A technologically powerful nation: The national treasure is actually myself.

"Just patrolling, no need to manage anything?" Lin Yang was somewhat surprised.

Li Rui nodded: "Yes, there are too many fights and disturbances, and it is impossible to manage them all. If we were to manage them, it would greatly reduce the efficiency of the patrols. Therefore, Lord Zhen Ge specially approved that our team only needs to patrol and does not need to get involved in these messy things."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yang didn't say anything more. He figured that Lord Zhen Ge wanted him to find some of the hidden Ancient Night Clan members and didn't want him to waste time dealing with these troublemakers.

The team continued their patrol.

Lin Yang soon realized that Li Rui was right; there were many conflicts and fights.

As long as it doesn't affect too many people, the government troops generally don't go to deal with it.

Currently, the city's military squads are completely overwhelmed.

The area outside the city was in complete chaos.

"Captain, don't you find it strange? Last time there was a lot of people, but there were hardly any fights or disturbances. This time, it's happening everywhere." Lin Yang couldn't help but ask.

Li Rui countered with, "What's strange about it? Although things were indeed a bit chaotic this time, what do you find strange?"

Lin Yang was slightly taken aback.

For a moment, he really didn't know how to answer Li Rui's question.

Indeed, it's a bit chaotic, but if we're going to talk about something strange, the reason for the strangeness is hard to say.

"I'm probably overthinking it," Lin Yang said softly.

"Don't overthink it. It's probably because the treasure has been missing for so long that people are getting impatient and their tempers are getting worse, which is normal," Li Rui said with a smile.

Lin Yang nodded slightly.

suddenly.

An argument broke out among the people around them, which quickly escalated into a fight.

Lin Yang couldn't help but frown.

Although their team wasn't supposed to deal with these things, the conflict was happening right next to them, and he was just wondering if he should handle it when some of his teammates went over to deal with it.

"Stop fighting! All of you, stop!"

Liu Ling shouted angrily, reprimanding the two men who had attacked.

Anger was rising between his brows, and power surged forth as he struck at the two men.

Seeing this, Lin Yang was somewhat surprised, and Li Rui shouted, "Liu Ling, stop! This is none of our business!"

However, Li Rui's words came a beat too late.

Liu Ling had already started fighting with the two people who had attacked her.

Li Rui had no choice but to have the rest of his team work together to stop it.

After separating the three, Li Rui first reprimanded the two who had started the fight, telling them to behave and stop causing trouble. Then, looking at Liu Ling, he frowned and said unhappily:
"Liu Ling, what's wrong with you? We've already told you these things aren't our concern, why did you suddenly intervene?"

Li Rui was somewhat angry.

Their team had its own mission. Even though the two people who had just made their move were right next to them and they could have intervened, Liu Ling should have asked him for permission first.

But Liu Ling didn't ask him for permission; she just rushed forward on her own.

Rushing in would have been one thing, but instead of stopping the two, he joined the fray.

If he weren't a soldier in uniform, anyone unaware of the situation would have thought it was a three-way brawl.

After being reprimanded, Liu Ling's eyes twitched, as if she wanted to say something subconsciously, but meeting Li Rui's gaze, she finally took a deep breath and said:
"I'm sorry, Captain, it was my dereliction of duty. I just thought that since something happened right next to me, I should just do something about it."

Li Rui snorted: "It's fine to manage, but look at how you're managing it! It's turned into a three-way brawl!"

Liu Ling lowered her head slightly: "I'm sorry, Captain, I got a little carried away once I started. I'll be more careful."

Li Rui wanted to say something more, but after thinking about it, he didn't continue scolding her. He sighed and said:
"Never mind, it's not a big deal. You meant well. Just remember, our team's mission is to patrol. Don't worry about anything else and don't break the mission rules."

"Understood, Captain," Liu Ling replied, head bowed.

Li Rui then said no more.

The team continued their patrol.

After a while, seeing that Liu Ling's expression had calmed down somewhat, Lin Yang couldn't help but secretly transmit his voice to Liu Ling:
"Brother Liu Ling, what happened to you just now? Can you tell me? If I may ask, why did you get so carried away as soon as you started fighting and join the melee?"

Liu Ling opened her mouth slightly and looked at Lin Yang, seemingly somewhat surprised that Lin Yang would send her a telepathic message, but she didn't think much of it and replied telepathically in return:
"Lin Yang, to be honest, I don't know why either. I'm not a warlike person, and you should know my personality."

