much confidence in this girl who looked no more than 10 years old.

Kiritsugu Emiya stood in an adjacent spot, saying nothing, simply lighting a cigarette and quietly watching Index's actions inside the room.

Wuming is currently resting in another room due to his injury, and Rin Tohsaka, worried about his injury, went to take care of him.

Ryougi Shiki, as the leader of Squad Six, had to go to headquarters to report on the chaotic situation. Normally, this kind of wrangling with superiors would be handled by Kiritsugu Emiya, but since he needed to stay at the branch to oversee the interrogation of the prisoners, the task fell to Shiki. She left with a rather sharp dagger; it was unclear whether she would resort to violence if her superior talked too much.

Furthermore, the follower was also seriously injured. She was the first to directly confront the enemy during the attack on the apartment. According to Wuming, she was the first to rush out, simultaneously fighting the deformed monster and an enemy sniping from behind. Because of this, she was forced to retreat earlier, and her injuries were more severe than Wuming's. However, she left alone afterward, seemingly to receive treatment elsewhere, and did not return to the Sixth Group's branch.

After lunch, tide chose to take a nap. She lay on the sofa not far behind Li Cheng, hugging her slightly damaged fox pillow.

In short, at this moment, only three members of the group—Kiritsugu Emiya, Li Cheng, and Touma Kamijou—are still continuing their work. The others are not in the interrogation room for various reasons.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the silver-haired girl named Index circled the tightly bound man five or six times before finally stopping.

"Yes, I've already solved this spell."

Turning around, her long white headscarf and silver hair fluttered together as Indexe turned back with a smug expression and said loudly.

"You solved it? So fast?"

Li Cheng pushed open the door to the private room in utter shock and walked inside.

"It was indeed difficult to discern at first, since it was a procedure implanted in the brain. With bones and nerves insulated, it was difficult to see the details from the outside."

Index chuckled and tilted her head back with a smug look on her face.

"However, this spell is too easily recognizable. It is a variant of Coltcha's silencing spell, and a common variant of Sequence Sixteen, Type Three. Although it has been modified with Celtic runes and has an additional ring of hidden runes on the external spell to interfere with the external observation environment, the essence of the spell remains unchanged."

What... what is this child saying? It sounds so impressive and sophisticated, but why can't I understand a word of it?

After listening to the girl's string of words, Li Cheng's expression turned into a ⊙▽⊙ shape.

"Kamijou, what is this child saying?"

Turning around, Li Cheng whispered to Kamijou Touma beside him.

"Senpai, I don't know about this either," Kamijou Touma replied, looking equally bewildered. "But it sounds like it's been resolved."

“Touma, come here,” Index waved her hand, gesturing for Touma to walk up to the bound sorcerer. “Put your right hand on his head, yes, on his head.”

Kamijou Touma obediently reached out and placed his hand on the man's head. The next moment, a clear sound, like shattering glass, suddenly rang out in the room. The man, who had been sitting drowsily in the chair, suddenly howled loudly. The chains binding him were stretched taut, and there was a faint sign that they were about to break.

Startled by the sudden action, Touma Kamijou took two steps back, instinctively shielding Index beside him. Li Cheng stepped forward, ready to subdue the other party should anything go wrong.

The gaunt man roared several times in a heart-wrenching manner, swayed for a while, gasped for breath, and then collapsed onto the stool.

"Haha, hahaha, actually, actually... it really can be done, you guys are really something, hahaha, hahaha—."

Sweat poured down the man's face like a torrent. He gasped for breath for a long time before chuckling softly. The laughter grew louder and more unrestrained until he burst into loud laughter, laughing so hard he coughed uncontrollably. It was as if all the pressure he felt had completely vanished in that moment, leaving him ecstatic to the point of almost losing his mind.

"Alright, stop laughing," Li Cheng interrupted the man's laughter, stepped forward, and stood in front of him. "You should know what we want to know."

“No problem, not a problem at all,” the man looked up and smiled coldly. “Whatever you want to know, I will tell you everything.”

The hatred, almost solidified into a tangible force, burned fiercely in the man's eyes. Even Li Cheng, who had experienced many battles and seen all kinds of people, couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.

“I know where Carter is right now.”

Immediately after that, the man attracted everyone's attention with his very first words.

Without the slightest hesitation, the man told everyone about a hidden location in the city. According to him, there was a secret laboratory about two thousand meters below a building next to a bustling overpass highway system, where Carter stayed.

“Carter is an extremely arrogant man. He would never believe that the magic formula he modified has been broken, so he must still be there. Moreover, given his style, he definitely didn’t bring anyone with him except 04 and that hired assassin. That guy is like that.”

The man spoke through gritted teeth, his eyes brimming with resentment.

"You can do it, right? Kill that guy, you definitely can, right? Kill that bastard completely!"