Noticing soone put away his Xiao Ai, Chen Yuran glanced at the pocket of his pants, barely suppressing the urge to demand it for research right away. She turned her body sideways and nodded slightly.
Seeing this, Li Jing took advantage of the opening to speak up.
"Who among the scholars has a high-precision detector? Preferably, one that can precisely detect yin energy. The higher the precision, the better."
Upon hearing his words, the busy individuals in the research room all turned their heads.
Yin energy?
A few scholars had confused looks on their faces.
mbers of the Major Cri Unit, led by Dai Hong, also looked perplexed.
Only Li Qidao, who had participated in the Secret Realm investigation, trembled a little and spoke excitably.
"Who among the scholars here has the equipnt that Li Jing is asking for? Please hurry and bring it out!"
With his declaration, the other scholars finally realized what was needed.
"I have it."
One of the scholars replied and quickly walked to the front of the research room, summoning a machine half as tall as a person and placed it down with a "thump" before looking towards Li Jing.
"This one..."
"Li Jing."
Li Jing replied,
"Please detect if any yin energy remains at the entrance, and if so, determine its location."
"Alright, hold on."
The scholar nodded and began to operate the detection equipnt in front of him.
Seeing this, Li Jing pulled Chen Yuran back so distance.
The others in the room also moved away from the door a bit.
Although there weren’t many people in the research room at the mont, if everyone congregated over here, the area near the door would beco crowded, which could affect the accuracy of the equipnt.
The more accurate the device is, the more it can be affected by environntal factors.
This is common knowledge.
Seeing that both Li Jing and Chen Yuran wait outside, Dai Hong approached Li Qidao who seed to have an inkling about sothing.
"Qidao, what’s this about yin energy?"
Before he could finish his question, the other mbers of the major Cri Unit walked over as well.
Upon seeing this, Li Qidao didn’t hesitate and spoke softly.
"You should all have received the mission report from the secret investigation of the Secret Realm. But you all ca here in such a hurry that I presu you haven’t had the chance to look over it in detail. At the ti of Liu Yushan’s incident, there had been so changes in his body, reaching the late stage of Four Realm. Moreover, the power in his body was no longer Spiritual Qi, but a haunting yin energy."
As he spoke, he looked frustrated.
"I was abruptly called over and didn’t have ti to think too much. I only ca to realization when Li Jing ntioned yin energy. If Jiang Guanwen is like Liu Yushan..."
Before Li Qidao could finish his sentence, Dai Hong interjected.
"You! Normally you’re so sharp in resolving cases, and now when it’s crucial, you falter!"
"...."
Li Qidao was taken aback, feeling wronged.
It was truly not his fault.
Being urgently called over for the investigation, he didn’t even have ti to understand the current situation, and was solely focused on finding leads.
Seeing Li Qidao’s hurt expression, Dai Hong moved his lips, knowing he couldn’t bla the latter for this situation.
All personnel were temporarily called over to the scene, everyone was forced to act in haste.
Just as Li Qidao said,
Even Dai Hong himself and everyone coming over had received the mission report from the secret investigation of the Secret Realm, but none of them had ti to read it in detail, only having taken a cursory glance.
With such a big issue, and Chen Jing hoping for a result within 24 hours, who had the leisure to study the mission report?
Although the two matters were sowhat connected, there was no close link between them fundantally.
Liu Yushan was involved in a conspiracy against the Managent Bureau, while Jiang Guanwen was stealing important data from the Research Institute.
Now that the Secret Realm was closed, it couldn’t be linked to the unknown civilization within it.
If it had to be forced, it couldn’t be beaten with a stick.
The only link was, under the premise of excluding being parasitized by Parasite Insects, Jiang Guanwen might have had contact with the unknown civilization of the Secret Realm like Liu Yushan did.
Although the reprimand was already voiced out, Dai Hong couldn’t retract his words.
Even so, his authority as a team leader must still be respected, right?
He cleared his throat slightly, and Dai Hong said in an awkward way.
"Enough, enough, I only criticized you a bit because I was ticked off. It’s not like I’m docking your pay. You’re a grown man, don’t act like a wronged woman."
With that, he looked around at the assembled mbers of the Major Cri Unit 6.
"Learn from Li Jing, don’t miss even a single detail when handling cases in the future. If anyone here had thoroughly checked the action report, you would have noticed sothing was off even without Li Jing’s presence. Li Jing is from the Security Departnt, but we are the Major Cri Unit. We need to be detail-oriented. Understand?"
As Dai Hong’s "educational" words echoed, everyone, including Li Qidao, responded affirmatively.
They were all veterans of the Major Cri Unit 6.
The fact that they were urgently called in showed how much they were relied upon.
Could they not know their captain’s temperant?
Dai Hong was only trying to cover his harsh words by pretending to educate them on the scene.
Understanding Dai Hong’s intentions, everyone gradually moved towards Li Jing, who was standing at the other end of the passage with Chen Yuran, looking like a golden boy and jade girl.