"Just now, I did think that since the incident was happening right next to me, I would just do something about it, but once I started to take action, I felt like I couldn't control my emotions."

Lin Yang's eyes flickered: "I know you don't usually have this kind of temper, Brother Liu Ling. Can you tell me specifically what it feels like when you can't control your emotions?"

"This..." Liu Ling hesitated for a moment before replying, "I can't quite describe the feeling. At the time, I just wanted to teach them a lesson."

Lin Yang's eyes flickered again: "Okay, I understand. Brother Liu Ling, you can relax for now. We'll just focus on the patrol and not worry about all that other nonsense."

"Yes, I will be careful," Liu Ling replied.

Lin Yang stopped communicating with Liu Ling telepathically.

He is thinking.

Given Liu Ling's personality, it's no surprise that she sometimes loses control of her emotions when she takes action.

In his view, things were already abnormal when Liu Ling stopped him directly without asking Li Rui.

In other words, Liu Ling's impulsiveness didn't arise after joining the battle; it existed from the very beginning.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have reprimanded the two of them without a second thought and then attacked them without explanation.

Liu Ling is quite composed.

Many millennia have passed since he joined the team.

They were quite familiar with the situation of the team members.

However, this was not the first time Liu Ling had acted so impulsively.

If Lin Yang remembered correctly, Liu Ling had twice acted impulsively for no reason before.

At the time, Liu Ling also said that she was having some trouble controlling her emotions.

At the time, no one paid attention, and Li Rui even comforted Liu Ling, asking if she was too tired or stressed.

But now that he thinks about it, Lin Yang feels that this abnormality may have been foreshadowed.

He couldn't help but look around, and there were people fighting.

"Liu Ling couldn't control her emotions and became impulsive. These people who came to search for treasure also became irritable and easily angered, and would start fighting at the slightest disagreement. The two are very similar."

Lin Yang pondered to himself.

Not right.

Something is very wrong.

He was now absolutely certain that something was amiss, but he had no clue exactly what it was.

After a pause, out of caution, he said to Li Rui and the rest of the team, "Captain, and everyone else, I think we need to be careful. There are fights everywhere now, and seeing so many of them can be quite irritating. Let's all try to control our emotions."

To be honest, it's a bit presumptuous of me to say that.

But Lin Yang still felt there was a problem and had to point it out. Fortunately, the team members didn't seem to care and all said they would be careful.

"Lin Yang, have you discovered something?" Cheng Fu suddenly transmitted his voice to Lin Yang.

Lin Yang turned his head slightly to look at him: "What do you want to say?"

"It's nothing. I just felt that with your cautious nature, you wouldn't have said those things without a reason."

Cheng Fu smiled and then continued:
"Actually, I also feel that things are a bit abnormal, but I can't quite put my finger on what the problem is. Like you said before, it seems like everyone has a bad temper."

Lin Yang was a little surprised: "When I said that before, didn't you think it was normal? You said there were too many people, and there were all kinds of tempers."

"That's what I thought at the time, but now I have a vague feeling that something's not right."

Cheng Fu spoke frankly, glanced at Lin Yang, and continued to transmit his voice:
"Given our relationship, if you really find something's wrong, just tell me so we can make plans early."

Lin Yang pondered for a moment and replied, "The problem I've discovered is still this: people's tempers seem to have inexplicably escalated. They're quick to attack, and when they do, they act like madmen. I told you before, but you didn't believe me. Now, what's your opinion?"

Cheng Fu pondered for a while before replying telepathically, "People are getting more irritable and impulsive, but why is that?"

Lin Yang remained silent: "I'd like to know too."

He has only discovered the problem so far, but he has no idea what caused it.

Cheng Fu said, "It seems like the captain and the others don't take it to heart, or maybe they sensed something was wrong but couldn't quite put their finger on it. Lin Yang, what are your plans?"

"Let's wait and see for now, but we must be vigilant and prepared, even..."

Lin Yang glanced at the densely packed crowd and said solemnly, "Stay away from the crowd!"

"Stay away from crowds?" Cheng Fu was taken aback.

"Yes, we have to find a way to get away from crowded places." Lin Yang nodded, his tone solemn and serious.

He wasn't joking, nor was he just saying it casually.

