"Who are you people?"
As soon as Greed, Caesar, and Erik got out of the car, three police officers immediately stepped forward to question them.
"Danger Control Center, Greed."
Facing the police's interrogation, Greed pulled open his suit, took out an ID badge, and handed it over. The young police officer took it, carefully examining every word, photo, and department logo on it.
Then he looked up, curiously glancing at the three people in front of him, and the individuals in white uniforms, carrying silver cases, who were successively emerging from the other two multi-purpose SUVs.
Judging by their appearance, they seemed to genuinely be from some department, but he had never heard of a "Danger Control Center" department.
"Please wait a moment."
The police officer asked the three to wait for a while, and he himself went to inform his superior responsible for the blockade.
One minute later, a short-haired man in a suit, accompanied by three subordinates, walked towards Greed and the other two. "We've already been informed from above and have been waiting for you for a long time."
The man approached Greed, reaching out to shake his hand. "The Prime Minister is rushing back to the country tonight. I need to report to him at six in the morning. Will that be enough time?"
"That has nothing to do with me." Greed sharply slapped away the outstretched right hand, then walked around the man towards the canyon. "Our purpose is to detect the cause of this disaster." The short-haired man lowered his head and looked at his slapped right hand, his face somewhat grim. But he suppressed his emotions, turned around, and followed behind Greed.
While Greed and the short-haired man were communicating, Dr. Helen was leading her subordinates towards a circular pit, taking out a detector brought from headquarters to examine the pit.
Greed and his two companions, meanwhile, took advantage of the biotechnicians' work to walk back and forth along the entire Shiraishi Canyon, accompanied by personnel from the Island Nation government.
When Greed, Caesar, Erik, and the government personnel returned to Shiraishi Pass, Dr. Helen had already instructed her subordinates to set up a huge white quarantine tent at the pass. Greed walked towards the tent, and after the two guards at the entrance nodded, he stepped inside. Caesar and Erik exchanged glances, then followed suit.
"Stop!" The government official who had been following them wanted to enter with the three, but was stopped by the two guards at the tent entrance.
Facing the guards' obstruction, the short-haired man took another deep breath, his expression extremely impatient, and said, "I'm from the CDC!"
"No one is allowed to enter without Dr. Helen's permission."
"Then they...!"
The short-haired man, agitated, pointed at Greed and the other two who had already entered the tent. But the next moment, he instantly closed his mouth.
Inside the tent, Greed was standing with his right side facing them, his right eye glowing with a bloody red light, staring intently at the man. This made his spine chill, and he couldn't speak.
"Sir, please put on the isolation suit."
A technician stepped forward and handed three prepared isolation suits to Greed, Caesar, and Erik, asking them to put them on. Greed was a Nen beast, not a human, so he didn't need to wear an isolation suit. However, he looked at the isolation suit handed to him by the technician and, to avoid suspicion, put it on.
"What's the situation now?" Greed and his two companions, wearing isolation suits, were led by a technician to a wider space inside the tent and asked Dr. Helen, who was currently conducting tests.
Dr. Helen, in an isolation suit, looked up at Greed, then continued to observe a small piece of soil under a microscope, while explaining to him.
"We detected contamination in the giant pit, almost in every circular pit."
"I have already informed the local police and government. They are preparing to quarantine all local residents and anyone who has been in contact with this area. From last night until now, anyone who has been to Shiraishi Mountain needs to undergo quarantine testing."
"Furthermore, I plan to completely blockade the entire Shiraishi Canyon and quarantine it as a contaminated zone."
"Such a large scale, what kind of contamination is it?" Caesar asked. Dr. Helen continued to observe the soil under the microscope, replying, "Don't worry, our biotechnicians are working at full capacity."
Greed and his two companions stopped asking questions, their gazes sweeping over everything inside the tent. At this time, technicians continuously brought contaminated soil into the isolation tent, placed it in petri dishes, and neatly arranged it on the ground.
"After initial testing, this is a very resilient organism."
"But only back at headquarters can we conduct more in-depth research."
Dr. Helen left the microscope, stood up, and looked at Greed, her expression solemn.
"But what I can tell you is, I have never seen anything like this before."
"It's definitely from outside; it's absolutely not something from the human world."
Greed's eyes flashed red at her words. Not something from the human world meant it was something from the Dark Continent, and it had to be reported to Illumi Zoldyck immediately.
Qingyao Mountain, twelve hours ago.
"Kai-chan, we've been walking for almost two hours, aren't we there yet?"
Kai-chan led three police officers along a forest path on Qingyao Mountain. One young police officer couldn't help but ask. But Kai-chan, who was leading the way, gave no response, as if he hadn't heard the young police officer's question.
"Yun, bear with it a little longer, we'll be there soon." Fujibayashi patted his colleague's shoulder, comforting him. It had been a long time since he had been up Qingyao Mountain himself, let alone these young people. If it weren't for the special circumstances this time, these young people probably wouldn't go up Qingyao Mountain once a year.
"Rustle... rustle..."
In front of the three, Kai-chan was filled with unease, not saying a word. Along the way, the only sound was the rustling of leaves kicked aside as they walked.
"Something's wrong!" Kai-chan suddenly stopped, looking up. He finally understood what his strange unease was about.
It was too quiet. Not to mention the howling of various wild beasts, even the chirping of insects and birds had vanished. When had Qingyao Mountain ever been this quiet?
From the moment he stepped into the forest, a feeling of unease continuously welled up in his heart, as if he were walking towards a tiger's den. It wasn't normal, very abnormal.
"What's wrong, Kai-chan?"
Fujibayashi stepped forward and asked. Kai-chan didn't answer; he just kept scanning his surroundings, while tilting his head to the side, as if listening to something.
"Uncle Fujibayashi, did you bring guns?" Kai-chan suddenly asked. Fujibayashi, Tuandai, and Yun were a bit confused but still replied, "Of course we bring guns when we go up Qingyao Mountain. Otherwise, what do we do if we encounter wild beasts?"
"After all, we're not like you, who grew up in the mountains and know how to avoid all sorts of wild beasts."
Kai-chan breathed a sigh of relief at his words. As long as they had guns, it would give him some sense of security.
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