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Chapter 62 Catfish Boss Hot Pot Restaurant (10)

The Information Department was still permeated with a heavy, bloody atmosphere.

He Lin stood there, her whole body frozen in the center of the floor.

Forty minutes have passed since 005 led the team on the mission.

She didn't speak, her eyes fixed on the message Xiaoya had sent before she died.

He was one of the youngest people under her command, twenty-three years old, and had been a full-time employee for less than two months. He was calm, sharp, and dedicated, and was a newcomer personally selected by He Lin.

She is dead.

He didn't die at the hands of the secret service, nor at the hands of foreign forces, but rather at the very workplace he trusted, the one he considered the safest place—the intelligence agency.

He Lin lowered her head without saying a word; the two corpses had already been taken away.

For a fleeting moment, she really wanted to immediately access all permissions, thoroughly investigate the entire information department floor, and skin the murderer alive.

He's definitely in that building, enjoying his own lapse in composure and laughing at himself.

Just thinking about it made the veins on He Lin's forehead bulge.

But she knew she couldn't do that.

She is 002, the current number one among the Lamplighters.

No emotion could cloud her judgment; she had to make the right decision first, otherwise more people would lose their lives because of her decision.

Right now, the most important thing is Anjing.

If An Jing dies, all the efforts of her secret service will be in vain.

She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing her overwhelming anger, and said in a voice as cold as if it had been sharpened on a blade: "005, situation report."

"Yes!" 005 pressed the earpiece and answered, his brows furrowed tightly and his face extremely grim.

"We have located the range of the magnetic field fluctuations based on the residual coordinate signals, which is near the school at the 'Wangji Hot Pot Restaurant'."

"We are currently implementing a physical cordon around the area."

"Get to the point," He Lin interrupted him.

005 lowered his head, his voice tinged with difficulty:
"002, the magnetic field energy detected in this mysterious magnetic field is completely consistent with the magnetic field incident that broke the line three months ago."

He Lin suddenly looked up.

"...Which time?"

“That time in the Xicheng District’s civilian area.” 005’s voice lowered. “At that time, we located an unusual point, but before we could deploy a team, that area completely lost contact within minutes. After that, we sent people in and found that the mysterious magnetic field of the entire residential building had disappeared, all the residents had vanished without a trace, and there were no corpses. The magnetic field disappeared suddenly, as if it were an illusion.”

“We once suspected it was a mysterious act by a highly intelligent being of level A or above, but because no clues were left, the matter was eventually added to the unsolved case list, numbered D-009-Alpha.”

“And now,” he took a deep breath, “the energy pulse we detected is a complete reproduction of the D-009-Alpha event.”

The meeting room fell eerily quiet for a moment.

He Lin's knuckles slowly tightened, making a very soft clicking sound.

She remained silent for a full ten seconds before asking, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, the energy fluctuations, interference frequencies, and the distribution levels of the mental field all match."

“So,” she whispered, “the magnetic field An Jing is currently in could very well be the same magnetic field that completely disappeared three months ago?”

“It’s not just a possibility,” 005 said in a heavy voice, “it’s extremely likely.”

He Lin stood up, walked to the nearest control panel, pointed to the energy level curve on the light screen, and spoke in a low but firm voice:
"Retrieve all the data on D-009-Alpha, including the list of all missing residents."

"I need to know whether the magnetic field that appeared this time is connected to the one-way or two-way one ...

"Yes!" Several people behind her immediately accessed the database. But she already had a bad feeling.

This magnetic field is extraordinary and completely different from other magnetic fields.

Other magnetic fields require the elimination of all their mysteries before they can disappear.

However, this magnetic field will disappear on its own.

Since the last time they appeared in the residential building, the intelligence agency naturally didn't think that someone had killed all the secret agents in the residential building.

The most common guess is that everyone inside is dead.

005 then asked into the headset, "002, should our team move in for the rescue immediately?"

He Lin did not immediately agree.

She lowered her head, tapped her finger on the data screen, and with a gentle swipe, the screen switched to the energy flow around the hot pot restaurant.

“Don’t go in yet,” she said slowly. “This magnetic field is too abnormal. I need you to make sufficient preparations before you enter. I need to be responsible for your lives.”

005's expression changed, but he did not refute it.

He Lin raised her head and calmly gave the order:
"Continue to conduct high-frequency scanning around the hot pot restaurant area, especially spatial gap sensing, gravity structure distortion, and energy band stratification."

“We will review the records of all victims of the D-009 incident and compare them one by one to see if any human DNA, mental frequencies, or images appear around this incident.”

“Establish a cordon and prohibit any unauthorized persons from approaching the hot pot restaurant within 200 meters.”

"We will deploy rescue efforts once the technical team has preliminarily determined the critical point for a stable entry point."

005 understands He Lin's judgment.

No matter how urgent the situation, we cannot risk the life of the person holding the lamp to carry out a blind rescue that ends in silence.

"Understood." He acknowledged the order and turned to leave with his men.

Soon, only He Lin remained in the command room.

She stood in front of the electronic map, motionless for a long time.

The magnetic field energy level on the light screen was still slowly increasing, at a heart-pounding pace.

She whispered to herself, "An Jing, you must hold on."

“You’ve survived two dangerous encounters with those powerful and mysterious figures. You’re An Jing, after all. Chu Yuan is on you, and you have so many life-saving cards. Please, please don’t…” As she spoke, she suddenly bit her lip and swallowed her words.

She cannot utter the word "death".

Twenty minutes later, the 005 communication band rang again, breaking the oppressive silence around He Lin that felt like the air was about to freeze.

"002!" His voice was more urgent than ever before. "We've found someone alive!"

He Lin immediately replied in a low voice, "Explain clearly, what happened?"

"At the edge of the magnetic field, before we came to investigate, three people were thrown out of the hot pot restaurant's mysterious magnetic field."

He gritted his teeth and continued, "One person is dead, male, and has lost all internal organs. The body has been taken away by the police, and we have asked the police for authorization to send a forensic pathologist from the Special Service to perform an autopsy."

"The other one was a man whose right leg was severed at the knee. He had lost a lot of blood and died when he was put into the ambulance."

He Lin's eyes suddenly darkened: "And the third one?"

"A woman in her twenties had her arm severed in a ripping manner, but she still showed signs of life. After being rescued and taken to the hospital, she regained consciousness, but her mental state was extremely unstable."

“We obtained many key clues from her confused and intermittent narration.”

He Lin clenched her fists: "Turn on the microphone, I want to hear what she has to say."

(End of this chapter)