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Jiang City, inside the Five-Ring Industrial Park.
It was already 9 PM, and the outskirts of the park were tightly surrounded by police vehicles, with red and blue flashing lights forming a long police periter. Jiang Siqi sat on the planter by the reception building, constantly refreshing her phone. The winter evening breeze, which would normally make her shiver, seed unfelt at the mont.
"Siqi, put this on, be careful not to catch a cold." Soone handed her a thick blanket.
It was Little Pigeon.
"Ah, thank you." Jiang Siqi noticed that she was holding several blankets, presumably prepared by the logistics team, and asked, "Um... have you seen the news online?"
"Yes, I have." Little Pigeon nodded. "You looked amazing in battle!"
Jiang Siqi couldn’t help but smile awkwardly, "Hehe... it was alright, honestly, I was scared to death inside!"
Soone had uploaded the footage from the lobby’s surveillance system online, showing everything from the sudden mutation of the reception staff, their assault on the guests, to the chanical Officers storming into the lobby, evacuating people while battling the mutants.
It almost imdiately hit the top of the trending searches.
Jiang Siqi was also recognized by everyone, and her fan count skyrocketed by nearly 2 million, showing no signs of slowing down. Previously, when the TV station called her an internet celebrity, she felt unsure about it, but now she was a bona fide internet celebrity, with the na Magical Girl Si Tian becoming a focal point of discussion.
The only reason she wasn’t live streaming now was that the head captain requested not to publicly disclose sensitive information. Otherwise, she believed her live stream would break new viewership records.
Grandpa, Grandma, Mom, Dad, your daughter has really beco a hero!
"No wonder you’re number 1, you really have a cold and ruthless heart, laughing out loud at a ti like this." A voice broke the ambiance.
Jiang Siqi turned around in surprise and saw the earring man approaching with a crutch. He was now wearing a hospital white coat, covered in bandages like a mummy and with a neck brace, looking like a seriously injured person.
Why didn’t he take sick leave looking like that?
Even though the head captain had requested all the officers to stay at the scene for further instructions, it clearly didn’t apply to seriously injured personnel. Even if he stayed at the machinery park, he’d be a burden anyways!
Jiang Siqi twitched her mouth, "Why aren’t you at the hospital?"
"It’s not a fatal injury, why bother with the hospital. They dressed up like this and took lots of pictures, probably to show we risked our lives to save people." Han Yuhao replied coldly, "Hmph, to , this is far from my limit."
Pretending to be tough again.
Jiang Siqi rolled her eyes, thinking this guy might be happier than she is—obviously, it’s not just internet celebrity Si Tian getting famous; all the execution teams of the Dinsional Limit chanism got captured sowhat, and they are all hot topics online, only the footage of the four in the lobby is clearer.
For instance, the earring guy, who even got a nickna now: Earring War God.
It oddly matches his na.
"Bla-blanket..." Little Pigeon timidly handed over the blanket.
"You’re scared of this guy too, I understand." Han Yuhao added a hint of sympathy, "Soone who seeks power without a heart is no different from a monster."
Dammit, she’s scared of you, not !
"How am I heartless?" Jiang Siqi exclaid irritably.
"How many people just died outside this lobby? Saying bodies were everywhere is no exaggeration, yet you dare to face the dead’s vengeful souls, sitting on this planter just a foot away, not even caring about what just happened. And our teammate Elorie... still missing with no whereabouts, and you not only don’t worry but are focused on your fa—isn’t this proof of having no heart?"
The opponent spoke righteously.
Jiang Siqi was montarily dumbfounded, not expecting him to weave such long-winded rhetoric.
She paid attention to the deceased too. The sudden death of a few hundred people, in a city like Jiang City with high security, was enough to explode public opinion. The rising fa of the execution team was based entirely on this severe incident. The Dinsional Limit chanism has already promoted it as an "invasion war from another world" and vowed full support to national departnts to win this war.
However, the word "war" felt distant to her, and considering these people were already dead before the Dinsional Limit chanism’s action, leaving behind an occupied shell, she felt the deceased were unrelated to her.
Whether they ca or not wouldn’t have saved the workers at the Five Rings Machinery Factory.
If not for the intervention of the agency, who knows how many people would have ended up as Wanderer puppets.
As for that French girl, of course, Jiang Siqi was concerned.
But the problem is, concern is of no use! She rushed out of the lobby, flew to the rooftop without saying anything to everyone, so no one knew what she wanted to do. Afterwards, she and the entire upper part of the building disappeared, leaving only a mass of twisted space symbolizing erosion.
Does one have to cry and whimper to prove they have a heart?
"Okay, there’s no need to argue, I believe you’re not like that." Wang Baihu ca over at this ti.
It’s evident his face showed a touch of fatigue.
"Brother Niao!" Little Pigeon breathed a sigh of relief and imdiately offered a blanket, "Where’s Sister Honglian?"
"Still coordinating with the logistics team." Wang Baihu looked at the two new mbers, "You’ve worked hard. This is probably the biggest rookie trial since the agency was established. Your performance was better than mine back in the day."
"Isn’t that expected," Han Yuhao crossed his arms, "Successors should surpass their predecessors."
Deputy leader sure has a good temper, if it were , I’d have hit him already. Jiang Siqi looked around, "Aren’t we missing soone?"
"Li Xing?" the earring guy scoffed, "He has a ten-centiter gash on his leg, said he’d be in the hospital for at least half a month, so don’t count on him."
Uh... although a ten-centiter wound is scary, he’s probably one who’d never miss paid dical leave, Jiang Siqi thought.
"Is Captain Xiao keeping us here for any tasks?" she asked Wang Baihu.
"Why, do you want to face the countless journalists and victims’ families outside?"
Jiang Siqi glanced at the bustling entrance and couldn’t help but shrink her neck, "...I don’t want to."
"So you’ll have to have a brief session with a psychological expert and a lawyer. They’ll tell you what to say publicly and how to manage your emotions." Wang Baihu shrugged, "But those are minor details; I think he kept you here for what’s currently most important."
He looked up at the eroded space hovering in midair.
At this mont, a construction team was busy above the building, and hundreds of floodlights illuminated the construction area as if it were dayti.
Engineers have checked; the building’s structure is completely undamaged, the disappeared part not violently destroyed, but as if it had never existed. So they didn’t need to build climbing ladders from the ground, they started directly from the top layer’s gap, and within five hours, they’d reach the eroded space.
If the "mirage" type erosion over Celestial Ridge Park in Jiang City last ti was hard to approach, this erosion is evidently easier to enter.
"Are we going to enter the other world inside the erosion?" Jiang Siqi was stunned, "Isn’t that forbidden by the agency?"
At least the agency taught as much in basic courses.
"Yes, but tis change." Wang Baihu said with a complicated tone, "Not to ntion we have a lost officer in the erosion zone, Jiang City’s victims’ families need an explanation too. I don’t know if this is good or bad, but maybe the era of unrelated matters is over."
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