The permanent secretary is a very capable person, his efficiency is extremely high, and before a quarter of an hour is up, he returned to Wen Xiuzhi's office: "Minister Wen, the information of the two Japanese police officers you just wanted to check ......"

"How's it going? Did you find them?"

"Minister Moon, we have already contacted the Japanese embassy and found these two Japanese policemen - Nakamura Yaya and Kirishima Ken - they said that there are indeed these two policemen, and they are indeed Lieutenant Colonel Xu who went to the airport to pick us up, and that Kirishima Ken Police Department is still in charge of liaising with our Lieutenant Colonel Xu. ”

The secretary found out the information so quickly, Wen Xiuzhi was still very satisfied, and he asked, "So, their contact information, is it coming?"

At this time, the permanent secretary's expression became strange: "This, Director Wen, has confirmed that these two police officers have died in the monster attack in the Ginza district of Tokyo-Director Wen, do you still need their contact information before their death?"

Wen Xiu was stunned for a moment, and then his heart was on fire, and he muttered in a low voice: "There is no proof of death, and there is no proof of death! This kid is too scoundrel!"

At this time, Wen Xiuzhi was really a little angry: for such a major matter, he was so anxious that he was frowning, Xu Yan still prevaricated himself like this, and pushed everything on the heads of the two dead people, so that he couldn't investigate it at all, this kind of practice is too scoundrel!

Xu Yan, this guy, he doesn't know how many secrets he hides in his stomach, every time he is forced to squeeze toothpaste and reveal a small point, every time he pretends to be crazy and stupid - "I really want to catch this guy back and take the belt and pump it hard!" Wen Xiuzhi thought hatefully.

But Wen Xiuzhi can only think about it like this - although he knows that Xu Yan has a lot of secrets to hide from him, he is still his friend after all. is the benefactor of the Wen family, even if he just did the evil thing of killing people and setting fires. I have to protect him myself-not to mention, when Xu Yan comes into contact with him. More or less, I will also reveal some information about this to myself. If you really turn your face with him, it will be troublesome, and you won't be able to get any news in the future.

Since its establishment by order of the central authorities, the Task Force for the Investigation of the Virus has always had authoritative experts from various disciplines, including biology, zoology, pathology, clinical medicine, bacteriovirology, and psychology, to provide technical assistance to the task force.

For this rare and sudden disease that is extremely harmful to society, the top experts in China have also conducted in-depth research, put forward various ideas, and explained this case from various aspects, and have written dozens of papers for this purpose - at the beginning. Wen Xiuzhi still carefully read the previous text word by word, but later, he simply flipped through the pages one by one, or omitted the previous arguments, and went straight to the final conclusion.

Wen Xiuzhi felt that although those experts had all kinds of prestigious titles and very intimidating resumes, their papers were also very flowery and long-winded, and they were piled up with advanced English terms, nouns and data. It also cites the latest research results of various foreign experts, and it looks very similar to that.

But somehow, looking at the papers of these authoritative experts, Wen Xiuzhi just felt that something was wrong - he was in frequent contact with F virus mania patients on the front line. It doesn't seem like it's what the experts say – mental mutations, rapid and uncontrolled renal hormone overproduction, special madness, xenogeneic rabies virus infection – the theories put forward by scientists seem to be the truth, but they can't explain the current situation.

Compared with. However, Xu Yan's statement that "otherworldly creatures invade and possess humans" seems absurd and shocking. But when you think about it, this theory can explain the whole thing systematically. It can also be justified.

Especially later, there was a monster incident in Japan, which faintly confirmed Xu Yan's statement - an unknown giant creature suddenly appeared on Earth without warning, and there really seemed to be no other reasonable explanation except that it was an invader from another dimensional plane according to Xu Yan.

Therefore, as Xu Yan's prophecy was gradually confirmed step by step, Wen Xiuzhi didn't say it, but in his heart, the importance of Xu Yan increased.

In the past, Xu Yan was just a master with some special skills and skills, and he could deal with F-virus mania, but now, as Xu Yan's prediction was gradually confirmed, Wen Xiuzhi paid more attention to him - it was obvious that this young man knew much more than he said, and he was the only key to solving those unsolvable mysteries.

