After finding no fun in that boring village and setting it ablaze, Annie, who had always preferred doing good deeds without leaving her name behind, simply dusted herself off and left.
She could leave whenever she wanted, but the vast sea of fire she left behind naturally left the Pollution Control Bureau field agents and Pollution Inspection Department staff, who were conducting related containment, investigation, and assessment work around the perimeter, staring in shock.
It was only to be expected!
A place that had been heavily polluted, had even become a haunted realm, and possessed the ability to distort space and rewrite reality—a place with a pollution and threat level of at least 3, which would normally only be sealed off and contained—had suddenly gone up in flames, and they hadn't even known it was happening. Of course they were shocked.
But shock aside, no one knew what had happened. So apart from standing there staring at one another and looking at the towering flames in the distant haze, there was nothing they could do.
They had only just received word that the situation had seriously deteriorated. On the bureau chief's orders, several field teams had come with a large group of technicians from the Pollution Inspection Department to assess the situation, measure the threat level, and set up a cordon. They had even begun an emergency mobilization of the surrounding villages in preparation for an evacuation, and were working on the final stages of containment and sealing!
But then...
While they were working at full tilt, that terrifying place—overrun by the uncanny, and responsible for the deaths of countless villagers and an entire investigation team from their own bureau—had itself gone up in flames, just as suddenly and fiercely?
"!!"
Captain Huang of the N City Special Operations Department