Now that even Cheng Fu has discovered this problem, it proves that Lin Yang wasn't just overthinking it.

If it is indeed due to some unknown reason that is constantly influencing people, making them more irritable and angry, then over time, this small-scale fight could very well escalate into a large-scale group incident.

Although there are no particularly strong individuals among the dense crowd here.

But there were just too many people.

If it really turns into a mass conflict, and they get caught up in it, given their current strength, they are very likely to encounter unforeseen circumstances.

Once people start fighting, or even become enraged, the danger in crowded places becomes too high.

Cheng Fu quickly understood Lin Yang's meaning, and his eyes became sharp and serious: "But now we need to patrol, especially in crowded places. How can we go to sparsely populated areas? Isn't that a bit disobeying orders?"

Lin Yang glanced at him helplessly: "At a time like this, who cares about disobeying orders? Your own life is more important!"

Cheng Fu immediately said, "Yes! Life is more important. Let's hurry up and leave. I still feel a little scared."

Lin Yang stopped talking to Cheng Fu and turned to Li Rui: "Captain, shall we go patrol the outlying areas?"

Lin Yang had a relatively high opinion of Li Rui and the rest of the team.

At this point, I also wanted to do my best to keep the whole squad alive.

"Go to the outskirts?" Li Rui frowned. "We haven't even finished patrolling the crowded areas yet. Those Ancient Night Clan spies are masters at hiding in crowds."

"team leader!"

Lin Yang emphasized:
"Let me be frank, Cheng Fu and I both think that the fights that happen here from time to time are not normal, and people's tempers have become inexplicably bad, so there must be something wrong."

"It could easily escalate into a large-scale mass incident. If we remain among the crowd, we will inevitably be in danger if such a major incident does occur."

"Therefore, just in case, we must first get away from the crowd. If nothing happens, that would be the best outcome. If our prediction comes true, we might be able to escape death."

As he spoke, Lin Yang glanced at the team members, his gaze sweeping over them one by one, lingering on Liu Ling for a moment as he awaited their responses.

The team fell silent.

Although everyone felt that the fights that were happening so often were quite normal, after Lin Yang said that, everyone thought about it carefully and realized that there was some truth to it.

Before long, Li Rui made a decision: "Okay, then let's try to go to the outskirts first. That way, if nothing happens afterward, if the higher-ups investigate, we can say that we went on patrol."

"Although we didn't follow the rule of patrolling the crowded areas first, you could say that Lin Yang sensed something, so we went to the edge of the area, how about that?"

His subsequent "how" was a request for Lin Yang's opinion.

Lin Yang naturally had no objection: "Sure, just say that I sensed people who resembled the Ancient Night Clan in the border area."

This was the reason he had already come up with, which is why he wanted the team to go together.

Anyway, with this reason in place, whatever happens afterward can be explained away.

After reaching a consensus, the team immediately headed towards the edge of the area.

Of course, it is called a peripheral area, that is, an area with relatively few people.

Now, there is no place in the entire area surrounding Baichi City that is uninhabited.

And the deeper into the mountains and forests, the more people there are.

They can only choose places with relatively few people.

Getting through the bustling crowds isn't so easy either.

People are not in a good mood these days, and even a small detachment of the government troops will be obstructed.

Lin Yang and his group tried their best to avoid conflicts with others and ignored the increasingly intense and frequent conflicts, fleeing from crowded places as if their lives depended on it.

boom.

A battle involving dozens of people suddenly broke out not far from Lin Yang's team.

"Quickly, we need to move faster and get out of the center of the crowd as soon as possible. It feels like something really bad is about to happen," Lin Yang said in a deep voice.

He was in a bad mood.

They were just thinking about leaving and going to the outlying areas.

But people's tempers seemed to have been completely ignited by something unknown at that moment.

The riots have begun!

First, small-scale conflicts broke out in one or two places, and then they spread rapidly like wildfire.

What started as a personal conflict quickly escalated into a small skirmish involving dozens of people, and then into a large-scale battle involving hundreds of people.

It didn't take long for it to completely escalate into a large-scale regional conflict.

The number of people caught up in the battle is countless.

"Die, all of you die!"

Someone roared with bloodshot eyes, looking like a madman.

"Crazy, these people are crazy!"

Li Rui, Cheng Fu, and the others were all horrified. (End of Chapter)