Under the intelligent AI's control, the vehicle traveled smoothly and silkily on the highway, precisely arriving in front of a skyscraper twenty minutes later.

Times had changed. With information about the Wan Jia Xiong Meng games spreading, the Special Affairs Bureau no longer needed to hide themselves, using fertilizer plants or similar disguises.

Instead, they built modern skyscrapers on the surface as their headquarters.

(Although for convenience, the new building's location was still above the old base, located in the city's suburbs.)

"Hmm? Are we there?"

Wei Linglan was awakened by the car's intelligent AI. She took off her eye mask and yawned. "Let's get out."

She stepped out of the vehicle, pulled out her employee pass from her pocket, and beckoned Wang Congshan and Li Ang, who had also gotten out, to follow.

So this was the Special Affairs Bureau's headquarters...

Li Ang looked up at the towering skyscraper, his peripheral vision sweeping across the wilderness around the building that clashed with its style. He exhaled a long breath.

After the three got out of the car, the self-driving black sedan continued forward, turned a corner, and headed towards the parking lot behind the building, disappearing from sight.

Li Ang followed Wei Linglan up the steps leading to the building.

On either side of the building's entrance were two stone lions similar to those at the He Shan Road base.

These two stone lions lay unashamedly on the stone platforms, one lazily sleeping with its eyes closed, the other playing with a hollow jade ball with its paw.

At least Lv20 or higher energy fluctuations...

With Li Ang's current vision, he could already see the details of the Special Affairs Bureau's stone lions, feeling the faint, unfathomable aura of the spiritual power array surrounding the building.

The Special Affairs Bureau was more profound than he had imagined...

Li Ang climbed the steps, his gaze not lingering on the stone lions or the staff chatting at the entrance of the building, like an ordinary tourist,

Looking around curiously and nervously.

*Beep*—

Wei Linglan swiped her employee pass on the card reader at the building entrance.

The pass seemed to have a real-time network connection function, which could connect to the Special Affairs Bureau's command center automation system. By reporting the task the agent was currently performing, it could assign different levels of permissions.

For example, now, Li Ang and Wang Congshan's identities had already been registered at the network level. They didn't need to swipe their cards; they just followed Wei Linglan directly inside.

The Special Affairs Bureau headquarters' lobby was extremely spacious. The floor was made of an unknown alloy material, which was sturdy and had a texture like wood.

The lobby was crowded with people. Special Affairs Bureau employees in suits were walking around, each looking extremely busy.

"Everyone's been quite busy lately because of the Stargates,"

Wei Linglan casually said, "It wasn't this tense before. The transfer of some data files could be completed on networked devices, and staff could also hold meetings online through the scanning projection equipment of their respective office platforms, without having to run around on each floor—in fact, the bureau previously allowed employees to use small, hovering scooters, which made it easier to get around."

Li Ang asked, "Then why don't they allow them anymore..."

"Well... the reasons are quite complicated."

Wei Linglan smiled, not explaining that the hovering scooters were produced by the Yihui Association,

And now, due to the threat of the Stargates, the array guarding the headquarters building had been strengthened several times compared to before.

Many spirit-powered devices were interfered with and could not be used normally,

Going from the spiritual energy era, all of a sudden, back to the early electrical era.

"Xiao Wei?"

Just as Li Ang was looking around the inside of the lobby, a burly man in a suit, holding a metal briefcase, walked over from the elevator.

"Captain Xing?"

Wei Linglan greeted her old superior Xing Hechou happily, "Why are you back?"

"There's been new progress on the Qiumoku (Demon Imprisonment Cave) project. A batch of team members were rotated out, so I came back first."

Xing Hechou nodded, looked at Wang Congshan and Li Ang behind Wei Linglan, who looked like well-behaved babies. "This is..."

Wei Linglan answered with a smile, "Oh, I brought my sister's classmate to the bureau to make a statement, regarding the new player's interpersonal relationship investigation."

Xing Hechou was stunned for a moment. "Huh? What about your previous task?"

"It's been transferred to other colleagues. I estimate there will be a breakthrough soon, and the case will be closed immediately."

In front of Wang Congshan and Li Ang, Wei Linglan didn't mention that the previous serial murder case was progressing rapidly with the involvement of the new system.

Xing Hechou also knew what she was thinking and nodded. "You go ahead and get busy. I'll go report for duty first."

"Okay, Captain Xing."

Wei Linglan nodded and said, "By the way, Captain Xing, will you still lead our team in the future?"

"We'll see."

Xing Hechou smiled and said, "We're like bricks; we'll be moved wherever we're needed. I'm off."

He raised his hand, bid farewell to Wei Linglan, and sighed imperceptibly the moment he turned around.

The situation in the Qiumoku was not optimistic.

The reason for his return was not simply a personnel rotation.

Rather, the intensity of the disaster in the Qiumoku had exceeded the level of their batch of agents, and it was necessary for stronger transcendents to be stationed there.

The Door Contention had activated the Door and seemed to have triggered the Qiumoku's self-evolution.

The ancient demons at the lowest level were gradually awakening.

And the vast number of demons in the middle and upper layers, under the influence of the Qiumoku, were gradually ceasing to kill each other,

All retreating into the dark areas that the Special Affairs Bureau could not observe,

Accumulating numbers and strength.

Once the demon tide erupted,

Could the Yihui Association's crumbling magical restraints and modern civilization's weapons of mass destruction really eliminate or stop those billions of demons...

Deep in Xing Hechou's eyes, there was a concealed solemnity and anxiety.

He only hoped that the City Skyscraper Plan would be completed soon, and the plan to immigrate to another world could also be implemented faster.

Thinking this, he shook his head.

Well, he should hand over the unknown corpse dissection immortal body sample in the briefcase to the experimental department first...

Xing Hechou took a step forward, and suddenly a gust of fresh wind blew in front of him.

A woman in a plain long dress, whose style was incompatible with all the Special Affairs Bureau employees, appeared in front of him.

The third-place winner of the Door Contention,

The only Supreme Elder of the Yihui Association,

Su Nisheng.

Su Nisheng's expression was as calm as water, her voice cold, but with a hint of irresistibility, "Give me the thing."

"Su, Miss Su, this is against the regulations..."

Xing Hechou came back to his senses and was about to refuse, but the metal briefcase in his hand somehow appeared in Su Nisheng's hand.

"..."

Su Nisheng ignored the surrounding gazes, and reached out and gently pressed the highest-level briefcase of the Special Affairs Bureau.

There was a hissing sound.

The briefcase, which could withstand the full blow of an Lv20 player, was easily torn open, revealing,

A dried finger.

Su Nisheng took out the finger from the wooden board engraved with the Yihui Association's array (which could seal energy reactions),

A trace of imperceptible nostalgia appeared on her face, which had never shown any expression.

This remembrance came quickly and went quickly.

Su Nisheng exerted a little force, and the withered finger of the corpse dissection immortal's remains was crushed alive and turned into dust.

"That's it."

With a wave of her arm, the powder of the corpse dissection immortal's body was rolled up by the breeze and incorporated into her sleeve.

Xing Hechou finally reacted, his expression stiffening as he said, "Miss Su, what are you doing..."

"Hmm?"

Su Nisheng frowned, not because of Xing Hechou's protest.

Her gaze crossed Xing Hechou, crossed Wei Linglan, and focused on Li Ang, who was standing in the back, looking like a quiet and well-behaved baby.