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Countermeasures Bureau, Meeting Room.

Lu Ze leaned back in his chair, a half-read report spread out in front of him.

Xilin sat to his left, her little legs swinging under the chair, while her golden eyes warily observed her surroundings.

Black Tower sat on the right, drawing circles on the table with his finger, showing little interest in anything around him.

Bella sat upright beside Celine, her back ramrod straight, like a silent guardian.

"Have you finished reading it, senior?"

Seeing that Lu Ze didn't speak, Lin Fan asked cautiously.

The aura with which Lu Ze and his men stormed into the Countermeasures Bureau was truly terrifying; he was still shaken.

If Zhao Deshan hadn't repeatedly emphasized on the phone that he knew what he was doing, Lin Fan wouldn't have dared to invite this guy to the conference room.

"I just finished reading the first page." Lu Ze tossed the report back onto the table, scattering the papers everywhere.

He then turned his gaze to the large screen.

"Vera Thorne, a nobleman of Yavis, the kind without real power."

"That's right, marginal nobles," Lin Fan quickly added, "but within the Yavis clan, a noble is a noble, regardless of whether they have real power or not. They value bloodlines."

Lu Ze continued reading.

The report was written concisely, but contained a great deal of information.

Villar Thorne applied for entry as a "cultural exchange envoy," but went through private channels, so he was not received by any official.

On the third day after arriving on Earth, he was found dead in his temporary rented apartment.

The cause of death was a high-energy puncture wound that penetrated the chest cavity.

There were no signs of struggle at the scene, no eyewitnesses, and the surveillance footage showed a 40-minute gap during the time of the incident.

"High-energy object puncture," Lu Ze read aloud. "There shouldn't be many things on Earth that can cause this kind of injury."

Even if such a thing existed, it would be far beyond the reach of an ordinary female college student like An Linyue.

Lu Ze sensed a conspiracy.

"Not many."

Lin Fan put down the remote control, which made a slight crisp sound when it touched the table.

"But it's not impossible. The key is that the biological traces extracted from the scene, and the DNA comparison results all point to one person."

He pressed the projection button on the desktop, and an ID photo appeared on the right side of the screen.

Lu Ze's gaze fell on the photo: An Lin Yue.

"This is her file and the preliminary chain of evidence for the case. Would you like to take a look first, senior?" Lin Fan pushed a stack of documents in a brown paper bag in front of Lu Ze.

Lu Ze took it and turned to the first page; the content was quite ordinary.

An Linyue, 22 years old, is a local university student with no criminal record, simple social relationships, and her parents are ordinary employees.

She looks like just an ordinary Earth girl.

"And the motive?" Lu Ze asked.

In his memory, An Linyue did not have any special abilities.

The biggest flaw in this case is that the deceased's identity is too unusual.

It's not so easy for an ordinary human on Earth to kill a Yavis noble, even if the noble is only a marginal one.

"I don't know. The forensic doctor didn't find a clear motive at the scene." Lin Fan's voice was a little weak.

"But the evidence points very clearly. Her skin tissue remains at the edge of the wound, and the surveillance footage from the apartment entrance shows her entering and leaving the building during the time of the incident."

He paused, then added another sentence.

"She hasn't been found yet. An Linyue is missing."

"You're sure it's her based on just these facts?"

"That's all for now," Lin Fan said somewhat embarrassed.

He knew, of course, that these indirect pieces of evidence weren't enough to secure a verdict, but the aliens didn't think so.

What makes this case special is that it occurred within Earth's jurisdiction, and the deceased was a member of an extraterrestrial civilization.

If a convincing explanation cannot be provided, Yavis has every reason to take the matter to the Interstellar Arbitration Court.

It could even lead to a war.

By then, An Linyue won't be the only one who will have to pay the price for this.

Lu Ze didn't respond, nor did he continue looking through An Lin Yue's file. Because none of that mattered.

Instead of getting bogged down in the chain of evidence, it's faster to just ask the person involved.

He closed his eyes, and his consciousness began to spread out from him.

He was quite familiar with An Linyue's soul fluctuations. As long as the person was within the range of his divine sense, he could find their exact location by scanning them with his divine sense.

With his current strength at the True Immortal Realm, it wouldn't be difficult for him to cover the entire city with his divine sense.

A few minutes later, Lu Ze opened his eyes again.