"Three-Way Interrogation"

Xia Libing's scalpel disappeared, and she turned around and waved in the direction of Jiang Chun and the others, seemingly unafraid of the giant elephant's sneak attack that was so close at hand.

Jiang Chun noticed that after the scalpel disappeared from Xia Libing's hand, three Coin that had been hovering above her head fell onto her upturned palm. She then naturally clenched the Coin and put them back into her coat pocket.

Jiang Chun instantly understood that the powerful force he sensed from Xia Libing, which was distinct from other surrounding sensory elements, mainly originated from those three Coin.

He couldn't help but touch the string of small hexagonal nuts hanging around his neck. After experiencing the "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant crossing the sea with a storm," he often felt a faint connection with certain elements in his surroundings. He had picked up these hexagonal nuts from a shipyard workshop, and he could feel a very strong connection to them.

Later, when he encountered a "sea monster" at sea, it was the hexagonal nuts he was carrying that saved his life at the critical moment, allowing him to escape and further confirming that there was indeed a special connection between him and those hexagonal nuts.

After losing those life-saving nuts at sea, Jiang Chun found many more and made them into bracelets, necklaces, and pendants to wear. He also gave many small nut jewelry pieces he had made to the two children he had saved.

Of course, after establishing direct contact with the "Little Radish Platform," receiving messages from Alice after the "Antarctic Crisis," connecting with domestic organizations, and becoming the head of the Southeast Asia branch, he learned a great deal about the secrets behind it all. He knew that the subtle connections between him and those little nuts and various other things all stemmed from Xiang Kun's influence on the world.

He also discovered that besides those small nuts, he could have this vague connection with many other things, but because he had been saved, he still had a "special fondness" for these small nuts.

He had heard some time ago that "Dr. Xia" was preparing to establish a "Spirit Control Theory" specifically for members of the field investigation department to learn from, which should be based on further application of the connection between him and Xiao Nut.

According to Xia Libing's "Spirit Control Theory," those three Coin are "Spirit Attachment" with the highest level of "spiritual power."

These small nuts were the perfect "Spirit Attachment" for him.

Although he had imagined that the power application of this "Spirit Control Theory" might be very strong, he never expected it to be as powerful as Xia Libing had shown.

The sudden appearance of the massive amount of cream, the fireworks exploding out of thin air, and the enormous scalpel appearing in mid-air were not hallucinations. Not only did he smell the cream and smell the gunpowder from the fireworks, but they also had a real and tangible impact on a colossal creature weighing over twenty tons!

The giant scalpel, over ten meters long, that appeared out of thin air was truly astonishing. This ability, like the illusion of the Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant, completely overturned his cognitive system.

He suddenly understood why Xia Libing had brought them here to deal with the giant elephant—she didn't need their help; she was giving a "live demonstration."

After Xia Libing returned, she said to the group of people who were still in shock, "That was a special case. You will not need to reach that level in the future. In addition, there will be equipment specifically designed to capture 'Mutated Creature'. If you really need to deal with 'Mutated Creature', you will mainly use external equipment. 'Spirit Control Theory' is a kind of auxiliary ability in your work. More importantly, it helps you understand the nature of 'Mutated Creature'."

"In this mission, you need to focus on the initial preparations and the final cleanup. This is where your abilities will be most needed. Initially, things will be similar to this time, with all the practical execution details already arranged for you. You only need to decide when to start. But as time goes on, you'll have more and more to do on your own."

Just as Jiang Chun had guessed, Xia Libing's team's capture of the giant elephant was merely a side effect. The more important thing was to familiarize Li Shiping and others who might become independent in the field investigation department in the future with the entire process and to give them a more intuitive understanding of the manifestations of the "Mutated Creature" and "Spirit Control Theory" they might encounter. Even with Alice's assistance, indoor demonstrations through various electronic devices could not compare to the profound experience of personally participating in a specific mission.

Of course, she also wanted to find an opportunity to test the application of her newly acquired abilities.

After answering a few simple questions for Li Shiping, Yang Zhuo, and others, Xia Libing said to Jiang Chun, "Go and tell Zuo Liu to wait at the intersection outside. The truck is coming; have him go and relieve the driver."

"But... it seems neither Zuo Liu nor Putepeng can drive heavy trucks," Jiang Chun said.

