Looking at the inquiry sent by Xu Ji on the phone screen.
Guiling blinked her eyes.
She remembered that when she was in school, the school instructor once introduced a special kind of monster from abroad.
Unfortunately, it has been so long that my memory is a bit blurry.
She couldn't remember the situation of those kind of monsters.
But never mind!
The Public Security Bureau's intranet database collects all public or semi-public information on monsters and ghosts around the world.
In addition, through cooperation with intelligence agencies from various countries, a large amount of confidential information on demons and ghosts was obtained.
Guiling immediately turned on her computer, entered her password, logged into the intranet, and searched for a keyword.
Then, densely packed images appeared on the computer page.
Guiling started searching page by page.
Soon, she found it!
It was a giant tree that stood deep in the primeval forest, blocking out the sky and the sun.
The huge branches are lush and the leaves are colorful.
Click on the page, and the introduction about the giant tree will come into view.
"Yes! It's her!" Gui Ling became excited and immediately started downloading.
Her voice naturally attracted the attention of colleagues in the office.
"Xiao Gui, what makes you so happy?" a gentle female voice asked beside Gui Ling.
Guiling replied happily: "Sister Tan, I found what Comrade Xu Ji was looking for!"
Sister Tan looks about thirty years old, with short, lean hair, and a dash of heroic spirit between her eyebrows, but her voice is soft and weak, giving people a 'weak' feeling.
She looked at Guiling's screen, frowned slightly, and asked, "Xu... What does Xu Ji want to do with her?"
"I don't know..." Gui Ling shook her head: "But in the group of demons and ghosts, the ones that bear fruit are the ones that bear fruit, right?"
Colleagues in the office were also alerted and came to Gui Ling one after another to look at the towering tree on the screen.
That giant tree is far larger than the largest redwood tree ever in Blue Star!
“Suriname Ghost Tree!”
Someone who recognized her would call out her name without reading the introduction.
Others also exclaimed: "Suriname ghost tree?!"
"He is truly a reborn immortal!"
"You even have the idea of such a monster!"
Obviously, what Guiling found is very famous!
So much so that even though colleagues in the office have never met him, they can still say it casually.
In fact, this is also true!
Suriname, Blue Star's popularity today is comparable to the Bermuda Triangle before 1999.
The name of the Suriname ghost tree is equivalent to the former "ghost ship" and "haunted house".
However, Suriname and the Suriname Ghost Tree are not legends.
But something that actually exists.
Gui Ling also looked at the information and files on the computer and hesitated.
Because, the records in the file are really a bit too scary.
The tree body is more than 8 meters wide (the ultimate individual exceeds 20 meters).
Surface trunk weight: at least 2000 tons!
Under the surface, the Suriname Ghost Tree has an extremely large spore-like community.
It is rooted more than 100 meters underground and usually has root systems that penetrate through granite.
Suriname ghost tree, an adult weighs at least 10,000 tons!
Warning: The Suriname Ghost Tree has a queen-like consciousness, and the adult individual can control any creature that enters its spore/pollen diffusion range.
Warning: The Suriname Ghost Tree, even as a larvae, has the ability to enslave individual creatures, including other ghosts, and turn the enslaved people into a worker-bee-like form.
Warning: Every Suriname ghost has a strong sense of territory. Even birds and small mammals will be attacked if they enter its territory!
Warning: The Suriname ghost tree blooms in August every year and bears fruit in October, with twelve fruits each time. During the flowering and fruiting period, the ghost tree actively hunts all creatures within a range of 500 kilometers!
Attack and destruction records: So far, there is no record of any martial arts master or martial arts organization or group reliably destroying or killing the Suriname Ghost Tree (not even the larvae).
In 2009, the 3rd Bomber Wing of Citigroup was ordered to conduct an attack experiment targeting the individual numbered AB111.
A B52 bomber dropped a BU-115 super bomb 20 kilometers away from the target individual.
