My name is Gao Bin, and I am a member of the Asian League’s Weird Countermeasures Bureau.
I am currently working in the Nevada City Criminal Police Detachment. Because I used the armor too frequently, my mental erosion entered the yellow warning line, so I was forced to take a leave of absence by my superiors.
marvelous! I have been looking forward to this day for who knows how long. Although due to the influence of my status in the Weird Countermeasures Bureau, I can only work in public institutions. The so-called vacation is just to move away from the front line and work in a different place to cultivate my spirit. But at least I don't have to face those weird evil thoughts. , I can finally enjoy fishing and paddling!
People often say that ideals and reality are always far apart, and now I understand it deeply.
After fighting those ghosts for so many years, I thought I could enjoy fishing this time, but I met a workaholic captain when I first came to work.
I don't know if he misunderstood the meaning of the word "take care of" from above. No matter what he does, he takes me with him. Twenty-four hours a day, nearly half of the time, he takes me everywhere with him. It's called "exercise". .
Why did it become like this... I have obviously been transferred away from the front line, and my superiors have clearly agreed to arrange a casual job for me. The coincidence of two happy things should have doubled the happiness, but why did it happen? It became like this...
I called Dr. Yue and asked him to transfer me to the technical department.
It turned out that Captain Shi was actually the apprentice of an old acquaintance of Dr. Yue. In this damn human society, I was so disheartened that I started working a high-intensity overtime life.
This kind of life is not what I want!
I have made great contributions to the Asian League!
I shed blood for the people!
I want to fish!
One afternoon, I mustered up the courage to come to Captain Shi and plan to share my suffering.
"Gao Bin, go and sort the files. You can get off work after sorting them out. I have already approved your leave application."
"receive!"
In fact, this kind of life is quite good.
The public security in Neihua City is good, and the criminal police team rarely has the opportunity to be dispatched. Even if Captain Shi keeps adding more burdens to me, it is only trivial matters.
More than two years have passed without realizing it. Recently, I encountered a matryoshka case and met a cold-faced middle school student.
This case is just like filming a TV series, with one link within another. As the protagonist, he can always find clues before the police and notify the criminal police team.
Even the usually stern captain was full of praise for him and tried to train him as his successor.
The case was settled at the speed of light, and I felt at ease.
It would be great if he was involved in every case in the future.
He will gain fame as a good detective, responsible for investigating clues, and I will arrest people based on clues and evidence, and everyone will have a bright future.
Just when I was fantasizing about happily paddling behind the boy, I suddenly received an order.
According to the test, my mental state has stabilized, and it will be time to return to work at the Weird Countermeasures Bureau in a month.
Happy time is always short, I can only cherish this last month.
In order to test my mental state, I tried to activate the colonization armor embedded in my arm, and I sensed an unexpected aura. The source of that aura was none other than Xu Zhihai, the central figure in the two murder cases.
It is very possible that he has come into contact with those monsters or strange objects.
I reported it to my superiors, with the intention of letting others come over to take over the investigation, but in the end, the job was directly assigned to me who was still on vacation...
What bad luck.
The so-called monsters... they are monsters anyway. I am not a researcher and cannot understand what these things are. I only know that their existence is a threat to any living thing.
The history of their appearance is not that long, just in the past few decades, but as time goes by, their number is increasing and their appearance is becoming more and more frequent. In the past, they only appeared once in a city every year or two, but in the past year, they have appeared more and more frequently. Appears more than a dozen times a year.
Just like the setting in the movie, it is difficult for human weapons to destroy them, just like if you use a knife to chop a ball of liquid, it will not cause effective damage at all.
After research, it was discovered that only energy weapons, such as positron cannons, could harm them.
However, the technology of the positron cannon was not mature enough to be widely used. Just when people were at their wits' end, the West Country, which pursued a closed-door, semi-capital and semi-feudal approach, sent a secret document to the other four major political systems.
The content of this document is horrifying, detailing experiments to fuse humans and monsters, and stating that only monsters can fight against monsters.
Humans who have merged with monsters will have a lifespan ranging from one month to ten years, depending on the strength of the monster's power and the will of the experimenter.
All the major political bodies denounced this inhumane experiment, and then privately began to create fusion warriors.
The West Country has no trade relations with the other four major political systems at all, and its military power is extremely strong.
After they send the news, they continue to close the country and no one will tolerate you. There is nothing you can do against them.
Of course, not everyone who fuses monsters is bound to die. Apostles can control those monsters without any side effects.
The so-called apostles are human beings who are born with the ability to control strange items and monsters. If everyone in the strategy bureau is graded according to the company structure.
Those who use force-bred armor and cursed objects are the grassroots workers; the fusion warriors who forcibly merge with monsters as humans and control the power of monsters are the management; the apostles are the VIPs passed down from generation to generation by the tycoons of the 18th generation, and the relatives of God. Son, there may not be even one rare species among hundreds of thousands of people.
The meaning of this title is the messenger sent by God to save mankind and represents the hope of mankind.
