Ji Gaochuan raised his hands to block the dazzling light, but his arms felt as if they were filled with lead and were difficult to control. Then the soreness overwhelmed every muscle in his body. This feeling reminded him of the time when he was young and had to socialize. period of time.
Chaotic memories surfaced with difficulty, plans, Vulcan, Marn, the Han family, and the Salvation Alliance...
As the surrounding environment slowly became clearer, the dizziness and fatigue gradually faded away, and he slowly saw clearly the room he was in. This was the medical room of the Investigation Department, and he seemed to be lying on a hospital bed.
He pushed himself up with difficulty with both hands and leaned on the pillow.
'What happened? '
Before he could start to think about why he was carried into the ward, the door was pushed open, and a strange middle-aged man walked in. He looked Ji Gaochuan up and down, and then said into the microphone on his collar:
"He's awake and seems to be slowly regaining consciousness. The investigation department's protector protocol is still running normally, right?
"Well, that's no problem. Come over here now. I'll have a few words with him first."
Ji Gaochuan endured the pain and asked:
"Who are you?"
The man reached for a chair and sat down next to the hospital bed:
"Do you remember anything?"
Ji Gaochuan said warily:
"Answer my question first, I don't remember seeing you..."
There is no emotion on the man’s face:
"It seems that you are not completely clear yet. I am a reinforcement sent by the headquarters. You can call me by my code name 'Expert'. We have a small team here, but we are in a parallel cooperation relationship.
"Now I want to ask, do you remember anything?"
Ji Gaochuan also slowly recovered and realized that his vigilance just now was completely unnecessary, because it was normal for reinforcements to arrive at this time, and they should even arrive earlier.
"I only remember the sea water..." He murmured softly, "By the way, who attacked us, where are Ren Qingxue and the others?"
The expert looked regretful:
"They have all been killed. In addition, we have also investigated the local forces in the past few days since we came here. The twelve main family members of the Son of the Ocean who were originally in Gowen State have all disappeared, and we are indoors Signs of evaporation of sea water were detected.
"Due to the darkness of the night, our investigation encountered considerable obstacles. We can only speculate that they should have performed some kind of ritual that required sacrifice of life. Do you think this is related to the sea water you mentioned..."
But before the expert could finish speaking, strong panic appeared on Ji Gaochuan's face:
"Dead? Dead again! I'm the only one left, no..."
The expert skillfully put his hand on Ji Gaochuan's shoulder and said in a soothing tone:
"Don't worry, you are surrounded by the best elite troops in the entire federation. If it weren't for the existence of Secret Night, those members of the Salvation Alliance might have been arrested by us."
Ji Gaochuan shook his head suddenly:
"No, if he is even dead..."
"Calm down." The expert continued, "Behind us is the great Federation. No matter how many level 4 ability users are needed to defeat the opponent, we can dispatch more combatants than required. No one can stop us. "
"The dead Son of Flame has a chosen one, and he is not a simple character." Ji Gaochuan replied.
Experts asked:
"You got a constituent to join the Investigative Unit?"
The expert was about to say something else when he heard familiar heavy footsteps coming from the corridor behind him.
A strong man with muscles all over his body and an arrogant face walked in:
“The chosen ones of the Sons of Fire?
"They're just slaves of Vulcan. I can kill one in three minutes."
Ji Gaochuan looked at the paintings on Leiyu's body, turned to look at the expert and asked:
"Don't you also have sons of gods in your team?"
The expert shook his head:
"His situation is unique."
Leiyu said:
“I am the chosen one favored by Thunder, completely different from other sons of gods.
"Thunder itself is unfettered. This god will not restrain or order us. He gives us power out of his own will, and we use this power according to our own will.
“We and He are free.”
Experts say:
"Leiyu once fought with his compatriots. Children of Thunder often appear in different and even hostile camps, but most of them live alone."
The secret agency "Third Hand" that Lei Yu previously belonged to also had very loose management of its members. After the Investigation Department accepted him, it did not integrate him into the system. Instead, it gave him the title of leader of the hunting team with a high degree of freedom. .
