409: Animals? No, that's a person! (Two chapters to wish you a happy National Day!)

The communication connected.

Song Qingfeng immediately said, "Lin Yang, the Alien Management Bureau has received your request for support and has dispatched the appropriate assistance. By now, you should have seen the Alien Management Bureau's support arrive at your planet. Have you confirmed your safety?"

"Thank you for your concern, Director. I am relatively safe now, and I have received support," Lin Yang replied.

"Alright, is your current environment suitable for continuing this call?" Song Qingfeng asked again.

"It's convenient." Lin Yang looked around. The Seventh Legion had split into two groups. One team surrounded the tavern, while the other was on guard around him.

"Good then, let me ask you, do you know the special nature of a critical-level mission?" Song Qingfeng went straight to the point.

"I do," Lin Yang nodded.

Before Song Qingfeng could speak, he knew what Song Qingfeng wanted to ask and immediately followed up:

"Director, you want to confirm if I mistakenly issued this level of distress call, right?"

"Hmm," Song Qingfeng nodded directly upon hearing this.

He did indeed have a slight doubt in his heart. Although he immediately authorized support upon receiving the distress call, he honestly still had a tiny bit of apprehension.

Lin Yang, after all, was new to the Alien Management Bureau and was on his first mission. To issue a critical-level distress call without stating the dangerous factors of the mission, and even trigger an internal warning from the mission System that the mission could escalate to a race-annihilation level alert at any time—

He was genuinely a little worried that Lin Yang might have sent it by mistake.

Lin Yang gave a wry smile, "Director, I didn't send it by mistake. This mission has indeed gone out of control, and the situation is complex."

Song Qingfeng's eyes immediately narrowed, and he asked gravely, "If that's the case, why didn't you state the dangerous factors of the mission when you requested aid?"

"Ah?" Lin Yang was stunned, momentarily unsure how to answer.

When he submitted the critical-level distress call, the Alien Management Bureau's mission System did ask him to provide a reason, but at the time, he couldn't provide one, so he left it to the System to handle.

But from Song Qingfeng's words... the System didn't provide a reason?

"What the hell, System, you didn't provide a reason?" Lin Yang was very shocked.

If no reason was provided, how did it make the Alien Management Bureau's mission System issue a critical-level distress call?

You know, this was a critical-level distress call!

The Alien Management Bureau's mission System would only issue such a high-level distress call after repeatedly confirming the danger level was met.

But now, without providing a reason, the mission System actually issued the distress call.

This... "Host, at that time, the chain of evidence had not been corroborated. The System subtly used technology to bypass some of the Alien Management Bureau mission System's rule restrictions, allowing the mission System to issue the distress call."

"..." Lin Yang fell silent.

For a moment, he didn't know whether to marvel at the System's power or to say that the mission System had a bug.

The most powerful mission System in the entire Human Universe Alliance could actually be bypassed by the System using its rules!

If this were invaded by a malicious hacker...

The System seemed to know Lin Yang's concerns, or perhaps simply wanted to explain, and continued:

"Host, please rest assured. The Alien Management Bureau's mission System is already incredibly robust and powerful. Under normal circumstances, there should be no hacker team from any civilization in the Ten Thousand Universes capable of invading and damaging the mission System to cause trouble for the Alien Management Bureau."

"Uh... alright. Has the chain of evidence been confirmed now?" Lin Yang was momentarily stunned, then immediately asked.

Song Qingfeng was communicating with him now precisely because he wanted to know the specific reasons.

He himself also wanted to know what the System had detected that could cause such a stir.

Just then, seeing Lin Yang lost in thought, Song Qingfeng spoke again:

"Lin Yang, what exactly happened there? When you requested aid, you asked for the planet to be blockaded and for everyone in the tavern to be apprehended. I need to know the reasons for all of this."

Lin Yang's conversation with the System, though seemingly not short, actually only took a few seconds. Now, hearing Song Qingfeng ask again, he quickly said:

"Director, please give me five minutes. I will provide you with a detailed report explaining the reasons shortly."

"Oh? Still need five minutes? Is the situation very complex?" Song Qingfeng frowned.

"Yes, it's very complex!" Lin Yang nodded.

