The System Arrived Four Years Early, but the Anomaly Is Still a Juvenile - Chapter 181

Outside the dormitory area of the Hanseong Base, two figures, one after the other, vaulted over the heavily guarded “premium” residential zone and hid in the grass beside the greenbelt.

Their nimble and sharp movements clearly indicated long-term, professional training.

They not only pinpointed the mere ten-second gap during the patrol shift change but also seized this opportunity to smoothly enter the greenbelt from the outer wall.

Because important personnel were staying in the “premium” residential area today, the outer patrols had been intensified, and all area searchlights were activated.

The two figures crouched inside the greenbelt, quietly observing the movements outside, like leopards on a night hunt waiting for prey to pass by.

In the distance, at the sentry post.

Shen Ge, in an invisible state, stood nonchalantly next to the post, watching the two sisters, Yoona, hiding in the distance.

“Tsk tsk, as expected, every seemingly innocent white lotus has a dark core…” Shen Ge couldn’t help but sigh, thankfully his male intuition was a skill passed down from the era of the Saint Seiya.

From the moment he made contact with the Yoona sisters, he could tell at a glance that these two girls weren’t as simple as they appeared on the surface. Their every move had a feeling of “acting.”

But this seamless, natural acting instead made Shen Ge more alert.

Especially when Kwon Sang-hwa’s strange energy dagger smashed through the window and flew into the room, Yoona’s performance was “perfect,” completely playing the part of a pure, frightened little white lotus, scared stiff, closing her eyes and waiting for death, inviting pity.

However, no matter how well a wolf disguises itself in sheep’s clothing, its eyes can’t deceive.

At the moment the dagger shattered the window, Shen Ge’s gaze remained fixed on watching Yoona dance. It wasn’t that his alertness was low, but Little Classmate Seven was on full alert. The “Red Mist Form III” Rotten Flesh Armor, while not fully deployed, had separated several “sub-units” from the wrist device, covering vital parts of Shen Ge’s body like the back of his neck and heart. The armor would activate defense mode upon detecting any danger.

Aside from the dual protection of Little Classmate Seven and the Rotten Flesh Armor, Shen Ge himself was always ready to deploy his “Immovable Strange Domain.” Once he entered “bullet time,” unless facing a much higher-level strange creature or freak, Shen Ge was confident he could avoid any sneak attack.

In other words, setting aside Little Classmate Seven and the Rotten Flesh Armor, after awakening the Immovable Strange Domain, to kill Shen Ge, one would first need reaction speeds at least twice as fast as his to have a chance of killing him before he entered “bullet time.”

Therefore, when he heard the noise from the window just meters behind him, Little Classmate Seven’s warning sounded in Shen Ge’s ears immediately.

Little Classmate Seven’s warning meant the Rotten Flesh Armor was ready to enter defense mode at any moment. So, in that less-than-a-second reaction time, Shen Ge ultimately chose to keep his attention on Yoona.

He noticed that almost simultaneously with the sound, although Yoona tried hard to maintain her reserved and shy demeanor, there was a subtle change in her eyes. If one didn’t observe closely, it would be hard to notice her peripheral glance towards the strange energy dagger that had smashed through the window.

Moreover, Yoona’s dance posture at that time, in theory, shouldn’t have involved hand movements, but Shen Ge also caught her making a slight fist, yet she ultimately chose to “close her eyes and wait for death.”

She was gambling.

Gambling that Shen Ge would intervene.

Her “resigned-to-death” appearance made Shen Ge very curious about what she was really up to. Without defensive equipment like the Rotten Flesh Armor controlled by a super AI, even Lin Yin couldn’t block it with her bare body.

Of course.

If Yoona had enhanced herself with strange energy silicone, that would be a different story.

Shen Ge initially thought the Yoona sisters would continue their act, but who knew they would go off-script and directly “pledge allegiance”?

So he decided to play along and see what these two little black lotuses were really up to.

Thus, after Shen Ge climbed out the window, he hid in the shadows nearby, then activated “Invisible” and returned to the area outside the window.