Lei Yu continued:
“The sons of the gods except us are all slaves and servants of the artifact, and the difference between their electors and the ordinary sons of the gods is that they wear more gorgeous shackles, but they are still slaves.
"And I'm a warrior."
Thor now only symbolizes unfettered thunder.
In the past, even the weakest electric light belonged to his domain, and with the advent of the electric age, it has continued to grow stronger, and has even expanded to the point of approaching the sun, and has the drive to continue upward.
But at the same time, the constraints he is subject to continue to increase as his strength increases.
Electric energy can accomplish great things, but it has also been tamed by humans.
To the surprise of all the gods, Thor voluntarily abandoned the part of himself that belonged to modern electricity. He cut off the chained limbs with his own hands and transformed them into the thunder itself hanging high in the sky.
Although this seems to be a lost opportunity to surpass the sun, the sons of thunder understand their gods' actions.
Leiyu is also pursuing power, but the purpose of power is freedom.
After Thor regarded freedom from restraint as one of his most important characteristics, he no longer had the ability to order and restrain his people. Although he could still do so in theory, this was nothing more than a failure to Thor. Self-mutilation.
It is to His benefit that the Sons of Thunder remain free.
Although he is not restricted, it does not mean that the Son of Thunder God has no communication with him.
Most of the Sons of Thunder are grateful for the power He gives, so they will occasionally express their gratitude to Him through blood sacrifices. They will choose dangerous enough opponents to challenge them. This behavior is also to prove that they are still powerful warriors.
In their eyes, strength is the quality closest to freedom.
Sometimes the God of Thunder will try to make his people realize his will, but the sons of Thunder have the right to refuse his requests, so the God of Thunder often provides material or non-material rewards.
"A real warrior will not lose to those slaves who are restrained." Lei Yu said to Ji Gaochuan, "I understand your fear. It is human nature for the weak to fear the strong, but now I stand in front of you.
“And I am stronger than your opponent and your companions from the past few days.
"Now forget your fear of them and tell me what's going on."
Ji Gaochuan calmed down when he saw his confident look:
"Although I don't understand warriors and slaves very well, you don't seem to care about the death of a chosen one at all. Well, I remember that I and the Sons of Flame went to the northern part of Gowen State to find something. We also know that it is probably a trap. …
"But the voter insisted that he did not need to worry about attacks from the Salvation League. He was also very confident at the time and felt that as long as he was in the Salvation League, he would not be able to make any trouble.
"As I said, the Salvation Alliance did launch an offensive. Someone I had never seen at that time appeared behind Ren Yan and wiped his head away with a wave of his hand. However, Ren Yan's body was still ignited. Flame, while I headed to a safe distance while they fought.
"But before I left for long, there was heavy rain in the sky. Not only that, but the groundwater seemed to be pouring out crazily. Then in just a few dozen seconds, they turned into an ocean that was as deep as my knees. A wave hit me. It's on me...
"Then I don't remember anything."
Leiyu narrowed his eyes.
The expert looked at him and said:
"It seems consistent with our speculation. It is very likely that the Han family used all their lives to hold a ceremony to summon the ocean vision seen by Ji Gaochuan. In the process, it weakened the power of the Flame Chosen and helped the Salvation Alliance defeat them.
"but why?"
What on earth could make them all turn into a few pools of seawater without any care.
"It must be the will of Poseidon. He has some purpose that we don't know about." Leiyu asserted, "I said they are slaves. If the master wants them to die, they must die. There is no reason."
Now they have figured out what may have happened.
The expert took out his mobile phone, opened the photo album, and showed the pictures inside to Ji Gaochuan:
"Have you met him?"
Ji Gaochuan shook his head:
"never seen it."
Experts asked:
"What about the member of the Salvation Alliance who attacked the Flame Chosen? Do you think he is similar to the man in the photo? Is it possible that he is disguised?"
