Angel Mystery!!!

Long Qian was enjoying peace and quiet, an angel in his arms, while Dukao at the Super Seminary base in Juxia City wore a worried expression.

"Has there been any good news from the front? Have Qiangwei and Ajie arrived?"

Inside the Super Seminary command center, Dukao was overwhelmed with work. He desperately needed news from the front so he could report to the higher-ups.

This sudden alien invasion had disrupted his plans.

Moreover, this invasion had exposed Earth's shortcomings: its real-time surveillance was inadequate.

"Report, Chief. There's good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?"

Lianfeng, who had been receiving the reports nearby, spoke to Dukao as he paced back and forth.

"Stop keeping me in suspense. Tell me already. You're killing me here!"

Dukao was genuinely anxious, making no effort to hide it.

"The good news is that all of the invading alien mech warriors have been destroyed, and their aircraft have been preserved intact."

"Good, good, good! That's wonderful! It seems Earth's firepower can still hurt them."

Before Lianfeng had even finished, Dukao eagerly said "good" three times in a row, completely forgetting that she still had bad news to deliver.

Seeing how delighted Dukao was, Lianfeng also wished their artillery had been effective against the alien mech warriors. But reality fell short of expectations. Ideals were full, reality was brutal. She did not want to dampen Dukao's soaring spirits, but the facts were right before them.

"Chief, there's still the bad news. Angels joined the battle and instantly killed those alien mech warriors. Our firepower cannot inflict any substantial damage on these aliens."

"Gah..."

The latter half of Lianfeng's report was like a bucket of ice water dumped directly over Dukao's head, chilling him to the bone.

His previously elevated mood instantly plummeted. He felt terrible at once.

Angels... If angels intervened, that was indeed a good thing for Earth. However, the ideals of Angel Civilization differed somewhat from those of Earth. It was impossible for Earth's civilization to fully accept the rule of Angel Civilization.

"Are you sure they were angels?"

"Certain. And our systems also detected the activation of a Super Gene that does not belong to Deno Civilization: the Shenhe Sniper."

Lianfeng felt this was an unexpected windfall. A sniper could be the decisive factor in determining the outcome of a battle.

"Tell Qiangwei and the others to gather more information, especially any intact surveillance footage, and bring it back."

Huaxia already had a complete Skynet surveillance system. From Feiliu District to Feiliu Airport, there had to be dozens, if not one or two hundred, cameras. Some of them would surely have recorded the details.

They needed those materials to analyze the situation and determine why the angels had intervened to help.

Elsewhere, on the airport road in Feiliu District.

The late-arriving Qiangwei and Ajie were treating the wounded and cleaning up the battlefield alongside a group of soldiers.

Their eyes kept moving over the shattered pieces of mech armor, and the more they examined them, the more alarmed they became.

"Look, Qiangwei. These cuts are smooth. They weren't caused by ordinary weapons. Judging from the scene, these alien mech warriors were sliced apart in an instant. That one farther away looks like it was cut by a weapon mixed with blazing fire. These angels really are terrifying.

Look, our artillery barely damaged their outer shells. The fatal wounds were all inflicted by that weapon. I think it could probably cut through our Black Armor."

Ajie stared at the pile of mangled mech armor and analyzed it to himself.

"An angel with three pairs of wings... Could that be an angel's full-power form? The angel that appeared in Tianhe City that day only had one pair of wings."

As she listened to Ajie's analysis, Qiangwei forced herself to calm down.

Seeing the wreckage of fighter jets and tanks scattered across the ground, she could not stop her tears. The soldiers who had died were her comrades.

After gathering the relevant information, the two found a soldier and asked him.

"Hello, I'm Du Qiangwei. Here are my credentials. Do you know where the angel who helped us is, or where she went?"

"Hello, Corporal Du Qiangwei, Major Ajie. According to the information I received, that angel seems to have come from the rear. She appeared suddenly, then vanished just as suddenly."

"Alright. Thank you for your hard work."

"It was no trouble. Defending our homes and country is our duty."

Just then, Qiangwei's phone suddenly rang.

"Qiangwei, you've arrived, right?"

"Auntie Lianfeng, we're here."

"Good. According to the Dark Energy data from Deno Three, there's an anomaly three kilometers ahead of you. Go take a look."

"Alright, we'll go right away. Ajie, let's move."

After hanging up, Qiangwei and Ajie rushed toward the location Lianfeng had indicated. However, when they arrived, all they saw were wrecked armored vehicles and police cars everywhere.

Yet both of them noticed something unusual about the place.

"Qiangwei, something's off. Look at this place. There shouldn't be any buildings here, right? Yet there are building ruins everywhere—concrete blocks, steel reinforcement bars, doors, windows, even shattered glass."

As a highly trained special forces commander, Ajie immediately sensed where the problem lay.

There could not possibly be illegal buildings on the Ring Expressway, especially not along this stretch between Feiliu District and Feiliu Airport.

"Why does this look like the foundation of a house to me?"

Qiangwei also sensed that something was wrong. She felt that the pile of broken construction materials had once belonged to a building.

But this was clearly the Ring Expressway. Roads surrounded the area. Where could a house foundation have come from? If she remembered correctly, there had definitely been no building here when she came by last week.

A building on the Ring Expressway—did that make sense? Not at all.

However, she had no time to dwell on it. She began searching the area for the unusual energy source Lianfeng had mentioned.

"Huh? What's this, a toy???"

Soon afterward, Qiangwei found a dark-colored toy in the grass nearby, glimmering faintly.

It looked somewhat like a slingshot, but it was not a slingshot. It felt exceedingly heavy, and she could not tell what kind of toy it was.

Naturally, without giving it much thought, she put the toy away.

"Qiangwei, this place is suspicious. You should head back first. I'll find Feiliu District's planning maps and investigate. The nearby traffic cameras have all been destroyed. It seems we won't get anything else from here."

Ajie made a circuit of the area and found that the cameras and vehicle recorders here had been damaged too severely. Unlike at the center of the battlefield ahead, none had remained intact.

His instincts told him there were major questions surrounding this place. Perhaps they should question the wounded who had appeared here.

"Mm... alright."

After searching the area for a long time without finding any unusual energy source, Qiangwei called Lianfeng.

"Auntie Lianfeng, are you sure it's here with us?"

"That's right. That unusual energy source should still be there. Search carefully. It was moving just moments ago, but after you arrived, it should have concealed itself!!!"

Lianfeng was also taken aback by Qiangwei's question. She had thought Qiangwei and the others had found it.

"It moved... I think I've found the thing you were talking about."

Qiangwei's instincts told her that the unusual energy source Lianfeng mentioned was probably the toy she had picked up.

It was already getting late. She had no idea what the thing was, so she would take it back to the Super Seminary base and let Auntie Lianfeng study it properly.