Dark Light Chaser.

Chapter 208 Extrasensory Memory
On the Qianhua City Expressway.

Xia Qiyuan and Gao Bin drove a car full of instruments toward their target.

Their destination was the Chika City branch of the Countermeasures Bureau.

Xia Qiyuan drove with a serious expression.

With a look of utter despair, Gao Bin leaned against the car window, gazing at the scenery, occasionally glancing at the instruments on the back seat through the rearview mirror.

"Ugh……"

Every time Gao Bin looked in the rearview mirror, he would let out a heavy sigh with a bitter expression.

"You've groaned twenty-one times along the way and you're still not done?"

Xia Qiyuan couldn't help but complain.

After more than an hour on the road, Gao Bin sighed every five minutes, which was really annoying.

After a long silence, Gao Bin said to Xia Qiyuan, "You won't be the one suffering later, so of course you'll have it easy."

"Working in the Countermeasures Bureau can be easy? Tell me, which department is easier?"

Xia Qiyuan said indifferently, "If you really don't want to do this anymore, I can use the Spirit Transference technique to swap our bodies for a while, and you can try doing my job?"

Gao Bin immediately fell silent.

Although he was exhausted and uncomfortable from his extrasensory perception, the side effects only lasted for a day or two.

They swapped bodies with Xia Qiyuan...

what.

Gao Bin couldn't help but shudder.

The amount of work this guy has is terrifying just to think about.

The title of "Number One Workaholic in the Countermeasures Bureau" is not just for show.

Fortunately, Xia Qiyuan's physical and mental abilities have already surpassed the human level; otherwise, a normal person would have died from overwork in less than a month.

For Gao Bin, who loved to slack off, swapping bodies with Xia Qiyuan was nothing short of hell.

Moreover, the work in the Countermeasures Bureau is not like ordinary work, which takes a long time; at most, it's just a bit tiring.

From the moment they joined the Countermeasures Bureau, everyone was heading towards the abyss.

The greater the workload and the more bizarre things one encounters, the faster one's body and mind will break down.

He had reason to suspect that the higher-ups had assigned Xia Qiyuan to be his partner not just so that he could supervise his work.

Another possibility is that he wants to use his own laziness to balance out Xia Qiyuan's working hours.

Although the talent of spirit transformation is not as good as extrasensory perception, it is still a special talent.

Every person with special abilities is a rare animal on the verge of extinction.

You should know that within the entire Asian Union Countermeasures Bureau, the number of people with special talents can be counted on one hand.

Gao Bin stopped talking and began to rest with his eyes closed, leaning against the car window.

Without Gao Bin's sighs and lamentations, Xia Qiyuan felt much more relaxed.

It felt like finally swatting a mosquito that had been buzzing all night.

It's absolutely fantastic!

After driving on the highway for about half an hour, Xia Qiyuan drove his vehicle into a service area.

He didn't come here to rest, but to enter the countermeasures bureau's branch base.

Xia Qiyuan had no intention of stopping and drove straight to the temporary warehouse in the gas station's car wash area.

A gas station attendant approached and said, "Excuse me, this isn't allowed..."

"Nevada Branch, He Jun."

Xia Qiyuan simply took out his ID and handed it to the staff member.

The other person immediately stopped smiling, took the documents, and said seriously, "Please wait a moment."

After saying that, he jogged back into the house.

The identity verification process didn't take long, and the two were quickly allowed to pass.

Xia Qiyuan retrieved his documents and drove into the temporary warehouse.

What kind of high-tech lifting platform do you expect to see, lowering people and vehicles to the ground?

No, this is just a warehouse; you just have to go through the back door of the warehouse to enter the rolling mountains.

The base is located in the mountains.

This location, chosen due to its inconvenient transportation, was chosen for the sake of public safety.

Because of the strange and bizarre items stored in the base, if they were to breach the base's defenses, the resulting disaster would be far more terrifying than a nuclear leak.

At most, a nuclear leak would contaminate the land within a few dozen kilometers of the leak's epicenter.

Even if an ordinary person enters a radiation zone, they will not necessarily die.

But the eerie is different.

It is a mobile source of pollution; these monsters leave behind mental murmurs wherever they go, causing irreversible damage to the human mind.

For ordinary people with no mental resistance, seeing it means certain death.

Even if they survive by sheer luck, they will become insane or stupid.

Therefore, each branch base used for researching the supernatural is built in deep mountains and forests or deserts, as far away from people as possible.

Xia Qiyuan continued onward, walking for about ten kilometers on a sandy road.

He finally saw the concrete roads and checkpoints.

I just stopped the car.

A squad of soldiers dressed in high-tech exoskeleton armor surrounded the vehicle.