The Yoona sisters knelt on the ground for ten minutes, confirming Shen Ge had left, then observed outside the window for a while before starting their female version of “Mission: Impossible 8 – Hanseong Operation.”

Twenty minutes passed, and the Yoona sisters remained lying in the grass for twenty minutes.

Shen Ge didn’t know what these two girls were planning, only that they were incredibly patient.

Just then, another patrol team approached the outer wall. The two leaders stopped, let the rest of the team go ahead, and leaned against the wall to light cigarettes.

Then, the Yoona sisters hidden by the greenbelt moved. In the blink of an eye, they reached behind the smoking duo. Each targeting one, they covered their mouths, twisted their necks, took them down, and stomped on their necks in one fluid motion, directly eliminating the two soldiers.

Then, timing the movement of the surrounding searchlights perfectly, the two women dragged the soldiers into a ditch, stripped them of their uniforms, and put them on.

The entire sequence was smooth and sharp, too sharp. Shen Ge strongly suspected that the “Honghwase” Yoona mentioned was similar to a certain country’s Red Room.

These were clearly two Black Widows!

“How does it feel like these two girls knew they would stop here to smoke? Coincidence, or part of their ‘act’?” Shen Ge didn’t think it was much like an “act,” as the Yoona sisters used lethal moves, clearly intending to kill these two men.

Most importantly, they didn’t know he was following them invisibly, so who was this performance for?

While Shen Ge was pondering, the Yoona sisters, now dressed in soldier uniforms, climbed out of the ditch. Their figures and appearances had changed dramatically.

If Shen Ge hadn’t been secretly watching them the whole time, he wouldn’t have been able to tell these were the Yoona sisters in disguise.

Shen Ge even began to suspect if this was one of the Twelve Branches’ abilities. While the two women walked towards the distant patrol team, he subconsciously went to check the ditch. The two stripped soldiers had their heads resting on their bodies at a very unnatural angle, with stomp marks denting their necks. They were clearly dead.

“…”

Trained into Black Widows, and they still dared to gift them to chaebol scions? Was “Honghwase” not concerned that there were too many chaebol scions in Korea?

In the distance, the disguised sisters didn’t join their original patrol team. Instead, they calmly walked to the sentry post, secretly handed the guard half a pack of cigarettes, and then, using the excuse of going out to buy more, simply left the post.

Shen Ge, watching from the side, was stunned. Not just by Yoona’s completely changed voice, but also by the skilled bribery and calm conversation. It didn’t look like their first time doing this at all.

Most importantly, they were bought off with just “half a pack of cigarettes”?

Shen Ge initially thought the Yoona sisters, after going through all the trouble to escape the dormitory area, would do something big. Instead, after a brief whisper, the two women split up.

Shen Ge was alone, so he could only choose to follow Yoona. He trailed her as she circled most of the Hanseong Base, eventually reaching the vicinity of the underground containment area.

Only then did he realize that Yoona seemed to be mapping the Hanseong Base’s “layout.”

Fifteen minutes later, at the time agreed upon with the dormitory area guard, the two women “punctually” returned to the dormitory area and gave the guard on duty another pack of cigarettes.

The two women avoided the searchlights, hid in a corner, took off the uniforms, climbed back over the wall into the compound, and returned to the “premium” dormitory.

From the time they left to their return, only half an hour had passed. But in that half hour, Shen Ge couldn’t help but sigh again, “Zhang Wuji’s mother was right.” The more beautiful the woman, the better she is at deception.

Who would have thought that the two little white lotuses from the daytime would turn into Black Widows at night, killing people and stealing clothes without batting an eye, killing without hesitation.

If Shen Ge had really been deceived by their appearance earlier, overlay a lower-body-thinking buff, and taken these two girls back to his country, that would have been a real mess!

However, Shen Ge was very curious: since the Yoona sisters weren’t “acting,” what were they trying to achieve by going through all this trouble to get a patrol map of the containment area?

After the two sisters took a shower, Seol, wearing only a buttock-length white shirt, sat on the edge of the bed drying her hair. She looked at Yoona with some worry and asked, “Unnie, are you really decided? If we really give this to him, there’s no turning back for us.”