They had all witnessed Li Jing’s ability to handle cases.
Just a few days ago, they heard that he had swiftly solved a case involving two human-shaped demons as soon as he started working at the Security Departnt, personally intercepting and killing them.
With his ability, isn’t he wasted at the Security Departnt?
Li Qidao, who had participated in a secret investigation in the secret realm with Li Jing, felt this particularly deeply. He hesitated for a mont before murmuring.
"Captain, why don’t you reach out to the Security Departnt and try to recruit Li Jing?"
"If Li Jing wanted to co to the Major Cri Unit 6, he would have chosen us from the start instead of the Security Departnt. Isn’t that just making trouble for myself?"
Dai Hong shook his head, sighed, and said.
"Furthermore, do you not see who he is after? If I really wanted to recruit from the Security Departnt, would I have to recruit Chen Yuran as well? Given her character, could she accept an unreasonable reassignnt or promotion?"
"Well..."
Li Qidao fell silent.
Chen Yuran had quite a reputation in the North City Branch.
Her fa was not only due to having a director as a father but also owing to her competitive nature.
Even when Chen Jing personally reached out, she refused any unreasonable reassignnts, slowly climbing up the ranks in the Security Departnt through her own efforts.
It was motivating and showed her responsibility.
Had it not been for this principle, Chen Yuran would have already been one of the heads of a certain departnt.
After all, she is both capable and powerful, even if she had used backdoor thods, no one would be able to say anything.
In the passage outside the laboratory, Li Jing had no idea what everyone was whispering about.
If he did know, he would have been torn between laughter and tears.
The misunderstandings were running deep.
At this mont, seeing everyone in the lab glancing at him intentionally or unintentionally, Li Jing felt completely baffled.
Just then, the detection equipnt standing by the door suddenly buzzed urgently. The scholar operating the equipnt brightened up.
"There’s indeed residual Yin energy!"
Upon hearing this, both Li Jing and Chen Yuran exchanged a glance and moved forward.
Dai Hong and others in the lab imdiately ca out.
"Specify the location of the residual energy."
Dai Hong commanded.
"The upper left air vent."
The scholar replied.
Receiving the answer, everyone looked up together and frowned collectively.
Indeed, there was an air vent on the upper left.
But that air vent was rely a thin slit, not even a mosquito could pass through.
After looking at the air vent, Dai Hong turned back around.
"Scholar Zhao, are you sure..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Scholar Zhao pointed at the detector display.
Seeing this, everyone looked in that direction, only to find a three-dinsional image identical to the lab entrance on the display screen. The image was black and white, with a hint of dark red under the upper left air vent.
Without Scholar Zhao needing to explain explicitly, everyone understood what this ant.
The slight hint of crimson on the blueprint was a remnant of the yin energy.
Li Jing once again focused on the air conditioning vent in the upper left corner of the corridor, squinting slightly.
"So kind of special escape skill?"
"Probably not."
Chen Yuran voiced, saying.
"There are indeed special escape skills that can change one’s form, but the ways in which they can change are greatly limited. For instance, the Qin Water Escape can allow a person to fuse with a liquid, but this requires a harmless liquid. Similarly, the Qin Wind Escape that rges with the wind also needs the aid of naturally occurring wind. Once harmful elents get introduced into the mixture, not only will the escape skill fail, but it could also injure the user."
Saying this, she continued.
"The man-made cold air coming out of this air conditioning vent contains refrigerant, rging with it could be deadly."
"Yuran is correct."
Captain Dai continued, pensive.
"Most likely, Jiang Guanwen did not use any special escape thod when he entered, but instead, after gaining benefits from the unknown wisdom civilization in the secret realm, he possessed the ability to change his form into yin energy, or even into sothing intangible, like a ghost."
After speaking, he turned to Scholar Zhao.
"Scholar Zhao, do you have access to the blueprint of the air conditioning ducts of the Research Institute?"
"Yes."
Scholar Zhao nodded rapidly, took out a large tablet, and made a few quick taps before passing it over.
Captain Dai scanned the tablet, then pointed out the locations where ductwork connected directly to the various natural wind entrances.
"There are a total of six natural wind entrances. Chen Yihuan, you stay here and continue to examine the lab with the scholars to see if anything else can be found. The rest of you, co with and check the natural wind entrances. You should all have common detectors; use them to check each wind ingress."
Saying this, he turned to look at Li Jing and Chen Yuran.
"Li Jing, you and Yuran take the dog and let Scholar Zhao take you to the refrigeration control room in the air conditioning ducts. Jiang Guanwen may not have co in through the natural wind entrance, he might have used the refrigeration room."
"Understood."
Everyone responded in unison.
Chen Yihuan returned to the lab, while Captain Dai and Li Qidao went towards the institute exit.
Li Jing and Chen Yuran did not delay. They called for Stinky Tofu and went to the refrigeration room with Scholar Zhao.
