In the containment room at the end of the corridor on the fifth underground level of the Jiang City Eerie Investigation Bureau, the soldiers who had locked someone inside at gunpoint eleven days ago had once again gathered outside the door, armed to the teeth.
Senator Hayes walked at the front. He raised a hand and tapped twice on the electronic screen embedded in the iron door, then entered a string of numbers into the verification interface that popped up.
The iron door opened automatically. Dressed neatly in a black suit, Lin Jue sat upright in the chair at the center of the room. Hearing the sound, he calmly lifted his eyes toward Senator Hayes, as though he had known all along that he would come.
Senator Hayes gave a bitter smile. "Lin Jue, whether you still believe me or not, I mean this sincerely: all of us have wronged you."
Lin Jue neither confirmed nor denied it. Tilting his head back to look at him, he said, "Tell me what happened over these past eleven days. I need to know how far the Ancestral God's reclamation has progressed."
"All cities aside from Jiang City have fallen," Senator Hayes stated clearly. His manner gradually became natural, as though the previous trial against Lin Jue had never happened.
"Over the past half month, the Ancestral God occupying White Crow's body has appeared frequently in various cities, using a bizarre candy-shaped medium to contaminate children under the age of fourteen. As of today, every child has been transformed into an Eerie, including infants."
Children were the hope for a race's continued existence. Once all children had been contaminated, it was no different from severing civilization's potential for development at its roots. If the source of the problem was not resolved in time,