The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

Meanwhile, on the top floor of the Lanhe Investigation Bureau building, in the director's office.

Behind his desk, Ye Yi, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, carefully reviewed the detailed battle report he had just received regarding the massive hollowing-out incident in the three southeastern provinces.

The main points include: the projection of the Thousand-Faced God has been cleared, and then the Director-General of the Investigation Bureau, Ji Lingzuo, appeared in the three southeastern provinces. However, the casualties among ordinary people in the three southeastern provinces were huge. At the same time, the Investigation Bureau headquarters also released preliminary information that it will soon announce the existence of ability users and corpse species. The Investigation Bureau is about to step into the limelight!

"Are we going to announce the existence of an extraordinary being directly? It seems the situation has really reached a very bad point."

Ye Yi understood that, judging from the previous strategy of the Investigation Bureau, the original plan was to gradually increase the number of people with superpowers, starting with martial artists, and then gradually reveal the existence of supernatural powers when the time was right. This gradual approach would ensure a smooth transition and avoid provoking too much of a reaction.

However, the Bureau of Investigation has suddenly released information that it will soon publicly disclose the existence of ability users and corpses.

The purpose of this strategy is obvious: to use the credibility of the government to ignite the public's desire for superhuman power in the shortest possible time, thereby increasing the number of people with superpowers and the overall combat strength of the human side.

The reason why the leaders at headquarters made such a decision is easy to guess: the current situation has become so dire that special measures have to be taken! They believe that humanity is running out of time with the previous strategy! Therefore, it is necessary to adopt this extreme plan, risking potential unrest and turmoil, in order to increase the overall combat strength of the human side in the shortest possible time!

But then, Ye Yi pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and noticed something strange in the battle report: "The projection of the Thousand-Faced God has been cleared, and subsequently, Ji Lingzuo, the Director-General of the Investigation Bureau, appeared in the three southeastern provinces."

This ambiguous writing style, if not carefully considered, can easily lead people to believe that the Director-General of the Investigation Bureau, Ji Lingzuo, killed the projection of the Thousand-Faced God.

But as a veteran torchbearer, Ye Yi keenly sensed something hidden in this slightly ambiguous message.

Normally, if it was the Director-General of the Investigation Bureau, Ji Lingzuo, who killed the projection of the Thousand-Faced God, the battle report should say, "The Director-General of the Investigation Bureau, Ji Lingzuo, rushed to the three southeastern provinces and promptly cleared away the projection of the Thousand-Faced God!"

However, the battle report for this Great Hollow Incident first stated that "the projection of the Thousand-Faced God has been cleared" before stating that "Chi Ling-tso, the Director-General of the Investigation Bureau, appeared in the three southeastern provinces!"

This means that the truth is most likely that the projection of the Thousand-Faced God was already cleared away by someone before the Director of the Investigation Bureau, Ji Lingzuo, arrived in the three southeastern provinces!

As for why the General Administration would issue such a misleading and vague battle report, Ye Yi could only think of one reason: that the General Administration was deliberately directing the killing of the Thousand-Faced God projection onto the General Administration Director Ji Lingzuo!

As for the purpose of doing so, the veteran Ye Yi could easily guess it.

The key lies in the true killer of the Thousand-Faced Projection, whose name has never been revealed!

The General Administration is deliberately concealing the fact that the person who actually killed the Thousand-Faced Projection is behind their back!

But then another question arose in his mind: if the General Administration really wanted to conceal the true identity of the Thousand-Faced Projection Killer, wouldn't it have been simpler to issue a battle report clearly attributing the incident to the Director General, Ji Lingzuo? Why issue such an ambiguous message?

Anyone who has worked as a torchbearer for a few years can probably figure out the purpose behind such ambiguous news if they think about it carefully.

The heads of those departments under the General Administration could not have imagined this, but even so, the General Administration still issued such a battle report, which is quite interesting.

"A mysterious powerful figure killed the projection of the Thousand-Faced God, but the General Administration neither concealed its existence nor directly disclosed its identity and identification number?"

"Is there something wrong with that mysterious expert's identity, or does it involve some extremely high-level secret?"

"Tsk tsk tsk—"

Ye Yi stood up, left her desk, and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

Through the glass, he looked out at Lanhe City, which was bathed in the orange glow of the setting sun.

Pedestrians on both sides of the street were still moving about normally. There were children playing and laughing, young people carrying takeout bags, and elderly people taking a walk after dinner.

After get off work, the traffic formed several lines at the traffic lights. Occasionally, people would stop on the sidewalk to look up at the color of the sky, and some would be transferring bags from one hand to the other.

The scenes appeared exceptionally tranquil and peaceful in the evening sunlight, as if they had nothing to do with the brutal war between humans and the zombies.

But when Ye Yi's gaze fell on those images, what came to mind was the record in the battle report that "the casualties among ordinary people were enormous."

war......

Then, as if struck by a thought, Ye Yi sighed, raised his left wrist, tapped a few times on the mobile device, opened his contacts, and murmured softly as he looked at the names in the list:

"I wonder if communications have been restored in the three southeastern provinces... and the Deep Dark Domain... is everyone alright...?"

At that moment, before Ye Yi could even press a name in her contacts...

drip-

drip-

His mobile device suddenly vibrated: a call had come in.

The moment Ye Yi saw the caller's name on the screen, her pupils contracted instantly.

Even he, who is usually calm and collected, seemed to be in a hurry and flustered state as he tapped the answer button.

The first thing he said after answering the call was, "Hey, Xiaoyou, where are you now? And are you all alright?"

But before he could finish speaking, he was stunned when he heard the words coming from the mobile terminal.

"Huh? They're already on their way back? When will they arrive?"

"You'll be there in a few minutes? That's so sudden!"

Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment, but all the preparations he had made suddenly relaxed.

"Alright, alright, it's good that you're all alright. We'll talk about the rest when you get back."

A moment later, he hung up the call, his fingertip lingered on the mobile device screen for a moment, and then slowly lowered it.

He stood by the window and let out a long breath, a breath that was much lighter than before.

And just then...

Dodo—

Dodo—

Two knocks, each one evenly spaced, suddenly came from outside the director's office.