However, I have never met the apostles in the Countermeasures Bureau for almost ten years, and I have only heard rumors about them.
The news sounds like one of the top ten unbelievable things on campus, but it can barely compete with urban legends, so it's just fun.
The only person I saw who might be an apostle was Xu Zhihai. He was contaminated with the aura of strange items but did not receive any spiritual erosion. This is one of the most remarkable characteristics of an apostle.
Every special item that protects humans from corrosion is too precious to be abused, so he is most likely the legendary apostle.
But judging from the reaction above, this possibility should be unlikely... Tsk, thank you for my swearing to give upward feedback. It seems that they are a bastard and are determined to let me solve the problem in Nevada City alone.
The topic returned to the mission.
Based on Xu Zhihai’s whereabouts, I found the source of the abnormal smell. Yes, it was Wang Dafu, a middle-aged man sitting at the counter of the grocery store opposite.
Xu Zhihai got the smell after shopping at his house.
According to the investigation, he recently destroyed a stronghold of an underground intelligence agent. Looking at the iconic white crying face mask on the surveillance records, I am 100% sure that he must be one of the masks belonging to the Thousand Faces Man.
It's just that he was not very lucky. It happened that Xu Zhihai was buying something in his store, and I was discovered by me who was following Xu Zhihai.
The Man with a Thousand Faces is the codename of an apostle. This guy comes from an organization called the Apostles. He searches for the whereabouts of apostles around the world and invites them to join.
It is from there that the most widely used method of identifying the apostles is derived.
It is a pity that this Apostle Society can clearly become the hope of mankind, but in the end almost all of its members are lunatics. Although they still retain human consciousness, their behavior is more like monsters with human consciousness. Each one of them ignores the rules and acts arbitrarily. , just care about yourself and not care about the feelings of others.
In their eyes, there is no difference between human beings and animals. Unfettered power has always been a thorn in the side of the founders of order, so the Apostles have always been the target of collective crusade by major political institutions.
The Man with a Thousand Faces is the most active member of the Apostolic Society and is responsible for recruiting apostles from all over the world. His ability is to possess ordinary people through the mask he made. His consciousness can switch back and forth between puppets, hiding behind the scenes and controlling everything like a puppet master.
Due to the excessive number, the Asian Federation gave those puppets a separate ethnic code name "Mask".
The Wang Dafu I am monitoring now is a member of the Mask.
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Ai Liang was the last person to arrive at Wang Dafu's grocery store. He hid in a nearby alley and observed the situation.
There were several men with fierce faces sitting in the snack bar opposite the grocery store. Without exception, they all cast their eyes on Wang Dafu behind the counter. This should be the debt collection team invited by Mus.
Ai Liang cared more about Gao Bin in the car across the street than these people.
Why is he here too?
Ai Liang frowned. It would be okay if they were all from the black zone, but if Gao Bin, a criminal police officer, was mixed in, many methods would not be so convenient to use, and he could not be silenced.
Due to Gao Bin's unexpected intervention, Ai Liang could only give up his plan to kidnap and torture, and temporarily joined the team observing Wang Dafu.
The fat tech geek was giggling at the computer. He was typing on the keyboard quickly on his laptop with a smile on his face, not realizing that his every move was under the surveillance of others.
Half an hour later, Wang Dafu answered the phone, and the happiness he felt just now disappeared without a trace.
He closed his notebook, pulled down the rolling door, started his second-hand car and left the grocery store.
Gao Bin immediately drove behind him, and the five men from the snack bar also got into a van and followed quietly. Ai Liang, who had no means of transportation, could only raise his hand and call a taxi.
Fortunately, thanks to telepathy, no one was lost.
The three teams of people followed Wang Dafu's car all the way to Neihua District 7, which is still in the construction stage. Although Neihua City has been vigorously promoting the new district, the actual flow of people has not increased much, except for the morning and evening peaks. During this period, the new district was like a ghost town.
Wang Dafu parked his car in front of a building materials warehouse, looked around, and entered the warehouse through the side door.
After Gao Bin made a circle, he parked his car a hundred meters away. The debt collection team hired by Mu Si was separated from Gao Bin by a high wall.
A small warehouse gathered four people from different forces, and a melee was inevitable.
"I am currently located near the building materials warehouse in the New Seventh District. Warehouse No. 3 is suspected to be the stronghold of the mask..." Gao Bin sat in the car and contacted the Rangers of the Countermeasures Bureau.
The Rangers are a special armed force directly under the Countermeasures Bureau. No non-Countermeasures Bureau personnel can be mobilized. They possess the most advanced weapons and equipment, and each member is the best of the elite troops from the local military region.
Mainly responsible for the evacuation of ordinary people, post-event finishing, and the suppression of force by non-weird forces.
Gao Bin called for support just to call them over to finish it off. A group of masks couldn't make any waves. Compared with himself with the strong reproductive armor, he was just a healthy ordinary person at best.
He has experienced this kind of task countless times in his career, and the process has long been familiar to him.
While Gao Bin was still doing the long reporting work, the five-person team next door had quietly walked over.
