What Are Candles Good For?

A shooting star flashed across the sky, but then, as if some ring had rotated, the shooting star's speed increased dramatically in an instant before splitting into three and scattering across the city, where it fell silent once more.

"Bang!"

"Useless!!" A loud curse rang out as the teacup shattered.

Jade River City in Jing Province is a second-tier city next to the City of Sound. The pace of life is relatively slow. However, people living here have clearly felt that since last night, the atmosphere in the whole city has become much more tense.

The cursing that is happening now is taking place inside the Jade River City Countermeasure Bureau. The Jade River City Countermeasure Bureau Director was standing behind his desk, sweating profusely, because they had made a huge mistake last night.

Because the location where the candles will land is difficult to predict in advance, the only thing to do is to monitor the situation and order personnel in various locations to be prepared to receive them. Once the target location is discovered, the teleportation device will be activated to go directly to the target location.

Now we've reached the final stage, and the Countermeasure Bureau is no longer conserving resources. This nationwide teleportation, and even other spatial abilities, require a huge amount of resources to stabilize spacetime in the main world's environment; otherwise, it's easy for those great beings to exploit loopholes.

Therefore, in the past, the teleportation option would only be used when the situation was extremely urgent. But this time is different. After raising troops for a thousand days, it is time to use them for one. The resources accumulated over such a long time are now ready to be unleashed.

However, things went wrong in Jade River City yesterday. Everyone had a bit of wishful thinking; Great Yue, it's impossible that all the problems would just happen in Jade River City.

Of course, the people in the Countermeasure Bureau are all elites with excellent qualities. Despite having a slight sense of wishful thinking, the people of Jade River City still took various monitoring measures. However, that night in Jade River City, an anomaly triggered a crisis, attracting their attention.

However, the Countermeasure Bureau had precedents for this kind of thing, and everything was based on emergency missions. So only a small team was sent to deal with the anomaly, while the others were waiting for the arrival time, ready to receive the teleportation at any time.

But at that very moment, the squad that had been sent out sent a communication requesting backup. The communication was filled with the screams of their teammates dying. After all, they had been together day and night. Hearing the desperate screams of their teammates and seeing the scene of their deaths in their minds, everyone was stunned.

Of course, they soon realized something was wrong and discovered that the candle was heading towards Jade River City. They quickly activated the interception mechanism, but it still slowed down the teleportation. Although they intercepted the candle, they only managed to catch the very end, and the other party used some tricks to cause the candle to eventually flow into the city.

They wasted a lot of resources to initiate the teleportation, but the key thing still managed to escape. No wonder Yang Li was so angry. Yang Li was the leader of the special operations team that came to intercept them last night.

"Where is your professionalism? Where is your willpower? Did you waste all that time on mental preparedness?" Yang Li shouted angrily. "To put it bluntly, the moment we joined the Countermeasure Bureau, we were already risking our lives. We were all going to be sacrificed sooner or later, and those people deserved to die."

"Now, get the order down and search for those three candles. If you can't find them, I've reserved a spot for you in the Death Squad!" Yang Li said seriously. Then, hearing a knock at the door, he said, "You can go now... Hey, you outside, come in!"

"Report! Special Envoy, the City of Sound support team, a total of eight people, has arrived. I am the captain, Lin Tong. Please give instructions!"

Lin Tong has matured a lot compared to before. Recently, various unusual things have started to happen. Lin Tong, who used to be Non-Standing Group, has been taking on more and more tasks. Now, something like this has happened in Jade River City, which is near the City of Sound. Not only has the City of Sound sent support, but other places have also sent support.

"I won't waste any more words. Our only goal right now is to find those three candles and stop anyone from lighting them!" Yang Li released his anger, not directing it at Lin Tong.

After all, he knew that Lin Tong was the old Director's son. Of course, this was not a matter of nepotism, but rather a matter of respect for the Lin family bloodline. After all, they were a family known as the sacrifices, and their entire family was on the path of sacrifice.

"Understood!" Lin Tong nodded. The urgency of the matter was obvious. After receiving the information about the candles and what had happened the night before, he set off with his teammates.

Now, whether on television, online, or through various information channels, an urgent news report is being broadcast. The report states that three candles have entered Jade River City. These three candles are a type of poisonous weapon; once lit, they will release a large amount of poisonous gas. Subsequently, various experts and scholars have explained the dangers of this poisonous gas and warned the public that if they find any candles, they should hand them over to the imperial court as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Lin Fan sat in his rented room, watching the news playing on his secondhand laptop and the various discussions below. He was trembling all over, and felt like he wanted to die.

Lin Fan turned his head and looked at the mirror on the table on the other side. In the mirror, a candle was placed on his head. A lot of wax was flowing from the bottom of the candle and stuck to the top of his head. No matter how he shook it, the candle remained firmly on his head.

If he weren't worried about being exposed, he really would want to post online right now, saying something like, "I have a poison gas candle stuck on my head, and I can't get it off. What should I do? I need help urgently."

If it weren't for the military restricting movement in and out, a mass migration might have already occurred. Because of the poison gas candles, most local companies were closed, though there were a few who dared to insist on going to work as usual.

Lin Fan a little surprised that his stingy boss had also chosen to give him a holiday, but it was also a good thing that Lin Fan could stay home.

Of course, local forums are in an uproar right now, with people venting their fears. After all, the military has imposed entry and exit restrictions on Jade River City, and people can only vent on the forums. If they go out to protest, who knows if they will be exposed to poison gas?

"Do you think this might be a conspiracy? Three poison gas candles—why would they make such a weapon into candles? Artillery shells would be better. What's the point of three candles?"

"Whatever their scheme, I just hope the candle can be found soon."

Do you think it's possible that antisocial individuals might have picked up those candles?

"Damn, are they all idiots? How could such a dangerous thing leak out!"

Lin Fan sighed and closed the forum. He tried again to get the candle off his head, but no matter how hard he tried, whether he cut it with a knife, pulled it out forcefully, or cut his hair with scissors, he couldn't stop the candle from standing on his head.

"I must have been fucking stupid to touch this thing!" Lin Fan muttered to himself, his voice trembling with tears, as he looked at the scissors in his hand and a crazy idea popped into his head.