Chapter 23: Tai Sui
Late at night.
The psionic barrier outside the command center shimmered with a glowing white light, keeping the wind and rain out.
On the barren plains, the light stood out in the dark rain.
The remaining special operations units are resting in the open space on the periphery.
From time to time, teams are sent out of the barrier to receive the various supplies and support personnel that have just been delivered.
Since the return of Yan Jing and others, the environmental degradation of the Kasai River basin has become more and more serious.
Needless to say, the situation in the Kunlun Mountains was not to be said, and soon even the area where the command center was located was affected.
Fortunately, the Special Affairs Bureau has been prepared for this terrible situation.
Relying on various defensive facilities that have been erected in advance.
Today, the command center has become a key official stronghold outside the Kunlun Mountains.
"Meteorological red warning, there is a wide range of acid rain in the Kasai River basin due to special reasons, pay attention to safety ...... when traveling"
"Due to the influence of abnormal celestial phenomena, traffic at all levels around the Kunlun Mountains and the Kasai River Basin has entered a closed state."
"At present, the situation has been initially brought under control...... Please rest assured that we will inform you as soon as the situation is resolved......"
Yan Jing stood outside the building, watching the messages on the mobile phone screen push one after another.
Tiger Firefly, presumably one of the last surviving hares, lay beside him and enjoyed dinner.
Open the online platform casually, and the hot search has long been occupied by the relevant information of the Kasai River Basin.
The situation is deteriorating much faster than expected.
In order to avoid triggering a large-scale panic, officials did not convey the true situation in the Kunlun Mountains, but took the initiative to say that the situation was not out of control and that the disaster would soon be resolved.
Although this is only an expedient measure to appease the people, it also invisibly puts a lot of pressure on the command center.
If the problem cannot be solved in a short period of time, I am afraid that it will cause more trouble.
At this time, a meeting was being held in the command center, and Yu Zhen and Duo Jige, as the current top officials of the Special Affairs Bureau in the Tibetan Plains, needed to report to the headquarters on the current situation and what had happened in the Kunlun Mountains before.
This is what the headquarters of the Special Service and the top level of the government need to make for the next phase of the arrangement.
Originally, the host of this side should be Yan Jing, but he has never been good at this kind of thing, so he simply refused.
Besides, strictly speaking, he is only an advisor at the moment, and he does not need to be involved in this kind of thing.
There was the sound of footsteps beside him, and Yan Jing turned his head to look and saw Miao Yingshi coming out of the building that was used as a temporary prison on the side.
Inside the premises was the only intruder who had been captured alive.
Codename is the Human-Faced Bird, that is, John.
From the moment he was escorted back to the command center, the Special Affairs Bureau was ready to interrogate him.
What happened next, however, was unexpected.
As a consumable item, the prison flail could not exist for a long time, and at the same time as it disappeared, John's originally recovered human form suddenly changed again, and a large number of abnormal limbs began to appear on his body.
The mental state of the whole person is deteriorating rapidly.
The people who were originally in charge of the interrogation had to rescue him first, and in order to save John's life, they even consumed several healing tools, but even so, they could only barely maintain a semi-abnormal state.
John, who was close to losing his mind, let alone answering questions from the Special Affairs Bureau, was afraid that he didn't even know who he was.
"It doesn't look like the situation is rosy."
Noticing the expression on Miao Yingshi's face, Yan Jing couldn't help frowning, and threw another can of juice to him.
The Soul Glove and the juice made from the Spirit Fruit have a good effect on healing injuries.
"It's not completely fruitless...... By examining his body, I found that John was not an inheritor, but more like a xenomorph catalyzed by the blood of a strange beast. ”
Walking to Yan Jing's side and standing still, Miao Yingshi looked at the people outside, obviously not very comfortable with this atmosphere, and tried his best to adjust.
Not long ago, he had deduced from the battle with the intruders that they were all inheritors of the relics of the mountains and seas, but after close contact and observation, he had overturned his own arguments.
Hearing this, Yan Jing, who was still looking at the night sky outside the command center, suddenly turned his head and asked,
"Are you sure?"
"Sure! At first, they did have the aura of mountains and seas, but John's alienation showed another side. ”
The ability to recruit the legacy of Ying Ying made Miao Yingshi particularly sensitive to life energy, so he sensed the gap between John's two mutations.
