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"Check nearby surveillance."

"No abnormalities found in the surveillance."

"Check the satellite footage."

"There is nothing unusual in the picture."

"Monitoring of magic fluctuations."

"...No magical fluctuations were detected."

"...Damn it." Leah cursed. She was blonde and blue-eyed, and looked 70% similar to Jason. She was Jason's sister who worked for the American government.

After receiving official notification from China about the existence of "vampires", Liya was appointed as the person in charge of this temporary incident. After receiving an anonymous call from Lu Baixi, she quickly located the cell phone signal sending point and temporarily detained a room full of unconscious vampires.

After that, Liya has been searching for information about Lu Baixi. She checked all surveillance facilities, whether it was nearby streets or satellite footage, and also checked air radar signals, but she still didn't find any suspicious figures.

The mysterious man with an obvious Chinese accent came and went in the American land in full view of everyone, and took the "criminal" away from them in broad daylight - the ridiculous thing is that until now, they still don't know who this so-called "criminal" is.

This is a very scary thing, especially since they didn't even detect any magical fluctuations, but were able to get the conclusion through countless "evidence": the reason why the mysterious man could not be discovered was because of the assistance of magic.

This means that the modern technology and defense technology that America is proud of cannot pose any threat to the mysterious person. The mysterious person can enter here as if he is in an empty space. He can enter and exit any area freely. Now it is just a building. What if he enters the White House?

It was just a simple encounter, but it made the entire American upper class feel inexplicable fear.

They have never had an accurate understanding of the true limits of magic. Apart from the various information brought by the "travelers", the only references they can get are Western fantasy movies and games.

Apart from those Western fantasy works that destroy the world and wipe out a planet at will, with exaggerated combat power, in the settings of most Western fantasy works, the ones with the peak combat power are either dragons the size of a mountain that can spit out dragon breath, or wizards who can take a life with a single spell.

In a one-on-one situation, these beings are indeed very powerful, but not so powerful that technology cannot cope with them.

Therefore, although the end of the world is approaching, the American government has great confidence.

It was not until the appearance of the vampires and the "mysterious man", as well as the huge amount of information brought by her own brother Jason, that completely subverted Liya's imagination - about the devastating "battle" with the vampires, and the "mecha" made of magic by Chinese designers.

Liya was skeptical of her brother's exaggerated description of the battle scene. After all, words are easily exaggerated by subjective emotions, resulting in unrealistic descriptions.

But mechas with physical bodies won’t.

At the same time, intelligence personnel lurking in the crew also reported news about the "magic combat suit". The ability displayed by Zhang Jiajia alone far exceeded their entire understanding of magic.

——With the help of the mecha, Jason, who was originally only average in combat power, became the strongest in the base. Those magicians and psychics that they were proud of could not even break through Jason's defense.

This undoubtedly left loud slaps in the face on their proud faces time and time again.

Especially when they were about to keep the mecha for research, the mecha that was peeled off from Jason suddenly lost all its functions and turned into a few pieces of light cloth in front of everyone.

Once the seemingly useless piece of cloth returned to Jason's hands, it quickly recovered into a combat mecha that was so powerful that it exceeded the imagination of technology.

These "realities" beyond common sense stimulated everyone's heart again and again, until the Chinese Embassy called and said that the staff from "Tower of Babel" had arrived at the base, hoping that they could cooperate and hand over the "vampires" to "Tower of Babel" for containment.

...

"Captain, didn't the people from Team Nine already bring that vampire back to the Tower of Babel? With their abilities, they can directly bring the other vampires back to the Tower of Babel as well. Why did they make us make another trip?" Liu Xiaoyun asked curiously.

This time, the containment mission involved America, and Liu Xiaoyun, who had passed the assessment and became a formal member of "Tower of Babel", also participated in the mission.

Major Zhang, who was in charge of the team, was wearing the uniform of the "Tower of Babel". He smiled slightly in response to Liu Xiaoyun's question: "If there is a group of people who take advantage of you to bully you and suppress you openly or secretly. Now that you finally have the power to no longer be afraid of them, what will you do?"

"Of course I'll teach them a lesson severely." Liu Xiaoyun said.

"But we can't go to war." Major Zhang straightened his collar, and his whole body was full of energy: "So what we need is to show off... no, to show our country's strength and professionalism."

Liu Xiaoyun said excitedly: "Yes!"

...

Liya carefully looked at the team in front of her - the man in the lead looked less than 30 years old, very young, serious, and had a seriousness that was very consistent with the style of Chinese soldiers. The black and gray uniform on him had a solemnity of military uniform.

"I'm Zhang Feng, an A-level investigator from Babel Tower and the person in charge of this mission." Major Zhang said seriously.

