A few days later, Bai Yu, who had recovered, applied to rejoin the team. According to the task assigned to him before, he patrolled the Red Seaweed Village with Lin Mo.

The patrol work was easier than he thought. Perhaps it was because Fen Ji had come not long ago, and many pollutants did not dare to poke their heads out due to the residual power of the S-level.

The two of them had been patrolling the Red Seaweed Village for so long, and had only encountered a few seaweed pollutants with little intelligence.

However, there were some minor incidents.

For example, someone who was overconfident got entangled in seaweed without paying attention. Although he was not seriously injured, several feathers were torn off by several branches of seaweed.

"Wuwuwu Baiyu, I'm not beautiful anymore."

On the way back, Lin Mo hugged his big black wings and looked at the small bald patch at the end, feeling like crying but unable to cry.

It would have been fine if that damn seaweed had just pulled his feathers, but it actually pulled out his biggest, most beautiful, and sharpest feathers.

I don’t know if it’s influenced by the awakening ability of birds, but Lin Mo has been paying more and more attention to his feathers recently, and even bought a feather care cream specifically for feather maintenance.

Now seeing the miserable state of his feathers, he cried out and fell into Bai Yu's arms.

...

...

"It will grow out after a while."

Bai Yu comforted him, but he had not yet learned how humans comfort their companions, so his tone was a little dry.

While he was searching through his memory fragments for how to deal with this situation, he helped the other person walk back and quietly threw the black feather he had picked up to the system.

Rather than letting these feathers rot and weather, it is better to recycle them.

Bai Yu thought about various uses in his mind while leading people back to where they were staying.

But before he reached the hall, a hand grabbed the back of Lin Mo's collar and pulled him out.

"Brother, be gentle, you're pulling my hair—"

Lin Mo raised his head, revealing his red eyes.

"I remember you were already in your twenties, why did you still need someone to bring you back?"

Chu Zehuai felt unhappy when he saw Lin Mo lying in Bai Yu's arms. Although he didn't know why he was unhappy, it didn't stop him from pulling him over.

However, when I saw my cousin crying like that, my worry outweighed the slight discomfort.

"What's wrong? Are you injured? Are you in big trouble?"

Lin Mo sobbed and held out the tip of his wing: "Brother, my feathers were plucked out by the algae, wuwuwuwuwu——"

Looking at the finger-sized piece of skin above, Chu Zehuai: ........

When half of his left wing was bitten off by the pollutants, he didn't cry as miserably as this guy.

Bai Yu was watching from the side, but when Chu Zehuai said the first sentence, his attention was drawn to the system.

[Look! The arrow I made has a feather arrow. The arrow body and arrow tip are made from your branches and fingers, and the feathers at the back are made from Lin Mo and Chu Zehuai’s feathers. Then I found that this arrow has a buff.]

The system coughed twice, and suddenly acted like it used to be to the players.

[Congratulations to player Bai Yu for obtaining the 'Hidden Arrow'. As the saying goes, it is easy to dodge an open spear but difficult to guard against a hidden arrow. This sharp arrow has a hidden additional buff. Before it pierces the target, almost no one can detect its existence. ]

Bai Yu looked at the serious system and couldn't help but twitch his lips: [Now that there are no players, there is no need to make a brief introduction. ]

The system chuckled: [Isn't this just to reminisce about the past working days? The concealment buff is brought by Lin Mo's feather. When will you have the chance to get a feather from Chu Zehuai? Maybe there will be a buff like flame blast enhancement.]

Hearing this, Bai Yu's gaze fell on Chu Zehuai beside him.

The other party was stretching his left wing, telling Lin Mo what kind of injuries he had suffered there.

The sunlight outside shines through the golden feathers at the end of the wings, casting a golden halo over them, bringing a hazy and dazzling beauty, but without damaging their sharp and cold temperament at all.

Maybe I can try pulling one out when I get a chance.

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Three days passed in a flash.

No one was injured and no major disaster occurred, so the business trip was successfully completed.

"I feel like I've become a lot richer all of a sudden. I want to buy tons and tons of feather cream. What about you, Bai Yu?"

Lin Mo held the bank card containing the business trip allowance in his hand. He stepped out of his emo mood and became as happy as a little bird.

"Let's buy some new spices and kitchen utensils."

Bai Yu looked at the bank card in his hand and compared it with the card Chu Zehuai had given him.

The two cards look very similar, the only difference is that the words on them have changed from "Dongzhou Bank Linjiang Branch" to "Dongzhou Bank Linhai Branch"

The travel allowance is generally considered as extra income for investigators, and the expenses are often paid directly to bank cards at the destination of the business trip.

No wonder Chu Zehuai has so many cards, so many that he can give them away to anyone.

Bai Yu was thinking about their initial meeting while he and Lin Mo talked as they walked. The group soon returned to the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau.

"When I first started working here, I wanted to leave as soon as possible, but after being away for a few days, I felt like I was going home when I returned to the office."

Lin Mo happily pushed open the door, then his arms felt heavy. He looked up and saw Yuan Xue putting a pile of documents in his arms.

