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

The sounds coming from her belly clearly reminded Ilya what was most important right now.

"Waaah, I'm so hungry, where can I find something to eat..."

The surroundings were completely unfamiliar, and she couldn't even understand the writing on the furniture. Ilya guessed that she might have been captured and taken abroad, which greatly troubled her.

"Well, no matter what, we can't stay here any longer. Big guy, I'm leaving. Um, are you coming with me, or are you staying here?"

The monster didn't answer, but when Ilya found the gate to the junkyard and prepared to leave, it silently stood up and slowly followed behind her. Its footsteps were unusually powerful, each step making a dull thud that even cracked the concrete road.

"Ugh, I have a feeling that if others see Big Guy, it will cause panic. But hey, Big Guy is so kind. Even if people are afraid of him for a while, he will eventually be understood and accepted by everyone. Yes, he definitely will."

The girl spoke with absolute certainty, but suddenly heard the giant's footsteps quicken. With a roar, the giant suddenly lunged forward, shielding Ilya with his body. Before Ilya could react, a fierce burst of fire erupted from the giant's back, the intense heat instantly melting large swaths of the surrounding ground.

Someone is launching an attack here.

Amidst the roar of armed helicopters, many soldiers wearing exoskeletons surrounded them from all directions, facing the enormous monster that was tightly protecting a young girl in its arms.

"Roar--"

Amidst a ferocious roar, the giant's eyes flashed with murderous intent as he looked at the surrounding soldiers.

……

"Without a doubt, it is the destructive power that only a top-tier martial artist could cause."

On a piece of land that had been completely destroyed, Li Cheng squatted down and observed the huge footprint in front of him that had shattered the ground within a radius of ten meters. He cautiously stated his conclusion.

On a piece of land that had been completely destroyed, Li Cheng squatted down and observed the huge footprint in front of him that had shattered the ground within a radius of ten meters. He cautiously stated his conclusion.

Not far from this desolate land was a junkyard of discarded furniture, or rather, a remnant of a junkyard. In the great battle that Li Cheng did not witness, this junkyard was devastated and bombarded, leaving only a few remaining fragments of trash.

Judging from the few remaining corpses, this was likely an attack launched by a group of soldiers with various weapons support against a giant monster. However, a miscalculation of the relative strengths of both sides led to the prey and hunter ultimately switching places. Only the gruesome remains of the soldiers were left at the scene; there was no trace of blood from the giant monster or any fragments of flesh splattered from its attacks.

The police arrived much faster than Li Cheng had expected. After they began to cordon off the scene and conduct various investigations, he had to leave first and slipped back into Logan's dilapidated house through a gap.

Logan, having failed to avenge himself, drank heavily and soon lay drunkenly on a sofa in the next cabin. Shi stood motionless in the room next to him, staring at the sky outside the window. Zi... now it should be Xi, was hiding in a corner studying a Rubik's Cube. When she saw Li Cheng return, she happily rushed over.

"Team leader, have you found anything?"

Li Cheng caught Shio as she lunged at him, then looked up at Ryougi Shiki standing not far away. Shiki gently shook her head, causing Li Cheng's expression to darken slightly.

The plan to rescue Illya completely failed; all three meeting locations were fake. Finally, they found the real meeting place, only to discover Stryker had been shot dead, causing the trail to break. Meanwhile, Nameless, who was supposed to provide remote support, suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Under these circumstances, Li Cheng and Ryougi Shiki had no choice but to split up: one continued to track Ilya's location, while the other went to search for Wuming's whereabouts.

"There was absolutely no trace of him; we really have no idea where he went."

"Tsk, so we have no choice but to continue tracking them separately?"

Logan showed little interest in what Li Cheng and the others were going to do next, and he really had no reason to continue getting involved. Now that there were only two people left available, they had no choice but to split up.

"That hacker kid found some coordinates in the cracked [Ability User Modification Project] yesterday. It points to a military base that has now been abandoned. I will go there to explore. I'll ask you, team leader, to help me search for Wuming's whereabouts."

After a brief exchange of information, Li Cheng put forward his ideas.

"Row."

Shi answered simply as always, then left the house. Li Cheng looked at the sky, which was gradually darkening again, and his mood couldn't help but become a little depressed.

Iron Peak, Ilya, Men in Black, Freedom Alliance Military, Happy Sky...

At least three forces are intertwined in this land, and among the people Li Cheng knows, two have already become entangled in the conflict between these three forces, one of whom is even just a child of about 10 years old.

Perhaps this time, things won't end as peacefully as they have in the past.

I hope everyone is alright.

"Cheng, what are you worried about?"

Noticing the change in Li Cheng's mood, tide raised her head and looked at him with some worry.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm fine."

Gently stroking tide's head, Li Cheng gave her a few instructions, such as "Don't run around" and "Wait for me to come back," to which tide nodded earnestly. After explaining what he wanted to say, Li Cheng patted Xi's head again and then walked outside.

Actually, Li Cheng wasn't particularly worried about Xi. After all, Zi's consciousness seemed to be able to switch at any time, and there weren't many people who could threaten her. However, out of caution, Li Cheng still needed to tell her some things. In short, after saying a lot of things, Li Cheng went out of the house and was somewhat surprised to find Logan, who had been sleeping soundly drunk, waiting for him outside with a cigar in his mouth.

“You’re much slower than I expected, Lee.”