The simultaneous interpretation headset that Liya was wearing immediately rang with additional information about Major Zhang: "He is the former captain of the special forces of the Huaxia N City Military District, with a rank of 'Major'."

He was once the captain of the special forces and a major. When he entered the base for security check, he detected the fluctuation of magic power, which showed that he was quite powerful. Such a talent would be top-notch even in their base.

However, according to the relevant information about "Tower of Babel" handed over by the Chinese authorities, A-level investigators are not considered the top personnel in "Tower of Babel". Above A-level there are A+, S, and S+ level investigators.

At present, they only have a partial understanding of the "Tower of Babel" and cannot make a specific estimate of the strength of the "Tower of Babel", but they can make certain inferences based on the strength of the vampires.

Most of the vampires temporarily detained in the base were quite terrifying, far more powerful than mutants of the same level. Not to mention that these people were real humans with wisdom and thinking ability, not mutants with rigid thinking patterns.

If their base were to be responsible for sheltering this group of vampires, there would be no doubt that they would pay a huge sacrifice.

Especially the female vampire called "Lilith". They detected an extremely terrifying magic power in her body, which was not comparable to the magicians in America today. If they wanted to deal with vampires of this level, they would at least need to use large weapons and fight with the goal of annihilation. If they wanted to capture and contain them alive, they would have to sacrifice countless lives.

However, even with such a powerful vampire, the other party did not send out the highest-level S or S+ investigators. Instead, they sent a group of A-level investigators to take in several young girls and boys who were said to be only B- and C-level, who looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, and would be barely fourteen or fifteen years old in America.

Do their A-level investigators have the fighting power to fight against vampires of this level?

Liya thought vigilantly in her heart.

Major Zhang saw all of Liya's speculations, and a smug smile flashed across his eyes.

In fact, the reason why this containment operation was so urgent was that even the procedures seemed extremely hasty, and only a group of students were sent as team members, in order to create a wave of information gap before America could react - the reason why Leah judged Lilith's strength so terrifying was all due to Zhang Jiajia and Lu Baixi.

Zhang Jiajia granted Lilith some magic power through the hand of "Cain". Later, because of the difference in strength and bloodline, Lilith could not stay awake in front of Lu Baixi, and was injected with some magic power by Lu Baixi. The two magic powers converged and accumulated in Lilith's body and had not dissipated yet, which caused the American side to misjudge Lilith's combat effectiveness.

In fact, Lilith herself could not use all of this power except for the part given by Zhang Jiajia. The only part that could be used had already been consumed by half in the battle with Jason, and the remaining power mainly came from Lu Baixi. It was great that Lilith did not worship this power.

Precisely because this information was only known to the Chinese officials, they deliberately used this power to bully the tiger, causing the American officials to deviate from their judgment of the strength of the "Tower of Babel" investigators.

The first step of the plan was executed very smoothly, so the second step is to shock them visually again.

China, which has been America's rival for decades, knows all too well the way the American government operates and the pride engraved in the hearts of Americans.

Not to mention Major Zhang, even if Liu Xiaoyun or any student in the team were asked to analyze their views on the American government, they would only be skeptical and cautious rather than trusting.

Everyone knows the personalities of these people, so how can we be 100% sure that their proactive gestures of goodwill do not have other hidden meanings?

But since they have taken this step, it means that this group of people has begun to doubt the hidden power of China and are deeply wary of it.

What they need to do is to deepen this fear and make everything they fear become a "reality".

Major Zhang turned his head and whispered to Liu Xiaoyun, "It's time to start."

"Yes." Liu Xiaoyun waved to the other teammates, signaling them to go forward on their own.

Under the vigilant and curious gazes of the entire base, they stood at the four corners of the cage made of special metal that imprisoned the vampires and pressed the ID devices on their wrists at the same time.

The special barrier stored in the ID device by Xiao Shichuan was instantly deployed, and all the magic detection devices in the base instantly issued sharp alarms. The base members watched in amazement as the values ​​on the display screen soared, leaving a string of red that made them terrified.

"How is this possible!" Liya no longer cared about her image at this moment and couldn't help but exclaimed.

This terrifying concentration of magic power was the first time it had been detected since the base was built. The magic power was far beyond imagination and was even about to exceed the threshold of machine inspection. Many sensitive electronic devices even malfunctioned to varying degrees as the nodules unfolded.

But the shock that these "Tower of Babel" members brought to Leah had just begun.

The young boy standing next to Liu Xiaoyun pressed something on the ID device again, and a metallic staff about one and a half meters long appeared out of thin air in his hand.

"Magic is cast, magic is imprisoned."

As he said this in the common language of Parnaki, a clear and AI-sounding electronic female voice suddenly rose from the staff held in the boy's hand.

