Chapter 112: Useless

A report was handed to the desks of the high-level officials in charge of the arrest operation, and a copy was also handed to Zhou Cheng.

"Martin, the leader of the capture team for target number 116, died unexpectedly. Tests have shown the cause of his death is consistent with that of numerous other decision-makers who have died previously.

At the time, Martin was holding a case analysis meeting with his teammates. According to his teammates, Martin, after 15 minutes of reflection, seemed to have hit upon a key point, but just as he uttered the words "I understand," he met his end.

Zhou Cheng looked at the report with a solemn expression, which then turned into anger.

He slammed his fist on the table.

"Another one, and another one!"

Next to the report on Martin's situation, there was a thick stack of the same report.

Each document meant the death of a grassroots leader. This thick stack of documents meant the deaths of at least hundreds of people.

The cause of death was exactly the same: the heart was subjected to an electric shock-like effect, which directly led to cardiac arrest and death.

This was clearly a decapitation assassination method used by the Ascending Dimension Sect. Zhou Cheng knew that as long as the Ascending Dimension Sect used this method, it would be impossible for him to stop it.

At the time, at the decision-maker election site, due to the death of the first decision-maker, our side had already used all the protective measures that they could imagine and mobilize.

In order to counter this effect similar to electric discharge, we have used various means including but not limited to electromagnetic shielding materials and structures, signal shielding, peripheral warnings, on-site first aid, etc.

The special forces team led by Wei Ning even guarded an area several kilometers around the World Government.

But all the measures failed to change the final result.

If even decision-makers under heavy security cannot escape this beheading, then it will be even more impossible for others to escape.

Obviously, after realizing that beheading the decision-makers would not make the human world surrender, the ascending faction changed its strategy.

They stopped trying to force their own side to surrender and abandon the investigation, and instead began assassinating the front-line leaders of their own arrest team.

Zhou Cheng also noticed that the leaders of the front-line teams who were assassinated by the Ascension Faction all had one thing in common.

They were all assassinated when they were about to make some breakthrough.

Some people just had a groundbreaking idea, but were beheaded before they could even speak it out loud;

Some people planned an action, but met with death before they could execute it;

Others were assassinated while commanding key operations, and because of their deaths, these operations had to be canceled.

The ascending faction seems to be using this method to tell the human world that since they cannot force you to give up the investigation by forcing you to surrender, then they can only prevent you from advancing the investigation by making you "unable to do it".

How can we push forward the investigation when a large number of frontline team leaders have died?

So...what should we do?

It is definitely not an option to just let it go. The death of a large number of frontline investigators would not only have a negative impact on morale, but would also be a significant obstacle to the advancement of the actual situation.

But if we don't let it go, how can we prevent the assassination by the Upward Dimension Faction?

Facing the cold night outside the window, Zhou Cheng once again fell into long thoughts.

After a long while, Zhou Cheng was awakened by a rapid ringing of the phone. When he answered, a voice came out: "Mr. Zhou Cheng, the decision makers have invited you to attend the meeting."

"Yes, I'll be there soon."

Under the cover of night, Zhou Cheng's car quickly arrived at the World Government. Entering the conference room, Zhou Cheng saw that all the new decision-makers had arrived.

In addition to them, there are almost all the senior commanders and leaders of the Ascending Dimension Faction’s capture team.

"Recently, a large number of frontline leaders have been assassinated by the Ascending Dimension Sect. The situation has become extremely serious and it is time to resolve it.

The purpose of holding this meeting today is to discuss a solution to the problem."

After a brief speech, the first decision maker looked at Zhou Cheng: "Do you have any ideas?"

Facing the gazes of the first decision maker and everyone, Zhou Cheng shook his head silently.

He couldn't find any solution to the current situation.

The First Decision-maker continued, "We've noticed that these assassinated frontline leaders all have one thing in common. They all met their death just as they were about to make some kind of breakthrough.

In this case, there arises a question: How do the Ascending Factions determine who their assassination targets should be?

You know, theoretically speaking, whether there will be some kind of breakthrough next, the answer to this question should only be known by the parties involved, because they have not had time to make their ideas public or put them into action.

If that’s the case, how did the Upward Dimension Sect know this?

Based on this, I believe that the dimensionality-raising faction should have used the method of "predicting probability" again.

By predicting the probability, they predicted that certain breakthroughs by certain people would lead to major breakthroughs, thus posing a major threat to their own side. From this, they locked on the specific targets they wanted to assassinate and then carried out the assassination.

So……"

The First Decision-maker continued to look at Zhou Cheng: "In the previous stage, you used the 'Random Shield' method to capture a living member of the Ascending Sect for the first time. Based on this, you launched a series of subsequent capture operations, which brought an unprecedented breakthrough to our investigation in the human world.

Since the Dimension Ascending Faction is also very likely to have adopted the method of 'predicting probability' this time, then can this randomness shield be activated again?"

The effectiveness of the randomness shield has been proven before. Since we are at our wit's end now, why not use it again?

Facing people's slightly expectant gazes, Zhou Cheng shook his head again.

"It's no use."

Zhou Cheng murmured, "The random shield can only be used once.

It is only effective when the ascending world is strictly isolated from our human world, because only in this way can we regard the ascending world and the human world as two independent entities.

This kind of probabilistic prediction is only useful when the conditions are independent of each other.

With the arrest of the first ascender, the ascenders have been forced to break away from their independence and have become intertwined with the human world.

In this case, the randomness shield can be considered to be always on. I don't think the dimensionality-raising faction uses the method of predicting probability at this stage.

They probably didn't identify assassination targets by predicting probability. So... this method is useless."