Chapter 178: 175. Human Traitors

175. Human Traitors

"Welcome to the Alliance Evening News. At 4:00 PM today, we received good news: the 'Eradication Operation' launched by the Xuanmi Group and other global Abnormal entity investigation and counter-organizations against the three major Abnormal criminal conglomerates has fully concluded as of this afternoon. The world's top-hundred group, once known by the people of Shenzhou as the Shenzhou Three-Legged Golden Toad, appeared glamorous on the surface but was engaged in illicit, treacherous activities behind the scenes. They committed numerous major, malicious Abnormal incidents in Shenzhou, undermining the rule of law and social stability, endangering human survival. Everyone has the right to punish them..."

"Let us congratulate the Investigator Organizations that made such great contributions to this operation, and thank them for their outstanding service to our human society..."

Boom!

A withered fist with growing nails punched through the television, causing the program's image to vanish amidst a flash of static and electrical sparks.

"The Master has been executed; the Master has left us..." a burly rat-man with a twisted human face turned around and whispered in grief and indignation to the crowd of bizarre-looking creatures. He clenched his fists, the long nails piercing into his flesh, yet he seemed unable to feel the pain.

They were all once part of the three major conglomerates. The so-called "Master" referred to those Abnormal races with advanced civilizations who actually controlled the three major conglomerates. Under the modification of their respective Masters, they had become existences similar to what they called "Master," yet they still retained some human characteristics.

After the Sky Demon invasion incident, once the Xuanmi Group found a large amount of evidence confirming the connection between the three major conglomerates and Abnormal creatures, Investigator Organizations worldwide mobilized like a massive tidal wave, quickly sweeping them all up.

The Abnormal races controlling the three major conglomerates also knew how to assess the situation. Although they possessed advanced civilizations beyond human imagination and naturally had ways to deal with humans, but... they knew better than the planet's original inhabitants how deep the waters of Earth ran.

Hidden within this azure planet were countless other-dimensional or extraterrestrial races, and powerful Alien Gods might even be slumbering all over the world. They had special agreements with the Abnormal races; they could only attack or counter-attack humans under the rules of these agreements. Once they exceeded these limits, the other Abnormal races would not stand for it.

Affecting the interests of other Abnormal races was only one reason; if they accidentally awakened some slumbering, powerful Alien God and caused a world-destroying catastrophe, that would be an existential disaster...

Thus, the Abnormal races behind the three major conglomerates temporarily hid, effectively dumping the mess onto the mutated, modified humans they had "promoted."

They were very obedient, and also more primitive and cruel than them.

The burly rat-man was a failed-transformation Huogu. He was very proud of his current "lineage" and felt deep hatred and resentment toward the humans who had persecuted the interests of "his kind."

"We cannot sit and wait for death; we must let the Master see the results we have created for them when they return!" a deformed freak with a long neck, a small head, and a body full of wrinkles expressed his opinion. He gritted his teeth, his skin folds trembling like a threatened frilled lizard.

"Yes, we must make those guys suffer enough!" a heart-shaped-faced freak shrieked.

"Defend the dignity of my Master!"

"Let my Master rule this world!"

A group of bizarre-looking madmen shouted insane slogans in the dark, damp underground, venting their twisted rhetoric that could not see the light of day in a dark, deserted place. A look of extreme fanaticism appeared on every freak's face.

After a long time, they finally calmed their agitated emotions.

"Hehehehe, everyone, look who I've caught?" A deformed person with a spiral-shaped body dragged a comatose man into the crowd. He smiled sinisterly at everyone. When the freaks saw the appearance of the unconscious man, a strange, eerie smile appeared on every one of their faces simultaneously.

"According to the latest response, the famous overseas folklore scholar and researcher at the Abnormal Race Civilization Research Institute, Dr. Kelake, is confirmed missing. His current whereabouts are unknown. After deploying a large number of Enforcers and Investigators to investigate the location where he was last seen, there is still no result..." Outside a barbecue stall in Fengxiang City where the news was playing, in the rainy night, several groups of Mysterious Investigators in dark green raincoats were walking through the water, gathering outside the stall.

"How is it? Did you find any clues?" Yu Lianyun looked at her gathered companions and asked the team leaders who were leading the search.

Several team leaders shook their heads with ugly expressions, lowering their eyes in shame.

As the Mysterious Investigators best at tracking and investigation at the Xuanmi Group headquarters, they hadn't even found a single clue regarding Dr. Kelake's disappearance. They felt they had failed their own skills and had no face to meet those who had placed high hopes in them.

Dr. Kelake was an Abnormal biological civilization research scholar from the overseas New York region. He was a great helper specially invited by the Xuanmi Group to assist them in researching local Abnormal creatures. At the same time, he was also an important figure in the New York region's Investigator Organization—the Abnormal Creature Foundation.

For such a big shot to disappear from Shenzhou soil less than four hours after getting off the plane was, by any measure, a major incident affecting the relationship between the two organizations.

Seeing that there was still no result, Yu Lianyun's expression remained as serious as before. She did not show any signs of anxiety, nor did she blame them for their incompetence. She just looked up at the torrential rain that had come at the wrong time and said, "It's not your fault. This heavy rain has washed away the few clues that existed. We must think of other ways to find Dr. Kelake's whereabouts."

"Damn it, it must be those remnants who did this!" a young Mysterious Investigator gritted his teeth and said indignantly.

Hearing this, the other Mysterious Investigators' expressions also turned gloomy. They could actually guess that the "people" who did this could only be the remnants of the three major conglomerates that their Investigator Organizations had recently been suppressing. Although it was announced that the operation had concluded, this did not mean that all the cohorts of the three major conglomerates had been captured or eliminated.

Like the Abnormal races that truly controlled the conglomerates, only a very few were caught, but most were transformed, modified humans with the appearance of these Abnormal races. They were what the secular world contemptuously called "human traitors"!

That bunch of lunatics, those human traitors, would only be more insane in their actions than those Abnormal races. Kidnapping Dr. Kelake was nothing; if they could accumulate a certain amount of power, who knew what other despicable and crazy things they might do.

Yu Lianyun did not comment on this statement, only saying: "Continue searching tonight until dawn."