"Yes, Master." The gem on the top of the staff flickered slightly, and the AI ​​spoke in standard Parnaki Common Language: "Detecting the target of the spell - locked, the magic support system has been activated."

As the boy chanted the spell, with the help of the staff, a huge magic circle unfolded under the cage, and several white handcuffs made of magic power appeared on the wrist of each vampire, sealing their magic power and physique.

"You can open the cage now." Major Zhang said to Liya, "Unless you don't want it to go to China with us."

"...Open the cage." Liya took a deep breath and ordered.

If those investigators from the "Tower of Babel" had not done what they did before, Leah would have definitely taken the opportunity to mock them - as members of the "Tower of Babel", they didn't even have the slightest sense of crisis. Did they want the entire base to fall into crisis because of their recklessness?

But now even a fool could see that this group of Chinese people came prepared. Both technology and magic were far beyond their imagination, and they felt as shocked as if they were watching a science fiction movie.

Even Leah had to believe that a terrifying vampire like Lilith would never be able to cause any trouble in front of this group of investigators.

Seeing Liya being so tactful, Major Zhang looked a little disappointed.

I wanted to take this opportunity to show off my power, but unfortunately the other party didn't give me this chance, so I had to use one more big move before leaving.

Major Zhang thought with regret, but his face remained serious: "Prepare the teleportation magic."

"yes."

"This is impossible!" Liya blurted out.

Although there are few people who can use space magic, America is full of talents, and there are also talents who can use space magic. Liya has seen the complexity and difficulty of space magic, and because of this, she knows how outrageous the order issued by Major Zhang is.

First of all, a huge prerequisite is that the person who casts space magic must have higher magic power than these "vampires" - including dangerous elements like Lilith!

Liya didn't believe that this group of people came all the way here just to cast a short-distance space magic. This meant that this group of people was likely planning to send these vampires directly to China, thousands of miles away.

...Yes, this group of people came so fast that ordinary means of transportation obviously could not do it.

Could it be that they had come to America through teleportation magic? !

...Is this considered sneaking across the border?

Liya thought in a trance.

But in the face of the terrifying magic of long-distance transmission across countries, "smuggling" seems insignificant.

Then the young investigators pressed something on the ID device again, and the magic power that was several times denser than the barrier caused the machine used to detect magic power concentration to stop working completely.

A huge magic circle appeared under the feet of the vampires. From the time Major Zhang gave the order to the completion of the magic circle, the total time took no more than thirty seconds.

Liya stared closely at the ID devices worn on the wrists of the investigators.

As one of the managers of the base, Liya keenly guessed that the casting and arrangement of magic was obviously closely related to this device. It was very likely that it was stored in advance as a medium for easy casting, not that these young investigators themselves possessed such ability.

But this did not make people feel at ease, but made Liya more anxious.

Since it can be stored, it means that such terrible magic in China is like ammunition on an assembly line and can be produced continuously - it only requires one device to use and does not impose too many restrictions on the user.

This is no different from every Chinese carrying a cruise missile that can be launched at any time!

In front of Liya, the magic circle glowed brightly. Major Zhang, who was in charge of the team, turned around and nodded to her, saying goodbye: "Then we will leave first."

After saying that, ignoring the dull gazes of everyone in the base, he led all the members of "Tower of Babel" into the magic circle and disappeared into the base with the vampires.

The huge base was silent. Hundreds of people gathered together and fell into a long silence.

...

Three days later, a document was sent to the Chinese government.

"We hope that America can establish cooperation with Babel Tower as soon as possible." In the video call, the head of America, the vice president who always liked to look down on the Chinese, now had a smile on his face, showing unprecedented friendliness: "At the same time, we also hope to become a member of the country's 'magic globalization' plan, and jointly promote the popularization of magic and magic education. We plan to establish two research laboratories in the high seas and space respectively to study the integration and development of magic and technology. We also extend an invitation to your country and hope that your country can conduct research with our country."

The Chinese person in charge on the other end of the video wore a faint smile and said calmly: "We have received your proposal. After we discuss it, we will give you a reply."

"Yes, there is no rush for these." The Vice President smiled and said, "I wonder if I can meet the founder of the 'Tower of Babel' first?"

"I'm afraid you'll have to wait three days."

"Why wait another three days?" the Vice President asked puzzledly.

The official in charge of the Chinese government looked vague for a moment, and then suddenly turned serious: "...He is experiencing a battle involving the fate of mankind."

The Vice President stood in awe.

...

At the same time, Class 9, Grade 2, Y City

Rui Hang slapped the podium heavily: "Hurry up, everyone. There are less than three days left before the junior high school entrance examination. You must not waste a single minute!"

Below the stage, the leader of the "Tower of Babel", the "Goddess of Disaster" Templar Lin Yuan, was buried in a thick pile of test papers, writing furiously.