No, is this even allowed?
Xiao Yu grinned, unable to help but gasp for breath.
He thought he had brought back invaluable intelligence, but it turns out the city already knew about it?
And you know it without even leaving the house? What the heck?!
Seemingly sensing the change in their emotions, Han Ling spoke up to comfort them:
"Although we know that the Calamity Beast are behaving abnormally, we don't yet know the specifics of why. Therefore, the information you provided is still very important."
"But we don't even know if that's true or not," Chen Zhuo said.
"While I'm not sure if it's true, it's better than knowing nothing at all," Han Ling replied.
"That's true!" Xiao Yu smiled again. "Moreover, the captain and Lu Ning have gone in to investigate. Even if it's fake, they'll probably bring back the real intelligence in a couple of days!"
"Hmm." Han Ling nodded slightly, confirming the value of their team's operation.
"Oh, right!" Zhao Yuan suddenly turned to look at Han Ling, "Did Captain Shen discover the anomaly beforehand?"
"Yes, after all, the captain is in charge of hunting deep into the Erosion Zone." Han Ling nodded and continued calmly, "Just like you are here now!"
The group nodded, seemingly more accepting of the idea.
If it were an unknown person who made the discovery, they would probably be very surprised, but Captain Shen... well, there's nothing to be surprised about, nor is there anything to praise. It's just standard procedure!
"What about Captain Shen?" Zhao Yuan asked.
"After confirming that the Calamity Beast was indeed behaving abnormally, he went out to gather intelligence, hoping to obtain some useful information," Han Ling said, pausing for a moment before tilting her head back thoughtfully.
"That was just yesterday afternoon..."
The speaker suddenly stopped.
Han Ling stood still, the terminal pressed against her ear vibrating slightly, as if a new message had arrived.
War room.
Xiao Yu sat at the end of the long table, somewhat nervous.
This was his first time attending such a high-level operational meeting... well, if you exclude those operational meetings that gather a huge number of people!
He swallowed hard, his gaze carefully sweeping across both sides of the long table.
Hmm, we're all familiar with each other... Hmm, they look familiar!
Of the few people he exchanged a few words with, only...
Xiao Yu's gaze lingered on the figure sitting at the head of the table on the right.
There, a young man was reviewing the information projected in front of him.
Calm and gentle, yet a sense of suppressed weariness seemed to emanate from her brows.
Seemingly sensing the gaze, the young man raised his eyes.
They made eye contact.
He nodded.
Xiao Yu nodded hurriedly in response, somewhat nervously.
An aged voice rang out.
"So, you're not even sure about the authenticity of the information you've obtained this time?" Zhou Zhenguo sat at the head of the table, looking directly at the three people at the end.
"Yes, Elder Zhou!" Zhao Yuan nodded in response.
Without offering much judgment, Zhou Zhenguo turned his gaze to the figure beside him.
He opened his mouth, but stopped asking the question he was about to ask and changed his approach:
How are you?
"It's nothing, I'm just a little tired, it won't affect our communication," Shen Heng said wearily.
Recording, analyzing, and deducing large amounts of information at the same time is still too difficult for him now.
This is because, even though he hasn't played a significant role in the past few years, he has never slacked off in cultivating his mental strength.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Zhenguo nodded and asked:
"So what were the results of your investigation?"
" Ringing Sound, project the information!" Shen Heng said, turning his gaze to the sky above the long table.
There, light and shadow intertwined rapidly.
Golden edges; a faint shadow in the center; and countless golden specks of light scattered throughout the center.
"This is?"
Everyone stared intently at the play of light and shadow.
Before they could figure it out, the points of light on the screen suddenly started moving on their own.
Left, right, up, down, or even circling back to the starting point...
The overall appearance is somewhat chaotic and disorganized.
But soon, as time went on, a trend gradually formed on it.
A significant number of the light spots are slowly converging in one direction.
Twenty or thirty seconds later, the light disappeared.
Then, the light spot reappeared in its original position and began to flow again.
"So, the information to be presented has been presented? What was just presented?" Xiao Yu frowned slightly, his gaze sweeping across both sides of the long table with some confusion.
Some paused for a moment, their faces quickly darkening; others continued to gaze at the light and shadow in thought; and still others, like him, were completely bewildered, unsure of what the light and shadow were representing.
" Captain Shen, what's this?" asked an officer he had only met before.
Following his words, Xiao Yu looked towards Captain Shen.
Beside him, Sister Zhao and Old Chen also looked over.
No, or rather, at this moment, everyone in the room looked towards that figure.
The figure slowly exhaled and said:
"You already know that the Calamity Beast is making unusual movements. And like just now, the Calamity Beast might be providing false information, or perhaps the Calamity Beast itself doesn't even know its true purpose."
"Therefore, to avoid these situations, I went out yesterday to monitor the movements of the Calamity Beast within the range that my continuous reconnaissance capabilities could detect."
"After all, Calamity Beast can lie, but their actions don't lie..."
The explanation is still ongoing.
But Xiao Yu wasn't listening very attentively anymore.
He stared, mouth agape, at the countless points of light above the long table, then looked down at the figure still speaking, and then looked up at the map above.
This was repeated several times.
He finally had to accept the situation.
Captain Shen, using your abilities to deduce the destination of the Calamity Beast Calamity Beast analyzing their movement trajectories?
Moreover, depending on the situation...
Somewhat stiffly, he turned his gaze back to the map above.
The light spot moved smoothly upwards.
In other words, this... is very likely to be true?
He tried to find reasons, but found it difficult to find reasons that he could believe or that he could refute.
But doesn't that mean their actions were meaningless?
After all, Captain Shen had already noticed the abnormality of the Calamity Beast and, based on that, had probed its possible final destination.
In that case, their actions seem to be completely meaningless!
No, no, no, it still has meaning, after all, they didn't know that Captain Shen could find the answer in this way.
Furthermore, this answer isn't necessarily correct!
However, this...
Xiao Yu glanced again, somewhat incredulously, at the map above the long table that looked like it was in real time, then stiffly turned his head to look at the figure.
This is... is it even possible for a reconnaissance ability to go to this extent?!