"He'll drive once he gets in the car," Xia Libing said with certainty.

Jiang Chun paused for a moment, then, recalling some of his experiences recently, he began to understand.

While Jiang Chun was on the phone with Zuo Liu, Yang Zhuo looked at the giant elephant still lying on the ground in the distance, too afraid to move, and hesitated, saying, "Dr. Xia, trucks can't get into this place, right? And this thing... even if we want to load it onto a truck, wouldn't we need several cranes to lift it up?" When he was playing with Xia Libing in private with his sister Yang Jie, Zhang Qian, and others, he always called her "Sister Bing," but at the base, during his internship in the department, he still called her "Dr. Xia," just like everyone else.

"The car doesn't need to be driven in; it will go out on its own in a bit. The injury will heal in a while," Xia Libing said, leading Yang Zhuo, Li Shiping, and the others to walk with him toward the giant elephant, preparing for a more detailed "on-site demonstration."

While Jiang Chun led Xia Libing, Li Shiping, and others to the location of the giant elephant, Zuo Liu and Putepeng stayed at the starting point to prevent unsuspecting tourists or others from going there—of course, this was impossible under normal circumstances, as no one would go to that remote area in the middle of the night, and there were local officials guarding the perimeter of the reserve, so ordinary people couldn't get in.

They had no complaints about being left behind and not being treated differently from others in the hunt for the giant elephant; in fact, they felt a little fortunate.

They had previously witnessed poachers killed by a giant elephant, and they had also followed Jiang Chun to see the giant elephant from afar, nearly wetting themselves in fear.

In their view, that terrifying behemoth was something that could only be dealt with by deploying an army, planes, artillery, and tanks. Sending just six or seven people was far too dangerous, especially since they hadn't seen any heavy weapons on their hands.

Even if each of those people were as powerful as Brother Jiang, they might not be able to take care of the two brothers when they were besieging the giant elephant. They didn't want to be cannon fodder.

When they heard the roar of the giant elephant that echoed throughout the entire area, both of them felt their legs go weak and had an urge to run away.

However, shortly after the roar, a series of crackling explosions, like the sound of cannons going off, pissed them off. Did "Dr. Xia" and his team bring firearms? Or perhaps small pieces of equipment they carried in their backpacks?

While the two were still wondering what was going on, Zuo Liu's phone rang. When he saw that it was Jiang Chun calling, he answered it nervously, afraid that he would hear Jiang Chun shouting things like "Call an ambulance," "Come quickly for backup," or "Run and don't look back."

Unexpectedly, Jiang Chun told him to go outside and wait for a heavy truck to take over as driver.

Zuo Liu followed instructions and parked his van at the intersection. After waiting for more than ten minutes, a heavy truck drove up. After Zuo Liu stopped the truck, the driver got out of the car, unloaded a motorcycle from the back of the truck, and rode away without saying a word.

After climbing into the driver's seat, Zuo Liu didn't intend to drive. He didn't know how to drive such an exaggerated heavy truck. He thought he was just there to pick up the truck, and someone would come to drive it after Brother Jiang and Dr. Xia came out.

However, once inside the driver's seat, he found the vehicle to be somewhat strange, containing many electronic devices he couldn't understand.

He didn't dare touch the equipment; he was just observing it out of curiosity when the doors suddenly locked, and then the truck started moving on its own.

Zuo Liu was so frightened that he blurted out a few Thai swear words. He tried to open the car door but found that he couldn't. He didn't dare to ram the door or smash the window, so he could only try to grip the steering wheel and step on the brake, but he found that he couldn't control the truck at all.

A cold, electronic female voice sounded from inside the driver's cab, "This is now automatic driving. Please cooperate."

Zuo Liu paused for a moment, then, recalling her experiences with Jiang Chun over the past few days, she understood. She quieted down, rested her hands lightly on the steering wheel, and nervously looked ahead through the windshield.

The heavy truck drove very fast, but it didn't go very far before it started reversing at an intersection, then turned around and returned to its previous position.

After the car stopped, Zuo Liu was drenched in sweat. His attention had been focused on the car, but now that it was stationary, he suddenly wondered, what was such a large car doing parked here?

Could it be... that it's meant to carry that giant elephant?

But how is that possible?

