Doomsday police, please show your god/demon ID card.

Lei Lie struggled to get up from the ground and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"Attack him together! Cripple him!" he roared at his men who hadn't yet gotten out of the car.

The car doors opened one after another, and more than twenty team members, all dressed in black combat uniforms, jumped out of the car with guns at their hands.

They were all elites of the company, enhanced individuals who had been injected with gene-enhancing agents, although most of them were only at the first level.

However, at that moment...

An invisible ripple spread silently from behind Tang Long.

"Ugh!"

"My head!"

The team members at the forefront froze instantly.

They clutched their heads, their eyes bloodshot, and threw their guns away, howling in agony.

Immediately afterwards, all the special forces members developed the same symptoms.

Their bodies trembled uncontrollably, making it difficult to even stand, and one after another they knelt down on the ground.

The only sounds in the square were the clanging of weapons falling to the ground and suppressed screams.

Only Lei Lie remained standing.

His eyes widened as he stared intently at the direction of the main building.

He himself felt a needle-like mental shock, but with the willpower and mental resistance of a third-tier enhanced being, he could barely withstand it.

"This...how is this possible?"

Lei Lie exclaimed in shock, his eyes wide with disbelief: "A wide-ranging mental suppression? How could it possibly have such a strong coverage and precision? And... this pure mental interference, is it from a naturally awakened being of the mystical side?"

At this moment, he had already cursed the ancestors of those logistics personnel responsible for intelligence gathering and analysis to the eighteenth generation!

First, the police station was turned into a military fortress, not to mention that the suspected Awakened Ones in the intelligence reports have increased to two.

This is hardly a soft persimmon that can be kneaded at will.

This is clearly a den of dragons and tigers!

Tang Long didn't give the other party much time to be shocked and regretful.

Taking advantage of Lei Lie's momentary lapse in concentration, two whips of order suddenly shot out, one wrapping around Lei Lie's legs and the other around his neck, lifting him off the ground.

"Ugh!" Lei Lie gripped the vines wrapped around his neck tightly, trying to break them off.

However, he discovered that this thing was much harder than he had imagined.

Despite using all my strength, I couldn't break free even an inch; instead, the feeling of suffocation grew stronger.

"You talk too much nonsense!" Tang Long said indifferently, looking at Lei Lie who was hanging in mid-air by vines.

The vine twisted slightly.

Lei Lie groaned and completely lost consciousness, being thrown to the ground like a tattered sack.

"Take them all down, disarm them, put them in chains, and lock them up in solitary confinement," Tang Long ordered Wang Hu, retracting the vines.

"Yes!" Wang Hu waved his hand and led the rest of the guards.

These provincial soldiers, still under mental control, were locked up tightly one by one.

......

The second basement level contains detention cells.

Whoosh!

A bucket of ice water was poured on Lei Lie's face.

"Cough! Cough cough cough..." Lei Lie coughed violently, waking up from his coma.

He then found himself pinned to a wall, his hands and feet bound by specially made shackles, spread out in a starfish shape.

He had changed into a prison uniform.

Sizzle~

The door opened.

Tang Long walked in, followed by Zhao Fan, who was in charge of taking notes, and Su Yan, who had no expression on her face.

He sat down on an iron chair in front of Lei Lie, crossed his legs, and calmly looked at Lei Lie's face, as if examining an object.

"Now, we can have a proper talk."

Lei Lie raised his head, water droplets dripping from the ends of his hair, and gave a mocking smile.

"Trying to extract information from me? Dream on."

"When the company trained us, counter-interrogation was the first lesson. You think these are all the tricks you've got..."

His words came to an abrupt end.

Because Su Yan, who was standing slightly behind Tang Long, raised her eyelids slightly.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

A scream echoed in the detention room.

Lei Lie's eyes bulged out, his face contorted, and his entire body convulsed violently as if he had been electrocuted.

He felt as if his brain had been instantly stuffed into a high-speed blender!

This is different from physical torture; it is a violent destruction that directly targets the mind!

