All-out: Starting with the Awakening Special Operations Unit, search, attack, and withdrawal.

[Logistics Department - Family Secret Recipe]

[Go to the top-secret or higher investigation area "Saihe Village" and obtain the quest item "Saihe Village Secret Recipe" at the designated location in the secluded cabin behind the "Village Shrine Community" (1/1)]

Chu Hong didn't even want to touch the bamboo tube with his hands. With a thought, he made a move.

Use the [Hand of Heresy] to put the quest item "Secret Recipe of Saihe Village" into your inventory.

Then, without hesitation, he turned around and walked out of the house.

Chu Hong glanced around the living room, then his gaze lingered on a niche hanging on the wall. Behind a few burnt-out incense sticks, a rather eerie doll, resembling the image of Amaterasu, sat drab.

Chu Hong's gaze narrowed slightly.

[Item name]: Ichimatsu doll

[Item Level]: Red

Value: 1,703,715

[Type]: Craft collectibles

【Weight】: 2.1kg

[Occupies backpack slot capacity]: 1×2

[Item Description]: This is a traditional Amaterasu Ichimatsu doll, made using traditional techniques, yet it exudes an eerie and ominous aura. The doll sits cross-legged on a deep red silk cushion, wearing a black kimono with gold patterns, and her hair is styled in a neat Hime-style cut. Her face is painted with white lacquer, while her eyebrows, eyes, and lips are meticulously depicted with ink and red. The slightly upturned corners of her mouth appear stiff and unnatural.

"Is this the special red item in the Operations Department's Secret Realm loot section?"

Chu Hong's face lit up with joy. Although he was disgusted by the thing inside the house, the discovery of this open-air red dot paint outside filled him with delight.

Then, several small goldfish were found in two other small huts.

Chu Hong turned around and leaped onto the back of the Thunderhorn Dragon, his target shifting to the Abandoned Elementary School Research Area, specifically the L-shaped teaching building.

The abandoned elementary school research area, which was originally full of armed personnel from the White Night Project, has now been completely cleared out.

Wang Suming and the others had already scattered to gather information about the open-air resource gathering points and the specific terrain inside the building.

Chu Hong jumped off the back of the Thunderhorn Dragon, and then, when he reached the edge of the rooftop, he used the effect of the shadow of the Shadow Serpent Vine to flash into the top floor.

With a quick scan of the display case effect of the [Cobweb Brain Machine], Chu Hong had already memorized the 3D internal structure of the entire teaching building.

The most common feature on each floor is the classrooms.

However, some classrooms had their doors or windows open, allowing for entry and searching, while others had their doors and windows closed.

In the perception of the [Cobweb] brain-computer interface, that place was also a chaotic darkness.

That's a texture!

Chu Hong casually walked into a classroom on the third floor. What came into view was a pile of students' school supplies and personal belongings, stacked in the middle, resembling a small mountain.

Around this pile of items, which clearly carried a faint, eerie energy, were various instruments that Chu Hong couldn't understand.

Chu Hong walked up to the pile of junk in front of him.

Reach out your hand.

Searching for 【Grievous Spirit Particle Miscellaneous Pile】: ......

"As expected, this can also be considered a retrieval container!" Chu Hong took a deep breath. In his mind, he could sense that in the entire teaching building, apart from a few special classrooms that had been converted into temporary dormitories for the [White Night Project Armed Personnel], there were no other classrooms.

The other classrooms are basically all like this.

Like... experimental zones, or nurseries?

There are only two items in the black box of the search.

One 1x1 single square, and one 2x2 four-square square.

The search icon starts spinning.

Ding!

First, there is a blue item.

[Item Name]: Little Yellow Duck Toy

[Item Level]: Blue

Value: 3,208

【Type】：Home Furnishings

【Weight】: 0.2kg

[Occupies backpack slot capacity]: 1×1

[Item Description]: Rubber duck toy. It is bright yellow all over with slight wear marks on the surface. It makes a short "squeak" sound when squeezed.

When the second item started spinning, Chu Hong had little hope.

However, as the icon search time grew longer, Chu Hong's expression became more serious.

"Are you in stock?"

After all, it was top secret. Under Chu Hong's gaze, a few seconds later...

Ding!

A red light shone forth.

[Item Name]: Daruma Matryoshka Jar

[Item Level]: Red

Value: 4,883,208

[Type]: Craft collectibles

【Weight】: 3.2kg

[Occupies backpack slot capacity]: 2×2

[Item Description]: A multi-layered nesting doll jar modeled after the "Daruma Tumbler". The outer shell is a lacquered vermilion Daruma egg, decorated with cloud patterns and fine tortoise shell patterns drawn with gold thread on the surface, and the character "寿" (longevity) is written in gold on the blank space on the front.

"Holy crap?"

Chu Hong's eyes lit up. He hadn't expected that he would find a red item that he hadn't seen before when he casually touched the item while completing a mission and getting a mission item.

What a pleasant surprise! What a pleasant surprise!

Silently noting down the "strange container" in the classroom, Chu Hong finally arrived at the location of Xiao Mianbao, which was also the location of the mission item "White Night Project Confidential File".

The third floor of the L-shaped teaching building.

A huge, dark gold gate appeared before Chu Hong.

[General Research Office]

Chu Hong pushed open the door and entered what looked like a room formed by combining three classrooms.

This place is like a more advanced one, like the classrooms or research labs with all sorts of instruments set up like before!

On the floor was a huge stone slab that looked like it had been transported in as a whole, engraved with all sorts of strange characters and symbols.

It resembles the writing of the ancient Mayan civilization, but also some strange symbols from the Western Catholic Church.

On this huge stone slab, however, were no longer school supplies and daily necessities for elementary school students.

Instead... a pile of children's remains and bones!

Chu Hong: "..."

As expected of Amaterasu's secret realm, it's insane!

He tried to see if he could search for it like he had searched for the previous [Pile of Resentful Spirit Particles].

[Unable to retrieve! Please accept and complete the benchmark mission "Operation Soul Suppression"]

"I can search, but do I need to complete a benchmark task to retrieve it?" Chu Hong murmured. At this moment, on the map, at the location of [Village, Community, God Community], there was a benchmark task icon waiting to be accepted.

Chu Hong was not in a hurry. Instead, he quickly found Xiao Mianbao in the [General Research Room].

It was a small, black box that emitted bursts of psionic light and looked like it was made of volcanic rock.

Searching for 【Top Secret Psychic Chest (High-Value Container)】: ......

A black border appears.

Chu Hong's face immediately darkened.

"Damn it! Three single cells?! How dare you put this kind of layout in a high-value container?!"