Yoona walked behind Seol, gathered her hair, and gently stroked the back of her neck with her fingers. Seol couldn’t help but close her eyes and let out a soft moan.

“Yeobo, we’ve been trained as tools for ten years. Have you ever seen any ‘sisters who returned after completing their missions’? What will happen to us, don’t you understand? I’ve thought about giving up countless times, but every time I think of you, I tell myself to hold on a little longer.”

“Before you came here, Kwon Sang-hwa, who was wanted some time ago, somehow escaped. And then… in front of this top investigator from the Great Heavenly Dynasty, he was buried in the ground outside the window before he could even see how he was struck down.”

“He is the most powerful Anti-strange Investigator I have ever seen. After being assigned by the Secretary to leave Honghwase, I sneaked out and accessed the Minister’s computer, reviewing all the information our country has gathered on Anti-strange Investigators. Although most Anti-strange Investigators are very mysterious, only Shen Ge’s file, aside from an astonishing record, had almost no mention of his personal information.”

“How powerful must a person be for a country to be unable to gather any information about him?”

“I know, this is a huge gamble. If we lose, our lives are over. But, Yeobo, even if we lose, could our situation be any worse than what awaits us in the future?”

“So when Kwon Sang-hwa attacked the room with his strange energy dagger, I gave up resisting. I thought if he didn’t intervene, dying like that wouldn’t be so bad. It might even pave the way for you, at least proving our situation and innocence. Perhaps he would view you differently.”

“But in the end, he did intervene. With his amazing strange energy equipment, he blocked the dagger at the critical moment and saved me.”

“The Great Heavenly Dynasty has always valued ‘loyalty’ between ruler and subject since ancient times. Since we’ve decided to place our bet on him, we naturally need to show corresponding ‘sincerity’ and ‘loyalty.'”

“The Great Heavenly Dynasty’s technological level has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, even surpassing our Korea to some extent. Their research on the strange has always been far ahead. If we can use Investigator Shen’s power to leave Korea, we can find an opportunity to remove the devices and start over somewhere no one knows us.”

“Once, the Great Heavenly Dynasty was the country we admired most, wasn’t it?”

“We can die, but we must never become playthings for the chaebols.”

“This is our last chance.”

Yoona gently hugged her sister Seol, as if telling her her thoughts, but more like reassuring herself and boosting her own courage.

Although Seol’s result in Honghwase was also top-notch, her unnie was the person she admired most, and she trusted her unnie’s judgment completely.

Since her unnie chose to place their final bet on Shen Ge, she would naturally follow without hesitation. After all, as her unnie said, their future situation couldn’t possibly be worse!

However, Seol soon noticed a piece of information in Yoona’s account that she had almost overlooked.

“Unnie, you’re saying… that Kwon Sang-hwa, previously known as one of Korea’s top ten Anti-strange Investigators, who went crazy due to a freak incident, escaped from prison and attacked Investigator Shen… and was buried in the ground outside the window? How did he do that?”

Yoona sat down beside Seol, picked up a towel to dry her hair, and shook her head: “I don’t know. I was standing behind him at the time, watching his every move. He only raised his hand and did nothing else. But it was like he had superpowers; in the blink of an eye, he buried Kwon Sang-hwa in the ground.”

“Could it be like those freaks, possessing strange abilities? Could it be… Investigator Shen is also a freak? A product of the Great Heavenly Dynasty’s secret research?”

“Who knows? After reviewing the files of many Anti-strange Investigators, no one before him has ever mastered the power of the strange.”

“This… isn’t that like making a pact with the devil?”

“That’s still better than knowingly becoming playthings for a bunch of beasts and obediently helping this rotten country do its work!” Yoona said viciously.

Seol worriedly said, “I’m just afraid we’re jumping from one pit into another.”

Yoona sighed upon hearing this; she had thought about this situation too, but what else could she do? This was a huge gamble with no way back!

“We can only pray that this great nation with five thousand years of history is cleaner than the despicable thieves who only know how to steal others’ culture and achievements!”

Clap.
Clap.
Clap.

