I am Jinshan Youxia

Zhang Chengyi used his mind-reading ability to fill in the other person's inner thoughts. After the door closed again, he snapped his fingers—a meaningless but stylish gesture—to dispel the immobilization effect.

Tooth regained its mobility and did not pounce on him as before. It slowly stood up and moved its muscles and joints, which were a little sore from not moving for a long time.

He achieved symbiosis with the Blood Jade Tree, becoming an immortal being, but his body was still not much stronger than that of an ordinary human.

"What do you want in return for letting me go?" He adopted a very humble posture.

The other party was an anomaly whose neck was made of mold, clearly far more powerful than him. He might even be a senior figure on this path. By trespassing on their territory, he had indeed crossed the line and deserved the utmost respect.

"Tell me what you've done with the Blood Jade Tree before."

Zhang Chengyi immediately noticed the change in Ya's mindset. As soon as he finished asking his question, Ya's heart had already given the answer.

Wandering from place to place, avoiding direct confrontation with human regimes that could lead to capture, using humans to create blood fields, escaping before attracting attention...

Mind-reading is just too useful.

No wonder Keiichi Matsui was the member who recruited the most new members in the church for two consecutive weeks, and became one of the four leaders in less than a month.

Chapter 323 Appointment of the First Director of the Bureau of Investigation

After half an hour.

Zhang Chengyi walked out of the isolation room, leaving behind a head full of questions.

This thing is pitifully weak in some ways. Compared to the extraordinary bacteria that possess all sorts of magical abilities, the Blood Jade Tree doesn't offer many positive effects. And like other out-of-control rules, it can distort people's minds, turning them into madmen and perverts.

However, once in the opponent's territory, there is almost no way to resist.

For example, if a tooth bites someone, even if Zhang Chengyi temporarily turns himself into a metal man using the bacteria that control metal, the Blood Jade Tree can still easily bite through him and inject uncontrolled rules after determining that he is in human form. If there is a wound, the tooth will lick it and plant the Blood Jade Tree in it.

No matter how strong one's abilities are, they cannot prevent the Blood Jade Tree's rules from taking root when bitten or having wounds licked, ultimately forcing one to choose between two painful paths.

Within the rules, it is absolute.

Outside of the rules, his teeth aren't much better than an average person's.

The new regulations stipulate that direct physical contact is not permitted when containing people or objects associated with supernatural beings; in other words, the team tasked with containing supernatural beings must include a user with telekinetic abilities.

While Zhang Chengyi's body was thinking, his second body, which had rushed back, recorded it upstairs.

"Your Highness." After stepping out of the isolation room, Goro Furuhata, fully armed and still with preservative bacteria in his body, stepped forward and said respectfully, "The government and the US military have blocked the roads to N City."

The town of Moshan did not descend into chaos due to the large-scale arrests. After all, it was the stronghold of the Lord of the Bacteria, and as long as he was there, it would be difficult for things to go wrong. However, much of the work came to a standstill.

The church has a habit of gathering for meetings when they have nothing to do, which has led to a large number of indirect contacts. The isolation layer is not enough, and they are expanding to a second and third layer. The preparations for moving to N City are almost complete, but the people who are going to move there are currently staying in the isolation layer.

With all sorts of miscellaneous matters, coupled with the appearance of the humanoid Ya who had gone out of control, the original plan simply couldn't keep up with the changes. The entire Demon Mountain Town and several nearby church villages are now silent, awaiting the judgment of the Lord of the Bacteria.

"Have all other unrelated people move to N City first."

Zhang Chengyi issued the order, "Ignore the government and the US military, let Matsui, um, let the church negotiate with them." Modern armies would have almost no ability to resist hordes of superhumans living in symbiosis with supernatural bacteria.

The leaders of the church are mostly people who are good at mind control and interference; otherwise, they wouldn't be able to recruit so many new people. They are the most useful for dealing with ordinary humans without wanting to shed blood.

Since Demon Mountain Town has basically ceased operations, why not just move someone to N City to scout out the location in advance? There are many quarantined contacts anyway, so he can just go with them.

"Yes," Goro Furuhata replied.

"Oh, right." Zhang Chengyi gestured to Furuhata Goro to remember what he was about to say, "Go find a way to buy an island and build a base to contain aliens. You can choose any manpower you need. Go, and be as fast as possible."

"Yes," Goro Furuhata replied again, then turned and left.

Zhang Chengyi walked to the 002 isolation room where Matsui Keiichi was being held. After opening the door, a respectful "Your Highness" rang out.

"How are you feeling? Is there anything unusual?" he asked.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness." Matsui Keiichi gave a handsome smile. "So far, we have not found anything unusual."

For the first time, Zhang Chengyi asked seriously, "Last time, I remember you said that if possible, you could take control of the Investigation Bureau immediately?"

"Your Highness has come to a realization?" Matsui Keiichi was overjoyed and immediately became enthusiastic: "Humanity can only have any hope of survival if they all revolve around Your Highness."

"Leave it to me. In a month at most, I can make the Prime Minister kneel at your feet and lick your shoes."

This guy is a dangerous individual through and through. During our first meeting, besides kneeling down in front of me in a frenzy, he did more than anything else, offering one crazy opportunity after another.

What kind of forced brainwashing is this, forcing everyone to join the church, controlling all of humanity, and establishing a biological dictatorship...?

"No, you're going a bit too far."

Zhang Chengyi didn't think this was a good thing. Controlling all of humanity would only provoke a lot of resistance. Human regimes couldn't ignore aliens. Forcing humanity to side with other aliens would only lead to the premature destruction of the Earth.

