The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

As soon as Shen Ge finished speaking, Shen Hou felt as if the space around him had solidified into steel, and the bone whip he was wielding became incredibly heavy.

The strange spatial turbulence created by the Rooster was forcibly smoothed out. He felt as if his strange energy tentacles had crashed into an insurmountable wall of sighs, and the backlash caused him a splitting headache.

Shen Ge appeared in front of Shen Hou as if by teleportation, ignoring his sharp bone claws, and simply punched him on his chest covered with metallic fur.

Boom!
Like a giant drumbeat, Shenhou's chest visibly caved in, his metallic hair shattered inch by inch, and blood mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed out. His massive body flew backward like a broken sack, crashing heavily into the distant woods, his fate unknown.

The Rooster was terrified at the sight and dared not linger. Its golden wings flapped wildly, turning into a dim golden light, and it fled desperately in the opposite direction from Rong City. It didn't even dare to look back at Shen Ge.

The next second, with a "thud," it crashed into the invisible barrier and slid down from the air.

"Two idiots."

Shen Ge walked to the dying Shen Hou and locked him up with a restraint device as well.

Then, he bent down and picked up the energy-gathering rifle that Shenhou had dropped, which had transformed back into a sniper rifle. He weighed it in his hand and said, "Not bad toy."

The rooster on the side tried to escape, but what awaited him was also a strange energy confinement device.

At the command center, after Xiao Qi reported the battle reports from various locations, the Special Operations Department announced that it had taken down one-third of the enemy's officers with minimal casualties in this battle against the Twelve Armies, which immediately caused a stir.

"Report! Captain Lin Yin has successfully killed the target 'Ugly Ox', but she is heavily damaged and is currently resting! The recovery team is in position and is processing the 'Ugly Ox's' remains."

"Report! Feng Chengxiu's team encountered the self-destruction of the target 'Wei Yang' and has temporarily lost track of the target. Several team members were injured, and the team leader is seriously injured and has been taken over by the medical department."

"Report! Yang Yuxin's team's target, 'Snake,' has escaped using the underground pipe network. We are attempting to track them. The first ghost energy detection point is now far from the city."

"Report! Captain Shen Ge has successfully captured target 'Yu', severely injured and captured targets 'Shenhou' and 'Youji', and successfully taken down three of the enemy's executive-level monsters."

As the battle reports came in one by one, Deng Yuqi breathed a long sigh of relief.

Although the Snake escaped and the Goat is missing, killing one executive-level monster and capturing three others is the biggest victory we've achieved so far against the Zodiacs.

"All combat units, begin battlefield cleanup immediately. Medical teams, do your utmost to treat the wounded. Technical departments, recover all valuable remains and equipment of the monsters. Information departments, closely monitor the possible escape routes of the Snake and search for the whereabouts of the Sheep." Deng Yuqi's voice carried a hint of fatigue, but was mostly filled with excitement.

She paused, then added, "Notify the logistics department to send a few high-end recovery vehicles to Captain Shen Ge's place... um, to 'receive' his 'spoils of war.' Those three he captured are 'big shots.' Have Captain Yang and the others arrived yet?"

"Report, Team Leader Yang is still two kilometers away from Team Leader Shen's position." The member of the information department was also surprised when he replied, from Xiao Qi's report on Shen Ge's battle situation to Yang Yuxin receiving orders to rush to support him.

In just fifteen minutes, Shen Ge had already finished the battle against three opponents, including the third cadre-level monster.

When Yang Yuxin met up with the containment team and rushed to the coordinates, the scene before them made them almost think they had gone to the wrong place.

There were none of the signs of fierce fighting, the cracked earth, the billowing smoke, or the grove of trees that had been razed to the ground that I had expected.

Only Shen Ge, dressed in a spotless Special Operations Department uniform, sat leisurely on a waist-high bluestone. In his hand, he was playing with a strangely shaped, magical sniper rifle with a barrel that looked like flowing crystal.

His fingers deftly twirled the gun as if admiring a work of art, his expression as relaxed as if he were sunbathing in his own backyard.

Not far from Shen Ge, on the ground, there were three "S-class ghost energy containment boxes" that were two meters tall and flashing ghost energy suppressor indicator lights.

The surface of the box is covered with complex energy conduits and eerie energy suppression devices. Inside, one can vaguely see “Yu,” “Shenhou,” and “Youji,” bound like rice dumplings by high-strength eerie energy alloy restraints, barely clinging to life.

