Chapter 184: The Invisible Net

Descending from the fourth basement level of the Red Building into the courtyard, they found the armed police had completely surrounded the entire Red Building.

Yang Yi stood before the Red Building, gazing blankly at the distant hillside and sky, the layers of lingering waves from the events that had just occurred still echoing in her heart.

The wisp of consciousness attached to Lin Mu had been erased by her, yet his words were deeply carved into her mind, impossible to remove no matter what.

Countless thoughts surged within her:... Transformation... Abandoning self-consciousness... Becoming a chaotic god that draws life purely on instinct... Or perhaps part of the chaotic god itself? What state would that be? Could one truly achieve the so-called transcendence...

Free from all bonds, unswayed by external things, unmoved by external things, becoming a numb existence devoid of sensation or awareness... It didn't seem entirely unacceptable... Compared to true death—returning to nothingness—it seemed little different... If you can accept death, why not accept chaos?...

Suddenly, she let out a cold laugh, turned her head to look back at the silent, standing Red Building, and a faint, dark sarcasm curled her lips.

Moreover, he was right; observing Earth from the perspective of an alien consciousness belonging to a non-Earth species, humans were indeed no different from mold on a rotten apple, accidentally born on Earth, believing their existence held some meaning, when in reality it was nothing but arrogance and narcissism...

In fact, there was no meaning at all, merely living according to the instincts of life; even if they all died out, it wouldn't matter... After all, the universe would explode one day, at which point everything would be annihilated, so what difference did it make whether it happened sooner or later?... Moreover, humans were such an ugly, vicious, impulsive, and ignorant bunch...

She sneered inwardly, feeling utterly bored.

"Captain Yang, Colonel Sun Bin of the Armed Police Detachment of Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, reporting to you!" An officer of about thirty saluted her.

Yang Yi finally came to her senses, looking at the man before her with a trace of bewilderment.

Oh, it was the armed police; it seemed the higher-ups might have felt the public security system was entirely corrupted and had simply sent the military's armed police to take over here, she thought calmly.

"The Discipline Inspection Commission people have arrived too..."

Several black sedans sped in from the distance; several officials in black suits got out, showed documents to the armed police unit, and walked over quickly.

"Captain Yang, we rushed here the moment we heard the order..." a middle-aged official explained, wiping sweat.

"I heard this Red Building has existed for two to three years; your municipal Discipline Inspection Commission never heard of it?" Yang Yi cut him off, asking directly.

"This..." The middle-aged official sweated even more profusely, and his tension became visible to the naked eye; after stumbling over his words a few times, he suddenly gave a bitter smile: "My position is low and my voice is weak; my strength is insufficient..."

Colonel Sun Bin of the Armed Police Detachment watched the scene before him, eyes on his nose, nose on his heart, saying nothing.

Yang Yi remained expressionless, unknown what she was thinking.

A ringtone suddenly sounded, breaking the awkward silence; the Discipline Inspection Commission official, as if hearing a heavenly voice, hurriedly answered the phone.

"It's the leaders of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission; they are on their way and will arrive shortly!" The middle-aged official breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing Yang Yi's silence, his heart had been hanging in suspense until this moment, when it seemed to finally drop a heavy burden.

Yang Yi realized that the official before her feared her, possibly because of her superpowers, or possibly because of the power in her hands.

"Just do what needs to be done!" She casually tossed out the words, glanced back at the Red Building one last time, flashed her figure, a sonic boom rang out in the sky, and she vanished without a trace.

Ten-odd minutes later, she arrived at the United Nations Palace of Nations.

Andrew Wilder, the Secretary-General of the Palace of Nations, received her.

"So, Vered Davis's body is missing? The surveillance captured nothing?" Yang Yi asked expressionlessly.

Andrew Wilder's expression was equally puzzled. "Yes, inexplicably, his body disappeared overnight... We suspect other evil god cultists stole his body and are currently investigating!"

