The story returned to the day before.
The Department for Research and Response to Supernatural Events had never given up tracing that anonymous letter, nor had it abandoned any of the clues it had previously uncovered.
Records destroyed for no reason, traces of leads that vanished mysteriously-far from ending the investigation, these things only made Kodel take it more seriously.
Erasure on that scale could only be described as the use of supernatural power to wipe out the key information the sender had left behind.
But the stakes were too high. However difficult it became, they had to persevere.
Fortunately, although all the clues seemed to have been cut off, the avenues they had already investigated remained. They were not entirely groping in the dark; the workload had simply grown larger.
Still, with the chaotic mutation incidents across the country consuming their attention, an investigation with no clear leads naturally slipped down the priority list.
The "Death Miasma" zone had been a major focus of French research throughout this period.
The six-hour curse rule had never been broken. Countless French experts and scholars remained baffled. A few psychologists suggested that it might be a form of patterned psychological suggestion, but that theory did not hold up either.
In the end, they could only attribute it to the influence of supernatural powers humanity could not yet understand.
Simply put, they had reached no useful conclusions.
Compared with Huaguo's Special Security Team, France's Department for Research and Response to Supernatural Events was currently under less extreme pressure, but its sense of urgency was stronger.
Kodel knew perfectly well that the lower pressure did not mean they were fully prepared. It was entirely due to their lack of information and understanding.
Yes, whether in their countermeasures against the mutations, their understanding of them,