The lead soldier, holding a rifle, said coldly, "Captain He, please get out of the vehicle and cooperate with us for a mental health assessment."

No matter who enters the base, they all have to go through a set of procedures.

Even if you've just finished your test and left the base, and walked less than 100 meters, if you remember you forgot something and need to go back to get it, you'll have to be tested again.

This is a routine test conducted at every branch base, and it is not specifically targeted at Xia Qiyuan.

Xia Qiyuan and Gao Bin obediently got out of the car and went into the nearby metal room to cooperate with the work.

After the inspection was completed, the two put on monitoring wristwatches.

This device can constantly monitor the wearer's mental state to prevent anyone from becoming corrupted inside the base.

After doing all this, the leader of the mech squad who was leading the way finally managed a smile: "Welcome to the Thousand Flowers Branch Base."

"Is the laboratory ready?" Xia Qiyuan asked.

The team leader nodded: "It's all ready. We just need to connect the experimental equipment you brought, and we can start using it."

Gao Bin, who was following behind the two, immediately put on a stern face after hearing the squad leader's words.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"The duty lies."

The metal gate used to conceal the entrance was over twenty meters high, and its thickness was self-evident.

With such a large entrance, it would require at least two round trips by a large tunnel boring machine.

While chatting with the two men, the squad leader performed an iris scan and opened the small door on the base gate.

The environment inside the cave was somewhat dim, with many off-road vehicles parked on both sides.

The squad leader led the two through a series of internal checkpoints.

These checkpoints serve as a defense against bizarre and unexpected escapes.

These checkpoints usually don't have much to do except check the identities of people coming in and out; their work is very easy.

But please don't think of this as a good job.

Once a bizarre escape occurs, none of these people will survive; they must use their own lives to buy time.

After walking for about half an hour, Xia Qiyuan and Gao Bin finally saw the elevator leading to the underground research base.

Upon reaching this point, the squad leader ceased guiding the two.

Because he was not given the authority to go down.

Upon entering the elevator, Xia Qiyuan pointed his wristwatch at the card reader and then pressed the button for the -3 floor.

As the elevator continued to descend, Gao Bin's air of dejection grew stronger.

He couldn't help but sigh again, "Alas."

Xia Qiyuan couldn't stand it anymore: "When I asked you to use your super-sensory abilities on that old man, you weren't this negative. Or do you have some kind of special fetish for old men?"

"Can being a super-sensory of others be the same as being a super-sensory of myself? If I'm a super-sensory of other things, I'll have to endure double the torment."

Gao Bin said with a sullen face, "Not to mention that I also have newly developed armor inside my body, armor made of Apostle-level monsters. What if I suddenly have a brain fart and sense this thing..."

Forget about resuscitation, just prepare a cement coffin and bury me. This level of psychic paranormal experience is worse than death!

The elevator doors opened, and Gao Bin immediately shut his mouth.

The two stepped out of the elevator and, led by the lab technicians, entered a room that was about half the size of a football field.

Gao Bin, who was already feeling dejected, rolled his eyes so hard they almost reached the sky when he saw the equipment in the center of the room.

Xia Qiyuan stared at Gao Bin helplessly: "Can't you be a little more optimistic? So many years have passed, and you still haven't let go?"

"Optimistic my ass! Before I joined the Countermeasures Bureau, I was tormented by this stuff since I was a child!"

Gao Bin pointed angrily at the energy diffusion device that had been specially developed for him.

"Couldn't you have come up with a different design? Why did you have to make it look like an electric chair? Sitting on it with a helmet full of antennas on your head, what normal person wouldn't be terrified?!"

The person in charge of the experiment coughed lightly twice: "Ahem, um, I'm sorry, the higher-ups said that the experimental budget is limited... please understand."

"Even if there's a shortage of experimental funding, you could at least put a shell on this thing! Replace the chair with a bed, and the helmet with a scanning chamber..."

Gao Bin kept muttering to himself, his face bearing the tragic expression of someone about to walk through a minefield, as he sat down in the chair.

This behavior left the experiment supervisor speechless.

What's with that smug look on your face? Would I possibly hurt you?
The person in charge chose not to argue with this guy and left the room to monitor the experiment's progress from outside.

Xia Qiyuan was responsible for staying by Gao Bin's side and immediately cutting off the equipment to wake him up if anything happened.

The person in charge cleared his throat and said through the loudspeaker, "The equipment is activated. Please put on your helmets."

Gao Bin took a deep breath and put the helmet, which was covered with antennas, on his head.

The person in charge nodded: "Prepare to proceed with the investigation..."

"Wait a minute!" Gao Bin suddenly shouted.

Is it another one?
The person in charge asked impatiently, "Is there anything else that hasn't been prepared?"

