After successfully arresting Yang Cheng, Jiang Luoran's team brought Yang Cheng back to the Time and Space Administration, and after a series of professional processes, it was determined that Yang Cheng, who was safe and harmless, was handed over to the relevant judicial authorities, and what awaited Yang Cheng would be the trial of the law.

But it's not too late for this case to get here, and the food system that was stripped from Yang Cheng and temporarily contained will have to be handled more properly and meticulously.

It is naturally best to be able to destroy them directly, but with the current capabilities of the Space-Time Administration, it is still difficult to directly destroy these things for the time being, so similar to the previous Foundation's containment methods, it has become the basic operation of the Space-Time Administration to deal with these anomalous items.

Jiang Luoran personally took the contained food system to the shelter of the Time and Space Administration, a place where time and space were reversed.

Here, even if these anomalous objects that can be regarded as containment objects still have mysterious information that the Temporal Authority cannot understand and cannot comprehend, once they are here, there will be absolutely no more problems.

Regardless of whether these containments are weapons from another world, coordinates or whatever, in the upside-down time and space, the threat to the Earth and even the galaxy has basically been removed.

It all sounds like it's easy and easy, but in fact, every time Jiang Luoran walks into the shelter and sees the increasing number of various shelters inside, she feels like her scalp is tingling.

Unlike the Foundation that was defeated by Lin Xia in the past, which only contained some drifters from other worlds, the work they are doing now looks similar to that of the Foundation, but in fact, they don't know how many mysterious, terrifying and powerful worlds they are fighting against.

They wanted to come, and Jiang Luoran and her teammates were going to stop them.

Behind every item contained here at this moment may represent a powerful civilization, a terrifying powerhouse's peep into the earth and the entire galaxy.

To put it more seriously, invaders in the real sense of the word have already begun to appear, and the enemy, most likely, is the entire universe.

The most terrifying thing is that compared to the civilization war that people understand in the usual sense, these enemies who are peeping at the earth and the galaxy may think more about how to subvert the earth and the galaxy and steal the power of the earth and even the galaxy.

Jiang Luoran thought about it, put down the food system, turned around and walked out of the shelter, and before he could calm down his emotions, he received another message, "Captain." There's another task. ”

"What an eventful time."

Jiang Luoran smiled bitterly, his eyes became resolute again, his steps were firm, and he only replied lightly, "Inform everyone, get ready to go." ”

The flying saucer cut through the sky, and Jiang Luoran and her team immediately rushed to the next mission site without stopping.

……

Impression City, once the most populous city on earth.

But it's not the past, Thanos's random massacre of the galaxy back then, the local people in Impression City were very unlucky, almost one in ten, and it was the city that affected the entire earth the most.

In the following years, although the government encouraged childbearing and many people moved from other cities, Impression City was still no longer what it used to be, and the population was extremely withered.

According to statistics, the current registered population of Impression City has dropped to about 10 million, and the once largest group of Impression people is even more pitiful with less than 3 million left, and they are about to be listed by the government as an ethnic minority with special birth subsidies.

At this moment, in the south of Impression City, a residential area near the Ganges River is not the kind of resettlement house that is distributed for free, but a high-priced commercial house, and the people living here are all the nobles of the old era in Impression City, that is, the traditional high-caste people of Impression City.

Even though it's 2022, it seems that the deep-rooted tradition of the impression people has not changed much, and the caste problem still exists among the traditional impression people.

Especially in the past few years, that is, after the Thanos crisis, there are signs of revival of this tradition, and the government once spent a lot of effort to make the impression people break the caste concept and accept the concept of equality for all, but now there are signs of regression.

At this moment, Jiang Luoran and her team appeared in the Impression City Police Station, listening to the local police explain the situation of this mission to them.

The situation is like this, in the last two censuses, the Census Bureau found an unexpected situation, under the policy of encouraging childbirth, the population growth rate of Impression City has recovered, but strangely, the proportion of Impression people, not only did not increase, but declined.

To put it simply, the population of other ethnic groups in Impression City is growing, but Impression People not only does not rise, but has a slight downward trend.

Of course, at the beginning, this did not arouse the vigilance of the local government, because the federation has been working hard to eliminate the problem of racial barriers, so in the official report, there will never be any Chinese, impression people and the like.

So even though the results of the census were long overdue, no one noticed, after all, the population growth rate was in line with expectations, and the local police station did not receive any warnings of unusual changes.

Not long ago, a newly recruited police officer, bored, was about to do a census data comparison, and found something strange when he was looking for information.

