A heavily armed RV passed through the suburbs of Xinning City and entered the city, driving quickly on the urban roads.
It's late at night, and the city at this moment is already completely silent.
There were only a few vehicles and a few pedestrians on the road.
They are either white-collar workers and social workers who have stayed up until now to go home from get off work, or they are unemployed vagrants whose days and nights are reversed, or young people who rush to work in nightclubs.
Hua Jianxiao was driving the car, and Tang Ran was sitting in the driver's seat, wearing headphones and concentrating on processing a large amount of work information and intelligence.
Only now did she begin to understand that the events behind this [Doomsday Paratrooper] operation were much more complicated than she had imagined.
If there was nothing wrong with her judgment, the group of lunatics from Kuroshio should have already started taking action...
So the first thing she did was to write a concise and professional report as quickly as possible, and then submitted it to the superior department in the form of urgent information.
She is just the leader of a small team. Even if she is affiliated to the Xinghai Division, she is only a grassroots member in the final analysis. It will not be her turn to make major decisions for a while.
However, she is fully confident about this. Once this report is submitted, it will definitely attract the attention of senior officials.
At least the position of these rebels in Xinning Branch is definitely not secure.
Superiors will use the highest efficiency to form an investigation team with higher authority to airborne and seriously investigate the entire Xinning branch.
At this time, the captain was very busy, but the new recruit Dan Ziji was sitting in the back seat of the RV, drinking tons of Feizhai Happy Water and wondering at the same time.
[Fat House's Will] played its role again at this time. Even though what he drank was just a carbonated drink with high sugar and high calories, the fatigue and hunger in his body were swept away in an instant.
Why do I feel like I can work overtime again... This dangerous idea was nipped in the cradle by Su Ji as soon as it emerged from my mind.
But looking at the situation tonight, overtime work is probably inevitable.
"So what happened?"
Su Ji glanced at Xia Ying, who was sitting beside her, and asked in a low voice.
There is quite a sense of deja vu as a junior employee secretly gossiping while the leaders are having a heated meeting.
"You probably don't know what the [Soul Crystal] you picked up is?" Xia Ying asked.
Su Ji shook her head, then nodded again.
He knew it, but he didn't fully know it...
After all, the information about [Soul Crystal] only said that it was a substance that contained some unknown energy, and it did not specify what it was.
"It is a substance born in the [Sea of Netherworld]."
Xia Ying explained, "Hate, resentment, jealousy, greed, arrogance, violence... and other negative emotions will be transformed into dark substances in the living body."
"We generally call this dark substance - [ember]."
"Sink the bones of the deceased into the dark seabed, and under the erosion of the filthy Yin Qi day after day, these dark substances wrapped in the soul will seep out like a pus-filled wound."
"They are like sticky silt attached to the seabed of the Netherworld Sea. They are constantly sucking nutrients from it as they are washed by the black sea water."
"They squirm, grow, calcify like shellfish, and then start to become hard..."
"In the end, it was what you see now, a gleaming, shiny stone."
Xia Ying said, "It looks beautiful, right?"
"What you can't imagine is that before it became like this, it was just a bunch of ugly souls piled up and squeezed deep under the sea."
"..." Su Ji was stunned for a while after hearing this.
Only then did he realize that the [Soul Crystal] was actually a crystal formed from dark matter.
Beneath the shiny and gorgeous appearance, there is actually a terrible ruin inside.
Chewing Xia Ying's words carefully and thinking about the scene under [Sea of Netherworld], Su Ji felt the hairs on her back stand up.
"After the crystal is formed, it will act like a magnet, continuously attracting similar materials around it."
"If you wear it as a pendant or other ornaments for a long time, over time, you will be eroded by the dark substances in it."
"Oh..." Su Ji nodded thoughtfully.
Hearing this and recalling the scene he had seen before, Su Ji seemed to suddenly understand something.
The wisp of black mist that Yatami absorbed from the opponent's corpse using [Soul Crystal] should actually be [Ember].
What's more interesting is that these members of the Kuroshio organization seem to have a piece of [soul crystal] in their hands.
"So what is the real function of these soul crystals?" Su Ji asked the question that puzzled him the most.
"For us, [soul crystals] have basically no effect. Instead, they will have some negative effects and harms."
"But for the Kuroshio organization, it is a very important thing."
Xia Ying said, "Because the players in this organization work hard throughout their lives just to accomplish one thing - to complete the sublimation ceremony."
"What is the sublimation ceremony?" Su Ji asked.
"A way to get rid of human identity is a dark ritual created by the Kuroshio organization."
Xia Ying continued to explain, "Once the sublimation is successfully completed, they can transform from humans into other races."