Song Qingfeng looked at Lin Yang through the communication terminal, his gaze grave for a full ten seconds, before saying:

"I can't give you five minutes. Two minutes, I can only give you two minutes at most right now. Because of your critical-level distress call, the Alliance has dispatched legions to blockade the planet and the universe, and has apprehended Foreign races. We need to account for these actions to others!"

"Blockading a neutral planet without any reason... the impact is huge!"

Song Qingfeng's eyes were deep. "If you cannot provide a specific reason within two minutes, the Alliance legions will have to temporarily withdraw. We cannot blockade a neutral planet and detain Foreign races without knowing the reason; they are already protesting to us."

At this point, Song Qingfeng looked deeply at Lin Yang: "Also, unless the reason is significant enough, I won't be able to smooth things over for you this time."

He had already given Lin Yang unconditional trust by persuading other departments to authorize immediate support without any reason given.

But now, there had to be a reason compelling enough to convince everyone.

The Human Alliance was very powerful, but it wasn't without adversaries. Taking action against neutral planets and neutral races without any justification or reason would have an unimaginably large impact.

It could cause many originally neutral races to side with hostile forces.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, even the most warlike races in the universe would not easily move against any neutral planet or neutral race.

He had already received numerous inquiries demanding an explanation.

Five minutes, normally, would be nothing, but in the current situation, it was too long!

Lin Yang understood Song Qingfeng's meaning and immediately said, "Alright, then two minutes!"

Song Qingfeng had directly provided him with support even without him giving any reason.

This trust deeply moved Lin Yang.

The reason he needed a little time now was to first learn the specific reasons from the System, and then provide a report to Song Qingfeng.

Saying five minutes earlier was actually leaving some leeway; two minutes now was completely enough!

After all, his communication with the System was not communication in the ordinary sense. Some exchanges, while seemingly long in text, actually took a very short amount of time.

Then, Lin Yang ended the communication and directly asked the System, "Now you can tell me the real reason, right?"

The System then said:

"Alright, Host, the chain of evidence has been corroborated. The System's detection results, after data comparison, have also been confirmed: the Foreign races in the tavern performed primitive genetic modification and recombination on the captured humans. The cattle and sheep you saw in the tavern's backyard pasture area earlier were, in fact, humans whose primitive genes had been modified. To put it simply, they turned people... into animals!"

The System uttered something so shocking it was almost unbelievable!

Lin Yang's face instantly changed drastically, his pupils involuntarily widened, and his heart was instantly engulfed in a tumultuous storm!

What did the System say?

Those Foreign races turned people into animals??

???

!!!

Lin Yang was dumbfounded!

Before this, he had thought of countless possibilities.

He had considered the greatest possibility to be the Mingye Clan capturing humans to feed cattle and sheep, and the cattle and sheep having issues detected by the System because they ate human flesh.

But, no matter what, he had never imagined that the truth would be like this!

Turning people into animals!

This was too horrifying!

"Sy-System, are you... not joking?" Lin Yang's throat bobbed, and he unconsciously swallowed.

This news was simply too astonishing!

No!

To be precise, it was too terrifying!

Even with his wildest imagination, he had never conceived of the possibility of turning people into animals!

Or rather, he simply couldn't imagine such a thing!

Lin Yang even felt it was somewhat absurd, like something out of a fantasy!

To transform a living person into an animal, is that something a human could even conceive of?

"Host, the System understands your current feelings, but the fact is indeed so. The other party, using technological techniques prohibited by High-Dimensional Universe civilizations, completed the primitive genetic compilation and modification of humans. Then, through some special means, they transformed them into the cattle and sheep you saw earlier, and openly displayed them on shelves for Foreign races with special tastes to select and consume!"

The System once again spoke astonishingly, and then, without giving Lin Yang time to react, continued:

"Also, the burly man Sang Kui in the tavern earlier, he is not a true human. Instead, through genetic recombination and modification technology, some active human genes were injected into his original body, making him infinitely close to human."

"...No wonder some of the things that Sang Kui said made me feel very awkward, making me feel like he wasn't a real human, as if he had only recently become human and hadn't yet adapted to his new identity."

Lin Yang's scalp instantly tingled!

Turning people into animals to be slaughtered and sold, and also making special races infinitely close to humans!

What were they trying to do?!

Lin Yang didn't dare to delve deeper into the thought.