It is indeed a very strange thing, judging from the data report compiled by this police officer, since the establishment of the federal government, even if it goes back to the old era, the population growth rate of Impression City, or Impression People, has always been the highest in the world.

In the past, there was no maternity subsidy clause, and impressions also had to be born.

Now that there are more maternity subsidy provisions, the fertility rate of impressionists has declined.

No, it is not precisely that the fertility rate of the impressionists has declined, but that the population growth rate has hardly risen, and simply put, the mortality rate of the impressionists has caught up with the fertility rate in the past two years.

"Is the mortality rate too high?"

Jiang Luoran thought for a moment and asked.

"It's not that the mortality rate is too high. But under normal circumstances, it is simply impossible to have such a high mortality rate. According to our survey, the fertility rate of impressionists in the last two years has been very high, and it can be said that there has been a baby boom. But herein lies the problem, and after our closer investigation, we found that for every one they now live, one dies. Fertility and mortality rates are almost 1:1.

This is a very abnormal thing. ”

"Naturally, this can't be normal. How did you find out now? ”

Jiang Luoran changed color in an instant, and the fertility and mortality rates reached 1:1, how could this be normal, although there have been negative growth in human history, but either because of the war, or because people with fertility are unwilling to have children.

But now judging from the investigation of the local police, Impression people are not unwilling to have children, on the contrary, if you look at the fertility rate alone, they are the highest in the entire Impression City, and even the highest in the world.

What is not normal is their mortality rate.

However, in the past two years, the local police have not received any cases of unnatural deaths.

"It was our negligence, and it was the result of a deliberate cover-up. In fact, if it weren't for the accidental discovery of this problem, I am afraid that this problem will not be exposed yet. ”

The person in charge of the local police smiled bitterly, pointed to the detailed data report and showed it to Jiang Luoran, "Basically, it can be determined that there are artificial factors in this, and the other party is very smart, unless it is a separate statistics of the population of impression people, otherwise, it is impossible to find the problem at all."

But you know, the population is counted now, regardless of ethnicity. If it weren't for our lads who accidentally discovered it......"

The local police said with palpitations.

"Alright, I'm not here to hold you accountable. Tell me about the results of your current investigation. ”

Jiang Luoran was silent for a moment, put down the report, and asked.

"At this moment, it can basically be determined that the problem of demographic anomalies is related to the South Ganges region. This has always been the traditional residential area of the impression people, the population structure is single, basically the impression people, it is difficult for the foreign population to integrate into this area. While this may be a bit inappropriate, there are signs of an independent kingdom.

Almost all the local institutions are controlled by Impression people, and the branch office we originally set up there had to be abolished because of many protests. ”

"How is that possible?"

Jiang Luoran was shocked, "There must be a police station for every 100,000 people. There are more than 800,000 people there, and you don't even have a single substation? ”

"If your young man is also stolen every day and eggs are smashed on the road, you will make the same choice as me. All right. The main thing is to avoid provoking greater contradictions. You know, at that time, the city government was discussing the immigration bill.

We thought it was the result of the Impressionists' protest against the Immigration Act. Now that I think about it, it was our mistake. ”

"It's not a mistake, it's a dereliction of duty. I'll include this in my mission report. ”

Jiang Luoran said coldly.

"Of course you can. But now should not be the time to hold anyone accountable for their dereliction of duty. As a result of our investigation, we have reason to suspect that there have been reports of anomalous events in the South Ganges region. The exact source of the anomaly has not yet been determined, but we suspect that it has something to do with the Impressionists. ”

Jiang Luoran suddenly felt a pain in his brain, even if the racial issue is over, now it is also involved in the religious issue.

There is not only an anomaly in the middle, but I am afraid that a nuclear bomb will be detonated if I am not careful.

"It's better not to be the way I think."

Jiang Luoran already had a bad premonition, his voice became bitter, and his expression was nervous.

"I also hope that our investigation is wrong. But I'm sorry, based on the clues we've gathered so far, we've basically determined that those impressionists may have somehow come into contact with the legendary gods of the Impressionist cult, or that someone had bewitched them in the name of the Impressionist gods.

And those impressionists, it is likely that under this kind of bewitchment, they are carrying out some kind of secret racial transformation. ”

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Jiang Luoran couldn't sit still anymore, stood up, and looked at the other party, "If you're not alarmist, then you're telling me that under your noses, those people who were supposed to be earthlings have become a group of alien races who don't know which time and space and which world they come from?" ”

"It's just the newborns, to be exact."

"That's the toughest problem," the local police chief muttered. Because the enemies we may have to face are still just a bunch of children. Children up to three years old. ”

Jiang Luoran was stunned instantly.