In addition, there was an almost invisible, yet instinctively unsettling, barrier surrounding the three boxes.

"Shen, Captain Shen?" Yang Yuxin jumped off the assault boat, her voice hoarse with disbelief.

The containment team members behind her were even more dumbfounded. They looked at Shen Ge, then at the three boxes symbolizing the huge victory, and then at Shen Ge's relaxed appearance, not a single hair out of place...

The contrast is too great!
Those were three infamous sixth-tier monsters! Fifteen minutes? Did Captain Shen just pick up three "big items" while on a picnic?

"Oh, you're here?" Shen Ge looked up and casually tossed the sniper rifle to Yang Yuxin.

"Shenhou's toys look quite interesting. Let Li Xiang and the others take them apart and see if they can make some good imitations."

Yang Yuxin hurriedly caught the priceless yet extremely dangerous weapon. It was cold and heavy in her hand. If she remembered correctly, when Xiao Qi reported on the battle situation, she mentioned that Shen Hou used this gun to shoot through the "secondary armor" with one shot.

"These three, load them into the car." Shen Ge stood up and casually snapped his fingers.

The invisible barrier enveloping the three containment boxes rippled like water before dissipating.

"Be careful. Although it's tied up securely, it's still a Tier 6 creature with incredibly strong vitality. The box has the highest level of suppressors, but the transportation process is still strictly carried out according to the S-class containment procedures."

"Yes, Captain Shen!" The captain of the containment team snapped back to reality, stood up straight, and replied in a loud voice.

He immediately directed his team members to operate the specially designed hydraulic lifting arm and energy-stabilizing trailer with swift and professional movements.

The team members looked at Shen Ge with almost fanatical awe—this was the pillar of the Rong City Special Operations Department!

One person can suppress the three top executives of the freak organization as easily as taking candy from a baby!
……

The highest-level interrogation room in the underground core area of ​​the Special Operations Department of Fuzhou City.

The walls, floors, and ceilings here are covered with thick materials that absorb and shield against supernatural energy, while the exterior walls are reinforced with supernatural energy suppressors.

In the center of the three parallel containment chambers, three specially made interrogation chairs with powerful suppressor rings for containing supernatural energy were fixed to the floor.

On the chairs, three strange figures, "Yu," "Shenhou," and "Youji," were firmly restrained, their bodies connected to complex vital signs and supernatural energy monitoring devices. Behind the one-way glass wall, the atmosphere was heavy and chilling.

Minister Deng Yuqi was in the center, with Vice Ministers Liu Jiayi and Wang Jianguo standing on either side. Key personnel present included Cheng Shengnan, Director of the Intelligence and Information Center; Tu Doupi, Director of the Technical Support Center; and Zhang Quan and Luo Jin, who were responsible for compiling information for this operation.

Shen Ge stood to the side, her expression calm.

The three eerie containment cells were specially treated so that the sounds transmitted through the transducers could be heard, but the voices of their companions in the next cell could not be heard. This is why they were interrogated at the same time.

“Let’s begin,” Deng Yuqi said.

The presiding judge was Liu Jiayi, an experienced deputy minister. Her eyes were sharp as an eagle's as she looked at "Yu," the most clear-headed of the three eccentric cadres.

"Name, code name, and specific position within the twelve organizations. We will use appropriate interrogation methods based on your level of cooperation, so if you don't want to suffer, please understand your place!"

"Yu" raised her pale face, a mocking smile curving her lips: "Does it matter? Didn't you already know I was a substitute? What does my name mean to you?"

“The significance is that your level of cooperation will determine your subsequent ‘treatment’,” Liu Jiayi said, unmoved.

"Is it to be a valuable collaborator, to obtain relatively lenient detention conditions, or even to secure a glimmer of hope for survival?"

"Or will they be dismantled, studied, and their last bit of value squeezed out as stubborn experimental material?"

Yu's body trembled almost imperceptibly, and a trace of fear flashed deep in her eyes. She knew very well the methods of those "madmen" in the Special Policy Research Department.

If it weren't for the inhuman torture inflicted on her by the Dajing Special Task Force, she wouldn't have joined the Monster Organization without hesitation and become "Crow's" stand-in after being rescued by the Zodiacs.

"Your target this time... should be 'Zhang Hong,' right? What exactly is inside him? Where is 'Crow' now? How many of your undercover agents are still in Rong City? What is your next plan?" Vice Minister Wang Jianguo's questions came like a machine gun, hitting the nail on the head.

