"An intelligence department liaison officer? Why would he be at Panlong Airport?" Sun Hang was dumbfounded. "If I remember correctly, the intelligence department's contact point should be in the Management Committee's office building, right?"
"Panlong Airport is Lizhou City's only airport, so naturally it is also the city's air transport hub... That liaison officer's task was to send all kinds of collected anomaly samples back to Chunming City by air. But no one expected that the moment he stepped into Panlong Airport, the entire airport would be swallowed by that suddenly appearing fireball." Yang Qi said, "What's wrong? Why do you look so pale?"
"Was that liaison officer's clearance level high?" Sun Hang took a deep breath and asked.
"Not particularly high." Yang Qi said. "But he should have been aware of all local anomaly investigation activities in Lizhou City."
"Including those Hunters who were sent out on missions and still haven't returned?" Sun Hang asked again.
Yang Qi nodded.
"What mission were those Hunters carrying out?"
"I'll need to apply to the Disaster Response Committee for permission to access the files..."
"No need." Sun Hang interrupted her. "Use my authority directly."
"Okay... I found it..." Yang Qi looked at the laptop resting on her lap, and her brows furrowed as well. "Or... maybe you should see this yourself?"
She handed the laptop to Sun Hang.
On the screen was a twenty-seven-page operation plan. At the very beginning of the document was a set of drone surveillance data.
Two hundred and thirty kilometers west of Lizhou City lay a mountainous region with extremely complex terrain, scattered with hundreds of Qiang villages. These Qiang villages had largely retained their primitive appearance, living self-sufficient lives in this isolated mountain range.
As part of its jurisdiction, the Lizhou City Management Committee had considered