Suddenly, applause sounded in the room. The two women turned around in surprise to see Shen Ge leaning against the head of the bed, looking at them with great interest.

“A very nice speech. If you really aren’t acting, then I suggest you quit being spies and try your luck in Hollywood. You’re guaranteed to win Best Actress.” Shen Ge said with a smile.

The Yoona sisters looked at Shen Ge’s smiling face and couldn’t help but swallow. They felt the man before them was truly terrifying!

How did he do it?
The room’s windows were specially treated, only able to open a couple of cracks. The bathroom had no other exits. The only entrance to the whole room was the “door” directly in front of them.

But the two of them had been sitting on the bed facing the door during their entire conversation. Even the top special agent couldn’t have entered the room right in front of them.

Seol, although she hadn’t experienced the Kwon Sang-hwa incident, had seen Shen Ge effortlessly capture Do Woo-seong, the freak who had thrown Korea into chaos these past few days, at the hotel.

Could this man be invisible?
Shen Ge’s gaze finally settled on Yoona, looking her up and down. Regardless of anything else, her long legs really met the standard in that shirt.

One had to admit, the Secretary had a qualified eye when it came to picking people.

“I’m curious. Since you have such powerful disguising abilities, capable of even fooling people in a place like the Hanseong Base, wouldn’t it be simple to relocate somewhere else? Why must you have me take you out of Korea before considering finding a place where no one knows you?” Shen Ge asked curiously.

Yoona was silent for a moment, then slowly turned her back to Shen Ge. Seol, seeing this, imitated her unnie and turned around as well.

Then, the two women lifted their hair, revealing their snow-white necks.

Yoona raised her hand and pressed two fingers gently on the center of the back of her neck, causing a fingernail-sized object to protrude.

“…This is a material Honghwase uses to control us. Its shape is like a small flower the size of a fingernail, connected to our spine and nerves.”

“The earliest ‘Hwase Chip’ could only destroy nerves, turning people into idiots, or completely unconscious zombies. Controlling it could also achieve the effect of only crippling the spine.”

“So, those who enter ‘Honghwase’ either choose to obey the organization’s orders, or become cripples.”

“In our first year, we saw the leader use the chip to shatter a sister’s spine. They didn’t kill her. Instead, they gave her nutrient injections and ‘kept’ her in the men’s bathroom.”

“Half a year ago, Korea’s research on strange energy equipment made a breakthrough. ‘Honghwase,’ as one of the organizations secretly controlling the country behind the scenes, also has its own strange energy research department. They used strange energy, strange creature flesh, nerves, and other things to Improve the ‘Hwase’ chip.”

As she spoke, Yoona gently tapped the chip with her finger. The thing, like a small bug, quickly “ran” down from the center of the back of her neck into her body.

Yoona let her hair down and turned to face Shen Ge, smiling bitterly: “Even though the organization brainwashes the sisters day and night, hoping everyone would ‘voluntarily’ dedicate themselves to the organization and the country… we are human. We have our own emotions and our own consciousness. My sister and I have long been planning to find a way to leave the organization. But the upgraded strange energy chip thorough cut off our hope.”

“We had no choice but to pin our hopes on our mission targets. And heaven sent us a great gift, lucky assigning us to deal with the Great Heavenly Dynasty’s top investigator.”

“Investigator Shen, I know you don’t trust us, and we don’t pray to gain your trust. We only hope to use our efforts to exchange for a chance to live.”

“If we could, who would want to die?”

“Since being sent to ‘Honghwase,’ we have been locked in a manor, undergoing all kinds of inhuman training. If it weren’t for my sister and I relying on these faces, and their desire to shape us as pure and innocent, we might have ended up like some sisters on the mature and seductive path, becoming toys for those people day and night.”

“But, we are also human. Why should we become toys?”
Yoona then handed Shen Ge the containment area patrol map she had recorded earlier with Seol when they left the dormitory, along with information on the surrounding patrol personnel’s movement times, etc.