"However, the success rate of the sublimation ceremony is not too high. Most of the Kuroshio players will turn into nondescript humanoids after the ceremony fails."
"They may have some abilities and characteristics of other races, but they are not part of the latter. Likewise, they are not human."
"It is difficult for players like this to find a camp and destination that truly belongs to them, but it is unrealistic to get them out of the quagmire."
"So they can only follow this road all the way to the dark side, and in the end they usually become the tool men of the Kuroshio organization."
"I see..." Su Ji couldn't help but think of the crazy humanoid from before.
In this way, it completely makes sense.
He was indeed targeted by the Kuroshio people, and most of those people were led by Xiao Yong.
No wonder he was attacked, because these people knew he had the [admission ticket] in his hand.
So that night, he was only a little bit away from belching on the spot.
"And [Soul Crystal] is the most basic material for sublimation rituals."
"Because the sublimation ritual requires a large amount of [embers] to provide the energy to start the dark ritual, and the [soul crystal] happens to be the best carrier to store [embers]."
Xia Ying said, "Before this, I also read many files from the Xinning Branch."
"According to the records on it, similar materials have not appeared in the spiritual realm of Xinning City for a long time."
"Because [Soul Crystal] is a substance artificially created by the Kuroshio organization, once this thing appears, it can only mean one thing - Kuroshio is going to make new moves."
"Are they going to perform a new sublimation ceremony?" Su Ji said.
"right."
Xia Ying nodded, "And judging from the current series of movements made by Kuroshio, this sublimation ceremony is probably bigger than any previous one."
"If nothing unexpected happens, it may affect the entire Xinning City...and even other cities in the surrounding areas."
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The RV drove into Shengyang Square and parked under the office building.
Under the leadership of Tang Ran, everyone took the elevator all the way to the 21st floor.
Since the main body is actually the Xinning District branch, the Naowen Ninety-nine Script Killing Company will not completely close its doors even in the early morning.
Every night, there will be dedicated employees on duty who will stay at their posts to avoid the situation of being unable to contact anyone due to emergencies.
"Where's Xiao Yong?"
As soon as he stepped into the company, Tang Ran asked straightforwardly.
The team members on duty were stunned by Tang Ran's aggressive posture. They were so frightened that they stood up from their seats and their chairs were ejected half a meter away.
"Hello Captain Tang, Director Xiao is not here tonight." The young team member said immediately.
"Where are the others?"
"I don't know either." The other party shook his head and said, "He didn't appear in the bureau a few days ago. It is said that he went out on a mission."
"What about your Deputy Director Lu?" Tang Ran asked again.
"I haven't seen him before." The other party still shook his head, "It seems that Director Xiao took him out with him."
Tang Ran frowned.
During this time, they have been planning and preparing for the [Doomsday Paratroopers] operations and specific plans, and have not been to the branch very often.
Unexpectedly, taking advantage of this gap, this guy had already escaped with people.
If nothing else happens, this old fox may never appear again.
He is not a fool, his ID has been exposed in the spiritual realm, everyone knows what he plans.
Fortunately, this [blue treasure] did not fall into his hands, otherwise the situation would have become a little more difficult.
If nothing else happens, he is probably squatting somewhere in this city at this time and starting to plan his path to ascension.
"Where's the schedule?"
"There doesn't seem to be such a thing." The young team member smiled bitterly, "The leader's schedule is basically not made public...unless a superior prosecutor comes to investigate."
"What do you mean?" Tang Ran sneered at him, "My identity can't suppress you, can I?"
"No, no, no, Captain Tang, that's not what I meant!" The other party waved his hand quickly, "I mean... uh, yes..."
When I got to this point, I suddenly got stuck.
He realized that he seemed to be getting involved in what he was saying, but for a while he didn't know how to react.
So the scene became so awkward...
"Where is the energy cellar?" Tang Ran looked directly into his eyes, his gaze as sharp as a knife.
"Source Energy Cellar?"
The young team member's eyes showed panic, and sweat continued to form on his forehead, "Isn't this bad, Captain Tang?"
"The source energy cellar is the highest level secret, and it is the same in every Tianxuanhui branch..."
But before he finished speaking, Tang Ran was already striding towards him like lightning.
Then his collar was grabbed hard by Tang Ran, and what he met immediately was the latter's murderous eyes that were surging like a volcano erupting.
"I'm asking you where the energy cellar is." Her voice was as cold as a knife.
"I'll take you there, I'll take you there, I'll take you there right now!"
The young team member was so frightened that he almost cried, his eyes filled with tears.
"But can you be gentle first? It hurts so much..."
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Happy Chinese Valentine's Day to my brother Meng, hehehe~