When "Yu" contacted Chen Su and proposed to join forces to transfer Zhang Hong, the higher-ups of the Special Operations Department realized that the Monster Organization's target this time was very likely Zhang Hong as well!
"Ha... Zhang Hong? He's nothing but a pathetic vessel. What's inside... you're not worthy to know." "Yu" forced a cold laugh, trying to maintain her last bit of arrogance.

"As for the 'Chief'... how could you possibly know where she is? Rong City? This is just a corner of the chessboard. You've won one move, and you think you've got the victory in the bag? How naive!"

The interrogation lasted for several hours and was difficult and protracted.

"Yu" is extremely tight-lipped, sometimes silent, sometimes sarcastic, and the information he occasionally reveals is hard to tell whether it is true or false, and is full of misleading information.

"Shenhou" was seriously injured and unconscious, making interrogation impossible.

"Rooster" was severely injured by Shen Ge's treacherous energy, its eyes were unfocused, its questions were incoherent, and it was difficult to obtain useful information.

Deng Yuqi frowned, looking at the stubborn yet slightly crazy woman behind the one-way glass, her unease not dissipating.

Although this woman is a stand-in, she knows a great deal. Her stubbornness and the certainty hidden beneath her fear are very unsettling.

"Continue the interrogation! Work in shifts, don't give her a chance to breathe! Focus on breaking through her psychological defenses!" Deng Yuqi gave the order.

"At the same time, we will conduct deep psychological induction therapy on the Rooster to see if it can restore some of its consciousness."

……

Meanwhile, in the core research lab of the research department, the atmosphere was completely different – ​​one of fervor.

On the enormous dissection table, the massive carcass of the Ugly Bull, so large it almost filled the entire surface, was held in place.

The skin, covered with a layer of bluish-black rock cuticle, was cut open, revealing twisted and mutated muscles, bones, and organs radiating intense, eerie energy.

The air was filled with a strong, mixed smell of preservatives and remnants of supernatural energy.

Wearing full protective gear, Li Xiang's eyes were bloodshot yet unusually excited. Holding a high-frequency vibrating scalpel, he carefully peeled away the connective tissue surrounding the heart of the basketball-sized, charred, fleshy tumor in Ugly Cow.

"Fantastic! Absolutely perfect! The density and conductivity of this stratum corneum! The strength of these muscle fibers! And the tendency of this bone to become metallic with the power of the power of the power... It's simply a perfect fusion of biology and the power of the power of materials science!" He kept muttering to himself, his hands trembling with excitement.

"Old Li, slow down! This is the only complete cadre-level corpse! Don't damage the crucial sample!" He Youwei reminded him nervously from the side. He was directing his assistant to use a specially made eerie probe to scan the remaining brain tissue of the three heads of the Ugly Ox, trying to extract memory fragments.

Jiang Peiwen, along with several young researchers, gathered around Chou Niu's arm, which had been pierced by Lin Yin's high-frequency vibrating spikes, analyzing the wounds caused by the spikes and the residual traces of Chou Niu's body's self-healing.

"Incredible self-healing factor activity. Even with the core destroyed, these cells still maintain amazing vitality in the environment of the evil energy inhibitor. If we could isolate the mechanism of action of this factor..." Jiang Peiwen's voice trembled with excitement.

"Quick! Collect all tissue samples! Blood, bone marrow, nerve bundles, glands... don't miss a single one!" Li Xiang roared without looking up. "Especially the heart remnants and the brain, these are key to studying their freakish energy core and consciousness distortion!"

"The energy spectrometer is running at full power, recording all residual energy characteristics!"

"Prepare the cell culture dish. I want to see how long these cells can survive in vitro!"

"Notify the Materials Department to prepare to receive advanced samples for analysis of the physical and magical properties of the cuticle and mutated bones!"

The laboratory was bustling with activity, various instruments hummed, and researchers were busy moving around like they were on steroids. Every new discovery drew a low gasp and a heated discussion.

The corpse of the Ugly Ox was like a newly opened treasure trove containing endless secrets, plunging these top researchers into a frenzied exploration.

They were well aware that the value contained in this corpse might be able to propel the Rong City Special Operations Department's technology in supernatural abilities to a new level, or even help them find a more effective way to counter high-level monsters.

The spoils of this fierce battle are igniting a new, silent revolution against deception.

Meanwhile, "Yu," "Shenhou," and "Youji," imprisoned in the deep containment area, will soon become the research department's next "key targets"! (End of Chapter)