He immediately rejected the other party's outrageous idea, saying, "Investigation Bureau, I want you to establish an Investigation Bureau belonging to the microbiome after you leave, and bring back as much information as possible about the aliens from the Public Security Investigation Bureau, observe, screen, contain, and control them one by one."

"If you can't solve it, contact me immediately."

“As you wish,” Matsui Keiichi said gladly. He was an extreme conservative in the church, the kind who thought radicals were too conservative.

I genuinely believe that Earth will inevitably belong to the microbiome, sooner or later, there's no rush at all.

The key point is that at least a third of the people in Moshan Town share similar thoughts with him.

Zhang Chengyi felt that there was definitely something wrong with the people under his command, but he had no choice but to use them, especially Matsui Keiichi, who was a veteran of the Investigation Bureau. Before joining the church, he had a record of investigating anomalies and had even escaped from the City Without Streets unscathed. He was definitely a talent for intelligence gathering.

He specifically emphasized: "Avoid using your abilities to interfere with ordinary humans whenever possible, unless it involves other species."

"Avoid engaging in conflict with the government as much as possible."

"If a conflict occurs, try to avoid bloodshed."

His words are absolute to those who coexist with the extraordinary microbiome. If he says something like "you can't use your abilities on ordinary humans," they will never use their abilities, even until they die.

Therefore, his words are all in the form of 'as much as possible' or 'try to the best of his ability'.

"I understand," Matsui Keiichi said with his usual gentle smile.

I don't know if I really understand the boundaries.

Zhang Chengyi sighed. Matsui Keiichi had a criminal record. Many members of the church were victims of bullying, such as overworked employees, students bullied at school, and isolated housewives. Under the influence of this guy's words and actions, they happily joined in.

Even though he was forbidden from directly influencing other people's minds to recruit them into the church, and even if he had a better solution for those who were being bullied, he would only stand by and watch, and when the time was right, he would step forward and use the simplest words to entice them into the church.

They are people who are naturally incapable of solving problems in a gentler way; they are extremely adept at using all sorts of underhanded tactics and will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

If it weren't for the Bureau of Investigation's mission to combat aliens, they would really need such a suspicious and gloomy person.

Zhang Chengyi really didn't want to release him and cause trouble for both sides with the government.

"Please rest assured." Although Matsui Keiichi couldn't read the Lord of the Bacteria's thoughts, he could still discern the other's worry from their actions and tone, and said firmly:

"I will definitely resolve this using the gentlest means possible."

hope so.

Chapter 324 Mushroom Creators

A few hours later, in the middle of the Demon Mountain Highway, behind the road closure signs, was a temporary outpost that had been hastily built.

"Lu Mu, why do you think the authorities would close off a section of road where there are no vehicles at all?"

A policeman in a hazmat suit on the outpost was looking at the flat road in the distance through binoculars, talking casually.

They've been here for three days, but they haven't seen a single vehicle or person. It's as if everyone in the infectious disease area they're supposed to be sealing off has died.

Are they all really dead?

The police officer felt goosebumps.

The policeman next to him, called Lü Mu, yawned and said, "Who cares? With such a high subsidy every day, I'll be able to pay off my debts in a while."

The bursting of the real estate bubble left many victims, and he was one of them.

The policeman glanced at his lazy colleague, shook his head, and was about to put down his binoculars when he suddenly noticed, out of the corner of his eye, what appeared to be a blurry human figure in the sky.

He blinked, raised his binoculars and looked over, and hey, there really was a figure.

"Lu Mu, look, isn't there someone flying in the sky?" he quickly interrupted his colleague, speaking loudly.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Did you drink last night? How could anything be in the sky—"

Lu Mu's hangover still lingered, making him look around sleepily. Even with his naked eye, he could see people flying in the sky rapidly approaching, and his words abruptly stopped.

He swallowed nervously. "Do you remember when we were recruited for training, we were told to shoot and kill anyone who seemed suspicious?"

He had barely finished speaking when he saw his colleague raise his gun, and a mechanical hissing sound came through his earpiece:

"shot!"

"Kill him!"

"Kill them!"

Even through the sounds coming from the computer, they could sense just how anxious the people above were.

They were eager for them to shoot and kill someone, to kill a flying person.

Lu Mu instinctively pressed down on his colleague. He didn't know why someone had to be killed, but he instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

"What are you doing!" a voice blared through the earpiece. "Shoot now!"

There are no security cameras? But why...?

Lu Mu's thoughts suddenly stopped, and he and his colleague landed softly on the ground.

He did not see himself and his colleague fly into the sky while unconscious and land to the side.

Immediately afterwards, a well-organized convoy slowly drove over from a distance. Dozens of people flying around the convoy accelerated forward. One of them opened his palm, and the temporary outpost that had taken a lot of time to set up was picked up out of thin air by the invisible palm, crumpled into a ball, and thrown onto the open ground next to him with a roar.

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Demon Mountain Town, Laboratory.

"Pop~" The giant mushroom, shaped by the power of the microbial community, grew humanoid features and said respectfully:

"Your Highness, we have successfully arrived in N City."

“No matter how many times I look at it, I still feel that this invention is a bit too weird.” Zhang Chengyi stood opposite, rubbing a very elastic mushroom in his hand, and said, “It’s not enough to just transmit sound, why make a human face? It’s going to cause the big butt effect.”

Furuhata Toshiyuki, standing nearby, whispered a reminder: "Your Highness, you said the day before yesterday that it's a bit scary if the messenger mushroom speaks without warning..."

Oh, that's okay.

Zhang Chengyi recalled the scene: he was enthusiastically picking mushrooms when he was startled by a mushroom that suddenly made a sound. After making a few casual complaints, the Messenger Mushroom was redesigned.