“A few days ago, the Secretary learned that we needed to cooperate with the Anti-strange Investigator sent by the Great Heavenly Dynasty to deal with the freak Do Woo-seong. He investigated the information and videos related to you from the Asian Anti-strange Research Conference and found your interaction with Park Jeong-yeon, the hotel etiquette lady at the Hanseong Hotel. Based on your preferences, he went to Honghwase and selected us sisters.”

“We have been planning to leave the organization for a long time, so we must seize this opportunity. During the two days in the military camp, my sister and I investigated around the dormitory area every night, observing the soldiers’ behavior habits and shift change times. I really didn’t lie to you before; we didn’t have the opportunity to access classified documents.”

“However, we received special training in espionage at ‘Honghwase.’ As long as you give the order, Investigator Shen, even if we risk our lives, we will find a way to get the relevant intelligence for you.”

“We only ask that when you leave Korea, you propose to the Secretary to take us with you. I believe, given our identities, they would be very willing for you to take two spies back to your country.”

“To my knowledge, the control range of the strange energy chip is limited. Korea is a tiny place; it’s hard to escape their tracking of the chip. But the Great Heavenly Dynasty is different; one province is larger than our entire country. I believe my sister and I can definitely find a way to get rid of the organization.”

“Moreover, the Great Heavenly Dynasty’s research on the strange has always led the world. Perhaps they can even find a way to remove the chip from our bodies!”

Shen Ge opened the file folder Yoona handed him with both hands and glanced at it. It was indeed the chart they had “recorded on the spot” earlier.

But Shen Ge just skimmed it casually before throwing it on the bed. Then he stood up and walked towards Yoona, making her tense up.

Watching Shen Ge approach, Yoona didn’t dare move. Then she saw Shen Ge raise his hand and slowly move towards her chest.

Yoona instinctively wanted to retreat, but finally steeled her heart and closed her eyes.

Yoona thought Shen Ge was surely going to do something, even mentally cursing ” as expected men under heaven are all the same,” almost adding a “Hei~! Tui” when she heard Seol exclaim in surprise beside her.

“Ah—”

Seol’s exclamation made Yoona’s heart sink. She wasn’t exactly disappointed, but felt somewhat chilled, lamenting that even a man bearing the title of “Great Heavenly Dynasty’s Top Anti-strange Investigator” couldn’t resist the “twin” buff, immediately thinking of double the fun.

“Unnie!”

But what Yoona heard next was Seol’s worried and anxious exclamation.

Yoona instinctively opened her eyes and saw Shen Ge standing an arm’s length away from her, but his arm had passed through the shirt she was wearing and entered her body.

Yoona immediately felt a cold sensation spread from inside her body, like swallowing an ice cube directly into her stomach. The strange feeling made her want to hug her stomach and crouch down.

But Shen Ge’s hand was still inside her body. Yoona didn’t dare move recklessly, especially since Shen Ge’s power was too bizarre. With his hand inside her, couldn’t he just crush her heart at will?
The next moment, Shen Ge withdrew his hand from Yoona’s body. Between his index finger and thumb, he held a fingernail-sized chip bug that looked like a spider.

“Is this the strange energy chip you mentioned?” Shen Ge asked with interest, examining the small object between his fingers, then looked at Yoona.

When Yoona clearly saw the small bug pinched between Shen Ge’s fingers and heard his nonchalant tone, she felt like kneeling before this man.

The “Hwase Chip” that she and her sister had agonized over for ten years, that they had no way to deal with, was just casually taken out of her body by this man?

What kind of ability was this?
Just a casual reach, and he completed the “strange energy chip” surgery that even the world’s top medical teams might not be able to perform?

“This…”

Both Yoona and Seol were dumbfounded, momentarily unsure how to respond to Shen Ge.

Shen Ge asked curiously, “By the way, since I took this thing out of your body, won’t your organization immediately know you’ve betrayed them?”

Yoona swallowed hard, suppressing the shock in her heart, and said, “From what I know, the organization monitors our emotions and physical data through the strange energy chip, allowing them to control us at any time. If our bodies are severely injured and we lose a lot of blood, the ‘strange energy chip’ can also quickly repair our bodies. So… even if we don’t want to yield to those chaebol scum, we can’t even commit suicide.”

