Ye Zheng

Chapter 36

News from Jiangkou City shook the entire internet.

The sheer scale of the Underground Cave stunned countless people and sparked widespread discussion online.

For example, such a massive pit must have taken a long time to excavate, so why had no one noticed the digging process?

And where had all the earth dug out from the cave gone? Had all that sand, dirt, and stone simply vanished into thin air?

The residential buildings above the cave were certainly no longer suitable for habitation. No one could be sure whether the ground might collapse because of it. How were so many residents supposed to be relocated? And how would the local government address the future safety hazards?

The internet was in an uproar, but the Abomination Safety Supervision Bureau remained silent.

Yunhai City Xenomorph Supervision Bureau Branch—

A young woman in a white blouse and slim black trousers hurried down the corridor. She stopped outside an office and raised her hand to knock.

Bang, bang, bang!

She knocked urgently and, without waiting for a response from inside, forced the door open and walked in.

"Chief! I request a transfer back to Qingjiang City!"

Smack!

Ye Zheng slapped her application onto the desk.

A middle-aged woman in a beige skirt suit sat behind the desk. Seeing Ye Zheng barge in, she neither hurried nor grew angry. She removed her glasses and said, "Every Inspector's transfer order is issued by Headquarters. Even I cannot change the outcome."

The breath Ye Zheng had been holding immediately left her, and a hint of pleading appeared on her face. "Mei Jie, please, just help me this once. As long as you sign my application, Headquarters might consider transferring me back!"

Mei Junyu picked up the application from the desk and gave it a quick glance before gently setting it down.

"Is this because of the Underground Cave news in Jiangkou City?" Mei Junyu asked.

Ye Zheng closed her eyes and nodded. "The number of Xenomorph cases in Qingjiang City has risen far too quickly lately. Jiangkou is so close to Qingjiang, and Zhou Diao can't handle it alone!"

"Perhaps you should learn to trust your teammate. From what I can see, he completed this mission very well." Mei Junyu spoke calmly. "The Contaminant was successfully eliminated, and six Cards were confiscated."

"That was only a stroke of luck! Besides, Zhou Diao was injured too, which proves the mission did not go smoothly!" Ye Zheng said anxiously. "I've been transferred to Yunhai City for so long, yet I haven't handled a single Xenomorph case! I'm not needed here at all. I should go back to Qingjiang!"

Mei Junyu remained calm. "I understand how you feel, but you must understand that where you are needed should not be determined by your own subjective judgment. It should be decided by your superiors."

"Mei Jie!"

Ye Zheng still wanted to argue, but Mei Junyu opened a drawer, took out a document, and placed it on the desk.

"Take a look at this," Mei Junyu said.

Ye Zheng frowned as she picked it up. After reading for only a moment, her expression turned grave. "This is... information on the Maze?"

"That's right." Mei Junyu nodded. "The Research Institute just sent over this information on the Maze. Its contamination is spreading. A single pit in Jiangkou City has you making such a fuss, yet you do not realize that a crisis dozens or even hundreds of times worse than that pit is right beside us. Ye Zheng, you need to look further ahead."

Ye Zheng fell silent, then asked, "When do we act?"

"This operation is extremely dangerous. The higher-ups are still considering the candidates." Mei Junyu raised her eyes to look at Ye Zheng. "However, I can tell you clearly that you are on the shortlist, and you are one of the main assault team members."

Ye Zheng drew a breath and pressed her lips together. "Mei Jie, I withdraw my application. But I'd like to take one day off before the operation and return to Qingjiang City."

Mei Junyu looked at her deeply.

After a moment, she nodded. "All right. Approved."

Qingjiang City.

After returning home, Feng Ling had buried herself in sleep and slept until noon the next day, completely throwing off her body clock.

If her hunger had not become unbearable, Feng Ling felt she could have kept sleeping.

She got out of her comfortable bed and habitually headed for the kitchen to find food. The moment she stepped out of her bedroom, she saw Huangfu Miaomiao's face, filled with anguish, grievance, anxiety, helplessness, and confusion.

Feng Ling could not help laughing.

The moment she laughed, Huangfu Miaomiao in the living room immediately looked over, her expression becoming even more despairing!

"Something terrible happened!" Huangfu Miaomiao looked at her in collapse.

"What happened?" Feng Ling walked over and asked.

Huangfu Miaomiao pointed at the Virtual Screen Feng Ling could not see, looking as though she were on the verge of tears. "After the System Announcement revealed that you advanced, so many people on the Forum started discussing how to kill you."

"How are they planning to kill me?" Feng Ling asked with great interest.

"Stop smiling. This really isn't a joke." Huangfu Miaomiao opened the most popular post. "The Hive's traits and skills have all been dug up, and they're even analyzing your weaknesses. Wuwuwu..."

Feng Ling picked up the tablet beside her and handed it to Huangfu Miaomiao. "Record the contents exactly as they are so I can look at your Forum too. Oh, what do you want to eat? I'm ordering takeout."

Huangfu Miaomiao took the tablet with a miserable expression. "Anything is fine..."

"Then I'll order a bit of everything." Feng Ling opened the food delivery app and began studying it seriously.

Huangfu Miaomiao looked helplessly at Feng Ling, thinking, How did she manage it? How could she be both interested in people wanting to kill her and seem completely unconcerned?

Feng Ling focused entirely on ordering takeout.

—Her Nest Building ability was extremely unusual. First, she needed to use Cards to establish a foundation. Next, she had to accumulate a great deal of energy in the nest. Finally, she had to choose suitable bones and flesh. Not a single step could go wrong if she wanted to nurture new life.

Thus, after building nests twice in a row, the nest rapidly absorbed the energy in Feng Ling's body and nearly weakened her to death.

Even after absorbing all her energy, the nest had still not fully developed. This showed just how difficult it was to nurture new life.

Feng Ling decided that she would not go anywhere over the next few days and would simply stay home and eat nonstop.

She would eat until her nest was complete.

She ordered barbecue, pizza, burgers, sushi, meat sauce pasta, lamb skewers, crayfish, braised duck necks, sweet rice dumplings, spicy hot pot, bread, cakes, milk tea, all kinds of fruit, and a whole pile of chocolate bars.

She did not dare imagine how happy she would be once all that food arrived.

"Oh no!" Huangfu Miaomiao suddenly cried out.

Feng Ling looked up and asked, "What is it?"

Huangfu Miaomiao replied in a panic, "Someone exposed your location on the Forum!"

"My location was exposed?" Feng Ling looked puzzled.

"Yes! I was recording these replies when I suddenly came across one saying that the Hidden Boss is in Qingjiang City!" Huangfu Miaomiao asked anxiously, "What do we do now? A lot of Players will definitely come to Qingjiang City to find you!"

Feng Ling was stunned for a moment too.

Who would know she was in Qingjiang? Could there be a Xenomorph mole within the Supervision Bureau?

...No. If there were a mole within the Supervision Bureau, they would not have exposed only the information that the Hidden Boss was in Qingjiang. They should have provided more detailed information, such as the Jiangkou City operation she had just participated in.

Then who only knew she was in Qingjiang, but did not know that she had participated in the Jiangkou City operation?

Feng Ling did think of someone like that.

The woman who controlled Blood Worms.

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