Tracing the Source!!!

"Can you remember what the scene was like then?"

What Lianfeng cared about now was that unknown factor—the villa that had suddenly appeared, and the person who had suddenly appeared. Someone capable of using wormhole technology like that would be difficult to deal with if they were on the enemy's side.

"Mm, but I can't remember much. My head hurts..."

Qi Lin truly had a headache now. She felt terrible, and what had happened yesterday had left her depressed.

All her colleagues had died. Her comrades in the force had died too. She was the only one who had survived. How could she not be in pain?

She described the scene to Lianfeng, but she did not reveal what Long Qian had said. She wanted to verify it herself.

From the moment Long Qian had held her injured body in his arms and protected her, she had believed he was not a bad person.

Besides, someone protected by Angel of Justice could not possibly be a bad person either.

"All right, but we haven't seen him anywhere nearby. I imagine he's already left. Can you remember what he looked like?"

Lianfeng had not gotten any useful information from Qi Lin, and she was somewhat discouraged, but there was nothing she could do about it.

"Mm-hmm, I remember. Do you need me to draw him?"

Though Qi Lin was only a police officer, and merely a patrol officer at that, she was skilled in everything. Music, chess, calligraphy, and painting were all effortless for her.

Not telling Lianfeng those words did not mean she did not want to find Long Qian.

Besides, Long Qian was like a boy next door. Being held in his arms had given her an inexplicable sense of security, though she did not know why.

"That would be excellent!!!"

Ten minutes later, a sketch portrait appeared in Lianfeng's hands.

"He really is a sunny, handsome young man. He looks to be in his early twenties."

"Twenty-five!!!"

Qi Lin had also heard Long Qian complain about it before. Long Qian had probably, perhaps, maybe mentioned how old he was.

"Qi Lin, are you willing to work in a more classified unit? Our Super Seminary is affiliated with the National Security Bureau and answers directly to the highest elder's command. You know that alien lifeforms are eyeing Earth greedily now. Ordinary soldiers and firepower do very little damage to them. The country needs warriors like you, those with Super Genes, to join us."

After using the instruments to examine Qi Lin again and confirming there were no issues, Lianfeng explained why she had come and extended an invitation to Qi Lin.

"Defending our home and country is my duty. When do you need me to report?"

Of course Qi Lin would not refuse. She was a police officer by profession. No matter where she worked, she would be defending her home and country, let alone in a higher-level secret unit.

"Next Monday. Someone will come pick you up. Rest well this week. We'll issue a transfer order to the Juxia City Police Department. This will be considered a job transfer."

Lianfeng nodded. Police officers and soldiers alike possessed the strongest sense of duty toward their country. They all shared the same faith. Therefore, Qi Lin joined them without the slightest hesitation.

After returning to Super Seminary, Lianfeng went to the laboratory at once.

Naturally, she had not forgotten to take the police uniform Qi Lin had been wearing when she was injured.

"Auntie Lianfeng, you're back!!!"

"Mm. Qiangwei, how is it? Did you find anything?"

When Qiangwei saw Lianfeng return, she stepped forward to greet her.

"Based on the information we've collected so far, the place really is strange. We interviewed many workers and cleaners who often passed by there. They all firmly stated that there had never been any buildings there. In fact, there were no buildings for several kilometers along the route.

"What we can confirm is that a wormhole appeared there, which caused the building to appear. But...

"Judging from the scattered glass fragments and construction materials at the scene, they were all completely ordinary building materials.

"Early this morning, I carefully searched the entire route and found a packet of one-inch photos in a patch of grass, along with several unfamiliar dolls.

"However, based on the name of the photo studio on the packaging, I couldn't find any store with that name on the map of Juxia City.

"One of the two dolls was damaged. There was half a label inside, but even after translation, I still couldn't determine the location.

"MADE IN CHINA.

"But according to some translation experts, that's the name of a manufacturer. Still, I couldn't find any related information. Perhaps it's an unregistered product."

Upon hearing Lianfeng's question, Qiangwei hurriedly reported the results of her morning search. She had already completed her investigation and analysis.

"Mm, all right. I also got a sketch portrait from Qi Lin, along with this uniform. Split up and check whether there are any bloodstains besides Qi Lin's, as well as fingerprints and the like."

As soon as Lianfeng arrived at the laboratory, she carefully handed the items sealed in protective materials to the other researchers.

The one-inch photos Qiangwei had found had naturally fallen out of Long Qian's backpack shop. They had been taken two or three years ago, then casually tossed into his backpack.

As for those dolls, they had been gifts from his ex and had always been kept in his backpack. He had never taken them out. Unexpectedly, when the backpack was damaged, they had fallen out.

Half an hour later.

"Director Lianfeng, we have results. We found blood other than Qi Lin's. After ruling out several drops, there was one bloody palm print that was particularly unusual. We collected sample data from it as a priority, but there are no records for this sample in our Great Wall One database. Yet according to the DNA matching information, this is undoubtedly a Huaxia DNA gene sequence.

"The fingerprints are the same. There are no records in the database. He seems to be an unregistered citizen."

Huaxia had conducted so many population censuses that 99.99 percent of its people were stored in the database. It was understandable for blood samples to be missing, but surely there should have been fingerprints.

Their Super Seminary base had authority to access any database system in the country at any time, yet there was simply no information to be found.

"Director, according to facial data comparisons, the similarity is as high as 98 percent. It seems there's no doubt they're the same person."

At that moment, another researcher carrying photo data and restoration results also walked over.

"However, based on the information we currently have, he's between 185 and 190 centimeters tall, weighs between 130 and 140 jin, and has no damage to his palm prints. He should be a mental worker."

Lianfeng and the others were no ordinary people. From a few small clues alone, they could infer useful information and estimate Long Qian's height and weight with considerable accuracy.

"Strange. Could he really be an unregistered citizen!!!"

Hearing the researcher's answer, Lianfeng began to mutter to herself. Although Huaxia did have unregistered citizens and people without identification, there were very few of them. Moreover, Qi Lin had said that the other party seemed to know her and had immediately identified Qi Lin's gene model. That forced Lianfeng to become wary.

Logically, someone who knew a patrol officer like Qi Lin should not have been an unregistered citizen. More importantly, he had known Qi Lin's gene model. That was the key point—the most important point.

"That's true. He had an angel guarding him. How could he possibly fail to notice..."

Then Lianfeng mocked herself under her breath. It seemed she had overthought things.

"By the way, have you gotten any results from analyzing that toy with the unusual energy source we brought back last night?"

Lianfeng led Qiangwei to the sealed glass container holding the Dark Spark Prism, then asked the person beside it who was recording data.

"Not yet. It just keeps flashing like this. No energy has any effect on it. We've tried electric shocks and other methods. The material isn't common, but there's nothing particularly special about it either. It's quite strange. It really seems to be just a toy."

The researcher wore a helpless expression. He believed it was merely a toy made from rare materials.

"Eh, there are words here. What are they???"

Qiangwei walked up to the glass container and immediately spotted the strange, twisted lettering.

"This should be a person's name, probably a name from the island nation. Celebrities over there like to sign their names on strange objects. We analyzed it last night. Translated into Chinese, it means 'Nagano Hiroshi,' but I couldn't find any information related to those three characters in the Deno Three system."

"Nagano Hiroshi? Never heard of him!!!"

Qiangwei froze for a moment, then shook her head. Though she did not have a favorable impression of people from the island nation, she truly had never heard of him.