Dark Light Chaser.

Chapter 622 The cruel truth

"Nevada City Social Environment Improvement..."

Yang Xingguo instinctively opened the file, and the terminal showed that the folder was created in 2006, which is 24 years ago.

The real deterioration of Nevada's security situation began 24 years ago.

It was then that Nevada earned the nickname "Sin City".

The application and approval of the plan took place on the same day, meaning that the plan received unanimous approval from higher authorities as soon as it was proposed.

Yang Xingguo silently scrolled down the document.

Applicant: Yueyang Yan

Approved by: Yueyang Yan

Whether it was the proposal of the plan or the approval application, Yue Yangyan handled everything. This document plan was just a formality.

Yang Xingguo suppressed his anger and began to examine the document from the beginning.

While this document does not record every single serious incident that occurred in Nevada, it does include all the names that are familiar to the Nevada community.

Cat's Eye Gang, Jia Bei Brothers, Crippled Wolf, Black Market...

Xia Qiyuan, Shi Hongfang, Li Yongming...

Over the past decade or so, all the key figures who have been active have been documented, and some even have pre-arranged exit scripts.

That's right, the script.

This plan encourages crime not for any other reason than to maximize the release of negative emotions in people.

Provide the DX Project with something like "experience" or "food" to catalyze the growth of their abilities.

It's fine if you don't watch it, but when Yang Xingguo finally discovers that this plan to condone illegal activities is actually to infuse the negative emotions of the entire city into his daughters to stimulate their abilities, he can no longer control his emotions and slams his fist on the table next to him, smashing it to pieces.

"Yue Yangyan! It was you who supported Lin Tianze behind the scenes! Changing the laws of Inner Mongolia, condoning underground organizations, protecting the corrupt police officers reported by the Ministry of the Interior... It turns out that you were the one pulling all the strings behind the scenes! You bastard, are you even human?!"

Enraged, Yang Xingguo disregarded the possibility that his loud voice might attract the attention of the monsters and roared wildly.

If there's anything besides close relatives and friends that could completely break Yang Xingguo's defenses, it's his hometown of Nevada, which he's been working so hard to govern.

After graduating from the college, Yang Xingguo could have followed the college's arrangements and started directly as a section chief.

He gave up the lucrative offer and chose to return to Nevada to start as a local police officer.

This reveals the idealism of the person.

Now, Yue Yangyan is not only using Yue Qihua and Yang Xingyue as test subjects, but he is also using the city he wants to change as a pretext.

The two things combined are not as simple as adding them together.

What surprised Yang Xingguo even more was that this plan was supposed to continue until this year.

Because the hermit had slaughtered almost everyone on the list, including those who replaced them and their subordinates, he ended the plan several years ahead of schedule using the most primitive and violent methods.

Recalling the hermit's elusive and ruthless methods of killing, Yang Xingguo's expression changed.

"Could it be that he knew about these plans, which is why he chose to solve the problem this way...?"

That makes sense. How could a normal person kill so many people in just a few years without some special ability?

Perhaps he was one of the members of this organization who disapproved of the plan, which is why he resorted to such a bloody method of resistance.

In the end, I was blinded by appearances and even mocked the other party as a murderer. Haha, hahahaha…”

Yang Xingguo knelt in front of the terminal, covered his face, and laughed wildly. As he laughed, tears welled up between his fingers and dripped onto his knees.

The belief I've held onto all this time was just a script written by someone else.

The murderer he hated most and wanted to bring to justice became the one who carried the truth alone and saved the city he wanted to protect.

Yang Xingguo had considered the positive impact of hermits before.

But the excessively bloody methods made him wary that after all the villains were killed, the hermit might turn his blade on ordinary people who did not deserve to die.

Now that he has learned about this social environment reform plan, Yang Xingguo even suspects that the hermit was influenced by the negative emotions in the plan, which is why he became a ruthless killer.

Keep in mind that when they first met the hermit, he was a newly minted bounty hunter who was easy to talk to and even hesitant to kill anyone.

Unless something major happened, how could he possibly become a murderer?

Yang Xingguo recalled that on the night Xia Qiyuan disappeared, the hermit called to inform him of Xia Qiyuan's location.

His voice was hoarse and strained, as if he were enduring some kind of painful torment.

From then on, the Hermit seemed to become a different person, and began a frenzied killing spree in Nevada City.

To corroborate his hypothesis, Yang Xingguo, having finished tidying up, began searching for information about the Hermit within the terminal.

But after searching for a long time, he found no information about hermits except for the occasional mention of hermits in the plan.

This further solidified Yang Xingguo's belief that the hermit was one of them.

Otherwise, with such a powerful laboratory that it could even arrange for a group of high-ranking officials, there would be no reason why it couldn't find out the true identity of a mere bounty hunter.

Information about the hermit was not collected, but Yang Xingguo found a map of the experimental area and the so-called DX Project dedicated laboratory, as well as the specific reasons for the base being sealed off.

Upon opening the experimental log titled "HD Flame Demon Puppet Project," Yang Xingguo finally learned what exactly the blood-red skeleton monster with laser-like eyes he had encountered was.

They were all experimental products created using a substance called thermal death core precipitate.

Following orders from above and based on the research data sent to them, the researchers used the main body of the separated material to create a giant monster.

Those winged, blood-red skeletons were merely cannon fodder, defective products made from scraps and D-level personnel; they lacked the ability to regenerate at super speed.

Yang Xingguo did not show any surprise upon seeing this.

The Crimson Skull is very lethal, but the security forces inside the base are certainly not weak either.

As long as you avoid being hit by the lasers and the self-destruction of the skeletons after they die, dealing with them shouldn't take much effort.

Even a novice like Yang Xingguo could solve the problem with the power of the black bead, so there's no reason why the professionals inside the base couldn't defeat them.

Putting everything else aside, if you just take a shield made of the same metal as the walls of the experimental area and thrust it forward, the Crimson Skull is basically done for.

What we really need to be careful of is that so-called Flame Demon Puppet.

Yang Xingguo didn't think he could defeat the monster that could fight against the entire base.

Unfortunately, the information didn't specify what the so-called Flame Demon Puppet actually looked like, so whether you could avoid it depended entirely on luck.

After obtaining the information he wanted, Yang Xingguo rummaged through the laboratory and added some protective gear to himself, especially a specially made metal shield.

That way, even if you encounter a Blood Skull again, you won't be burned to a crisp.

Just as he was about to leave, a noise suddenly came from inside a closed locker.

(End of this chapter)