Ji Gaochuan recalled the person mentioned by the expert.
The expert and Lei Yun looked at his face and his face became more and more strange.
"Wait..." Ji Gaochuan said, "I haven't seen it, no, no, I, he..."
What experts noticed:
"how does he look like?"
Ji Gaochuan's eyes became more and more frightened:
"No, I don't remember..."
The expert looked at the thunderstorm and said:
"Memory problem, did you remember anything?"
That sounds a lot like the Man they're tracking.
Leiyu said:
"He may have instinctively deleted other people's memories of his appearance when he came into contact with them, and inhibited their recall of this. It seems that he is more dangerous than we originally expected."
The expert nodded:
“Differences in the use of abilities can lead to earth-shaking changes in the same ability.
"It seems that there is no problem with the above information. He is in Gowen State, and he also participated in the secret night ceremony. Considering his special relationship with Qin Lan, he is likely to be the leader here."
Leiyu smiled:
"It looks like he's in our clutches."
Experts say:
"Although we are very close to him, the last distance is actually the most difficult to cross. The secret night is between us and him. If we can find some points to come here, we may still have a chance. It's a pity."
But if it hadn't been for the secret night, the headquarters would not have had the chance to detect his location.
The forecasting machine produced by the federal government in cooperation with various companies of the Eastern Federal Government no longer has any functions in theory. This is also the effect that the Eastern Federal Government wants to achieve, but...
The Federation paid money and signed agreements with a few of the companies to receive long-term technical support. Although the current prediction machine is not comparable to the one used against Qin Luan, it can still do a lot of things.
Its main job now is to search for members of the Salvation Alliance in the central region of the federation, and part of its computing power is used in conjunction with dozens of other anomalies in the politician protector plan to prevent the unfortunate loss of these most precious talents in the federation.
Moreover, it was also used in the search for some important members of the Salvation Alliance. According to the contract they signed with the Southern Gods, the prediction machine was not allowed to be used to detect members of the Salvation Alliance in the Southern Federation. This job must be left to the God of Hunting. implement.
It wasn't until night fell that they were able to use the loopholes in the contract to use this machine in these night areas of the Southern Federation, and as night fell they identified the cities where several important members were located.
Ma En was also included, and the computing power used on him was actually higher than that of other members, because the prediction machine could not directly detect his existence, and it missed Ma En when calculating the East New South Wales incident. kindness.
Therefore, the maintainers of the prediction machine "corrected" this error. Although Ma En could not appear directly in the prediction, this hidden characteristic is slightly different from the real non-existence, and they wrote an algorithm to pass these subtleties. The location determines the location of Ma En.
However, as experts said, as long as these members of the Salvation Alliance are still within the scope of the night, they can only narrow the location to the city limits, and if some of the nights are connected, they can only be sure to be in certain cities.
Ji Gaochuan asked doubtfully:
"Who are you talking about?"
The expert replied:
"If you have read the wanted list carefully, you should have noticed a level 4 wanted criminal named Ma En. According to the latest information, his wanted level may be raised to 4+ or 4++. He is likely to be arrested now. Located in Gowen Prefecture.
"Although he is not the most dangerous character in the Salvation Alliance, he has a very special relationship. According to our investigation during this period, he not only helped Qin Lan successfully escape from our siege, but he is also very likely to have a relationship with Shen Xiao. The last few members of the Salvation Alliance that the traveler had communicated with were reduced to one.
"And he is the target of our team. Do you have any clues about the Salvation League?"
Ji Gaochuan said:
"The night of keeping secrets has risen now. You shouldn't have any direct clues, right?"
The expert nodded and said:
"That's right."
Ji Gaochuan said:
"A member of the Salvation Alliance once bought the Werther Castle, and I heard the Sons of Flame mention this. You can monitor this area and maybe wait for an unintentional member of the Salvation Alliance."
"Then leave this job to me." The man who said this pushed the door open and entered.
Ren Shizhi showed them a standard smile.
