Sure enough!
After Ming Wan'er used her "Organ Wraith" to alter the suspects' memories one by one and interrogate them, the confessions and information she obtained were exactly as Annie had hinted at earlier. They left both Ming Wan'er and Captain Cen utterly stunned on the spot.
As it turned out, neither group was any good—not the "high school students" who'd been kidnapped, nor the middle-aged and elderly men and women.
The old geezers went without saying; they really were members of that inhuman cult.
And those high school students were even worse: they were a bunch of damned "old ghosts" who'd completed their transformation half a year ago and taken over the bodies of innocent young people!
So none of them were victims. They were all cut from the same cloth!
Originally, after a successful transformation, the rules that had become customary within their organization forbade them from disturbing or contacting "reincarnators" for a short time, in case they gave themselves away.
The reason those old geezers had still forcibly dragged the "old ghosts" from their school was that, during the red full moon a few days earlier, an important member of their group had run into trouble during the transformation process. After finding the "old ghosts" and getting nowhere when they questioned them, the two sides had come to blows.
After that, the old geezers had simply decided to go all the way and forcibly abduct the "successfully transformed," intending to force them to explain the process in greater detail and clarify certain sacrificial procedures.
But who could have known that the old ghosts' parents had no idea their children had been possessed? They'd panicked and reported it with the school, even labeling it a supernatural incident and bringing the case to the Contamination Control Bureau.
The Bureau