Chapter 372

In the following time, Hao Ren was responsible for training the hundred Golden-Rank Beast Tamers as a team.

He mainly wanted to fuse these hundred Beast Tamers into a single unit.

Su Yang did not interfere in this.

Hao Ren was the expert.

Liu Mengyun was busy collecting and organizing the data of the hundred Beast Tamers.

This was primarily to better understand their combat styles and specialties.

Of course, during this time, Su Yang was also not idle.

After becoming captain of the Fourteenth Emergency Team, his authority was greatly increased. Many classified files stored by the Southwest Military Department were now open to him.

On Ma Wenhong's advice, Su Yang spent half a month in the Emergency Corps' document archive office.

He gained a fairly intuitive understanding of the regional layout of the southwest.

Perhaps infighting is human nature.

Even in this perilous world, humans are not a unified bloc.

Although the Southwest Military Department held absolute superiority, some forces still lurked in the shadows, stirring up trouble.

The Emergency Corps not only needed to support major base cities and exterminate ferocious beasts during crises.

They also needed to deal with those hidden factions pulling covert strings.

From the perspective of the entire Huaxia Federation, the situation in the southwest was still relatively good.

At least it could barely maintain stability.

No other factions had dared to directly oppose the Southwest Military Department!

But in other regions, it was not quite like this.

For example, the Treasure Pavilion's southwest headquarters had been blasted three times by Su Yang, yet they still gritted their teeth and surrendered.

But in the southeast, the Treasure Pavilion's birthplace, they used their abundant resources to recruit countless Beast Tamers and now possessed power that made the Southeast Military Department wary!

In the northwest, the Shoushen Sect Sect was extremely rampant; most civilians in many northwest base cities had become believers of the Beast God.

This left the Northwest Military Department in a very passive position!

Recently, the previously stable southwest began to show a large number of destabilizing factors.

Some of these secrets were even related to Su Yang.

For instance, the Treasure Pavilion headquarters had recently sent two King-Rank Beast Tamers to the southwest.

The Southwest Military Department had just severely punished the Treasure Pavilion, and now they sent two King-Rank Beast Tamers—this clearly carried another meaning.

Also, traces of Shoushen Sect Sect followers had recently reappeared in the southwest.

Clearly, the failure of the previous plan had not stopped the Shoushen Sect Sect's ambition to infiltrate the southwest and spread its faith!

Also, the Black Feather Organization, long active in the north, had appeared in the southwest.

The Shalang Gang's technique for breeding Azure Jade Butterflies originated from the Black Feather Organization.

In the southwest, the banned organization Tianxing Society showed signs of reviving.

In the southwest direction, Tianzhu was also causing trouble; the Southwest Military Department had recently detected unusual activity there as well…

From the Southwest Military Department's perspective, the people there were no different from the Shoushen Sect Sect—only slightly less harmful, but still targets for suppression!

Added to this were occasional terrifying Beast Surges and awakened dormant ferocious beasts, placing great pressure on the Southwest Military Department.

This was the main reason Wucheng launched this large-scale recruitment of new Emergency Corps members and established the Fourteenth Team.

After reading these classified intelligence reports, Su Yang felt a heavy weight in his chest.

The Fourteenth Emergency Team, fully staffed with a hundred Golden-Rank Beast Tamers, was a powerful force ready for immediate deployment.

Among them, forty were experienced veterans from the original Emergency Corps.

The remaining sixty mostly had prior service in their respective base cities, having fought ferocious beasts for years.

A small number of Golden-Rank Beast Tamers had never served, but all possessed considerable combat experience.

The Southwest Military Department recruited large numbers of new members for the Emergency Corps and even established the Fourteenth Emergency Team—not for show.

After about half a month of training, the Emergency Corps began gradually assigning simple missions to the Fourteenth Emergency Team.

These small missions carried low risk and leaned toward investigation and support, often requiring only a few Beast Tamers to complete.

It was likely the high command considered the Fourteenth Emergency Team a newly formed unit.

Su Yang left all these matters to Liu Mengyun and Hao Ren to arrange.

The more he understood the situation in the entire southwest and the entire Huaxia Federation, the more he felt his own strength was insufficient.

Just as Su Yang was planning to find an excuse to slip away and strengthen himself, Liu Mengyun knocked on his office door.

"Major, you need to personally review this mission!"

"You handle it."

Liu Mengyun stressed, "This mission was personally signed off by Commander Yao—he wants you to go in person!"

"Let me see it."

Hearing Liu Mengyun's words, Su Yang became serious.

Opening the file, he skimmed through it at a glance—his expression darkened.

The matter involved the Black Feather Organization.

After the Shalang Gang's boss was interrogated, he confessed that the Azure Jade Butterfly breeding technique came from the Black Feather Organization.

This immediately drew great attention from the Southwest Military Department.

The Southwest Military Department immediately ordered all city governors to closely monitor the Black Feather Organization's movements and pay attention to the rate of missing persons within their cities.

They indeed discovered traces of the Black Feather Organization.

Three peripheral organizations of the Black Feather Organization in the entire southwest were dismantled, and seven of its members were killed.

But the Black Feather Organization's hidden forces in the southwest are not limited to this.

It has now been confirmed that in all over two hundred cities across the southwest, the age distribution of missing persons in five cities closely matches the age distribution required for the three stages of human hosts needed to cultivate the Azure Jade Butterfly!

Generally, children aged five or six disappear the most.

Next are young girls.

Yet in these five cities, the number of boys aged thirteen to fifteen and young men aged twenty to twenty-six who have gone missing has risen significantly in recent years, and their numbers remain roughly equal!

The Southwest Military Department suspects that members of the Black Feather Organization are hiding within these five cities.

Yao Xing wants Su Yang to personally lead a team to Anlong City!

Logically, even if there is suspicion that members of the Black Feather Organization are hiding in these five cities, there is no need to send an emergency squad there.