"Normally, the inheritor is able to use the power brought by the mountain and sea relics with ease, but John has no control over this power at all, once he falls into a weakened state or ...... Just like a drug addict, if you don't use something that suppresses your bloodline for a certain period of time, you will immediately go berserk! ”
"You mean that the interlopers have the means to possess the power of the mountains and seas and control them in this way?"
After listening to Miao Yingshi's description, Yan Jing immediately grasped the key point and quickly realized that if this guess was accurate, the organization they were facing would probably be far more dangerous than they imagined.
The inheritor of creating the relics of mountains and seas in batches......
Even if they are semi-finished products with extremely strong side effects, their strength is far beyond that of ordinary Remnant Apostles.
Almost at the same time.
Yan Jing's mind came up with the half of the Origin Essence Blood of the Willow Origin that he had won in the Heavenly Burial Altar not long ago!
'No wonder they went to such great lengths just to get the Origin Essence Blood of Xiangliu. ’
In the interval of thought, he raised his hand and took out the special utensils purchased from the Torch Bazaar from his waist, and through the light yellow bottle wall, Yan Jing could see the Xiangliu Origin Essence Blood that was maintaining a boiling state inside, trying to escape all the time.
"What should I do now, the Kunlun Mountains have been shrouded in a poisonous miasma created by Xiangliu, isolated from inside and outside, drones, satellite positioning have all failed, and relying on manpower alone to find it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack."
As the first person to receive the task, Miao Yingshi was particularly concerned about this incident.
Involved in the awakening progress of Ying Zhao's relics, he didn't want to miss this opportunity.
"You shouldn't have failed your mission, right?"
Yan Jing suddenly asked.
"It's still a work in progress."
"My mission has not failed, which means that in the judgment of the torch, we still have a way to complete the task, but we have not found it yet, I have asked Yu Zhen to search all the ancient books that may be related to the Hanging Garden, and the people of the Mozhu Society should arrive soon, maybe they can provide us with new clues."
John's change was unexpected, but that didn't mean Yan Jing was running out of things to do now.
In order to solve this incident, the Special Affairs Bureau opened the internal confidential database to Yu Zhen, except for those top-secret existences, and allowed him to access classics, ancient stone tablets and various artifacts.
After learning about what happened in the Kunlun Mountains, the Mozhu Society also accelerated its action, and the plane that was supposed to arrive tomorrow was directly changed to a special military plane of the Special Affairs Bureau, and it arrived overnight.
That's the benefit of having your back on the country.
If Yan Jing and Miao Yingshi came alone, I am afraid that they are still circling in the Kunlun Mountain Range.
The two were talking.
A military plane with a glowing red and blue light pierced the night sky.
The people of the Mozhu Society have arrived!
The military plane landed directly on the grassland outside the command center, the hatch opened, Yue Qianren walked out of the cabin first, raised his hand and clenched his fist and waved lightly, and the wind and rain around him were all shaken away.
He was followed by Yu Ke and others, all of whom were familiar faces they had seen in the incident on the Island of the Dead before, and they were also the backbone of the Mozhu Society.
Yan Jing took Miao Yingshi out to greet him.
Neither side is a person who likes to be polite, and the situation is urgent at the moment, so after a few simple greetings, he will get straight to the point.
"I learned on the way here that you caught an intruder, can you take me to meet him?"
Yue Qianren nodded at Miao Yingshi, then looked at Yan Jing and asked with some eagerness.
"No problem, it's just that with his current situation, I'm afraid he can't provide any more information."
Telling Yue Qianren of John's current state, Yan Jing shrugged his shoulders.
"We don't need him to speak, all we have to do is confirm his identity!"
"Uh, what do you mean?"
"Do you remember what I mentioned on the phone in the afternoon, about a hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Mozhu Society encountered similar enemies, and there were records left at that time, involving an extremely mysterious organization."
Looking around left and right, and seeing that there were no outsiders around, Yue Qianren stepped forward and continued,
"The members of this organization have similar characteristics that can be detected in a specific way."
Speaking of this, Yan Jing naturally would not refuse, and immediately took Yue Qianren and the others to the cell where John was held.
......
Pong~
The iron door of the premises was opened.
The two members of the Special Affairs Bureau who were guarding here hurriedly got up, and subconsciously stood up and saluted when they saw Yan Jing.
"You go and rest first, and I'll take care of it here."
Yan Jing nodded to the two of them, let go of the empty seat and said.
Although Yan Jing was not an official of the Special Affairs Bureau, the two members of the Special Affairs Bureau chose to carry out the Sword Immortal Luo Yan's order without hesitation, turned around and left the premises.
