Chapter 20

Ordinary people, lone wolf players, and secret organizations were all involuntarily acting around the changes in the YIn City mist realm.

Finally, the soaring mirage dragon shattered the agonizing wait.

Everyone, including the Special Affairs Bureau agents guarding the area around Qianhua Road, stared dumbfounded at the sky.

The mirage dragon's semi-vaporized body stretched out endlessly.

Sitting on the dragon's back, Hanba constantly emitted a solemn and majestic light and heat comparable to the sun, illuminating the city below as bright as day.

It was as if dawn had broken.

No one tried to catch up with the mirage dragon to stop her from leaving—the mirage dragon first slowly rose above YIn City, while circling and looking down as if searching for something.

Before the Special Affairs Bureau's helicopters could approach, the mirage dragon stopped circling and flew directly towards the sky with terrifying acceleration.

Her flight speed was so fast that neither helicopters nor the most advanced fighter jets could touch her tail. They could only silently watch the semi-vaporized mirage dragon fly higher and higher, merging into the stars.

The scene of Hanba riding the mirage dragon and soaring into the sky was recorded by countless YIn City residents who were being evacuated and crammed onto the roads, with their eyes and mobile phone cameras.

Within three minutes, tens of thousands of short videos capturing the mirage dragon's image were uploaded to group chats and various online platforms by individual users.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the clarity of modern mobile phone cameras is far beyond what it used to be. There is no situation where "the picture automatically turns into low quality when encountering supernatural events."

Moreover, because Hanba illuminated YIn City below as bright as day, the brightness of these short videos was very high.

This was not something that could be dismissed as PS or video editing. It was impossible for so many short videos with different perspectives and background voices to be forged in an instant, right?

The Special Affairs Bureau's network monitoring unit launched the background program almost immediately, using the image of the mirage dragon as the search standard to search for relevant content on most online platforms and impose bans and traffic restrictions.

The unit also set words such as "dragon" and "YIn City" as prohibited words (in fact, they began restricting information about YIn City several hours earlier).

However, as the mirage dragon gradually ascended, the area that could clearly see her image also continued to increase.

The entire Eastern Hemisphere, which should have been in the night, saw the "small sun" rising in the night sky, and the Eastern giant dragon carrying the small sun on its back.

Videos on the foreign internet were overwhelming and could not be eliminated—these clips would spread sooner or later.

Of course, for the Special Affairs Bureau's network supervision unit, maintaining stability was the most important thing. They continued to painstakingly restrict the flow of information while anxiously waiting for instructions from above.

According to past practice, supernatural events that had no impact would be directly covered up.

Small supernatural events would basically be covered up with reasons such as road construction, demolition of dangerous buildings, and traffic accidents.

Large-scale supernatural events with serious consequences could only be concealed by disasters such as chemical plant accidents, mudslides, and landslides.

But what reason should be used to prevaricate for this kind of supernatural event that the entire Eastern Hemisphere had seen? Could they say that billions of people had a collective hysteria?

The Special Affairs Bureau didn't have the manpower or resources to erase the memories of everyone.

Of course, there were people who were more anxious than the network supervision unit—that was the Special Affairs Bureau, which was personally stationed in the Qianhua Road area.

According to the information that Ashes had previously transmitted, the mirage dragon's departure meant that the Prison Demon Cave would lose the guard of the "jailer," and the demons inside would lose their greatest confinement.

All weapons were aimed at the mist realm in the Qianhua Road and surrounding areas at the first moment.

The front-line agents' palms were full of sweat as they gripped their weapons tightly.

The dense fog in front of them did not dissipate directly after the mirage dragon left, but gradually drifted away bit by bit.

One minute, two minutes

In the anxious wait, the first to come out of the mist realm were not the expected demons, but teams of elite squads that the Special Affairs Bureau had previously sent into the mist realm.

These players had obviously experienced a certain degree of intense combat. According to them, they had been spinning around in the shallowest mist realm and had no chance to go deeper.

When they were halfway through their exploration, the number of demons scattered throughout the mist realm, most of whom were wearing shackles on their feet, began to decrease. Some team members even saw with their own eyes.

The demons were dragged away by the shackles on their feet, pulled into the depths of the gradually dissipating mist realm, and dragged into the ground along the flat ground.

Subsequently, the mist realm further dissipated, and the elite team members inexplicably turned to the Qianhua Road area.

The elite squad and the Special Affairs Bureau were both dumbfounded and clueless.

Several minutes later, they were stunned to find that the speed of the mist dissipation on Qianhua Road suddenly accelerated, completely disappearing in a few breaths, revealing the original appearance of the city.

Along with the excavation marks left on the Qianhua Road surface during the previous construction.

There were no demons, no demon tide, as if nothing had happened.

Was it over?

The Special Affairs Bureau hesitated. The members of the Different Arts Society at the scene, after increasing the power output of the Hetu Formation, gave a not-so-certain conclusion:

The Prison Demon Cave seemed to have escaped.

Moreover, according to the detection reports of the Hetu systems in other cities, the Prison Demon Cave, carrying residual mist energy, was moving underground at an extremely fast speed towards the west.

Finally, it stopped moving near Kunlun Mountain.

Regardless of how the Special Affairs Bureau would react to this, no one in the city noticed that several figures appeared in various corners of YIn City with the departure of the mirage dragon.

"This is really considerate."

Li Ang, who was splashing around in the sea, exchanged a helpless wry smile with Miss Chai, who was floating on the sea surface.

When Hanba and the mirage dragon left, they did not forget the players who had broken into it, as well as the ordinary patients of the Datura Organization who had been taken into the mist realm, and even some unlucky people who had been involved in the mist realm before.

Everyone was wrapped in mist and brought out of the mist realm.

Moreover, that Hanba seemed to know the players' demands and did not throw them all into the abandoned subway station full of Special Affairs Bureau members.

Instead, all the players were scattered and dropped on the coast of YIn City (in fact, this was mainly due to Li Ang's help in opening the door. As for why they were thrown into the sea, this should be Hanba's small punishment for their attempt to pollute the mirage dragon).

As for those ordinary people in a state of fainting, they were all placed in a port in YIn City.

From Li Ang's position, he could clearly see people from the port authority discovering these comatose people who suddenly appeared in the port. He believed that the Special Affairs Bureau officials would come to rescue them soon.

"Pfft—"

Li Ang spat out a mouthful of seawater and tried his best to look into the distance, towards those players who were also soaking in the seawater. He didn't greet them.

Instead, he called Miss Chai to drag him like a fish towards the YIn City coast.

The system's prompt about the completion of the mission sounded in his ears, but Li Ang, who was lurking under the water surface, had no time to care about it.

He lay under the sea surface, opened his eyes, and looked at the perfect full moon with a sudden black spot in the sky in the sparkling waves.

This world feels more and more interesting.

Wan Jia Xiong Meng