“It can also monitor emotions and other physical data? Then it’s safer to put it back…” Shen Ge said, reaching out again and stuffing the strange energy chip back into Yoona’s body.

“…”

“…”

The two women were on the verge of tears.

Shen Ge seemed to be using his actions to tell them that their biggest worry, their most feared thing, was, in his eyes, a minor issue that could be solved with a casual gesture, not even worth calling a problem.

But whether he would help or not depended on his mood.

Yoona and Seol thought of many things in that moment, even wondering if Shen Ge wanted to “warn (threaten)” them that if they behaved, he might help them. On the contrary, if they didn’t, Shen Ge could kill them more easily than the organization.

However, the two women didn’t know that Shen Ge hadn’t thought that much at all, nor did he intend to “threaten” them into working for him.

He was simply interested in the “strange energy chip” because he found it similar to the parasitic strange creatures he had seen at Lake Deer City.

It had the ability to make the host “heal quickly” and could also temporarily take over their bodies, becoming the master.

Shen Ge couldn’t help but connect “Honghwase” to the “Twelve Branches.” Just like his previous speculation about the Twelve Branches, if the “Twelve Branches” were just an organization created by these people to openly oppose the world, then groups like “Honghwase” and the “International Anti-strange Organization” were the means by which the Twelve Branches secretly manipulated the world behind the scenes.

So Shen Ge had Little Classmate Seven scan the strange energy chip inside Yoona’s body, used the power of the Invisible Strange Domain to take out the chip, then put it back. At the same time, he used Little Classmate Seven and the Invisible Strange Domain to observe the chip’s movements, to see if it would immediately complete the parasitic and replace Yoona.

As it turned out, the strange energy chip was relatively “stable.” After being put back into Yoona’s body, it just squirmed around near her spine as before, seemingly unaffected by being taken out and put back in.

“As expected it’s just a bug, not very intelligent.” Shen Ge remarked.

Yoona was taken aback and asked subconsciously, “Investigator Shen, what did you just say?”

“Oh, nothing. I thought that after putting the strange energy chip back into your body, the organization would immediately detect the change in your condition and do something to you through the chip.” Shen Ge said calmly.

“…”

If their lives weren’t completely in this man’s hands, Yoona wouldn’t have wanted to respond at all.

Shen Ge asked, “You said this strange energy chip was recently upgraded? What exactly did they do? Were the researchers who ‘upgraded’ you the same as before?”

Yoona paused, as if also realizing something strange. The old chips required regular “maintenance,” essentially monitoring the chip data to see if they had tampered with it secretly.

But the researchers who upgraded the chips for Yoona and the others six months ago were not the original group. In fact, they were people never seen in the research institute before.

Yoona shook her head and briefly explained the situation at the time.

“Did those researchers responsible for the ‘upgrade’ have anything like red fleshy growths on their necks?” Shen Ge asked, raising his hand. Little Classmate Seven projected an image above the wrist device, showing previously taken photos of the red fleshy growths on the necks of the Twelve Branches members.

Yoona and Seol stared at the photos for a while, then shook their heads. Then Yoona added, “Some researchers had coverings on their necks. I’m not sure if there were these red fleshy growths under the coverings, but… I can confirm that the leader had several of these disgusting things on his neck!”

Seol nodded in agreement: “Yes, I saw the leader sparring with an instructor before. His clothes were torn by the instructor. From his left shoulder to his neck, there were two of these red fleshy growths, and one on the right.”

Well, well, so it really is the Twelve Branches?

Shen Ge asked again, “Where is the manor where you received training before?”

Yoona and Seol looked at each other, then shook their heads: “When we were first taken to the manor, we were blindfolded and had ear coverings on. We don’t know exactly where it is. We only know it was very large, with a forest and a mountain behind the manor full of fruit trees…”

The two sisters took turns describing the manor’s situation, trying to tell Shen Ge everything they knew.

“…When the Secretary took us out of the manor a few days ago, they also blindfolded us and put on ear coverings. But from the time we got in the car at the manor until we reached downtown Hanseong, we didn’t change vehicles. The total journey was about two hours and twenty minutes.” Yoona said.