"Stop...stop!"

"I said it!!!!"

Tang Long nodded slightly to Su Yan, and Su Yan immediately withdrew her mental energy.

Tang Long nodded in satisfaction: "Isn't that better? Why did we have to resort to violence?"

"What...what do you want to ask?" Lei Lie's face was frighteningly pale, as if all his bones and strength had been drained away. He slumped in his shackles, and his eyes were filled with fear as he looked at Su Yan.

"What's the situation in the provincial capital right now?" Tang Long asked.

Lei Lie took a few quick breaths, and finally spoke with a resigned tone, his voice hoarse and weak: "The first two months of the apocalypse were the most chaotic, and then... three major forces gradually formed, none of which could devour the others."

Explain yourself.

"The first company we're talking about is Life Star Company! The boss... we all call him Doctor," we don't know his real name, he rarely shows his face.

"Secondly, there is a force formed by the merger of some remnants of the former provincial military region and armed police. They have occupied the old military region bases and some military industrial facilities, and are now no different from separatist warlords, calling themselves the Revival Army."

"Finally, there was a loose alliance of some civilian groups called the Survivors' Union, which had the largest number of members, but was internally divided into numerous factions."

Tang Long raised an eyebrow, slightly surprised.

The situation in the provincial capital was more complicated than he had imagined, with three different forces at play.

"How's your strength?"

"On the surface, the Restoration Army has more soldiers, more guns, and more territory. But in reality..." Lei Lie hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Our company is the strongest, at least in terms of top-tier combat power and future potential. The Council is the weakest, but it shouldn't be underestimated either; they have some very troublesome superhumans hidden among them."

"Why is the company the strongest? Is it because of the gene serum?" Tang Long asked the key question.

"The company... had extensive research in the field of biological genes before the apocalypse. After the virus outbreak, they... accelerated certain projects." Lei Lie licked his chapped lips.

"There are two types of drugs. One is an inducer, like the one you found in the grain depot. It's very potent, but it drains your life force and has a high failure rate. Even with a stabilizer injection, you won't live long! It's considered a... defective product and consumable. It's mainly used by peripheral personnel and cannon fodder, or as a combat stimulant."

"What about the other one?" Tang Long pressed.

Lei Lie thought for a moment: "The other one is that after the injection, the body's physical attributes will undergo a comprehensive leap, with strength, speed, and recovery ability far exceeding those of ordinary people! We call them enhancers."

"But not everyone is a good fit; a rigorous selection process is required. If it fails..."

He didn't continue, but Tang Long still understood.

He thought for a moment, then pressed further, "Are all enhanced individuals like you?"

"Most of them are," Lei Lie replied. "Occasionally, after being injected with the drug, some people will unexpectedly awaken some special abilities, such as fire control, electric discharge, or skin metallization. The company calls these people mutated enhancers. They are extremely rare and have a higher status than us ordinary enhancers."

"But there are very few such people; there are only a handful in the entire provincial capital."

"Besides injecting the drug, are there any other ways to gain abilities?" Tang Long glanced at Su Yan.

Lei Lie followed his gaze, a hint of apprehension flashing in his eyes.

"Yes! We call them natural awakeners, or sometimes superhumans. Like her."

He looked at Su Yan and continued, "These superhumans can acquire incredible abilities without the aid of drugs! Telepathy, telekinesis, elemental manipulation, body transformation, and even more bizarre ones... like prophecy and curses? But these people are much rarer, and their abilities are incredibly diverse, with huge differences in strength."

How do we determine the strength of a team?

"Our company has an internal evaluation system ranging from level 1 to 5, which is mainly based on data such as physical fitness and energy response, benchmarking us gene enhancers," Lei Lie explained. "But for superhumans, especially those with mental or rule-based abilities, these mystical superhumans, this system often fails."

"A newly awakened psychic might be able to kill a Tier 3 enhanced individual, but in close combat, they're no match for even an ordinary soldier. Therefore, dealing with superhumans, especially those of unknown types, is extremely troublesome."