How could Jiang Chun, Dr. Xia, and four others—a total of seven people—possess the ability to transport that giant elephant from such a distant place?

More than half an hour later, the ground shook. Zuo Liu watched as a huge creature slowly approached from afar. He instinctively tried to step on the gas and drive away, but found that the car did not move at all. Clearly, he still had no control.

However, he soon noticed, by the moonlight, that there seemed to be several human figures on the giant elephant's body.

His eyes widened in surprise, and he immediately understood.

He had previously held Jiang Chun and the China research institution that he and Putepeng had joined in awe, but it wasn't until tonight, until this scene unfolded, that he truly realized what kind of organization he had joined.

--This is an organization capable of controlling divine power.

In mid-October, Tang Baona went back to Shenhai to attend a family gathering organized by her maternal grandfather and uncle.

Tang Baona's main public identity is now the CEO of "Universe Technology". Although she and Yang Zhen'er often tease each other about being the "most idle CEO in history" and the "most incompetent CFO in history", for those who do not know their specific work, with the big tree of "Shenxing Technology" behind them, their respective titles are still very impressive.

Therefore, this title can be very useful at occasions such as dinners and gatherings that you occasionally have to attend, like weddings, as it can save you a lot of trouble.

However, these titles are completely useless during family gatherings.

Tang's mother still brings up the same old topic every time. "Nana, when are you going to date and get married?"

In the past two years, they've directly set their sights on Xiang Kun —when is Mr. Xiang coming back from Europe? How about we go on a trip to Europe together and visit Mr. Xiang while we're there?

It was obvious that Tang Baona was waiting for Xiang Kun. After all, Xiang Kun had already sent their family a coffee table three years ago. Tang's mother would never believe that the two were just ordinary friends.

At first, Tang Baona could always find excuses to brush things off, and kept stating that she and Xiang Kun were just "partners".

But in the last two years, she has become somewhat at a loss as to how to deal with it, and each time she can only grit her teeth and let her mother nag.

Tang's mother also had some suspicions. She wondered if Xiang Kun's long absence from China meant he might have found another woman, broken up with her, and was secretly keeping it a secret. She wondered if Nana was still heartbroken because of this, and therefore unwilling to date anyone else.

So, besides subtly probing and pressing Tang Baona, she would try various methods to find out about Xiang Kun, and even attempted to contact Xiang Kun directly, but unfortunately, she was always turned down by various parties with different excuses.

Fortunately, during every family gathering, apart from Tang's mother, no one else would speak up for her. Instead, they would try to persuade Tang Baona's mother, saying things like, "Nana is currently in the prime of her career, so there's no need to worry about her right now," or "Nana is becoming more and more beautiful and attractive, so there's no need to rush," to put her mother at ease.

This often caused Tang's mother to complain about her relatives, feeling that they didn't help her and were too indulgent towards Nana.

As for Tang's father, he was basically just there to calm Tang's mother down. He still believed that his daughter could handle her relationship problems on her own, and that marriage was a matter of fate. However, his words also revealed a considerable interest in her relationship with Xiang Kun.

This year, after nagging about it all over the dinner table, my grandfather Mr. Feng, finally agreed to help ask Nana what her plans were and what her relationship with Xiang Kun was like.

However, Mr. Feng suggested that Nana might not be able to tell the truth with Tang's mother present, and asked her and Tang's father to go home first.

After her parents returned home, her two aunts also brought several cousins home. Tang Baona sat in her maternal grandfather's living room, watching her maternal grandfather, two uncles, her sister Bao Ting, and her brother-in-law Gao Yao sitting on the sofa opposite her. She felt like a suspect waiting to be interrogated, and couldn't help but want to laugh.

Tang Baona wasn't flustered at all. In the past two or three years, she had become adept at dealing with her family and had already prepared excuses and explanations for all sorts of problems.

But to my surprise, my grandfather's first words were, "Xiang Kun isn't going to Europe, is he?"

"Huh? Europe... Company business... Um, where else could we go besides Europe... Why is Grandpa asking this?" Grandpa didn't follow the script, and Tang Baona was a little confused. She thought about putting on her Bluetooth headset and asking Alice for help.

Second Uncle Feng Xiuye also said, "Nana, don't hide it from us. We actually guessed it three years ago. Xiang Kun... went to Antarctica, right?"