Riverside.

Parking in a commercial car on the side of the riverside road, Fang Pingfang, Ye Chong, and Li Shiyu looked at the sudden pouring rain outside, and they were all a little speechless.

The sun was still scorching just now, and there was a storm in the blink of an eye, and the speed of this old man turned his face too fast.

And the rain was a bit outrageous, as if it had put a thick filter on the heavens and the earth.

"Dr. Fang, what should we do next? The investigation seems to have reached a bottleneck, and with the three of us alone, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find out the results in a short period ......of time," Li Shiyu, who was sitting in the driver's seat, suddenly turned around and said to the two.

The three of them came to Star City to verify a piece of information about "water monsters saving people".

During this period of time, they have learned from many parties and verified from multiple angles, and basically determined that what the person who posted on social media before said was not untrue, and there was a brief strange mist on the river at the time of the incident, and the person concerned really couldn't swim, and it was difficult to get out of the river and get to the shore by himself without external help.

Other than that, however, they found no other substantial evidence.

The laboratory examination of the clothes worn by the person that night, the investigation of the traces where he went ashore, the sampling of the river water in the area where he fell into the water, and the underwater exploration also did not find any abnormalities.

They also went to find a lot of past news, accidents and stories related to the river, analyzed and excavated, and verified the investigation on the ground.

But this kind of thing, many times like this, if you think everything is normal, then any story, what legend, will feel nonsense, everywhere flaws. But if you have a preset in advance and imagine a variety of possibilities, you will feel as if every story and every legend may be related to the matter you are investigating.

A lot of information needs to be verified, and it is obvious that it is not something that the three of them can do, although there are information collection and processing departments of "Shenxing Technology" to help them, and there are also local staff to provide them with various assistance, but the actual investigation can only rely on themselves.

Especially for their "trio", Fang Pingfang is the only one who is really technically capable, Li Shiyu is mainly responsible for security and some dangerous practical operations, and Ye Chong is more responsible for the function of resource mobilization and information transmission of the secret department of "Shenxing Technology".

"Just before the rain, I received a call from Xiao Zhou, their investigation in the Chongyun Mountains today has a great harvest, may have found the traces of the 'invisible insect' that was taken away by the 'giant bird of prey' before, or a new special creature, and he also has a set of theoretical conjectures about the birth of a new creature, and has already given the briefing to 'Mr. Liang'. I estimate that if 'Mr. Liang' agrees with his briefing, then our investigation in Star City will be over and we will return to Hercynian Province." Fang Pingfang, who was sitting in the back seat, said a piece of news that surprised the other two.

After a few seconds of silence, Li Shiyu, who was still in the driver's seat, broke the silence in the cabin: "Why don't I understand why 'Mr. Liang' is the purpose? Is it to capture the creatures of 'Giant Raptor 'Invisible Insects', or do you want to study the reason for their appearance? Or is there another purpose? Since we formed a six-person investigation team, the various orders of 'Mr. Liang' have always made me feel like I have changed my order every day...... Not very professional feeling. ”

If it was before, Li Shiyu would never say these words that complained a little about "Mr. Liang", even if the other party was his colleague. But during this time, the six-person team got along day and night, but they established a deeper relationship and trust than their colleagues, and there were some things that everyone thought so in their hearts, and it didn't hurt to say them and discuss them. Even if these words reach the ears of "Mr. Liang", there is no need to worry too much, after all, his starting point is still for the task and the work.

Fang Pingfang actually had a similar feeling, just like the last time she found the traces of the "giant bird of prey" in Wushushan, she always felt that "Mr. Liang" did not give them enough equipment and personnel support at the first time, and it seemed that she had no intention of capturing the "giant bird of prey".

Although there was not much communication with "Mr. Liang" in the past, the overall impression was that it was decisive, efficient, and direct, and the allocation of resources was also very fast and sufficient, just like the time when I went to the Qinling uninhabited area to investigate, and that kind of staffing and equipment composition was the normal state of the secret department's field investigation.

And after she, Mi Qiao, Captain Li and other six people formed an investigation team to Haixi Province, the orders and tasks given to them by "Mr. Liang" were very "erratic", and they often even let her "make their own decisions", which was very inconsistent with the style of "Mr. Liang" in the past.

Recently, Fang Pingfang has become more and more aware that the investigation of herself and the entire team is also part of "Mr. Liang's" experiment.

But in any case, they are only employees, receiving high salaries and bonuses, and the boss of "Mr. Liang" or "Shenxing Technology" who pays is the one who gives orders, they can ask questions, but there is no way to refuse the task, unless they don't want to do it.

Fang Pingfang said: "'Mr. Liang' has made us keep running around and investigating the visions everywhere, and there should be a deep meaning that we don't know. Either they think that there is a connection between these visions, or they want us to see these creatures from a variety of perspectives and get more information. ”

Ye Chong, who had been looking down at the tablet, also raised his head and asked, "Dr. Fang, if we are transferred back, what about the investigation here in Star City? Will someone else continue the investigation, or will it be put on hold for the time being, and we have done useless work?"

