"Du Cheng, Lou Haoyong." The team leader called into the radio, "I'm Yan Li, leader of the Second Investigation Team. What's the situation over there?"
No one responded from the other end of the radio.
"Hello? Hello?" Team Leader Yan's expression immediately darkened. "Can you hear me? Hello? Du Cheng? Lou Haoyong?"
After a long while, there was a click from the receiver, as though someone had picked the radio up off the ground. Two seconds later, Wang Xiyi's voice rang out. "This is 'Night Fiend.' I'm currently on the rooftop of Building A of the Investigation Bureau. The two security personnel have been confirmed dead."
The central surveillance room instantly erupted in uproar.
"How could this happen?!" The security guard who had narrowly escaped disaster turned deathly pale. "It was only a few minutes..."
Investigation Bureau Building A, rooftop terrace.
Wang Xiyi turned over the two bodies and examined them before speaking into the radio. "There's a hole drilled into the back of each of their heads. Their brains have been completely sucked out. That should be the direct cause of death. Besides that, there's some mucus left at the scene..."
Wang Xiyi lightly touched some of the mucus with her fingertip, and an intense numbness immediately spread across the surface of her skin.
"This mucus has an extremely powerful paralytic effect. I estimate that the two of them were first paralyzed by the mucus, then had their brains sucked out by the anomalous entity while completely unable to resist... That thing came here to feed."
"Did you find any other traces?" Team Leader Yan asked.
"Not for now."
Wang Xiyi looked up toward Building C—the Investigation Bureau complex was shaped like a "C," with the largest Building A in the middle and Buildings B and C on