My sister died tragically, and now I'm a citizen of my motherland, why are you crying?

Zhou Min's hand froze in mid-air.

Han Dong frowned.

"What happened?"

"Bang!!!"

Second tone.

It was louder and deeper than before.

A commotion arose outside the secret room—someone was shouting, and others were running.

"Someone is banging on the door!"

"Impossible! Even missiles can't penetrate the petrifier!"

"Bang!!!"

Third tone.

This time, everyone heard it clearly—it wasn't the sound of banging on the door.

It's the sound of cutting.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

A piercing metallic scraping sound came from outside the door, accompanied by a blinding red light.

The red light squeezed in through the crack in the door, turning the entire secret room blood red.

The temperature soared instantly, the moisture in the air evaporated, and breathing became hot and difficult.

Han Dong's face turned deathly pale instantly.

"That's... heat vision..."

His voice was trembling.

Zhou Min's legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground.

Panic spread through the population like a plague.

But they had nowhere to escape.

This is underground, and there's only one door.

And that door is being cut open.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

The red light moved slowly along the edge of the door, slicing through the thick special alloy as easily as cutting tofu.

Molten metal dripped onto the ground, hissing and splashing up dark red sparks.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on that door.

Everyone's heart jumped into their throat at the same moment.

"boom!!!"

The heavy iron gate crashed down, smashing to the ground and sending up clouds of dust and sparks.

Amidst the swirling dust, a figure walked in from outside the door.

Tall and slender, wearing a plain white shirt and black trousers.

Lin Yuan's face remained expressionless.

Those calm eyes slowly swept over everyone in the secret room.

His gaze swept over Zhou Min, who was slumped on the ground; over Han Dong, whose face was deathly pale; and over the strange people trembling in the corner.

There was no anger, no murderous intent, and not even contempt in his eyes.

There was only a cold, calm.

It was as if he had entered not an underground chamber, but a vast, open field.

It was as if the people in front of him were not living, breathing human beings, but rather pebbles on the roadside.

He was watching ants.

There was no sound coming from outside the door.

One can imagine that those guarding the outside include petrified beings who are said to be invulnerable to bullets and can withstand missiles.

It had already been cut into pieces under Lin Yuan's unbreakable heat gaze.

Lin Yuan's decision to come here was not a spur-of-the-moment thing.

He was originally an investigative reporter for a newspaper.

During this period, strange people have been appearing frequently in Jiangcheng, oddities that should be living in the wilderness.

However, they kept appearing out of nowhere in the city center, causing countless civilian casualties.

He visited countless survivors and examined the scene repeatedly.

By meticulously gathering clues, a conclusion was finally reached.

These strange people didn't appear out of thin air; they were deliberately released from the black market to create a crisis.

The purpose of this trip is to personally tear away this veil of pretense and find the real culprit behind the monster.

His gaze fell directly on Han Dong.

He walked step by step to the long table, looking down at the black market middleman who was trembling with fear and had a deathly pale face.

A sense of oppression washed over me.

"You're Han Dong?"

The voice was flat and emotionless.

Han Dong sat in the chair, his whole body stiff as iron, his fingertips trembling uncontrollably.

The professional, gentle smile on his face was now distorted and deformed; his jaw was chattering, and he managed to squeeze out a few words:

"It's...it's me."

"The biggest middleman in Jiangcheng's black market colluded with the Hero Association to capture Wild Monsters and release them into the city."

They fabricate heroic events to make money through bloodshed.

Lin Yuan spoke each word with a cold tone.

"Did you release that lizard-like monster yesterday?"

Han Dong shuddered, shaking his head vigorously, yet he dared not completely deny it, stammering:

"I didn't release it voluntarily! The Hero Association forced me to!"

They paid me to deliver the weirdo to the designated area on time; I was just following orders!

Everyone present was terrified and dared not even look up at Lin Yuan, let alone resist.

The man before me could instantly kill a petrified person.

His mere presence was enough to suffocate everyone; everyone knew that any struggle against him would be suicidal.