Logan said to Li Cheng with some impatience.

"I thought you weren't planning to get involved in this anymore."

Li Cheng smiled and looked at Logan with a hint of curiosity.

“…I remember that abandoned military base you’re going to,” Logan said after a moment’s hesitation. “Although it’s just a vague sense of déjà vu, I did feel a sense of familiarity when you mentioned the name of that place.”

"Although I'm very upset that someone else beat me to the kill, I don't intend to just give up like this. I still have my memories to recover, and I don't intend to continue living a muddled life like this."

"So, the cooperation continues?" Li Cheng asked.

“Let’s continue the collaboration,” Logan spat out the half-smoked cigar and grasped Li Cheng’s outstretched right hand. “I’d like to see what those bastards have done to me.”

…………

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Chapter 11, Section 369: Exploration and Reencounter

In the pitch-black environment, a flashlight suddenly appeared.

Li Cheng held a high-powered flashlight in one hand and brushed aside the spider webs on the side of the passage with the other, slowly walking through the dilapidated, dark passage.

Logan, holding another flashlight, was also exploring the pitch-black place.

Using the address obtained from the deciphered intelligence, Li Cheng and Logan found an abandoned base hidden in a mountain range. Using a gap to pass through a completely sealed and collapsed entrance, the two entered the abandoned base, which had been without any light for years.

"Looks like you caused quite a stir here back then."

Li Cheng pointed to a wall not far in front of him, where there were three claw marks in a row, deeply engraved into the wall, clearly left by Logan.

"Hmm, it seems like it really was me."

Logan stretched out a claw, and the three sharp claws were just right to match the three claw marks.

"Unfortunately, I don't remember anything anymore."

Logan pursed his lips, retracted his claws, and sighed with some regret.

"That's why we came here, to see if we can find any valuable clues."

Li Cheng smiled and prepared to continue exploring deeper into the abandoned base.

"...You said you came here to find your former teammates, right?"

At this moment, Logan seemed to have thought for a moment, then suddenly asked Li Cheng a question.

"That's right, but I still don't have a clue."

Although many clues have been found regarding the so-called superhuman modification plan mentioned by Tie Feng, and the Holy Grail Project has partially emerged after Ilya's capture, the only clue concerning Tie Feng's whereabouts has remained completely unsolved.

There was no information about Tie Feng in the military base's records, and Logan had never seen Tie Feng. He had tried other channels as well, but it was as if this person had really vanished from the face of the earth, leaving no trace.

And now the missing persons list has to be expanded to include three more: Shirou has run away to New York and disappeared without a trace, Nameless, who was supposed to be his supporter, has vanished, and Illya has been captured by an unknown enemy. With three of his own children missing, Li Cheng could hardly imagine the pressure Kiritsugu Emiya was under.

"Ha, there's no point in rushing things like this," Li Cheng finally managed a couple of forced laughs and stopped thinking about the problem. "Anyway, let's take a good look and see what secrets this place holds."

Even though his three children had disappeared one after another, Kiritsugu Emiya remained in Tokyo and did not leave. Just how tense was the situation in Japan? Li Cheng couldn't help but worry.

"Hey, look here."

Logan's voice rang out from afar.

What did he discover?

Li Cheng paused his thoughts, strode forward, and quickly passed through a narrow corridor, arriving at a spacious hall.

With the help of the flashlight, the hall, already covered in dust and cobwebs, stretched out before Li Cheng's eyes.

"How could this be...?"

Looking at the scene in the hall, Li Cheng couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Ah, that's right, it must have been me, right? Although I don't remember anything about it."

In this hall, which was clearly a laboratory, there were extremely serious signs of vandalism everywhere.

The sunken and cracked ground, the walls torn apart by countless claws, and the various objects twisted and broken beyond recognition clearly indicate that a massive battle took place here at some point in the past.

"However, I still have some questions."

Gently stroking a metal vessel that had been almost completely torn apart by claws, Logan spoke cautiously.

"No matter what I did in the past, I am just a level A ability user. There is no reason to abandon the entire military base because of my attack."

To abandon a military base built at great expense simply because of an attack by an A-level ability user is something no person of normal intelligence would do. Logan was well aware of his own limitations; he knew that with his abilities, he had no chance of threatening the Free Alliance military's plans and decisions.

In other words, was this place abandoned for some other reason?

“That makes a lot of sense, and I have indeed found something else.”

Li Cheng's voice came from a passageway on one side of the hall. Logan followed the sound and found Li Cheng standing in front of a completely sealed wall.

"It is at least three meters thick, and has an added protective layer, and possibly a magic seal."

Li Cheng knocked on the wall and turned to Logan.

"This level of defense is probably not meant to protect you, is it?"

"What, you're planning to open it and take a look?"

Logan walked up to the wall, extended his claws, seemingly to see if he could dig it open.

"We're going to open it, but we don't need to use such a clumsy method as 'digging'."

Li Cheng smiled and gestured for Logan to take two steps back. The next moment, one of his eyes turned purple, and a purple halo appeared on his hand.

The Boundaries of Construction and Destruction!

Under the bombardment of a purple light, the seemingly indestructible, thick wall suddenly began to crack extensively, crumbling into pieces with a series of snapping sounds. Immediately afterward, Li Cheng frowned; from behind the shattered wall, a familiar yet extremely ominous aura emanated.

"Logan, watch out!"