Starting as an infant, with parents who are blond-haired delinquents?

"Real-time monitoring?" Upon hearing this, Bai Lu and Huang Feng seemed to understand what Zhang Chaoqiang meant.

"Call headquarters, call headquarters!"

"I need to monitor the situation in Jushan in real time and transmit it to our communicators!"

Soon, by using the seemingly insignificant moisture in the air as a screen, Huang Feng and Bai Lu were able to project images into the void.

Thus, a complete picture of real-time monitoring of Jushan appeared in front of Zhang Chaoqiang.

"The gray area above is the power of the photinia spiritual flower that shrouds the Jushan Mountain. The grayness indicates that the signal is being interfered with, and no information about the fluctuation of biological energy can be obtained from that area."

Zhang Chaoqiang told Bai Lu and Huang Feng not to stop, but to stay there.

"You mean, keep these images frozen indefinitely? But there's nothing interesting about that, since this area represents... nothing at all..."

When Huang Feng expressed his doubts, Zhang Chaoqiang took out many crystal cores from his spatial ring in the next second.

They also instructed the investigators to do the same, to produce some crystal cores that were of little use to them.

And expose them to the air.

Only after witnessing this scene did Bai Lu and Huang Feng understand Zhang Chaoqiang's true intentions.

"It turns out that Comrade Zhang Chaoqiang intended to use these crystal cores as bait, dissipating them within the shroud of the photinia spirit flower, and then monitoring the situation in Jushan in real time to see how that hazy, shrouded area would dissipate over time..."

Will the range increase or decrease as it expands?

"If it's about getting bigger, then the main purpose of stealing fat might be to enhance one's own strength."

If it gradually shrinks, then it aligns with Zhang Chaoqiang's previous guess: the Stealing Essence needs to acquire a sufficient and powerful amount of spiritual energy to reshape and solidify its body, which has been fused with and diffused by the Photinia Spirit Flower.

Zhang Chaoqiang asked the two of them if they still remembered the area in Jushan that had been covered by the photinia flowers.

However, the response was no; they didn't pay much attention. It remains to be seen whether the hazy, overcast area of ​​the entire Jushan region has shrunk or expanded.

The most troublesome thing is still the influence of the Photinia Spirit Flower. As long as this strange thing exists, they have no normal methods or channels to find out what is going on.

This is why they need Zhang Chaoqiang on this trip.

However, Zhang Chaoqiang's ability to act seemed to far exceed their expectations and anticipation, because almost all the conclusions they reached were derived from Zhang Chaoqiang's careful yet bold analysis.

The group waited quietly; the night in Jushan was so peaceful.

There was no rustling sound of branches and leaves being blown by the wind, nor the screams of birds and beasts.

Those wild beasts also wouldn't go up the mountain, because they weren't stupid. There wasn't a single food source on the mountain, and going up there would only be a waste of their strength and energy.

Zhang Chaoqiang went to sleep first. He still needed to replenish his physical and mental strength, unlike the investigators who were full of energy. After all, they were at least sixth-level beings.

With spiritual power levels of tens of thousands of P, they could go for weeks without eating, drinking, or sleeping without any effect. They stayed in place to check on the situation in Jushan and the consumption of spiritual power in the crystal cores.

The only tent was specially prepared by the investigators for Zhang Chaoqiang, after all, he has a very special age and ability, and they could not afford to neglect him.

After one night, judging from the dissipation of the crystal core, for a fourth or fifth-order crystal core, the loss in one night was only about 10% to 15% of the spiritual energy content.

As for second and third order crystals, the minimum percentage is 50%. If it is a first order crystal core, it will completely lose its color within a few hours and become a dull and lifeless waste crystal that no longer contains any spiritual power.

And when Zhang Chaoqiang woke up...

They brought Zhang Chaoqiang some good news.

"Comrade Zhang Chaoqiang, come and see quickly!"

Upon hearing Huang Feng's voice, he knew almost immediately without even thinking that Jushan was an area covered by the Photinia Spirit Flower, where no energy fluctuations from living beings or various spiritual energies could be detected.

Something has definitely changed.

Let's see if it gets bigger or smaller.

"look!"

Huang Feng gestured with his hand to show the large area in front of them.

He used a rapid processing method, especially for the surrounding area, quickly jumping from when Zhang Chaoqiang asked them to start real-time monitoring last night to the present.

It is clearly visible that the gray area within the entire Jushan Mountain has shrunk somewhat compared to last night.

"According to calculations at headquarters, the area has shrunk by nearly 800 square kilometers!"

Hey!

This large area, although it only accounts for less than 10% of the entire tens of thousands of square kilometers of the covered region.

However, it must be known that last night, Zhang Chaoqiang mobilized a large number of investigators and produced ten times more crystal cores than the five martial artists had stolen, which was barely enough to shrink the gray-covered area by about eight percent.

A massive vortex of spiritual energy emanating from the crystal core…

Zhang Chaoqiang couldn't help but guess that.

Based on Zhang Chaoqiang's previous deductions, if the gray area is shrinking, it means that the area covered by the photinia is shrinking, indicating that the resin is accumulating.

He, Huang Feng, Bai Lu, and the others exchanged glances, and then a soft round of applause rang out…

It seemed as if they were marveling at Zhang Chaoqiang's unique analytical abilities.

In almost a single day, with Zhang Chaoqiang's help, they had initially identified clues about the theft of fat.

What needs to be done now is to expend a large amount of crystal core spiritual power to drive them to gather their fat-stealing spirit bodies.

"It's quite interesting that it can actually reassemble the spirit body through the absorption of spiritual energy."