"Xu Yan, what secrets is he hiding?" Looking at the report on the table, Wen Xiuzhi muttered to himself: "How can I get his secret out?"

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At this time, Xu Yan didn't expect that the words he made up casually in order to fool Wen Xiuzhi were taken seriously by Wen Xiuzhi. At this time, Xu Yan did not have the pride and sense of mission to promote the historical process at all, and he was reading a book seriously at home.

What Xu Yan was looking at was a book left by Zhu Youxiang in the storage bracelet, called "Ding Younian Lanxi Demon Chronicle" and its appendix, on which many cases of human encounters with various monsters were recorded.

In fact, Xu Yan had also read this "Chronicle of the Lanxi Imperial Demon in Ding Younian" before, but at that time, he regarded this book as a mythical story like "Journey to the West", and he regarded it as a pleasure. But now, Xu Yan has to be serious - before, when he read the book about humans fighting monsters, Xu Yan watched it lively, but now, the person who wants to fight those monsters has replaced himself, which is related to his own life, and he can't be serious!

Xu Yan especially noticed a story in the book: in the spring of Ding Younian, Zhang Qingru served as the county magistrate in Lanxi County in western Zhejiang. Since the beginning of March, there have been murders and disappearances in the city, several civilians have been killed, their bodies have been tragically destroyed, and more than a dozen people are missing, but the murderer is nowhere to be found. This incident caused panic among the people in the city, and it was reported to the county office, and Zhang Qingru personally led people to investigate the case.

Look at the story. Xu Yan felt very interested - the process of the monster hurting people described in this article, someone was killed. Someone is missing, and the killer has not been heard from. This is very similar to the murder case in Shudu University, and it is likely to be a crime done by the same kind of monster.

Xu Yan hurriedly read this text: Next, Zhang Xianling investigated and judged that this was a monster called "Earth Worm" after investigation, based on the knowledge he had learned in Bailu Academy. So, according to the knowledge he learned from Bailu Academy, Zhang Xianling designed to lead out the ground worm, and with the assistance of the county guards and the catcher, Zhang Qingru successfully killed the monster. His body was tied to the cart and paraded on the street to show the public, which caused all the people to cheer "Zhang Qingtian"!

After reading this story, Xu Yan's eyes widened, and he was about to cry: "Senior Brother Zhang, Senior Brother Zhang, you are too cheating, aren't you? Look at you, the rest of the content is so detailed and complete, why is this monster so stingy with pen and ink? What kind of monster is this 'earth worm'? What kind of attack does it have, and how does it hunt and kill humans." What are some weaknesses, why don't you mention half a word!

And, when it comes to dealing with the ground worms, you can simply say, 'I've designed to draw them out.'" Then the armies gathered round about their torches, and the light was as bright as day. This demon has no way to retreat, so I sacrifice a flying sword to cut it. —Senior Brother Zhang. How did you "design" it to lure it out, and how did you arrange for the soldiers and horses to surround the monster? In the end, how did you cut it with a flying sword - your sister, you will die if you write two more sentences?

While scolding his predecessors for being too cheating father, Xu Yan quickly read the entire "Chronicle of the Lanxi Demon Emperor in Ding Younian", but in the entire text, he could no longer find a second description of the monster "Earth Worm".

Closing the page, Xu Yanxin was full of disappointment. He walked to the window, and outside the window, the afterglow of dusk was already shining on the walls of the room, a golden patch. Outside the window, the people living in the community have come back one after another, watching his familiar neighbors walk back from outside the community one by one with light or tired steps, watching them greet each other with smiles on their faces, Xu Yan's mood slowly calmed down, and he began to calm down and continue to think.

Xu Yan noticed that in the battle with other monsters, Zhang Qingru's descriptions were very detailed, and he tried his best to describe how big the monster was, what skills it had or what it was terrifying. But only when facing the monster of "Earth Worm", he just passed the battle process with a dragonfly, and only said, "According to the method taught by Mr., I designed it to be drawn out, and then all the troops surrounded it, raising torches together, and the light was like day, this demon had no way to retreat, and I sacrificed a flying sword to cut it", which made Xu Yan very puzzled: Could it be that the monster "Earth Worm" is really so bad, and the waste wood is very bad, like a small reptile that was trampled to death by one foot, so Senior Brother Zhang was too lazy to waste pen and ink on him?