Seol added, “About thirty minutes after leaving the manor, we seemed to go on a downhill road for about thirteen minutes, with two relatively sharp turns.”

“Before entering the city, we passed about two toll stations.”

“And…”

After pooling their information, the two women quickly narrowed down the target to several areas outside Hanseong.

Shen Ge looked at the two women who were seriously analyzing the route, and a man playing with a laptop suddenly flashed through his mind. He couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, “Tsk tsk, professional training really makes a difference.”

Knock!
Knock!
Knock!

At that moment, there was a series of urgent knocks on the door.

Then, before Shen Ge could tell the women to open the door, they heard noise at the entrance, and a large group of fully armed people entered the room.

Shen Ge reacted quickly. He barked “Up here,” wrapped a towel around himself, and first lay down in the center of the bed. Yoona and Seol immediately understood, sitting on either side of him, pulling the covers over their lower bodies. Yoona specially pulled her shirt down a bit and ruffled her hair, creating a disheveled appearance.

Shen Ge had the “Red Mist” Rotten Flesh Armor, so naturally he didn’t need to wear the Special Investigations Department’s strange energy combat suit. Plus, he was on a “business trip” to Korea, so he wasn’t “fully armed” and wore somewhat casual clothes.

With the towel wrapped around him, before the visitors entered the inner room, Shen Ge had already taken off his upper clothes and was leaning against the headboard, his gaze fixed on the doorway.

Just then, the bedroom door was pushed open. The leader was none other than Kwon Sang-il, whom the Secretary had introduced during the previous drinking party as the person in charge of the Do Woo-seong freak incident.

Kwon Sang-il looked at Shen Ge sitting on the bed, holding a twin on each side, their clothes half-open, covering themselves with the blanket. Seol shyly buried her head in Shen Ge’s shoulder, while Yoona bit her lip, perfectly playing the part of a panicked little white lotus.

Kwon Sang-il was slightly taken aback, then immediately put on a smile: “Investigator Shen, I’m terribly sorry. There’s been a problem in the dormitory area. We were worried about your safety and barged in abruptly, disturbing your enjoyment. My sincerest apologies.”

Yoona, leaning against Shen Ge, translated Kwon Sang-il’s words for him.

After listening, Shen Ge said very impatiently, “First of all, if my safety needs to be worried about by trash like you who can’t even handle a Tier 3 freak, then I should just retire.”

“Secondly, although this place is as small as my bathroom back home, it’s still what you call an ‘officials’ premium dormitory.’ I can’t be bothered to argue with you. But I want to ask, an ‘officials’ dormitory, you just barge in as you please? Luckily, I like long foreplay. What if we had gotten straight to the point? Wouldn’t you have gotten a free show?”

After hearing Yoona’s translation, Kwon Sang-il’s expression stiffened, and he quickly apologized to Shen Ge, repeatedly stating that they were also worried about his safety and had no choice but to take this measure.

“Fine. Considering your service has been decent so far and the arrangements have satisfied me, each of you kneel down, kowtow three times, and get out.” Shen Ge’s eyes were full of disdain, with the vibe of an ancient emperor looking down on eunuchs, as he spoke to Kwon Sang-il.

This time, when Yoona translated his words, Kwon Sang-il completely lost his composure. His face darkened, and he said coldly, “Investigator Shen, we came for your safety. Don’t go too far.”

“Oh? And what if I am?” Shen Ge raised an eyebrow.

At that moment, an Anti-strange Investigator behind Kwon Sang-il glanced at the Yoona sisters beside Shen Ge and sneered, “How dare a Xiba man touch our Korean women? We call you ‘Investigator Shen’ out of courtesy. Without that courtesy, I’ll make you…”

This time, before Yoona could translate, Shen Ge raised his hand. The Anti-strange Investigator terrified found a burning sensation spreading over his body, and then he spontaneously combusted!

“Ah—”

“Ah!!!”

