Inside the Security Committee Building.
Gu Shen was meditating with his eyes closed.
Since being escorted into the building in the morning and cooperating with some investigations, he had immersed himself in the world of "Spring Breathing," with 35 hours left until his isolation countdown.
"Hey... non-committee members are not allowed to enter here!"
Mr. Du’s voice echoed from afar.
Gu Shen opened his eyes.
"Sorry... if I remember correctly, the Judgement Institute should have the right to investigate suspects," came a soft, sibilant voice.
"I just wanted to come and see... my dear junior brother."
Gu Shen saw a familiar face, Han Dang.
With Mr. Du by his side, he coldly sneered, "Mr. Han, since when have you and Gu Shen been so close?"
Han Dang pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and said indifferently, "Sorry, I’m not familiar with Gu Shen... I came to visit Lian Zhou."
Mr. Du’s expression slightly changed.
"It’s been quite a while since I last saw my dear junior brother. This time, I’ll be staying in this building for a while..."
Han Dang looked up, saying blandly, "Hmm, probably over thirty hours."
The implication of his words was very clear.
He was here to keep an eye on the Security Committee.
The mental investigation report on Gu Shen had no issues, which was almost a given.
And Zhu Wang’s backup plan was simple.
They couldn’t detain you for long.
But they could at least make you stay calmly in the building for 48 hours.
Mr. Du’s expression suddenly darkened, and he asked, "Mr. Han, are you suspecting us of bending the law for personal gain?"
"What are you talking about?" Han Dang shrugged his shoulders lightly and said softly, "I never said that... Changye is a place that respects evidence. Mr. Du definitely shouldn’t slander me."
Sitting in the detention room, Gu Shen slowly furrowed his brow.
It’s just 48 hours...
And sending Han Dang specifically to shadow him?
Of course, he didn’t believe that Han Dang came to visit Lian Zhou, since after last year’s rookie competition incident was exposed, Zhu Wang had cut ties with Lian Zhou, and had not visited his "dear junior brother" for a whole year until he was suddenly remembered today?
Indeed, it was just a cover.
Han Dang never even looked for Lian Zhou; he just found a place to sit down and rest at the reception... Pretending to rest before visiting, it was clear he wanted to make sure his "detention time" was sufficient.
This was very strange.
Throughout the Security Committee Building, people were bustling about, all Transcendents busy with their tasks. At that moment, a distant, dull rumble came from the far sky.
The sound caught everyone’s attention.
Gu Shen silently released Chi Huo.
He quietly "observed" the entire floor. The committee’s law enforcers who had been busy stopped their activities at the sound of the explosion... This sound seemed to herald the birth of extremely bad news. As expected, seconds later, a large number of Transcendents in the Security Committee Building began to leave in droves.
An urgent mission had arisen.
And Gu Shen noticed... at the moment the rumbling sound began, the only one with a different expression was Han Dang, who was sitting at the end of the hallway, waiting with closed eyes.
Han Dang merely raised his eyebrows slightly.
The sound seemed to be something he had expected.
After hearing the explosion, Mr. Du received a message, looked down to read it, then his expression turned pale. Realizing what was happening, he quickly walked towards Gu Shen.
Faster than Mr. Du’s message was Chu Ling:
"Just now, a major explosion occurred at Qingzhong."
Deep Sea received a torrent of information about the explosion.
Blazing Light swirled and tumbled.
The thunderclouds parted for it.
The scene above Qingzhong Cemetery was captured by an external "Wind Eye" the moment it occurred.
Yet such a scale of anomaly, even ordinary people could see it very clearly from miles away.
The monitoring devices hanging outside the cemetery, designed to detect anomalies in Extraordinary Essence, failed within seconds under the severe impact, breaking apart.
The images sent back to the central control database were nothing but a bright, white blaze of Holy Light.
And the Transcendents from the five major families, located a bit closer to the cemetery, were flipped by the vast airwaves. The terrifying Blazing Light, though not breaking through the cemetery’s Array Patterns, the strong sound pressure spilled out, enveloping the winds like a tsunami rushing towards the outside world.
About a hundred seconds later.
The Fire Barrier was completely formed, entering a "steady state."
Outside Qingzhong Cemetery, the land was ravaged, hundreds of densely packed ravines sprawled out. From the aerial view, these ravines spread outwards like tentacles falling and striking the ground.
And the seemingly "stable" barrier, one could feel the "surging" of the floating Blazing Light by getting a bit closer.
Less than five minutes later.
About ten heavy-duty helicopters arrived above Qingzhong Cemetery, maintaining a very distant observation from several kilometers away to avoid a secondary blast from the Fire Barrier...
No one knew exactly what had happened in the cemetery.
The images and pictures uploaded to the Deep Sea database after the incident shook both the five major families and the three major institutes, as they attempted to analyze the underlying reasons behind the Blazing Light eruption at the cemetery.
This place, known as the "Miracle Land" in Changye, had maintained absolute stability and peace for nearly twenty years.