But the bomb only destroyed one-third of the target's trunk.
Five days later, the target's damaged torso began to recover, and returned to normal a month later.
The next month, Citigroup's 2nd Bomb Wing was again ordered to conduct an experiment and drop the next "grandfather of bombs" on the same target.
Completely destroy the surface trunk of the individual numbered ab111, and form a huge crater 36 meters deep and 120 meters wide in the target area.
Observation results showed that individual number ab111 began to grow again three days after the bombing, and hyphae and spore tissues appeared in the giant pit.
Three months after the bombing, the crater site showed clear traces of spore colonies.
Half a year after the bombing, a new ghost tree trunk grew at the site of the giant crater.
The Ministry of Public Security concluded: The Suriname ghost tree is highly threatening and aggressive, and is extremely difficult to eliminate with conventional force.
Recommendation: Chinese citizens and enterprises should stay away from Suriname.
Gui Ling took a deep breath after reading it.
"Xiaogui!" Sister Tan said: "Do you know Citigroup's Xinxiang Security Group?"
Guiling nodded.
Xinxiang Security Group was once Blue Star’s top security consortium.
At its peak, its market value exceeded $500 billion, its business spanned five continents, and it had hundreds of thousands of employees.
Legend has it that a regional head of the Xinxiang Security Group has at least the strength of an A-level martial artist!
But this behemoth fell apart a few years ago and fell into bankruptcy.
Although it managed to survive with Citigroup's bailout in the end, the stock price plummeted and its market value is now less than 50 billion.
Shrunk tenfold!
"Then do you know why Xinxiang Security Group became what it is now?" Sister Tan asked softly.
Guiling shook her head, how did she know this?
Sister Tan said: "Four years ago, the board of directors of Xinxiang Security Group organized 80% of the A-level warriors in the entire group and hired a large number of martial arts mercenaries with huge sums of money to go deep into the jungles of Suriname in an attempt to attack a plant.
Sub-adult Surinamese ghost tree for strangulation!”
"However, the Xinxiang Security Group's action failed!"
"Hundreds of people, including the three S-class warriors on the board of directors, have disappeared since then!"
"Just the compensation and pensions have consumed all the group's cash!"
Guiling listened and took a deep breath: "So scary?!"
"Yeah!" Sister Tan nodded and said to Gui Ling: "Not only Citizen has used strategic bombers to test attacks on Suriname's ghost trees!"
"We have done similar tests!"
"Using the super ground-penetrating bomb, which is basically the father of benchmark bombs, and combining it with thermobaric bombs, we conducted an attack test on an adult ghost tree!"
“The results are similar to Citi’s test!”
"Basically, we believe that unless conventional super munitions like the Father of Bombs are used to continuously bomb a single individual, conventional force will be difficult to completely eliminate an adult Suriname ghost tree!"
"It is generally believed that at present, except for tactical nuclear weapons and strategic nuclear weapons, there is no other weapon that can kill the Suriname ghost tree with one blow!"
"Because, in the test, even if a Suriname ghost tree was killed by continuous bombing, in fact, research speculates that what really kills the Suriname ghost tree is sunlight!"
"Conventional weapons only blast out the core of the ghost tree from the protection of the trunk and spore tissue on the surface!"
"There are certain components in sunlight that we still don't know about, which are what really kill adult ghost trees!"
"So..." Sister Tan said to Gui Ling earnestly: "Xiaogui, you want Xu Ji to explain these things clearly!"
"Try to persuade him not to take risks!"
"Suriname is a restricted area!"
Gui Ling nodded seriously.
However, she remembered Comrade Xu Ji's request and asked: "Sister Tan, everyone, who knows besides the Suriname ghost tree, what other ghosts can bear fruit?"
Sister Tan blinked and remembered that Gui Ling seemed to have said before that the suspected reborn immortal was looking for a demon that could bring results!