"I'll have a candy."

Gao Bin took out a medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out two medicinal gummies, and popped them into his mouth.

When the person in charge saw that Gao Bin had paused the experiment just to eat two candies, he couldn't help but roll his eyes.

You're such a busybody, always making a fuss over nothing.

The person in charge of the experiment in Chika City was unaware of the purpose of the experiment, nor did he understand the function of the gummy candies.

He was only told how to use the equipment and was responsible for providing the environment to start it up.

Including Gao Bin's abilities, nothing else is known.

Xia Qiyuan obtained the experimental site here under the pretext of testing armor.

In the person in charge's view, having him personally oversee the inspection of armor was a complete waste of time and an overreaction.

Despite their dissatisfaction, the person in charge still carefully observed Gao Bin's mental state after the experiment began to prevent any accidents from happening.

………………

Half an hour later, exhausted and looking dejected, Gao Bin was carried out on a stretcher.

The person in charge became anxious upon seeing Gao Bin, whose life was uncertain: "What exactly is going on? I clearly followed the experimental procedures given above the whole time!"

Xia Qiyuan patted the person in charge on the shoulder: "Calm down, Doctor. This is not your problem. It is a normal phenomenon after the experiment."

"what happened to him?"

The person in charge of the experiment felt a little guilty looking at Gao Bin on the stretcher. He had thought Gao Bin was a pretentious person, but it was clear that he wasn't.

He knew the experiment would cause him great harm, which is why he was so resistant to it.

"I'm sorry, Doctor, I can't tell you why he fell into a coma. As for why, you know."

Xia Qiyuan did not explain the reason for Gao Bin's coma.

"Well... if you need anything, just let me know, and I'll do my best to meet your needs."

The person in charge of the confidentiality agreement naturally understood, and he did not pursue the matter further.

Xia Qiyuan said to the experimenters carrying the stretcher, "Put the person down, you can leave now."

"But……"

"What happens next needs to be kept confidential. Please leave the room."

Xia Qiyuan took the initiative and kicked the group out.

After everyone left, Xia Qiyuan lifted Gao Bin back to the instrument and slapped him on the forehead.

"Alright, stop pretending and get up now."

Gao Bin reluctantly opened his eyes: "Can't I even rest for a bit?"

"Rest? I'd probably just fall asleep while dozing off."

Xia Qiyuan sat on the armrest of the electric chair and asked calmly, "Did you see who took care of Xu Zhihai?"

"No."

Gao Bin rubbed his dizzy head: "Just like before, every time I feel that memory, I subconsciously avoid it, as if avoiding that event has become my instinct."

The two were talking about the incident where Ai Liang controlled Gao Bin and killed Xu Zhihai, who had become the mask.

Clearly, Xia Qiyuan has not let this matter rest and is still investigating it.

Xia Qiyuan couldn't help but frown: "Tsk, even with an ability diffusion device, there's no way to suppress this instinct?"

"I said, can't we just let this go?"

Gao Bin lay on the stretcher with his arms crossed in front of his chest, as if he were about to be buried.

"If they can invade my memories, they must also know my abilities."

Since they didn't kill me outright, it proves they didn't have much ill will towards us.

Choosing to delete this memory, and giving me a hint to avoid it, means that he doesn't want others to know his identity.

If I saw someone's face, I wouldn't survive. Don't you know any manners?

"Don't forget you're from the Countermeasures Bureau. It's our job to find out who that person is."

Xia Qiyuan paused for a moment and then said, "Moreover, that person can not only bypass armor protection to erase your memories, but also issue such a strong blocking suggestion."

His mental abilities probably surpass those of our bureau chief.

Gao Bin curled his lip in disdain: "Isn't that obvious? From the moment that guy told us to put this matter aside for the time being, I knew he definitely couldn't decipher the hint either."

If you can't solve it, you can't solve it. Why pretend it's like, "It's not that I don't want to, it's just unnecessary"?

"Ahem, ahem, give the bureau chief some face."

Xia Qiyuan couldn't help but cough and remind him, "However, even if we can't decipher the clues, we should still investigate that person's background. He has strong mental abilities, so perhaps we can invite him to fight against the Thousand-Faced Man together."

Gao Bin was pessimistic about this: "Forget it, even if he's stronger than our bureau chief, how much stronger can he be? A hundred bureau chiefs combined might not be enough to beat Thousand-Faced Man with one hand."

"Something is better than nothing. Besides, I already have a suspect about his true identity, and the credibility is over 90%. I only had you with super-sensory perception to confirm it."

"Who is it?" Gao Bin asked.

Xia Qiyuan's lips curled up involuntarily: "The throat-slitting maniac of Nevada City—The Hermit."

(End of this chapter)