But looking at the description in the record, it obviously doesn't seem to be the case - according to the previous description, dozens of soldiers and civilians in the city have died at the hands of this local worm, and the combat effectiveness and threat of this monster are no worse than the monsters that appeared later.

In this case, a very threatening monster, why did Zhang Qingru give a stroke when describing it?

Xu Yan thought about this question again and again, and in the end, he only thought of one possibility: perhaps, this kind of monster called "Earth Worm" is a very common and ordinary monster in the eyes of Bailu Academy.

In fact, this can also be seen from this Zhang Qingru's written record, he has already said that the method of eliminating the ground worm is "according to the method taught by Mr.", it can be seen that whether it is a monster like "ground worm", or the way to deal with a monster like "earth worm", it is already a very common knowledge in Bailu Academy, so that Mr. Zhang Qingru feels that there is no need to repeat the process of eliminating it- Just like the first time Zhu Youxiang saw the table lamp in Xu Yan's house, she made a fuss and exclaimed, and praised all kinds of peculiarities such as how smokeless and dustless this lamp is, how it is self-lit without fire, but for us normal human beings, seeing an ordinary household lamp, even if it is verbose and watered, the author of the article will not want it to be described in detail, right?

Xu Yan guessed that the reason why Zhang Qingru did not write about the battle process in detail was probably like this.

But then, the second question came again: when the ancestor of Bailu Academy, Mr. Zhang Qingru, encountered this "earth worm" monster, he called dozens of military men to surround him with torches, took out a flying sword, and easily killed the monster with one sword. Now, it is our Xu Yan who wants to fight this monster, can he easily cut off the head of the monster like his predecessors?

Xu Yan is still very concerned about this issue - after all, this is related to his own life!

In order to find the answer to this question, Xu Yan found a blank piece of paper and wrote a few key points on the white paper:

Key No. 1: When Zhang Qingru first served as the commander of Lanxi County, his cultivation was only the cultivation of the first stage of the Qi cultivation period. As for Xu Yan, he checked himself based on his own observations and the guidance left by Zhu Youxiang, and he felt that after experiencing the "epiphany" breakthrough on Mount Marudake in Japan, his realm had improved greatly.

According to the description of the realm above the cultivation classics, Xu Yan guessed to himself that he should also be at the peak of the Qi Induction Period or the early stage of the Qi cultivation period - that is to say, Mr. Zhang Qingru, who faced the Earth Worm back then, can be said to be the same cultivation as Xu Yan now.

Having come to this inference, for a while, Xu Yan was really quite complacent, and felt full of confidence - that Mr. Zhang Qingru in the early stage of the Qi Refining Period took out a flying sword and killed the monster with one sword, so he was also in the early stage of the Qi Refining Period, and it should not be much worse to deal with this monster, right?

Fortunately, Xu Yan's complacency did not last long, and he quickly came to his senses: Zhu Youxiang once said that when it comes to the combat effectiveness of cultivators, we can't just look at the realm of the two sides. Zhang Qingru is an authentic descendant of Bailu Academy, with a solid foundation and profound skills. Although he and Zhang Qingru are both at the beginning of the Qi cultivation period, the other party has studied in Bailu Academy for more than ten years, cultivated by famous teachers, proficient in various cultivation methods, familiar with the characteristics of various monsters, and has rich experience;

What about himself? I was only fooled and taught by Zhu Youxiang, the three-no-no master, for three months, and then I taught a beginner cultivation method, when it comes to the spell of fighting, I only know a sword technique and a protective shield -- compared with Zhang Qingru, I am compared with the graduates of the Dog Tail Branch of Pheasant University and the graduates of Mizuki or Beijing University, although nominally everyone is an undergraduate, but when it comes to actual combat effectiveness, there is actually no comparison at all! )