The man rolled on the ground in agony. The soldiers beside him quickly tried to pat out the flames. Luckily, Shen Ge had only used a brief moment of ignition control with his “Non-flammable Strange Domain” before withdrawing his mental power. Otherwise, even if these soldiers used the Five Mountains Axe Gang’s fire-extinguishing leg technique from the movie, they couldn’t have put out the flames on the man.

Shen Ge asked calmly, “What were you going to make me do? I didn’t hear you clearly. Speak up, show me the spirit of Korean men.”

Yoona had long suspected Shen Ge understood Korean, but since Shen Ge didn’t mention it, she wouldn’t expose it, dutifully performing her role as translator.

Kwon Sang-il, thinking about how his subordinate had inexplicably caught fire and that he couldn’t even tell what Shen Ge had done, didn’t dare provoke Shen Ge recklessly for the moment. He could only apologize again humbly and then try to change the subject: “Investigator Shen, we truly have important business here. A wanted criminal imprisoned in the base has escaped and attacked the containment room holding the freak Do Woo-seong…”

After Kwon Sang-il’s explanation, Shen Ge realized they hadn’t burst in here because they discovered the soldiers killed by the Yoona sisters, but because something had happened in the containment area.

The wanted criminal Kwon Sang-hwa, after escaping from prison, had just attacked the containment area, not only releasing a large number of contained strange creatures but also causing the corpse of the freak Do Woo-seong to go missing.

Kwon Sang-il obviously didn’t know that an hour ago, the wanted criminal they were talking about, Kwon Sang-hwa, had been buried by Shen Ge in the garden outside the window and couldn’t possibly have attacked the containment area.

Shen Ge didn’t expose Kwon Sang-il and asked calmly, “Since there’s a strange creature incident, why aren’t you dealing with it instead of coming to me?”

“Because the matter is serious, the Minister was worried you might have problems here, so he sent us to help. We know our abilities are not even one ten-thousandth of yours, but concern makes us reckless. Please don’t blame us!”

Clearly, due to the incident of the Anti-strange Investigator spontaneously combusting earlier, Kwon Sang-il was very wary of Shen Ge and immediately lowered his stance considerably.

“Fine. I’m fine here. You can go back.” Shen Ge waved his hand, as if shooing away flies, very impatiently.

“Yes, we won’t disturb Investigator Shen any further. We’ll take our leave.” Kwon Sang-il gritted his teeth, suppressing his anger. After speaking, he retreated from the room and very thoughtfully closed the door for Shen Ge.

Shen Ge heard the door close outside. He got up, picked up his clothes nearby, and said to the Yoona sisters, “Stay here. If anyone else comes, what to do… I don’t need to teach you, right?”

“Yes, Investigator Shen, don’t worry. We know what to do.” Yoona replied.

If Kwon Sang-hwa hadn’t been buried by Shen Ge, he might not have thought much of it. But now… he was very curious whether Korea was really having problems or if they were using this “accident” to do something to him.

However, just a few strange creatures definitely wouldn’t interest Shen Ge. He just wanted to take advantage of the chaos to swipe some things from the base’s strange energy research lab.

He had been here once before; he knew the way.

The Yoona sisters thought Shen Ge would leave through the main door or, like them, climb out the window. But Shen Ge got up and went into the bathroom, and then there was no sound.

“Unnie, why did he…” Seol was somewhat curious.

Yoona was also curious. She went to the bathroom, knocked on the door, and called out tentatively a couple of times. When she pushed the door open, no one was there.

Shen Ge entered the bathroom. The cameras here had long been taken care of by Little Classmate Seven. He activated Invisible and then simply “collapsed” through the wall to leave.

Outside the dormitory, Shen Ge found the outer guard patrols had been strengthened. The place where the Yoona sisters had discarded the soldiers’ bodies was also guarded, clear the bodies had been discovered.

“Little Classmate Seven, check the status of Do Woo-seong’s ‘heart.'” Shen Ge said.

“Okay, Master.” Little Classmate Seven responded, then extended a rotten blood tentacle into the backpack to examine the “heart” collected earlier.

“Master, there’s a problem with the ‘heart.’ It seems to be… withered.”