The group entered the room one after the other, and walked to a cell made of vines.
The lights came on, and the monster inside appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Because John's body mutation broke out too suddenly, even if the Special Affairs Bureau consumed multiple healing items to forcibly save him, his body had already undergone irreversible mutations, and he could only barely maintain a part of his human form.
The arms are completely covered by feathers, a pair of crooked and crippled wings grow on the back, and the head is half human and half bird, full of fangs rubbing against each other to make a piercing "knock~" sound.
"The Secret Service has tried all kinds of methods to get him to speak, and his reason seems to have entered a state of collapse, and he can no longer communicate normally, if you come later, I should consider killing him directly and using some special methods to obtain information."
The special method that Yan Jing mentioned was actually spiritualism and dissection.
There is no shortage of skilled people within the Special Affairs Bureau, and warlocks who have studied souls are even on their way to it.
"Next, let's try, Xiao Ling, it's up to you."
Yue Qianren looked at John, and suddenly turned to look at a girl behind her who was carrying a mechanical suitcase with a brass color on the surface.
The latter immediately stepped forward and placed the mechanical suitcase in his hand on the ground.
At this moment, Yan Jing's gaze inadvertently swept over the lock of the suitcase, where the copper ring was engraved with a string of characters:
no.21!
This style of character Yan Jing is very familiar, he has the No.78 lucky compass and the No.61 parsing block in his hand, as well as the predecessor of the Red Demon Gauntlet, the No.166 Source Energy Gauntlet.
According to the effects of these three items, it seems that the higher the ranking, the more powerful the effect of the strange object will be, and this is the first time Yan Jing has seen a strange object ranked in the top thirty.
Obviously, nine times out of ten, items of this level were also handed down by the ancestors of the Mozhu Society, just like the Universal Armillary Sphere that is still buried deep in the cave under the sea to suppress the rift in different spaces.
I saw that Xiao Ling directly opened the lock of the mechanical suitcase after a short preparation, and then the entire suitcase expanded rapidly like a transformer, deformed, and finally changed into two large-scale, steampunk-style robotic arms.
Standing at the end of the two mechanical arms, Xiao Ling stretched out his two arms.
The former followed suit, facing John in the vine cage.
"Take blood, cut bones!"
Xiao Ling spat out two words lightly.
Under the gaze of everyone, the two mechanical arms deformed again with her command, and the front end was actually split into several small robots with strange shapes, rushing straight towards John, who began to struggle because he sensed the danger.
It's a pity that he is extremely weak and can't fight against these robots at all, plus with the help of Miao Yingshi.
In just a few minutes, a cloud of dark red plasma and a finger-long hand bone were forcibly removed and passed back and forth among a group of small robots, which were also devices that could change in various shapes at any time, as if they were analyzing them.
"What is this checking ......?"
Yan Jing watched from the sidelines for a while, but after all, he still couldn't hold back, and asked after half a step back.
"After receiving your information, I searched a lot of relevant information through the internal intelligence network of the Mozhu Society and the files accumulated in the past, and finally found the organization that matched the description in an ancient book that recorded the combat deeds of the predecessors of the Mozhu Society."
Since the testing ceremony has begun, Yue Qianren has no intention of selling the guanzi, and straightforwardly reveals the information he has found.
"About a hundred years ago, that is, the era of 'Nanke'...... No, it should be said that it was the end of Nanke, when due to the accident of Nanke, the shuttle between other worlds gradually became infeasible, and the tide of aura calmed down over time, which led to a large-scale decline in the power of Nanke's apostles. ”
Losing the ability to travel through other worlds meant that the Apostles lost the key way to strengthen themselves and obtain various items.
The decline of the aura tide has inevitably greatly weakened the supernatural ability.
The ancestors of the Mozhu Society thought that this was a good thing, after all, the calming of the aura tide meant that the barriers of the present world would be stabilized, and the frequency and intensity of supernatural events would be greatly reduced.
However, not everyone is willing to be ordinary.
At that time, there were a group of Nanke apostles who were frantically looking for a way to extend their strength and even their lifespan.
I just want to be able to wait for the second tide of aura!
Recalling what he saw in the file, Yue Qianren subconsciously gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice,
"This group of people thinks that they are the masters of this world, and that they should be in charge of everything in the world by their extraordinary powers...... Although the exact events of that year are no longer known, the name of the organization has been retained. ”
"Its name is Tai Sui, and the members of the organization have their own specific titles, collectively known as the Ten Heavenly Stems and the Twelve Earth Branches!"
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