59: The aftermath of Yangjiao Bay

Reaching for his phone, Yang Dian opened the internal network and started typing up an application.

“In a breakfast shop on Pingshui Street, Changle District, a 25-centimeter long white feather was found.

Unknown energy was detected at the feather’s root, suspected to have detached from an unknown creature.

The breakfast shop owner’s daughter has not been seen for four days and actively shielded her phone camera.

She may possess an Awakening talent and potentially be raising a mutated creature.

I hereby request permission to use the APP, enable the minor identification authority, and obtain relevant information.

Additionally, I request access to the Sky Net surveillance around her residence for monitoring.

Applicant: Yang Dian, Second-Level Peacekeeper of the Special Administration Bureau.”

As soon as the report was submitted, Yang Dian received a receipt the next moment.

“Application approved, relevant permissions have been opened. — Di Ting.”

Di Ting, one of the artificial intelligences at the Special Administration Bureau headquarters, is primarily used to improve the bureau's efficiency.

Without Di Ting, it would take at least half an hour for Yang Dian's report to receive a response.

But with Di Ting, as long as the situation is true and the conditions are reasonable, approval is granted in minutes.

After the relevant permissions were opened, Yang Dian did not rush to operate, but instead focused on the breakfast served before him.

The permission he received was only for mobilizing Sky Net cameras.

The authority to enable facial recognition on the APP rested with Di Ting.

Only after Di Ting verified it would the relevant photos and videos be sent to him.

Although the process was troublesome, it didn't make Yang Dian wait long.

In less than three minutes, while Yang Dian was still dealing with his breakfast, three pictures and a short video were sent to his phone.

Looking back at Sun Li, who was still busy behind the breakfast stall, Yang Dian freed his left hand and opened his phone.

The next moment, Sun Yuwei’s photo appeared on the phone.

His gaze lingered for a while on Sun Yuwei’s noticeably disharmonious back and shoulder blades, then Yang Dian turned off his phone screen and focused on his breakfast.

Clearly, Sun Yuwei had Awakened a talent.

And the Awakened talent was something like physical mutation, probably causing her to grow body organs similar to wings.

‘After I go to the Public Security Bureau to pick up the express package from headquarters and change into my new Policeman uniform, I’ll visit Sun Li’s house.’

‘Hmm, perhaps I’ll have to wait until Sun Li closes his stall… ’

While he was thinking, Yang Dian's phone screen suddenly lit up, and the ringtone immediately followed.

Looking at the caller ID on the screen, Yang Dian suddenly felt a tightening in his heart for some reason.

“Hello, Captain?”

“What’s up, calling me so early in the morning?”

“Are you up yet?”

“Of course I’m up, I usually wake up with the sun.”

“What? Hurry to the bureau? Did something big happen?”

“Yangjiao Bay?”

“I understand, I’m coming over now.”

“Directly to the large conference room?”

“Okay, I got it!”

Hanging up the phone, Yang Dian didn't have time to finish the unfinished soy milk on the table.

After scanning the code to pay, he sprinted towards the Public Security Bureau:

“Boss, I’ve paid!”

...The Public Security Bureau is not far from Pingshui Street, only a few hundred meters away.

Running at full speed, Yang Dian took less than a minute to rush into the large conference room.

After bursting into the conference room with a gust of wind, Yang Dian realized that not only their Seventh Squad members were there.

There was also a team of 12 people, sitting in the seats belonging to the Fifth Squad.

In addition, there were three people in blue military uniforms.

The person leading those in blue military uniforms had two bars and one star on his shoulder.

‘Major rank?’

As the thought arose, Yang Dian saw Lin Mo wave to him.

After Yang Dian smoothly walked to his seat and sat down, the two blue-uniformed soldiers guarding the conference room door closed it.

As the door closed, Wang Quan, who had not slept all night and whose eyes were bloodshot, stood at the podium and turned on the projector:

“Everyone’s here, so I won’t dawdle; I’ll get straight to the point.”

“Last night, based on a tip from an enthusiastic citizen, we discovered that foreign personnel were transporting drugs in the Yangjiao Bay area, and the quantity was exceptionally large.”

“Adhering to our consistent stance against drugs, our special operations team dispatched an armed force to strike at the drug traffickers.”

“The initial phase went smoothly.”

“There were no incidents before we surrounded Yangjiao Bay.”

“Although the situation in the Middle Stage was somewhat beyond our expectations, it did not exceed our control.”

“That group of drug traffickers were fanatics carrying gene injection agents.

After being encircled, they directly injected unstable gene agents into their bodies.”

“Under the influence of the agents, these fanatics all suffered genetic collapse and self-destructed.”

As he spoke, a series of images flashed across the projection screen.

“The drug cartel leader Charles, his subordinates Clayton, Romu, Benjamin, and our country’s top wanted criminal Tian Xin have disappeared.”

“Please note, among the five, Charles possesses a spatial transfer talent, which is what novels call teleportation.”

“Clayton possesses a gigantification talent, with his strength reaching the district level.”

“Romu possesses a beast taming talent, capable of controlling small animals and influencing medium-sized animals.”

“Benjamin possesses mental hypnosis ability, capable of subtly hypnotizing people into becoming fanatics for others.”

“These four individuals ostensibly work for America’s Agency for International Development.”

“But after confirmation by our internal source, the leader of the four, Charles, is actually a dark agent of the England Kingdom.”

“He infiltrated America 17 years ago, arranged by England’s MI6.”

At this point, Wang Quan paused to take a breath and sipped his tea.

Taking advantage of this break, Uncle Xiao, the captain of the Fifth Squad, stood up:

“So, the objective of our mission this time is to find the Awakened drug trafficking team led by Charles?”

Wang Quan shook his head and pressed a button on the remote control in his hand.

As the projection screen changed, he pointed to the blood-red Yangjiao Bay and said:

“Charles and the others are just a minor issue; the real problem is in the sea.”

“After Charles and the others left, and the beast-men who injected unstable gene agents self-destructed, we dispatched a team into the Luanshi Reef of Yangjiao Bay to collect the flesh and blood left behind by the beast-men’s self-destruction, as well as any test tubes that might contain residual gene agents.”

“The accident occurred at this very moment.”

As he spoke, Wang Quan opened the last video.

The seawater was shaking, the reefs were collapsing, and several hundred-meter-long tentacles suddenly rose from the sea.

The suckers on the tentacles adhered to the shattered flesh and blood of the beast-men, and when they retreated into the sea, they also swept away several warriors who hadn’t had time to react.

“It is the key reason I called you all here.”

In a low voice, the armed helicopters in the sky began to fire wildly at the seabed.

Bullets forming a continuous line plunged into the sea, stirring up huge splashes.

“Three minutes later, under the deluge of bullets, the mutated octopus still showed no sign of surfacing.”

“Realizing that the warriors dragged down were likely doomed, I immediately gave the order to fire missiles.”

As Wang Quan finished speaking, 11 armed helicopters in the projection simultaneously launched missiles.

The violent explosion instantly churned the entire Yangjiao Bay.

Then, an enormous monster, its body covered in colorful fleshy growths, burst through the sea level, stirring up countless seawater, and appeared before Yang Dian’s eyes...