If they possessed such technology, transforming large numbers of humans into animals for slaughter and sale, and if unsuspecting humans ate the meat of these human-turned-animals, how terrifying would that be?

"They even opened a shop next door to the tavern, selling freshly slaughtered beef and mutton in the morning, and specifically said that humans get a discount! They deserve to die!!"

Lin Yang felt an endless surge of murderous intent!

For the first time, he was so furious!

Turning people into cattle and sheep, then specifically selling them to humans!

Their intention was utterly damnable!

"It's deliberate, they are absolutely deliberate. They want to use this to test if humans can discover it, and also to make humans eat the flesh of their own kind!"

Lin Yang's eyes were cold.

He could even imagine the smug expressions of the Skinny Goat-Beard Old Man and the Black-Robed Ghostly Man and others as they watched other unsuspecting humans happily buy and consume that beef and mutton!

This was no longer something that could be described as a sick sense of humor or a so-called special preference!

This was pure perversion!

The moment he recalled the pitiful sight of those teary-eyed cattle and sheep actively rubbing against him yesterday, the killing intent in Lin Yang's heart surged again!

"They transformed humans into animals, yet still retained human consciousness, but removed their vocal cords and speech function, making them helplessly watch themselves being slaughtered as animals and eaten by their own kind!"

"They deserve to die!!"

The more he thought about some of the details from yesterday, the angrier Lin Yang became.

That Skinny Goat-Beard Old Man had even smugly said that their cattle and sheep were special types, carnivores!

Humans, aren't they carnivores?

"Damn it, I can't take it anymore. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. I'm going to kill those damned things!"

Lin Yang stood up; he couldn't stand it any longer!

The System, however, said, "Host, please remain calm. The primary task now is not to kill these insignificant pawns, but to interrogate them thoroughly and uncover all the masterminds behind them!"

Lin Yang's movement to stand paused.

The System continued, "This kind of thing isn't something they can pull off alone. There must be someone hidden behind them, and the mastermind harbors ill intentions."

"This human genetic modification and recombination technology has been completely prohibited and destroyed in High-Dimensional Universe civilizations, yet it has reappeared here, indicating that someone is attempting to scheme a colossal plot against humanity."

"At the same time, the source of this human genetic modification and recombination technology must also be traced. After the System loaded the corresponding information modules, it has been confirmed that in the High-Dimensional Universe civilization that originally developed this technology, it was only developed halfway before being prohibited and destroyed. But what has appeared now is a complete genetic modification and recombination technology!"

"Although this technology has not yet reached a truly perfect state and still has some flaws, this indicates that High-Dimensional Universe Life is involved. With the slightest carelessness, humanity faces the danger of annihilation!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Yang's face changed drastically again: "System, what did you say? High-Dimensional Universe Life is involved in this matter? Are you sure?"

"Yes, Host, because even if all the portions of this technology that were developed back then were placed among the Ten Thousand Universes, no civilization in the Ten Thousand Universes would be able to continue the latter half of the development. Not even all the ninth-level civilizations combined could do it!"

The System gave a definite answer:

"Therefore, the appearance of the complete technology now means High-Dimensional Universe Life must be involved. This is also why the System previously said that this mission had even reached the point where a Human Race annihilation alert could be issued!"

"Because High-Dimensional Universe Life possesses unimaginable power and means!"

"Whether it's technological power or their own strength, what High-Dimensional Universe Life controls is beyond the imagination of anyone in the Ten Thousand Universes!"

"With High-Dimensional Universe Life taking action, let alone the Human Race, the Ten Thousand Universes themselves could be annihilated and plunged into eternal silence."

"..." Lin Yang's heart instantly shook violently.

Everything the System said, it could be said that every sentence fiercely impacted his inner being and reshaped his worldview and understanding.

He needed a little time to process and accept it.

"Host, time is running out. Please directly submit this comparative evidence to the Alien Management Bureau."

The System didn't give Lin Yang much time to think, placing the experimental comparative evidence for detecting the cattle and sheep in the System space, and simultaneously said:

"Host, this time, not only is humanity in danger of extinction, but every Life form and race in the Ten Thousand Universes faces this danger. We must destroy the genetic recombination and modification technology before the other party can fully develop it to a perfect stage, and find the High-Dimensional Universe Life form behind it, while also preparing defenses to counter the extinction crisis."

"Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable!"

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