Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Clearly, this is an experiment by the Sally Church in the international metropolis of Liberty City during this special period of psionic resurgence.

They created a pseudo-Bronze-level Sally construct. However, they couldn't control it themselves.

Or rather, these dead Sally Church members were all pawns and materials used for this experiment.

The higher-ups at Sally's Church behind it were simply testing whether it could succeed.

This is why the giant eagle girl ultimately self-destructed; it was a half-finished pseudo-Bronze level being, not only lacking clear consciousness but also prone to volatile spiritual energy. The closer it evolved, the closer it got to its critical point, making it excellent material for self-destruction!

The problem is that this expenditure is too huge; it's very likely that all the believers Sally's church has cultivated in Liberty City during this period have been wiped out. There's even a district councilor providing protection.

Of course, the results were quite good.

The Mysterious Bureau deployed many secret weapons, but in the end it was only a Pyrrhic victory.

More than a dozen Men in Black agents died directly, and another dozen had to retire due to various factors.

What awaits them is a lifetime of taking special medications to suppress their own hormone secretion, and undergoing monthly mental examinations at the Bureau of Mysteries to prevent them from involuntarily developing a belief in Sally after a silent mental distortion.

Sally's church went too far this time, recruiting local district councilors as believers, along with so-called artists, drug addicts, and people with unusual sexual preferences. Nearly fifty people disappeared from this villa, and afterwards, the bodies couldn't be matched with the real ones. Some people may not have even left any remains...

When Zhao Hao discovered the oil painting, the mecha pilot, after learning that he was a super-sensor, especially skilled in psionic vision, became interested in him and even invited him to join the Sealed Department.

It turns out he was the head of the Liberty City branch's storage department, and Lacus the Jaguar, who was a Level 4 agent just like Colt!

The two didn't get along at all; otherwise, why would they have gone so far as to invite each other to switch jobs in person?

Afterwards, Colt reminded Zhao Hao to stay away from Lacus, "His nickname is Jaeger, think about what kind of person he is?"

Skua gulls never build their own nests; instead, they aggressively seize the nests of other birds. They are also extremely voracious and will eat anything they can fit in their beaks. Despite their small size, they can swallow a rabbit whole!

After Sally's creation self-destructed, Uncle Tie in the antique shop put down his Bagua mirror, shook his head, and said, "A time of great turmoil."

In the Fulu Temple, an old monk dispersed the halo around his palm and chanted the Buddhist mantra: "Amitabha... Buddha."

Meanwhile, in a high-end villa a few kilometers away, a sophisticated and charming middle-aged white man in his forties was holding a glass of red wine and looking over here.

"Unrestricted pursuit of instinct will eventually exceed the limits of one's physical body. Self-destruction? Not really..."

"What a delightful kind of pain! To Sally~"

……

After the Sally Party incident, Liberty City finally had a few days of peace.

Some of America's established supernatural organizations have begun to send people to help.

After all, the four major cults are enemies of the entire world. They may not help the Bureau of Mysteries, but they must be cautious about any cult activity they encounter.

Of course, the Mysterious Bureau does need to rest and recuperate after this battle.

Zhao Hao's support activities have come to an end. He'd accumulated quite a few Fate Points during this time, but the final giant eagle girl didn't give him many Fate Points at all—it's not befitting of a Bronze-level player!

Of course, there are many possibilities. Maybe this thing was destined to die. Maybe it was a fake big shot. Or maybe it self-destructed.

However, after the matter with the Mysterious Bureau was over, the fat man came looking for him.

"I need your help to get a job."

"What kind of job is this? You're a superhuman, and you're taking on jobs? Can't you have some self-respect?"

"They're offering 100,000 dollars; once it's done, we two brothers will split the cost equally!"

"Stop talking, just tell me where you are! I'll be right there! Money doesn't matter, as long as I enjoy helping others!"

Zhao Hao drove Uncle Tie's beat-up pickup truck, carrying Fatty, to a remote road a hundred kilometers away.

"Is this the place?"

The fat man looked at the map and compared it. "That's right! Find that freak and take him down, and we'll be done."

With the resurgence of psionic energy, the real and the real worlds are becoming increasingly intertwined, and many wealthy and influential individuals and conglomerates have begun to cultivate or befriend or nurture extraordinary individuals.

Even some of the large families that existed since the founding of America have always had connections with the underworld and superhumans, and some have even cultivated superhumans in their own families.

This mission, for example, involved a wealthy man's son who made a terrible mistake and ended up dying in the large forest beside this highway.

The road has been closed because more than forty people have gone missing in the past three years.

Moreover, the forest was often shrouded in fog, making it difficult for search and rescue personnel to find their way.

Finally, the state government had no choice but to block the road and put up a sign prohibiting passage.

However, in Amy, some young people deliberately go to places that are off-limits.

And so, the assets worth hundreds of millions have no heir.

The wealthy man learned of the existence of superhumans through a friend and issued a bounty in the underworld to find the murderer and avenge his son.

However, the superhumans living nearby also know about this place, so there must be superhumans causing trouble. They're not ordinary people.

In the end, the fat guy took on this job!