There was something strange in Sister Tan's beautiful eyes. She nodded and replied: "Yes, yes, but the plant-form monsters and ghosts that can bear fruit are all mixed types, and they are basically the same as the Suriname ghost tree, which is extremely powerful.
, scary, and all very territorial!”
With that said, Sister Tan leaned over Gui Ling's desk, entered several nouns into the computer, and found the super monsters at the confidentiality level from the database.
They all grow and move in corners far away from human society.
These terrible monsters are all hybrid types.
And it’s extremely mysterious and special!
For humans, the only good news about these terrifying monsters is that they basically don't move.
Has plant-like properties.
They will only occupy a territory and hide in it.
Generally, as long as you don't enter its territory, you won't be attacked.
However, these special types of monsters are a serious concern for human civilization.
At least that's how it seems to the Republic.
Because experts from the Ministry of Public Security have a guess.
They believe that it is the existence of these special hybrid monsters that exist all over the world, far away from human society and cities, that makes it impossible for the monsters on the entire Blue Star to be completely eliminated.
The reason why the martial gods and martial saints of the ancient republic were able to kill all the demons and ghosts was.
It is extremely likely that those Martial Gods and Martial Saints will completely eliminate these culprits!
They are the source of demons and ghosts.
It's not just the Republic that has such speculation.
Sister Tan knows that demon and ghost research institutions in other major countries have similar conjectures.
Some people even have direct evidence.
It is precisely for this reason that these special monsters are actually protected by some major countries in the name of "environmental protection."
They just didn't say, "The lives of demons and ghosts also matter".
the reason is simple.
The era of demons and ghosts has lasted for more than twenty years.
In the past twenty years, the entire Blue Star, except for a few countries such as the Republic, has in fact been kidnapped by the demon economy.
Especially those developed countries that have chosen the policy of coexisting with monsters.
Everything is irreversible!
Before the era of ghosts, these countries with developed capital were accustomed to making profits as the goal.
When they discovered that the benefits that demons and ghosts could bring were far beyond their imagination.
The upper levels began to deliberately guide and deceive the middle and lower levels.
Their reasons, at first glance, actually make sense.
You see, facts have proven that banning demons and ghosts requires a high cost and price.
In other words, taxes will be increased.
And it’s a massive tax increase!
After all, everything in capital society is service.
Services require a fee.
However, the higher-ups were unwilling to pay this amount of money for Mudleg.
Moreover, because of the existence of monsters, housing prices in wealthy areas have taken off.
In the past, wealthy areas could only sell land, education, and medical care.
But now, safety has become a hard demand, causing housing prices in wealthy areas, especially top-tier wealthy areas that are absolutely safe, to rise steadily.
If the subprime mortgage crisis comes again a hundred times, it will not bring down the housing prices in wealthy areas!
This creates countless wealth and GDP!
The massive amounts of money printed by quantitative easing created a large reservoir.
This reservoir is stronger than stocks and treasury bonds in the past!
After all, stocks will fall and government bonds will be overissued.
But safety is always a hard requirement!
Therefore, the housing prices in wealthy areas where security companies are responsible for providing security protection services will never fall!
It will only rise!
Just like a perpetual motion machine!
The middle class and the property-owning class were all attracted.
Moreover, the demand for security has led to the rapid development of the entire industrial chain and the unprecedented prosperity of the capital market.
The money printed by the bank finally has a place to go.
Stagflation? It doesn’t exist!
Inflation? Whatever!
Even the resistance at the bottom has been eliminated.
Because the existence of monsters and ghosts can push countless things to monsters and ghosts.
Basically, countries that choose to live with monsters.
The upper class got the expensive magic medicine and spiritual herbs they needed that could cure all diseases.
The middle class and the average small class received a check that can always maintain its value.
Only those at the bottom, those who have no education, no skills, no assets, and have been abandoned in the first place, fall into the Asura Hell and become the prey of demons and ghosts.