"Investigated for over a month? No results?" Yang Yi's tone was calm, yet anyone could hear the oppression in her voice, "And you didn't notify me?"

Andrew Wilder froze, as if just realizing, "They didn't notify you about this matter?" He puzzledly scratched his head and had the secretary summon Kevin Hu, the Director of Interpol.

Upon arriving at the office, Kevin Hu also wore a puzzled expression. "We have been pursuing this matter; as for whether we actually notified Ms. Yang... Secretary-General, did you really not notify Ms. Yang Yi?"

Looking at the two people with puzzled expressions, a sense of foreboding rose in Yang Yi's heart.

She immediately had the secretary summon the mental detection master from the Logistics Department of the United Nations Awakeners Alliance to perform mental detection on both of them on the spot.

The facts proved that their memories had indeed been altered by someone.

Andrew Wilder turned pale with shock, his face turning iron-green; thinking of more implications immediately, he swiftly issued an order requiring the entire bureau to undergo mental detection.

This detection revealed nothing less than finding more staff members whose memories had been altered.

The date of alteration was also confirmed to be the same day Vered Davis's body disappeared.

And that day happened to be the day she received the bestow the insignia ceremony from the Huaguo nation—the very day she was gazed upon by the evil god!

Why that day? What connection was there between the disappearance of Vered Davis's body and the evil god's gaze? Did Vered really die? If he didn't die, where is he now? What plan is he plotting?

And that inexplicably appearing evil god cultist, who exactly was he? What relation did he have to all this?

Countless questions crashed down like meteors falling from the sky, constantly striking her heart.

She vaguely felt a huge net slowly unfolding overhead, yet she could neither touch it nor see it.

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"Fire! Fire!"

"Don't look into its eyes! It can lose people's minds!"

"No! Help!"

In a secret laboratory in the Aka Country, an intense battle was taking place.

The laboratory director, Hugh Howard, was being protected by several laboratory guards as they retreated outward; not far behind them, a deformed monster followed closely.

The monster's appearance was indescribable; it looked like a mass of deformed creatures made by randomly throwing various mixed human body parts into a blender and spinning them a few times.

Human arms and legs were randomly inserted into its body; its surface fused with human faces, bellies, navels, or certain privacy parts not easily revealed; its whole body was covered in blue, black, gray, and brown eyeballs blinking at different frequencies.

And at this moment, this monster moved agilely on the ground using its arms and legs, closely following the people fleeing through the corridor.

"FXXK! What kind of monster have you actually bred!"

The guard captain, firing while shooting, screamed at Hugh Howard with a crumbling expression; he had just witnessed with his own eyes one of his subordinates being fused into the monster's body—those arms on its body still wearing the Black Water Ghost watch belonged to his closest friend.

"How would I know? When they handed me the DNA, they clearly said it was..." Hugh Howard suddenly clamped his mouth shut tightly, as if avoiding something.

"Quick! Leave here; the iron gate is ahead; as long as we retreat behind the steel gate, we will be safe!"

The guard captain extended a hand, and an electric net suddenly appeared between the monster and them; the monster seemed curious about this electric net and temporarily stopped its steps.

Taking advantage of this gap, Hugh Howard and the guards quickly retreated behind the gate.

"Lower the gate quickly! My electric net can't hold!"

The steel gate crashed down, cutting off the monster's figure.

"Great! We're saved!" One guard collapsed onto the ground, having just witnessed his colleagues being fused by the monster, he was already on the verge of collapse.

"But what about the people inside? They haven't come out yet!" another guard asked, bewildered.

No one answered him. The fate of those people was already self-evident.

"We must report this to the higher authorities immediately!" Matthew Howard hurried toward the office on the floor above—for secrecy, this laboratory was signal-isolated.

The guards followed him in a hasty departure.

Behind them, unseen, from the gap in the steel gate, flesh and blood slowly seeped out, countless flesh tendrils writhing madly as they drilled toward this side...