"Position Three? Position Three?!"
"Move the drone over there, now! I need to know what happened at Position Three and Sniper Position Four! Immediately! Right now!!"
The operative responsible for controlling the drones in the command room immediately pushed the control stick, turning one drone's camera toward them.
At the two sniper positions, the two snipers and two spotters had already fallen to the ground. Hundreds of palm-sized, spider-like anomalies covered their bodies, tearing at the flesh of the corpses with sharp mandibles.
As if noticing the drone's camera, the little spiders began to emit a faint white glow before swiftly vanishing from the feed.
"The target appears to possess a group of symbiotic... no, I strongly suspect that it can breed offspring! These little spiders have perfectly inherited the target's 'invisibility' ability! When this ability is activated, a pale white fluorescence appears on their surfaces, while they erase themselves from images captured by electronic devices..." Song Yarong said rapidly, staring fixedly at the surveillance screen. "I'm very curious which memetic fragments these offspring inherited from the parent body... To determine this trait, perhaps... could we ask the personnel on-site to capture live specimens if possible? This is very important!"
"Saving people is more important!" a senior officer roared. "Our top priority right now is ensuring Team Leader Ye's safety! She knows far too much critical intelligence. If she is consumed by that anomaly, the Countermeasures Committee will have no secrets left from it!"
There was another thing the officer did not say aloud—Ye Xuan was, after all, the daughter of a federal senator, as well as a promising talent jointly cultivated by the Chunming City Investigation Bureau and the federal military. If she died here, every single person in this command room would bear extremely serious responsibility.
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