Of course, countries will also clean up and control slums regularly.
On the one hand, harvest the spiritual objects and magical medicines that accompany monsters and ghosts.
On the other hand, it is out of consideration of strictly controlling the number of demons and ghosts.
After all, if there is a large-scale death event at the bottom.
There's no guarantee that something unexpected won't happen.
Especially those old revolutionary bases with rich experience in struggle like to send the king to the guillotine.
Therefore, they strictly control the degree of this.
At least in their homeland, they don't dare to be too blatant.
Monsters of level B or above that pose a life threat to healthy adults are basically eliminated as soon as they are discovered.
Many martial arts experts from their private security companies will regularly enter slums on a voluntary basis to carry out related clean-up work.
To use the old saying of the Republic: the bandits must be suppressed, but not all!
However, Sister Tan will not talk to Guiling about these things.
Guiling is so cute and kind.
Sister Tan doesn't want such a kind and lovely girl to know the dark side of the world.
…
Waited for about half an hour.
Leader Tongtian heard the notification sound of his cell phone.
He picked it up and took a look. Guiling sent a 'document' called: Special Mixed Result Demon Ghost through his authority.
Leader Tongtian looked at it, and with a light touch of his finger, the so-called file was opened on the phone.
Pictures, paragraphs of text, paragraphs of descriptions, and introductions come into view.
Leader Tongtian looked at them one by one.
"Well..." He looked at those huge towering behemoths.
Look at the hyphae exposed in the deep pits.
I also looked at the various creatures being manipulated and controlled in each photo.
Humans are even monsters!
He watched carefully.
"How do I see these so-called 'special hybrids' with the characteristics of the so-called 'swarm structure', the methods used by demons and ghosts to control, enslave and manipulate others..."
"Is it so similar to Western methods?"
Degree!
It is the most symbolic and characteristic magical power in Buddhism.
Forcibly distort, control, freeze, and guide the thinking and consciousness of sentient beings.
However, the methods used by these 'ghosts' are extremely rough and crude.
Not only does it not have any solemn or sacred feeling.
On the contrary, it is full of evil and weirdness.
However, this is understandable.
Because the origin of Western religion has a very close relationship with the Demon Ancestor and even the Nine Nether Sea of Blood.
Therefore, the methods of these ‘demon ghosts’ look very familiar to the Tongtian Cult Master!
Obviously, the visitor from the ancient world is not only related to the Styx.
There is also some subtle connection with Western religion.
"Interesting! Interesting!"
Lord Tongtian thought.
He planned to give it a few more days to get used to it, then go and have a meeting in person, capture a 'demon ghost' that enslaves and controls others, dig out its core, and let the Golden Crow's true fire burn it and burn out its origin!
Perhaps, in the Golden Crow True Fire, the traces left by the ancient visitor will appear.
Therefore, the Tongtian leader carefully selected a demon that Xu Ji should be able to defeat from the dozen or so pictures sent by Guiling.
It was a giant demon named Naga Ghost Tree.
It is located in the mountains at the junction of a country called Siam and Khmer.
This demon has an above-ground structure thirty meters high and seven meters wide.
Moreover, she has already given birth.
Obviously, this foreign substance will produce strange results.
For Xu Ji, this exotic fruit is the best nourishment.
For the Houtu Body Refining Technique, the strange fruit produced by this sinister evil thing should also be of great benefit.
While I was thinking this, my phone rang again.
But it was a message from Guiling.
"Comrade Xu Ji, you don't want to attack these monsters, do you?"
Leader Tongtian laughed and replied: "Good!"
A saint never lies or deceives.
"Ah!" Gui Ling was obviously frightened. She typed almost immediately: "Comrade Xu Ji... this is very dangerous!"
Seeing this, Master Tongtian smiled. He thought for a while, continued to tap with one finger, and replied to Gui Ling: "It doesn't matter!"
