At three that afternoon, Mu You boarded the private plane arranged internally by the Anomaly Investigation Bureau.
Twenty-one others accompanied him, making a team of twenty-two. Officially, they were an Exchange Delegation on an inspection and exchange visit, intended to promote contact between the two countries' official organizations and share experience in management, development, and so on.
In reality, however, everyone sent was a frontline combatant. Five Dragon Group experts, including the Blood Emperor, led the team, while the others were elite experts selected from local branches of the Anomaly Investigation Bureau. Even the lowest-leveled among them was level fifteen.
"These are the materials for this mission. The intelligence department collected and compiled them overnight yesterday. Read through them as soon as you can so you won't arrive unprepared."
After takeoff, a director from the Dragon Group handed every member a thick stack of documents.
Mu You gave them a quick look and found that this intelligence was far more detailed than Lu Yao's investigation. It had essentially dug up the Wind and Thunder Sect's entire history.
"This person is the key."
The director pointed to a photograph on one of the pages. It showed a young man wearing glasses: Kusanagi Tetsuya.
"The change in this man's personality is too drastic. Based on the intelligence provided by the Ghost Ship Captain, we suspect that he has very likely been replaced by some kind of creature from the Otherworld."
"In other words, the enemies we'll be facing this time might not be human!"
Once the director finished, the others on the plane exchanged looks, but no one questioned him. The circumstances were already clearly laid out in the documents. This could not yet be fully confirmed, but it was very likely already a fact.
The director then continued explaining several other