Enforcer Manual
Chapter 335: Military Intelligence Section Seven_1

Chapter 335: Chapter 335: Military Intelligence Section Seven_1

"I know you’re anxious, but calm down first."

Lu Xiang was not surprised by Song Lan’s reaction; she tried to comfort him, "I brought a Facehugger that split off from the Devourer."

It was Medea who named this chubby insect because it tends to embrace a creature’s face and burrow into its body when parasitizing.

The main reason for the name was that Song Lan would always call them "the chubby bugs," which was not only a mouthful but also made the Devourers feel offended.

In fact, if you open your mind and don’t limit your perspective to warfare alone, you’d realize that Devourers could bring about revolutionary changes in various fields.

Medicine, engineering, communication, and even in the realm of detectives, it could perform steadily, possessing abilities no famous detective has—making the dead speak.

That was also why she had to send Valerian and the others away; after all, having the dead come back to life to point out the murderer was still hard for people to accept at this stage.

With several deep breaths, the swindler’s once listless pupils regained their luster once again.

This man, named Chen Wen, was a local born and raised in District Seventeen and, like countless unemployed vagrants, was filled with delusions of striking it rich overnight. After numerous failed attempts, he realized that this time, he had truly caught his break.

He created a Void Sect, persuading believers to willingly give him their money.

This inspiration came from a recent visitation event; Chen Wen heard that the Lunar Eclipse Sect had opened a Confession Room in District Seventeen, and every day before Father Bruno’s departure, people went to the church in search of the true essence of life.

But obviously, he had only a half-baked understanding of the Lunar Eclipse Sect.

The Lunar Eclipse Sect doesn’t ask for money nor membership fees; they only collect people’s beliefs.

The two of them soon realized the real reason why Chen Wen had been targeted by the men dressed in black.

Regarding the widely rumored Void Sect on the internet, he was not completely ignorant; in fact, he was among the first to notice the changes in the Horn Bugs, a startling discovery that originated in his decrepit house, so run-down that even most of the furniture was scavenged, let alone calling a professional pest control service.

In the past, Chen Wen’s house was the Horn Bugs’ favorite nesting ground. He was accustomed to dealing with Horn Bugs daily.

But one day, suddenly, the Horn Bugs living in his house changed.

It was as if they gained intelligence overnight and left that decrepit house en masse.

For Chen Wen, this should have been a good thing, but just a few days later, he saw a news piece in a back-alley newspaper. A former gang member claimed they were attacked by a troop of Horn Bugs.

The manner of the attack was unique because it resembled a carefully planned military operation. The Horn Bugs struck their hideout like drones, injecting neurotoxin with paralytic effects into their bodies before anyone could react, leading to suspicions that these Horn Bugs were secret weapons developed by some bio-pharmaceutical company.

However, this report claimed to be brought back from a distant prison at the risk of the editor’s life and didn’t create any ripple; people generally felt it was just another content fabricated for attention.

Horn Bug military units planning operations?

The three-year-olds next door in split pants could come up with more credible stories.

But it was because of this article that Chen Wen started paying attention to the movements of the Horn Bugs, for which he even made a special trip to the pest control company, and the news he received shocked him.

Since the day the Horn Bugs moved out of their house, the company had not received a single business call to exterminate Horn Bugs, but at the same time, the number of cases where Horn Bugs attacked humans was on the rise.

Chen Wen searched online for countless news reports on Horn Bug attacks, summarizing them, and was surprised to find that all of those claiming to have been attacked by Horn Bugs without exception were local criminals.

After the attacks, they either got arrested and jailed or fell prey to rival gangs.

As fantastical as it sounded, those Horn Bugs did seem to be helping to maintain the city’s law and order.

This city definitely hides certain secrets unknown to everyone.

Chen Wen sold the dilapidated house and, with his remaining savings, followed the trail of the Horn Bug, finally finding what he believed to be the answer to the problem during these days when people were discussing the Void.

It was the Void.

It could distort the thoughts of living beings and take possession of human bodies. With this, the changes on the Horn Bug could be explained.

This time, the discussions on the internet were correct.

District Seventeen was very likely the place closest to the Void in this world. The Void’s influence had been planted long before people became aware of it.

Therefore, Chen Wen made a decisive decision to found the Void Sect before anyone else, not only for money but also because he truly believed the Void existed here and hoped to draw its attention.

He hoped to become a true believer of the Void Sect, and it would be even better if he could be granted an official position.

But in the end, Chen Wen did not wait for the contact from the Void Sect. Instead, a man in black with an unknown identity greeted him, and in his last memory, he only saw a blurry figure; after that, he couldn’t remember anything.

"This is a hallucinogenic drug."

Song Lan said, "For them, it can skip the interrogation process and directly use the drug to achieve their purpose."

She thought of this after examining Chen Wen’s body.

The autopsy report and any related investigations that followed would all point to the same conclusion.

The deceased died of sudden death by accident.

This was bad news because the department was aware of everything Chen Wen had investigated; they would definitely continue the investigation following the trail of the Horn Bug.

"Do you still remember the Selbot incident?"

"The former mayor? Does this matter have something to do with him too?"

"Ophir mentioned that after the citywide meeting ended, he was planning to expose all the crimes of the Foster Family to the public, but someone got to him in advance and offered him a deal he couldn’t refuse."

Pacifying the situation.

Selbot survived, and the Foster Family also struggled through that public opinion storm.

"Actually, they have always been hidden somewhere in the city. Dr. Bai Zhu and I have been investigating their identities recently, but there is no data about them on the internal network of the United Government; except for certain individuals, no one knows their exact identities."

And now it was certain that the man in black was investigating everything related to the Void Sect.

Chen Wen knew too much. To prevent him from spreading this information and causing alarm, they killed him.

Song Lan asked curiously, "You didn’t hear about them when you were in the core area?"

"I’ve heard of them."

Lu Xiang nodded, "Military Intelligence Section Seven, they never recruit openly. You can never find them; it’s always them finding you."

It was a branch of the United Government’s Spiritual Energy intelligence system, and also the real doers.

"Before that, we still need to figure out one thing—who exactly is the person who delivered the note?"