Plan Terminated!

Inside an apartment.

Chen Ye calmly drank coffee as he watched the rain outside the window. It had been extremely noisy outside since earlier.

The sound of sirens was especially incessant. He had no idea what had happened.

"Society's in turmoil."

Those people really were useless. So much time had passed, yet there was still no news.

"I'll do it myself."

As he spoke, Chen Ye picked up a bottle of medicine from the table.

He unscrewed the cap and drank the medicine in one gulp.

Gulp!

Pfft!

"What is this?"

Chen Ye's eyes suddenly widened. His limbs began to twitch and twist as countless eerie strands of spider silk appeared around him!

Meanwhile, at Nanyan Hotel.

Queen Bee suddenly received a message from Chen Ye.

"Huh?"

Li Yuan looked at Queen Bee. "What now?"

Queen Bee placed her phone on the table and showed them the message on the screen.

"A message from our lord."

"He's asking whether we got the blood."

Blood?

What blood?

Everyone looked utterly confused.

Li Yuan had returned to human form, and the wounds on his body had already healed. "What blood? Didn't our lord say to kill him?"

"Wait, weren't the missions we heard a little different?"

"You mean?"

"When did our lord tell you to kill Chu Yang?"

"Are you sure our lord didn't tell you to collect blood?"

"Did... did he? That's what I heard over the phone that day... Our lord said to find a way to kill him..."

"Are you sure it wasn't to find a way to get some blood?"

"...Uh."

"Our lord said he needed materials. That kid was probably medicinal material our lord needed! So you were hard of hearing, huh?"

Everyone covered their faces. When they heard Number 002 say he believed the order was to kill Chu Yang, they had not thought much of it.

Now that they considered it, the problem was enormous!

Queen Bee slapped her thigh as she spoke.

"So our lord intended to capture him alive from the very beginning, but we killed our lord's material instead?"

"This..."

Li Yuan suddenly felt a lingering fear upon hearing that.

If their lord had truly told him to capture the target alive, and he had killed the target outright, he would undoubtedly have enraged their lord.

Although they had never seen their lord angry, that was exactly why it was frightening!

No one knew what the price of angering their lord would be!

As the saying went, water could carry a boat, but it could also capsize it.

Their lord could grant them power, and naturally could take it away as well!

And that might only be the simplest punishment!

"Are we... going to die?"

"Yeah. With our lord's temperament, he might kill us to vent his anger..."

"Wait, maybe Chu Yang is still alive!"

"Alive?"

"You mean the one the police took away just now?"

"That really is possible!"

"Hurry up and confirm it! See whether it was Chu Yang! What if he's still alive?"

"Yeah, what if..."

"No, wait..."

"Did we forget something?"

"It seems like..."

"Oh no!"

They suddenly realized they seemed to have forgotten something!

"003 is already on the way!"

"Quick, call him and tell him to come back!"

A car accident occurred in front of City Hospital.

The accident was massive. Police cars had rear-ended one another in succession, causing a tremendous number of casualties.

But that was not the worst part!

The worst part was that one of the injured people had just been pulled from the wreckage, and he was in one of those police cars!

Flames soared into the sky, black smoke billowed, and chaos reigned in front of the hospital.

Wang Haonan lit a cigarette as he looked at the scene before him, then turned to leave. "Hah..."

"It's over."

Just then, Wang Haonan's phone suddenly rang.

"Hello."

"003, are you done?!"

"It's over."

"...The target is dead?"

"Dead."

"It's over..."

Wang Haonan exhaled a cloud of smoke. "What happened?"

"N-Nothing... Come back first." A woman's voice came through the phone.

"Understood."

Wang Haonan tossed the cigarette butt into the water, then turned and left.

After he left, a pitch-black figure crawled out of an abandoned car.

"Cough, cough. Good thing I... still had one Deep Sea Breath. Ugh, I can't take it anymore... Feels like my body is... falling apart..."

The next day.

What had happened yesterday made the news, but it was merely classified as an ordinary fire and traffic accident.

No one paid attention to the casualties suffered by the North Ridge Police, and their superiors were even more indifferent.

The reason was that Queen Bee had already gained complete control over North Ridge City.

By mixing her bodily fluids into alcohol, she had controlled countless North Ridge citizens, along with the higher-ups in every field throughout the city.

The various reports submitted layer by layer by the North Ridge Police all ultimately vanished without a trace because of this.

At that moment, they felt even more powerless.

Inside the North Ridge City Police Department, the chief was writing a report.

"The entirety of North Ridge City seems to have been covered by a giant net. Someone is controlling everything here with one hand, concealing it all."

"Right now, we are like fish caught in a net and dogs trapped in cages. Every voice has been suppressed."

"No one hears our cries, and no one cares about our deaths. If they dare act so recklessly, someone must be helping them."

"Helping... helping those monsters. How absurd!"

Bang! The chief slammed his fist onto the desk. "The upper ranks have been infiltrated!"

"I'm going to the capital myself!"

Just then, a police officer walked in carrying a document.

"Chief, th-this is something Captain Yang asked us to make sure we gave you before he died."

The chief fell silent.

"Yang Yan..."

He had miraculously survived that collapse, only to die in that unexplained car accident.

This was simply...

Damn it!

The chief accepted the document with trembling hands and saw five large words written on the file.

"Nine-Tailed Fox Plan?"

The chief opened the document and found the following written inside:

"If this document was not delivered by my own hand, then I should already be dead. There is no need to mourn me. From the day I became a police officer, I had already prepared myself for this."

At the very beginning of the document was Yang Yan's final letter.

After that, he laid out a hypothesis regarding humans and monsters, recording all the information about monsters that he had collected.

Finally, he proposed a way to deal with those monsters.

Establish an organization dedicated to Supernatural Creatures or phenomena—to understand them, contain them, and control them!

"Break the shackles on our minds and step beyond the barriers of our understanding. Things that defy reason must not be viewed through ordinary logic."

"They are not human. If we treat them as we treat humans, humanity will never be able to defeat monsters."

"We must first dare to imagine, opening our minds as Chu Yang did. Monsters' abilities are wildly unconstrained; they will not conform to our understanding!"

"First try to imagine, then try to understand. The means to defeat monsters may lie within the monsters themselves!"

"We must find, within the monsters themselves, ways to solve the problem of these monsters, as well as the answers to all of this!"

"We contain, we control, we protect?"