.....
After a while, Li Jing and Chen Yuran, under the guidance of Scholar Zhao, arrived at the refrigeration room located in the deepest part of the southeast direction of the Central Research Institute.
As soon as he entered the room, Scholar Zhao took out the detector again and started to operate it.
Seeing this, Li Jing and Chen Yuran exchanged a glance, stepped outside with Stinky Tofu.
There wasn’t much to see in the refrigeration room.
Only a large refrigeration machine.
Whether there was any residual yin energy could be determined once Scholar Zhao used the high-precision detector.
Standing outside the door, Li Jing whispered to Chen Yuran.
"You ntioned earlier that Stinky Tofu didn’t pick up the scent left by Jiang Guanwen in the lab, which implies that it has sniffed the items Jiang Guanwen used. Aside from Jiang Guanwen’s scent, has Stinky Tofu picked up any strange slls?"
"Strange slls?"
Chen Yuran was taken aback, and said,
"No, Stinky Tofu is not that stupid. If there were any strange slls, it would have told ."
Before she could finish, Stinky Tofu gave a bark in agreent.
Seeing this, Li Jing furrowed his brow slightly.
As a Spiritual Beast from the Three Realm, Stinky Tofu’s sense of sll should not be worse than that of Su Qiong.
Both of them were dogs with a keen sense of sll, which was their species’ strong point.
Even Ji Qing, who belonged to the cat family, might not be able to compete with the two in the domain of sll.
Stinky Tofu did not detect any strange sll in places where Jiang Guanwen had been, and the latter might even have the ability to transform into yin energy or even into sothing intangible like a ghost.
From this perspective, what Jiang Guanwen and Liu Yushan received from the unknown wisdom civilization in the secret realm seed to have significant differences.
The only commonality is that,
Both of them gave up on being human and chose to beco Alien Species.
Looking at Li Jing who seed lost in thought, Chen Yuran asked quietly,
"Why did you specifically ask about strange slls?"
"Well..."
Li Jing hesitated and then lowered his voice.
"You’ve seen my action report, you should know that I didn’t ntion where I got the first clue. At that ti, I t a female demon dog, with her help I..."
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Yuran’s eyes widened.
"A female demon dog? Male or female?"
"..."
Li Jing’s words were interrupted, and he had no choice but to answer.
"Female."
"Eek!"
Chen Yuran drew in a sharp breath, saying with a sour expression.
"Why do you always run into understanding and obedient human-shaped monsters wherever you go..."
Mid-sentence, she furrowed her brows in confusion.
"At the ti, the secret realm was occupied by the Managent Bureau and the Research Institute staff. How could there be a demon dog there? Was it soone’s pet?"
"It’s not artificially kept."
Li Jing shook his head, saying.
"She was part of the Managent Bureau, at quite a high level too, faring better than both of us."
"..."
Chen Yuran was silent, she looked down at her own silly dog wagging its tail by her feet, sighed heavily, and turned to say.
"Next ti you run into that demon dog, try to see if you can fool her into coming ho with us."
"..."
Li Jing was at a loss for words.
As far as monsters were concerned, he and Chen Yuran had nothing to avoid.
At least Chen Yuran’s attitude towards monsters was the sa as his; as long as they hadn’t broken the law, they would be treated the sa and would not be attacked or killed.
However, what Chen Yuran just said really surprised him.
This woman...
She really doesn’t discriminate!
Keeping Ji Qing wasn’t enough, now she’s planning to try her luck with a female demon dog?
Even worse, she’s urging him to deceive her into coming ho...
Could he, as a strapping young man, do such a thing as tricking female demons?
Well, yes!
He’s done it before.
Ji Qing was indeed tricked into coming ho with him.
But that was then, this is now. At that ti, he was entranced by Ji Qing’s "beautiful visage".
A Ragdoll cat, who wouldn’t like it?
What breed of dog demon Su Qiong was, he didn’t know.
The latter was a dog demon, and it was she who had admitted it herself.
Coughing slightly, Li Jing said,
"I’m afraid we won’t have the opportunity to et that demon dog again, and she’s not from the Jianghai Managent Bureau. She should have returned by now."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuran showed a look of disappointnt. Just as she was about to say sothing, Scholar Zhao walked out of the refrigeration room and shook his head.
"I’ve completed a comprehensive detection inside, and there’s no yin energy residue."
"Alright, thank you, Scholar Zhao."
Li Jing replied, turning to Chen Yuran to say,
"Let’s go outside and see how Captain Dai and the others are doing."
Before he could finish speaking, their earpieces beeped, and they heard Captain Dai’s voice.
"Li Jing, Yuran, we’ve found sothing outside. Mu Baichen found yin energy residue at the natural wind entrance in the northwest. Can you bring Scholar Zhao over and confirm it with the high-precision detector? Try and see if you can track it."
Caught off guard by the sudden communication, Chen Yuran quickly pressed her earpiece.
"Understood."
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