Secret Department

"He's FBI too? Is the information real?" Hearing Ye Siyu's identity, the secret department captain stared at him in surprise. He had never expected Ye Siyu to be FBI. "It's real. This information was pulled from the FBI database. Sivic Ye, Chinese name Ye Siyu, a Chinese American, adopted by the Smiths in 1993, joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2013. Hm?" The team member read from his laptop the information Ye Siyu had specifically had Red Queen fabricate, but he froze partway through.

"Why did you stop?" the captain asked in confusion when the team member suddenly fell silent.

"The Smiths died in the 1997 Los Angeles terrorist attack, leaving behind only one child..." the team member continued. When he reached the information about the deaths of Ye Siyu's parents, he stopped again, the cold expression on his face turning to surprise.

Like that team member, everyone from the secret department in the van looked surprised at that moment. Their gazes were filled with pity and curiosity as they looked at Ye Siyu.

In 1997, Los Angeles had seen a succession of bizarre and horrifying murders. In one incident in particular, the passengers in a subway car had come under an unknown attack. The casualties were devastating, and the survivors could be counted on one hand. The incident had far-reaching repercussions.

Although the government had quickly closed the case as a terrorist attack, the members of the secret department knew very well that it had not been caused by terrorists, but by a ruthless alien killer who had come to this urban jungle to play a hunting game.

More importantly, their department had been established because of that incident. It had grown out of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a secret department dedicated to dealing with those mysterious alien killers. Their superior had been one of the people in charge of the incident, so they all knew a great deal about what had happened in 1997. Now that they had learned Ye Siyu's parents had died in it, they expressed their sympathy and became friendlier toward him.

Watching the change in the secret department members' expressions, Ye Siyu's eyes flashed with a hint of concealed amusement. He knew the identity he had had Red Queen arrange was about to take effect.

"Sivic, may I call you that?" the secret department captain asked Ye Siyu after learning about him.

"Of course." Ye Siyu nodded.

"Sivic, I want to know what exactly happened," the captain asked, gazing into Ye Siyu's eyes.

"Do you mean the matter of that Iron-Blooded Warrior?" Ye Siyu asked in return, his expression betraying no emotion.

"Iron-Blooded Warrior? It's a good name." Hearing Ye Siyu's name for it and thinking of the Iron-Blooded Warrior's corpse in the other vehicle, the captain nodded. Then he asked again, "I want to know how—or rather, by what means—you killed this Iron-Blooded Warrior."

Hearing the captain's question, Ye Siyu reached into his pocket. His movement startled everyone in the van, and they all reached for the handguns at their waists.

"He tried to kidnap me. This is the tranquilizer dart he shot at me. If I hadn't reacted quickly, dodged in time, and turned the tables on him, that guy might have captured me." Unfazed by the movements of the people around him, Ye Siyu slowly pulled a small bag from his pocket. Inside was a blow dart coated in green liquid—the very tranquilizer dart the Iron-Blooded Warrior had used to knock Ye Siyu unconscious not long after he arrived in this world.

Hearing Ye Siyu's explanation and seeing the tranquilizer dart in his hand, the secret department members beside him took their hands off their handgun grips and looked at him in surprise.

Alien abductions were not uncommon, and with surveillance cameras everywhere in modern society, they sometimes recorded footage of Iron-Blooded Warrior abductions.

Among the cases they investigated, there were several hundred suspected incidents every year. Besides that, they had several tranquilizer darts of the same design and knew very well that they could not be manufactured on Earth.

What they had not expected was that Ye Siyu had killed the Iron-Blooded Warrior that had tried to kidnap him. Over all these years, no one had escaped abduction by these Iron-Blooded Warriors, much less survived and killed one. So they all believed Ye Siyu.

"How did you know he wanted to kidnap you, rather than hunt you? Who exactly are you?!" Just as Ye Siyu thought he had gained the trust of the secret department members, their captain suddenly looked at him and asked, his expression serious.

Ye Siyu's face stiffened at the question.

Yes, he could not explain how he knew the Iron-Blooded Warrior had wanted to kidnap him rather than hunt him.

"Ah, see you next time." Then, under the astonished gazes of the secret department members, a handgun appeared in Ye Siyu's empty hand. Before they could react, he shot himself in the head. His head burst like a watermelon, splattering everyone in the van with blood and brain matter.

Endless darkness swept over him.

Rebirth... death... rebirth... the cycle repeated without end.

Inside the van, Ye Siyu, now with twenty-nine more white hairs, spoke calmly. "He attacked me. This is the blow dart he shot at me. If I hadn't reacted quickly, dodged in time, and turned the tables on him, that guy might have killed me."

Hearing this, the secret department members in the van all looked at Ye Siyu in surprise.

"You're impressive. Once this is over, would you be interested in joining us?" After confirming that Ye Siyu had killed the Iron-Blooded Warrior in the vehicle behind them, the secret department captain asked him the question. Although their department had existed for more than ten years, only a few of its original veteran members had actually faced an Iron-Blooded Warrior. Everyone else had only seen them in records. Now that he had found someone who had killed an alien, how could he pass him up?

"Of course. I'll make those ugly bastards understand the consequences of provoking us humans," Ye Siyu said, his face full of killing intent.

Sensing the killing intent and hatred in Ye Siyu's voice, the secret department captain was even more satisfied with him. Only a team member like that had the best qualities for fighting Iron-Blooded Warriors.

Thanks to: "Hua?" for the 2,000 Qidian coins; "Nazhe Daozi Tong" and "Zhi Wangsheng" for the 1,000 Qidian coins; "xiaolong85" and "Gongyang1" for the 500 Qidian coins; "Xiaoji Gege," "Ding Haifeng," "yexiangrong," and "Pori Sheshou" for the 100 Qidian coins; and "Yaojing Hu," "Xuye Ershi," "Mengyou Tianfu," "Muzi Youyu," "Manyan Jianyuan," and "Lanse Xueli" for the 10 Qidian coins.