Chapter 243: The alliance's first meeting
Unlike the cheerful gathering some of Dawn's members were enjoying...
At the South China Sea compound, Tao Xingzhi was solemnly submitting his report on last night's battle.
In the Special Security Team's incident archives, the anomalous incident designated the "Soul-Possessing Ogre Incident" had been assigned a category-two security rating.
The assessment team ultimately classified it as an anomalous disaster capable of threatening the safety and stability of a megacity. That was already a very high danger rating.
In fact, once Soul-Possessing Spirits were discovered, they were not all that uncontrollable. Soul possession was different from viral transmission, and it was not like a zombie apocalypse where a single bite meant the end. The panic they could cause, however, was considerable.
With Dawn fighting alongside them, they could afford to raise the thresholds used to classify anomalous disasters.
Even without Dawn to rely on, they would not have been helpless. Screening would simply have been troublesome and might also have touched on some sensitive women's rights issues.
The country's perception-type Evolvers could scan areas, while the most troublesome mature Yin Spirits were visible to almost all Evolvers, never mind Huang Jiutian, their so-called radar.
Fire, the earliest source of power in human civilization, was also effective against Yin Spirits. The battle had verified that.
But all of this came after victory. Fortunately, history had no "ifs."
What if Dawn's people had not happened to discover them? What if the response had been just a little slower?
Even Tao Xingzhi and leaders above him had felt their scalps prickle after reading the detailed report.
Huaguo had already issued contingency guidelines for anomalous incidents to municipal political and legal bodies and senior leadership. After this incident, it was preparing to establish Special Security Team offices at the