"Listen to the arrangement. Fang Pingfang didn't say much about this.

After the rain had subsided a little, they drove away from the river and returned to their hotel.

As a result, as soon as the three returned to their respective rooms, the hotel had a power outage, but immediately a waiter in the corridor asked the guests to calm down, and the backup power supply would be activated within 10 minutes to restore the power supply.

Ye Chong didn't care much about it, because the batteries of the equipment he was using now were sufficient, and the network was not even the hotel's WIFI, and whether the hotel had electricity or not did not affect his operation.

But what he didn't expect was that his mobile phone and other devices lost their signal, and even the special equipment assigned to him by "Shenxing Technology" couldn't be connected.

This surprised him, the impact of this power outage is so large?

But no matter how large the scope of influence is, it is impossible for the equipment of "Shenxing Technology" to lose the signal?

Ye Chong walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, opened the curtains, frowned and looked at the star city in the rain outside, and found that the area of the power outage was not large, and there were still large areas with electricity in the range visible to the naked eye.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning fell, illuminating the air, and he suddenly noticed that a huge shadow that looked like a cactus and a wooden stake was writhing in the sky above a certain building complex not far away, but in the blink of an eye, it had disappeared, making him wonder if he had seen it wrong.

Rubbing his eyes, he stared carefully in that direction for a while, until the power supply of the hotel was restored, the signal of the equipment was restored, and he didn't see anything again, Ye Chong shook his head and muttered to himself:

"This city is a bit of a cult ......"

......

Whether it is Zhou Rui, Mi Qiao and others in Chongyun Mountain, or Fang Pingfang, Li Shiyu and others in Xingcheng, they would never have thought that at this moment, "Mr. Liang" was in Haixi Province, personally chasing the "giant bird of prey".

In the endless mountainous area at the junction of the two northern provinces of Wushu Mountain, a figure covered with metallic skin slowly appeared on the mountainside from "nothing" to being.

His pupils, which were not covered by eyelids, looked into the distance, surrounded by dozens of drones of different sizes hovering and standby, and dozens more in the distance patrolling the mountains.

Five days ago, Mr. Liang began tracking the "Giant Bird of Prey" - after narrowing down the possible range of the "Giant Bird of Prey" to several areas through AI's analysis of massive data, Mr. Liang directly searched one of the areas himself, and then used his special ability to find the trace of the "Giant Raptor".

In fact, Mr. Liang himself didn't expect to find the "giant raptor" so soon, but what he didn't expect was that the "giant raptor" that had obviously had many "predatory blood drinks" and a high degree of mutation and evolution was not any desire to attack or fight after encountering him, so he just flapped his wings with all his strength and fled.

So in the past seven days, Mr. Liang has actually been in the process of "chasing".

First from the northern mountainous area of Haixi Province to the territory of Jiangyou Province, then from Jiangyou Province to Zhijiang Province, and finally back to Haixi Province, into the northern mountainous area of Wushu Mountain.

This "giant bird of prey" basically has no idea of counterattacking at all except fleeing or fleeing, but it really has a variety of escape methods, not only can it be visually invisible, but it can also interfere with the judgment of the drone by influencing other birds.

It's just that it has thick skin and hard skin, and it has a strong ability to resist hits, and it is unbelievable that it can withstand electric shocks, and the anesthetic gun is naturally ineffective, but such a strong body is still just flying and fleeing with a stuffy head, and it doesn't want to fight at all.

This behavior pattern is inconsistent with Mr. Liang's big data statistics on "blood-eating organisms", nor with his previous incomplete recorded observations of this "giant bird of prey".

When this big bird hunted the "invisible insects" in Wushu Mountain before, he was completely domineering and powerful! Knowing that a third party was snooping, he still forcibly dug up the ground and took the "invisible insects" out and took them away.

Therefore, the behavior pattern of the "Giant Raptor" this time made Mr. Liang a little confused, could it be that some of his performances revealed his strength? Or did this "Giant Raptor" have some kind of instinctive talent and be able to perceive real danger?

Although "Shenxing Technology" has official endorsement in some researches, the lethality of the attack equipment that the drone he directly controls in China is still limited, so when the "giant raptor" is not afraid of a tranquilizer gun or electric shock, Mr. Liang can only find a way to decorate it first, and then find an opportunity to close the distance and capture it himself.

In fact, Mr. Liang can report to "Lao He", and then take down this "giant bird of prey" in a faster way, after all, this guy has caused real casualties before, and is a high threat and hidden danger to human beings.

But on the one hand, Mr. Liang wanted to see what other abilities and means this "giant bird of prey" had - he was sure that this "giant bird of prey" had carried out predatory blood drinking on the "invisible insects" during this time, and because the living environment had changed greatly, a very large number of mutations had occurred.

On the other hand, Mr. Liang did not want to kill the "giant raptor" directly, he hoped to be able to "capture it alive".