217: He is Lin Yu

Lin Yu stood there quietly, watching this group of uninvited guests.

A person who looked like a commander walked out from the group.

His tactical helmet was different from the others; the visor was completely transparent, revealing a weathered face, about forty years old, with sharp eyes.

He strode up to Lin Yu and stopped at a distance of about five meters.

"I am Zhou Zheng, captain of the Ninth Task Force of the Linzhou Special Operations Department."

His opening statement was concise and powerful, without any nonsense.

"What happened here? Please cooperate with our investigation."

Lin Yu did not answer immediately.

His attention was focused more on a patch of charred ground not far away.

That was where the Abyss Domain assistant had stood last.

Not even a trace of ash remained.

Truly ground to dust and scattered.

However, he certainly wouldn't bring this up voluntarily and invite trouble.

Zhou Zheng's appearance immediately brought the scene under control.

The well-trained Special Operations Department members began to act in an orderly manner.

Several members stepped forward, quickly subduing the unconscious Li Wen and his two Tianqing Experts, tying them up tightly with special restraint straps.

Other members walked towards Lin Yao and Wang Qingxuan, as well as the students trembling in the corner of the street.

"Students, don't be nervous. We are from the Linzhou City Special Operations Department, and we need you to go over there for a simple inquiry." A female member's voice was very gentle, attempting to soothe the students' emotions.

Lin Yao and Wang Qingxuan looked at each other, both seeing a trace of bewilderment in the other's eyes.

The development of events had completely exceeded their scope of understanding.

But they still obediently followed the members to the designated area.

Lin Yu was also "invited" over by a member, treated just like everyone else as an ordinary student.

The whole process was orderly, yet it exuded an unquestionable force.

Zhou Zheng stood on the spot, watching his subordinates work, but his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

"Captain, what is going on lately? Linzhou City is like a hornet's nest that's been poked." The adjutant beside him complained in a low voice, "We haven't even figured out that massive thunderstorm that covered the whole city a few days ago, and today another incident like this has happened."

"Shut up and get to work." Zhou Zheng interrupted him coldly.

The adjutant shrank his neck, not daring to say another word.

But Zhou Zheng's mood was indeed the same as the weather in Linzhou City these past few days—overcast and gloomy.

As the captain of the Special Operations Department, he knew better than anyone that this city was experiencing turbulent undercurrents.

Those messy abnormal incidents were happening with increasing frequency and scale.

The weather department still couldn't give a reasonable explanation for the thunderstorm a few days ago, only saying it was a once-in-a-century extreme weather event.

But they, as insiders, knew clearly that it was not a natural phenomenon at all!

It was the aftermath of some extremely powerful force losing control or erupting!

And here today...

Zhou Zheng glanced at the charred ground, then looked at the students being taken to give statements not far away.

A group of students, and a few guys who were unconscious.

How much of a commotion could they cause?

However, the energy residue detected by the instruments was shockingly high.

This made him feel that something was very wrong.

On the other side, Li Wen, who had been taken to a corner for separate questioning, finally slowly woke up.

He opened his eyes blankly, and the first thing he saw were two expressionless Special Operations Department members.

"Who are you? Do you know who I am? I'm from the Tianqing Group..."

Before he could finish his clamoring, he was rudely interrupted by one of the members.

"Shut up and answer the questions honestly."

Li Wen then realized he was tied up and instantly sobered up.

His eyes darted around, anxiously searching for something.

Where was the "Your Excellency" from the Abyss Domain? Where was that assassin?

He didn't see those two figures, and his heart immediately settled quite a bit.

They ran away.

They must have run away.

That made sense; how could existences of that level be caught by these ordinary mortals?

As long as they ran away, he was safe.

A great weight fell from Li Wen's heart, and he even began to calculate how to use his Tianqing Group identity to pressure these Special Operations Department people later to get himself out of this.

However, when his gaze inadvertently swept across the center of the street, his entire body froze.

Right at the spot where they had just been standing, there was a large, charred mark on the ground.

It wasn't an ordinary burn mark, but a region exuding an aura of dead silence left behind after some kind of matter had been completely annihilated.

Li Wen's brain buzzed.

He remembered.

He remembered that white light that swallowed everything.

He remembered that young man's eerie action of snapping his fingers again and again.

He looked more closely at the shape of the charred mass...

Li Wen's pupils contracted to the extreme.

That shape was clearly a human figure!

A figure maintaining a forward-charging attack stance!

His face turned as pale as paper in an instant, devoid of any blood.

Impossible.

Absolutely impossible!

"Your Excellency"... died?

Killed by that trash with only 500 in all attributes... using a Lightning Spell... poke by poke... poked to death?

This thought, like the most vicious curse, grew wildly in his mind, making his whole body ice-cold, causing him to tremble uncontrollably.

The inquiry continued.

"Name."

"Lin Yu."

"Age... wait a minute, you are Lin Yu?"

The Special Operations Department member in charge of the inquiry almost dropped the recording board in his hand.

His movements froze; he raised his head and re-examined the young man in front of him who looked ordinary, even somewhat plain.

Lin Yu?

"Which Lin Yu?" He asked subconsciously, his voice carrying a trace of trembling he hadn't even noticed himself.

Lin Yu did not speak, only looking at him calmly.

The member realized it himself; he swallowed hard and asked in a highly uncertain tone: "The profession is... Myriad Card Creator, the one with the 288-star College Entrance Examination difficulty... Lin Yu?"

"It is me."

Lin Yu gave a definitive answer.

Boom!

This answer was no less than another silent thunderstorm exploding in the inquirer's mind.

This Lin Yu was someone Qin Zhan and Zhong Huai had been paying special attention to recently!

It was said that his College Entrance Examination task content was to go on a mission with the Fangs team!

He rushed to Captain Zhou Zheng, almost scrambling and crawling.

"Captain! Captain!"

Zhou Zheng was listening to the inquiry report on Wang Qingxuan from the other side, and his brows furrowed tightly at his subordinate's soul-lost appearance.

"What are you panicking about! Did the sky fall?"

"No, it's not... Captain, that, that student..." The inquirer was incoherent, pointing in Lin Yu's direction, "He said he is Lin Yu!"

Zhou Zheng's movements stalled.

His sharp gaze instantly turned towards Lin Yu.

Zhou Zheng's adjutant also came over, holding a tactical tablet in his hand.

"Captain, this is all the public video data we currently have regarding Lin Yu."

On the tablet, the news footage from the day of the awakening ceremony was playing. A young man with delicate features and an upright posture was standing calmly beside his sister, refusing the sky-high contracts from all companies.

Zhou Zheng and his adjutant, the two of them shifted their gazes back and forth between the tablet screen and Lin Yu not far away.