In fact, the fact that mythical beasts have survived from the ancient, barbaric era to the present day despite their relatively weak strength already demonstrates their capabilities and their status in the eyes of demonic beasts.

Genuine demonic beasts, even those with rare bloodlines or ancient demonic beasts, are simply suppressed by bloodline when faced with other beasts whose strength may not even be as great as theirs.

It is impossible for them to have the thought of refuting or confronting them.

This is why the investigation bureau has always believed that humans are the fifth level of the alien beast bloodline.

An existence even more advanced than mythical beasts.

Otherwise, how could they directly crush the alien beasts in this aspect?

The monsters, which had no intention of resisting the alien beasts, were turned into bubbles and ashes under the bombardment of human special effects.

They can even obtain rare and valuable mechanical abilities from exotic beasts.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this ability isn't a martial arts skill; it might not sound very impressive at first glance.

The mechanisms are not ranked, but each mechanism is unique, and if used properly, they will have endless possibilities.

For example, if a full-scale war breaks out between humans and monsters in the future, even if it's Huang Feng and Bai Lu...

Their paralysis and healing abilities may seem lacking, but when applied to thousands of people or monsters, they create an overwhelming suppression.

Simply paralyzing a single limb of a large number of monsters is tantamount to disrupting their movements, slowing their actions, and greatly reducing their strength and various status effects. It is an extremely terrifying debuff to the enemy.

Bai Lu's healing abilities allow him to act as an infinite medic within his own human team.

Ordinary treatments take time, but his "healing" doesn't. As long as someone is injured, Bai Lu can heal half of their condition in a very short time.

It's like your whole body has already entered the gates of hell, but Bai Lu snatches you away from the clutches of the King of Hell, bringing you back to the state where you have one foot in the gates of hell.

Humans are superior, and even the strange beasts that monsters regard as their leaders can be stripped of their abilities.

Thus, they truly became nemesis to each other.

After informing headquarters, they began to speed up manpower, and the number of crystal cores exposed to the air increased again.

Their strategy is very simple: to capture the alien beasts and, more importantly, their spirits. By possessing these spirits, martial artists can test whether they can activate the beasts' abilities by attempting to absorb them.

"Uncle Huang Feng, Uncle Bai Lu, I think there's one more question."

"what is the problem?"

Zhang Chaoqiang raised one last question: "Then it is that those people who entered Jushan during this period all seemed to carry the scent and power of the Photinia Spirit Flower, which also means that they possess the spirit body of the Stealing Fat."

Since we need to wait until the thief's physical body is reconstructed and synthesized before we can capture it, we are powerless to do anything about its current ethereal state...

Should we bring them back as well and extract the fat-stealing spirits from them?

The method of separation is also very simple: just let them stay quietly in the Jushan Mountains without doing anything.

The gray areas will gradually merge and shrink to their maximum size.

After all, Liu Feng was also affected by the Stealing Spirit and the mechanisms imposed on him by Zhang Chaoqiang and the others, making him look like neither a human nor a ghost.

Only when the physical body is re-formed can those spirits be separated from them.

Therefore, Zhang Chaoqiang's suggestion was something their investigation bureau should do no matter what, as ensuring people's safety was also an obligation they needed to fulfill.

However, Zhang Chaoqiang actually had his own plans under these circumstances.

Zhang Chaoqiang had previously asked Huang Feng and Bai Lu if he could try to absorb the spirit of the strange beast on Jushan Mountain, because he felt that he had the physical condition to accept the second mechanism ability.

However, Huang Feng and Bai Lu both refused.

The reason for the refusal was nothing other than the fact that no one could possess the abilities of two different beasts at the same time, because doing so would cause the body's primal reactions derived from the two beasts to conflict with each other.

The saying "two tigers cannot share one mountain" is very clear and obvious. Even the strange beasts that have evolved into human beings still follow this condition.

Forcibly absorbing energy can lead to various problems. At best, it can cause conflicting abilities and physical chaos; at worst, it can cause severe backlash to both mental and physical abilities. In layman's terms...

That means even after being cured, they'll still drool!

It's no wonder they were so worried, because these experiences were summarized by their predecessors. Back then, they themselves acted as guinea pigs to draw these conclusions.

Therefore, Huang Feng and Bai Lu were not unwilling to let Zhang Chaoqiang obtain the ability to steal fat, but were mainly worried that Zhang Chaoqiang would have problems because of it.

And it's impossible for Zhang Chaoqiang to be completely honest with them and tell them that the reason he is so calm about successfully absorbing the fat-stealing mechanism is because he has a special cheat code, right?

Therefore, after careful consideration, he realized that he only needed to collect a portion of the spirits to absorb their mechanics, a process he was already quite adept at.

The most likely scenario for this to happen is when the thief reshapes his physical body and is recalled from the power and spirits that surround and attach themselves to the thieves.

Zhang Chaoqiang intercepted them again!

If we collect a portion of the spirit of the Thief and successfully master its abilities, then once things settle down, we can explain the situation to Huang Feng and Bai Lu.

For now, let's wait patiently for the right opportunity; after all, there's still plenty of time.

I've only been here for a day, but I already miss my parents a little. What's the strange reason?

Could it be that the investigators are too serious, and the fun in their lives is much more boring than being around Lao Chen, Zhang Huolong, Shen Qiangwei, and Tan Yue?

This is way too much like Stockholm syndrome... Zhang Chaoqiang even wondered if his parents had messed him up.

With his mind returning to Stealing Fat, Zhang Chaoqiang was certain that this thing probably didn't have much of a deterrent or lethal effect, so the resulting skill mechanism was likely not primarily offensive.