With zero casualties, Phecda took down 16 'communication points' from Afterlife Cult. In total, they captured 73 suspected cultists and 2 zombies. There was no sign of the Deep Ones. The two ghouls committed suicide in the cave, just like the last time they arrested Chen Defa.
Out of the 73 suspects, only six were still alive. They were locked up in their cells, but they were in a delirious and crazy state of mind.
This included the middle-aged shopkeeper Zhao Jiantao whom Gu Jun captured at Li Qi Zai. The 2 people in the tunnel were already dead.
Their cause of death was asphyxiation caused by cyanide poisoning but the autopsy did not find any trace of cyanide so they probably committed suicide using spells.
The living had to be interrogated regardless of whether they were crazy or not; the dead had to be dissected regardless of whether they were dead or not.
The various departments of Phecda would not go easy on these people, they would not let go of any possible clues.
Due to the commotion caused by this operation, especially the battle at Nan An Street at Da Hwa City, the news had spread like wildfire on the internet. Therefore, Phecda released an announcement that afternoon, announcing that they had successfully taken down a criminal organization that had been roaming the country.
The thing that caused the earthquake at Nan An Street was not a ghost or a monster but a powerful creature like King Kong or the Loch Ness Monster.
The 'superpower' that was rumored to be a new laser weapon.
During the press conference, Gu Jun and the rest appeared on camera again. They told the reporters the same thing but they did not show the mysterious weapon to the public.
This incident more or less proved that Gu Jun and the others were not chosen for publicity because of their good looks, but because they were really capable of fighting.
The internal members knew this and they knew that 'taken down' was an exaggeration but this operation had dealt a heavy blow to the Afterlife Cult.
A secret society was a secret society because they could not see the light of day. They had to be secretive in order to recruit members. This meant that an organization would not have many members.
The death of one member meant the loss of one member.
Now that they had lost 73 members, none of them had a withered face. In other words, these people were the ones who were responsible for their daily activities.
Furthermore, with the destruction of the 16 communication points, the supernatural communication system of the Afterlife Cult within the country would be severely damaged, possibly even destroyed. Factoring in the cultists who died on the ghost ship in the sea battle, the recent losses of the Afterlife Cult were unimaginable.
Phecda was also able to gather a huge amount of information from these points of contact.
In Li Qi Zai alone, there were more than fifty vases with otherworldly patterns on them. There were also some encrypted documents that the Investigation Department was trying to decipher.
These communication points were destroyed by the cultists to varying degrees, their life force withering away. However, they still managed to collect a large number of ritual patterns and symbols. These were all classified as highly confidential information by the Spell Department. They had to be handled carefully because they could cause mental corruption.
Among all the information, the one that Gu Jun paid the most attention to was the foreign language found in these places.
The foreign language was a living language. Compared to those patterns, it could explain the situation more clearly.
Among all these foreign words, the one that he could not understand the most and could not let go of the most was the mysterious poem.
"This is a tragedy by the name of 'Man', and the main character is the Conqueror Worm."
The more he thought about this sentence, the more desolate he felt.
He was not unfamiliar with this feeling because when he was reading Deng Ximei's short stories, he had experienced the same feeling of grey desolation.
But why? What was the relationship between them?
Before he had an answer, Gu Jun did not want to talk to Deng Ximei anymore or else he would not be able to get any information out of her.
However, he believed the foreign language and the giant worm should be the same thing. When the giant worm matured, it would become the real 'Conqueror Worm'.
"Those bastards are still trying to catch the tail of the legionella pneumonia." That was how Gu Jun discussed with Tong Ye. "Before the world has recovered and stabilized, they will create chaos to breed the dark forces. That's probably their main strategy these days. "
Perhaps Gu Jun understood the Afterlife Cult's thinking better than others but he did not expect his prediction to come true so soon.
The night was dark. The Spell Department was bustling with activity. The mission happened yesterday.
Gu Jun hurried out from the autopsy room of the medical building. He, Cai Zixuan, and Uncle Dan were dissecting the bodies of the two people in the tunnel. There was nothing out of the ordinary.
After leaving the autopsy room, he disinfected himself and changed his clothes. He went to a small conference room on the same floor to watch an evil video.
One was probably a cult video created by the Afterlife Cult.
"This video was first uploaded from a foreign YouTube channel." Tong Ye said through the conference screen, "Just this morning, it became a hot topic in just one day. Now, there were also private rumors in the country, and public rumors were banned. Take a look first. "
Although tens of thousands of people abroad had seen it, there were no large-scale symptoms of discomfort for the time being.
Peacock and the rest took the risk with the rationality assessment stone. There was no sign of mental corruption, so there was no sign of Nightmare Illness.
But for now, Gu Jun was prepared. He wore the rationality assessment stone and placed a few cleansing stones next to him.
He sat on the chair and watched the video play on the screen. It was a video that was soundless, it started with a strange silence.
The first part of the video was a cartoon. The colors on the screen were very bright. On the stage of a theater, a group of actors dressed like angels but also like clowns were running around on the stage, chasing a huge phantom that was constantly changing its shape. They ran from one end to the other, chasing it round and round.
Just as the actors were about to run another round, a giant worm that was covered in blood suddenly wiggled out from the corner of the stage.
The actors stopped in shock. Before they could react, the giant worm opened its mouth and swallowed them whole.
The giant worm ate until its mouth was full of blood. Its broken body parts fell to the stage and dyed the floor red.
The lights went off and a curtain fell from the stage. Then the name of the play appeared in the video. It was written in the foreign language, Man.
If that was the case, the video would not have spread so quickly on foreign social media sites. However, after the cartoon image, there was another video of a real person: a group of children dressed like that were running around on the stage, chasing something. Suddenly, something wriggled in the dark corner on the right side of the stage.
Just as the audience was about to get a closer look at the shadow … the video stopped abruptly.
No one knew the ending of the children and no one knew where the video was taken.
But this video named 'Man' hinted at something scary, it sent chills down the viewer's spine. Some of them had the urge to conduct a human flesh search.
"Those children …"
At that moment, Gu Jun who finished the video mumbled. The rationality assessment stone did not flicker but his voice was hoarse. "Could be Spirit Children, old or new."
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