Lin Yuan's lips curled into a faint smile as he glanced at Zhou Min, who was slumped on the ground beside him, and spoke calmly:

"Your name is Zhou Min, an A-level digital infiltration ability user."

"You can control all electronic devices on the internet silently. I found you when I was doing my investigation at the newspaper."

Zhou Min looked up abruptly, her eyes filled with shock.

She had been hiding her A-level ability, but she never expected that the person in front of her had already figured it out.

"Now, use your abilities to start a mandatory live stream across the entire internet."

It works on all platforms and all electronic devices; there's no need to hide it. The live stream name is simply "The Motherland."

Lin Yuan's tone left no room for argument; he needed a stage.

Expose the Hero Association's dirty deeds to the public.

You can also gain more popularity points.

Zhou Min didn't dare to delay and immediately closed her eyes and activated her ability.

An invisible consciousness infiltrates countless networks.

It broke through all platform censorship and blocking in just three seconds.

All mobile phones, computers, shopping mall screens, and vehicle screens in Jiangcheng.

All viewers were forced to pop up in the same live stream room, and the number of online viewers surged by tens of thousands per second.

【What? A forced pop-up?】

[Wait... I've already taken my pants off halfway, where's my chapter?]

[Hacker attack?]

[Homelander? Is that the tough guy who recently took on the entire Hero Association branch?]

The screen was instantly flooded with comments, filled with confusion and uproar.

Lin Yuan ignored the live stream comments and turned his gaze back to the metal box next to Han Dong that had a danger sign printed on it.

He could see through the box that inside were rows of awakening potions.

He calmly gave the order: "Open it."

Han Dong crawled over on his hands and feet, and opened the box with trembling hands.

Inside were thirty light blue awakening potions neatly stacked, with the Hero Association's emblem printed on the bottles.

It was the kind of deadly drug that had a 70% mortality rate after being injected with it.

"This is a substandard awakening drug leaked from the Hero Association. By reselling it, you have killed countless ordinary people who wanted to awaken overnight."

Lin Yuan looked at him with icy eyes.

"Now, inject yourself."

This box contains thirty vials. For every dirty secret of the Hero Association you reveal, you can get one less vial injected.

The more you talk, the greater your chances of survival.

Upon hearing the first half of the sentence, which had already plunged him into hell, Han Dong's eyes lit up instantly.

It was like grasping at the last straw; there was no time to think.

They started blurting out all sorts of dirt as soon as they opened their mouths, as if they wanted to spill every last bit of dirt they knew:

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"

The president of the Jiangcheng Heroes Association appears to be upright and honest.

He secretly kept three mistresses and even embezzled funds from the Heroes' Special Fund to buy them luxury homes!

"Iron Elephant, the S-class hero in the association."

She appears upright and incorruptible, but she's actually in a relationship with another male hero, and their private affairs are all maintained by potions!

"And every time they livestream killing monsters, they feed the monsters a weakening potion beforehand."

They deliberately prolonged the battle to grab attention, and then lied about casualties to claim compensation!

"And another thing! The Hero Association specifically kidnaps children with potential."

"Injected with forced awakening drugs from a young age, those who survive are trained into puppet heroes, and those who die are simply disposed of!"

"The hero merchandise they sell is all low-quality, overpriced at hundreds of times the original price, and they force people to buy it!"

Han Dong's ramblings became increasingly outrageous, detailing all sorts of scandals, sex scandals, and sordid dealings within the Hero Association from top to bottom.

He spilled everything out without holding anything back.

The live stream chat exploded, filled with hilarious and explosive comments:

Holy crap! This is incredible! It's even more exciting than a gossip magazine!

[A steel elephant? That guy's as thick as a pillar, how will his girlfriend handle him, hahaha!]

[The president of the association was keeping a mistress? And embezzled public funds? His image is completely ruined!]

Help! I'll never believe in heroes again! What a mess this is!

No wonder the monsters always seem to be stopped by the heroes; it was all an act!