In fact, many superhumans take on this kind of work, after all, superhumans also need to make a living!

Many spiritual practices require money; you can't just rely on your physical strength to carry bricks on a construction site, can you? Do you really think you're more efficient than an excavator?

Among extraordinary individuals, there are people who specialize in taking on this kind of work, and there are even professions that specialize in hunting down monsters that wreak havoc in the surface world. For example, witchers!

Then there are bounty hunters like Fatty, who even pursue the extraordinary path of hunting specifically to seek thrills or increase their psionic abilities.

……

The fat man was quite strong; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to take on this job. The problem was that finding a complete stranger, a serial killer, in this kind of place was really difficult for him.

So they summoned Zhao Hao and specifically asked him to bring Orange to complete the mission together.

Zhao Hao: "You expect Orange to find you a target? You might as well expect it to cook you a meal!"

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Chapter 86 Tourist Scams at Scenic Spots

After getting out of the pickup truck, Zhao Hao saw that the roads leading to the forest were blocked off with barbed wire, and there was a sign that read, "Gunter Mountain Forest Nature Reserve has been designated as a dangerous area. Forty-six people have gone missing here. Do not go there."

The number forty-six has been covered with several layers of stickers, indicating that the number is constantly increasing.

How should I put this?

For the Amis youth, this sign is tantamount to saying, "This place is extremely dangerous. Do you dare come? You dare come, you son of a bitch?!"

If we don't take this risk, we'd be doing a disservice to being born an Amy!

So right next to the sign, a large hole had been cut in the barbed wire. A brand-new Ford Mustang was parked by the roadside. Not far away, in a ditch, lay two rusty motorcycles.

"Looks like someone's messing around again. I wonder how many more cases they'll have this time?"

Zhao Hao carried the orange chair over the barbed wire fence, with the fat man following closely behind.

Believe it or not, there were no paths in the forest to begin with, but as more people walked on them, they became paths. They actually trodden out a little trail!

The fat man squatted down and examined the marks. "It doesn't look like it's been long, no more than ten hours."

Zhao Hao did indeed see the footprints on the ground through his demon-hunting senses. "It looks like there were four people, two men and two women."

The fat man nodded: "Standard equipment!"

After walking for about ten more minutes, the path disappeared, or rather, it became very faint.

It's very likely that by the time they got here, those reckless young people from before had scattered and turned back.

This forest is so vast that it extends all the way to the foot of a mountain range eighty kilometers away.

Finding a psychopathic killer in such a large area is, frankly, extremely difficult.

Zhao Hao originally intended to ask the little fairy Lulu to help him make a prediction, or to ask her if any local nature spirits knew anything about it.

The surface world isn't devoid of extraordinary beings, but most are dormant. In the past two years, with the resurgence of psionic energy, some have begun to awaken.

However, he now has a better option. There's a ready-made bait!

Where there are reckless young people, there is bound to be a deranged killer!

As for whether these four decoys can be rescued, that depends on fate. After all, it wasn't Zhao Hao and the fat man who invited them.

Although seven or eight hours have passed, the marks are still clearly visible because there has been no rain or other extreme weather.

Zhao Hao and his group followed for more than an hour and found the campsite where the four of them had once camped.

"The first lucky victim has emerged!"

There was a bonfire on the ground that had already gone out.

As the saying goes: "A fire in the mountains, and the director falls in love with me. A wisp of smoke in the forest, and I ascend to heaven on the spot."

The two tents next to it were still there, but one of them had been ripped open with a sharp weapon, and a headless young man's naked body lay a few steps away.

It must have been around midnight when someone wielding a large machete raided the tent, dragged the young man out, cut off his head, and took him away.

This killer clearly employed a cat-and-mouse game of hunting. After killing the man, they temporarily retreated.

The remaining three, in a panic, scattered and fled.

Zhao Hao saw a lot of trash on the ground, such as food packaging bags, as well as many hurried footprints.

The fat man chuckled slyly, "To launch a surprise attack in the middle of the night and then watch the terrified prey run away naked! This murderer has quite the taste, no, I mean, he's quite perverted!"

Zhao Hao ignored the three who had escaped and instead searched for traces of the murderer.

He frowned and pondered for a moment, then said, "That's strange!"

"What's wrong?" the fat man asked.

Zhao Hao said, "This murderer didn't leave any footprints!"

"Ok?"

"It might not be a superhuman, or even human!"

The fat man rubbed his chin: "Mountain spirits and monsters? I've seen them in the mountains before, they're really mysterious!"

The "mountain spirits and wild monsters" don't refer to plants and animals that have become spirits, but rather to spirits and monsters similar to Western nature spirits. They are spiritual beings formed from a certain essence or concept.

Like the little fairy Lulu, although they have flesh and blood and a physical body, they are not born from a womb, an egg, or a wet body, but are born from spiritual energy!

This creature is clearly a monster with malicious intent towards intruders.

In some Western fairy tales, people accidentally wander into strange places and encounter strange beings. Some of these beings are friendly and offer help or guidance, such as the Lake Fairy, the Flower Fairy, or the Lucky Dwarf.