"I think you spoke too early. This is something that has accumulated over the past few days."

Yuan Xue looked at Lin Mo, whose face suddenly fell, and pushed up her glasses.

Lin Mo staggered while holding the heavy documents and almost hit the wall.

"Are all... all mine?"

"No, you three can take a look at it some time."

When Lin Mo heard "you guys", his gloomy eyes brightened up again.

It's not just his job.

"Brother, Xiaobai, come to work - Hey, what are you looking at?"

In Lin Mo's field of vision, his brother and Bai Yu were standing together in front of their workstations, seemingly looking at something.

Lin Mo went over with the documents in his arms and saw a pot of dead green ivy placed between the two workstations.

"I remember that before I left, it seemed to be still green." Chu Zehuai recalled for a few seconds.

Bai Yu held up the green ivy and confirmed that it was beyond saving. He sighed, "It's not like it, it's just green. It was alive before we went on a business trip, but it died after we came back."

He reached out his hand and gently touched the leaves of this poor fellow, with a hint of pity in his gesture.

After all, it was a plant that had been working with him for so many days, but it died before it could develop any intelligence.

"Is it really impossible to save him?"

Yan Ran, who had come over at some point, leaned against the wall, clasped her arms and looked at the dead green ivy.

In the eyes of outsiders, Yanran has always been a cool sister with a lip stud, a wolf-tail long sword, and eight strong abdominal muscles under a black belly-exposing outfit.

But when he looked at the pot of green ivy, his eyes, which used to be fierce and decisive, were rarely filled with embarrassment.

She just wanted to water the potted plants in the middle of their table while the two men were away.

But no one expected that she could kill the green ivy, which is recognized as the best potted plant, by watering it in just a few days.

Yanran was silent.

Is she going to be given the title of plant killer?

"It can't be saved. Let's get a new pot. I remember I have an extra pot at home, and it's just the right size to put here."

Bai Yu thought of the ordinary rose potted plants he had created to test his abilities, and thought this was a good idea.

After a few simple words decided the matter of Green Radish, everyone's focus was on the document in Lin Mo's hand.

"This is the problem that Group 10 discovered while doing site logistics in Hejia Village during the few days you were away."

Yuan Xue took out a piece of paper and placed it on top.

There was not much text on the paper, just a blurry photo.

The photo shows a piece of land with several scratches on its surface made by a sharp tool. The scratches formed a strange pattern, but some of the scratches were blurred and the shape of the pattern was not very clear.

Chu Zehuai took a closer look and picked up a black pen from the side: "This pattern seems familiar."

The black pen tip moved across the paper, quickly completing the missing third of the pattern.

It is a four-pointed star diagram.

"That should be it."

Chu Zehuai put down the pen in his hand.

"Five years ago, I participated in the suppression of the evil cult organization 'Glorious God Cult' in the Xizhou region. This is their symbol. Things were pretty bad at the time, and the Xizhou authorities chose to suppress it, so no news was spread."

The Church of the Light is an extremist organization that believes that ordinary humans should all die and be eliminated. They believe that the world will eventually be a world of pollutants and evolvers - they believe that the awakened and the deformed are the same kind, the awakened are those who have successfully evolved, and the deformed are those who have failed to evolve.

Under this extreme doctrine, the followers slaughtered ordinary people crazily and captured awakened people for experiments. Finally, they attracted the attention of the Four Continents Alliance and were wiped out within a month.

"So they're resurrected?"

"I don't know. It could be a trick, but there must be something hidden behind the incident in Hejia Village."

Chu Zehuai tapped the desktop and said.

Hejia Village was the village where he and Bai Yu first met. It was the place where all the villagers were brutally killed. He searched for a long time but found nothing except the little girl mutant he killed for the first time.

This is very abnormal. How could a little girl mutant who is not very strong kill everyone in the village silently?

The mutants are indeed stronger than ordinary people, but not to this extent. Moreover, the mutants have no reason or wisdom. No matter how strong she is, with so many people in a village, there will always be a few who run away.

But the result was that the destruction of a village was like a stone thrown into the sea, without even a ripple. When he reached his destination, he found that the village was gone.

Chu Zehuai recalled the scene in Hejia Village, trying to find some new doubts, while Bai Yu recalled his five frogs.

Although the frog was finally eaten, it was eaten raw and was not fried, stewed, deep-fried, steamed or hot pot.

Bai Yu felt that he needed to go to the ditch and catch a few more frogs to try.

The two were silent, while the other three were also looking through the remaining documents and materials. For a moment, the only sound in the huge office was the shuffling of papers.

Until suddenly there was a noisy sound outside the window.

Lin Mo pricked up his ears. Being active and restless, he ran to the window to listen, and his expression instantly became strange.

"Team Yue and Team Li are arguing."

The three people's eyes suddenly fell on the two people who were in deep thought at the same time.

Bai Yu noticed the gaze and raised his head, looking around in confusion: "Why are you all looking at me?"

The two captains had a quarrel. What did it have to do with him?