Chapter 26
Despite Sun Town's efforts to suppress the news, the events of that day spread like a virus. Within hours, it seemed as if the entire nation knew about the earthquake, the wildfire, and the burning of the priest. For the first time, the name "Sun Town" was widely discussed, and this small town near Morino City became the focus of national attention.
The photo of the charred corpse being carried down the mountain appeared repeatedly on the homepages of major news websites.
People have different opinions about this matter, but they all come down to keywords such as divine punishment and sin. They all believe that this is an ominous sign and that the image of the church has been damaged.
The United Church has not officially responded to this matter, stating only that it is also busy investigating the situation. Archbishop Owen was also summoned by the church for an interview and instructed to control public opinion.
Under such great pressure, Bishop Owen had to report Ian's death, which caused a huge uproar within the church.
However, for the time being, Ian's death was not important to them; what was important was saving the church's public image. The United Church decided to temporarily suppress the news of Ian's death. Therefore, only a few witnesses who were called up the stairs by Owen knew the truth. Everyone else believed that Ian was still alive, but had a mission to complete, and left Sun Town.
In addition, there is a very critical issue, which is whether the "Purification Day" ceremony at noon on Sunday will still be held.
"We will hold it as scheduled," Irving told the media. "The God of Wisdom gave us a prophecy in a dream, and we must complete it."
"But the Silver Robe Priest Dai Li has left us."
"We'll have replacements," Owen responded, "and we have backup reagents."
Immediately afterwards, the church and the security bureau dispersed the media that rushed to Sun Town. They still had a lot of work to do, and this night was destined to be chaotic and tense.
This chaos and tension, however, is an opportunity for the trio.
Sun Town Central Square.
The square backs onto the town's government office building and faces a small river. Under the moonlight, the river gurgles, and the bushes beside it sway gently with the rhythm of the water.
The night in the small town is usually quiet, just like the river under the moonlight, but tonight the Security Bureau and the church are extremely busy.
The priests were busy setting up the venue and moving supplies, while the Security Bureau agents were guarding the square and the government building. There weren't many Beyonders in this town, with no more than five Level Bs in the entire Security Bureau. Many of the agents, like Qin Ye and Ling Ling, didn't possess Beyonders.
And right now, there must be a few people with special abilities in the square.
"There are more of them." In the bushes, Tang Yu took out a telescope and observed the situation. "But it's also more chaotic... This may be a good thing."
Originally, the Security Bureau was not responsible for the "Purification Day" activities, but now the town is too chaotic; the church has to assign personnel to deal with Dai Li's affairs, and also report to the superiors and control public opinion, so it is inevitable that it is too busy to do everything.
"Tang Yu, what on earth are you going to do with that thing?" Lin Yaoxin squatted to Tang Yu's right, dark circles under his eyes, clearly exhausted from the day's hard work. "It's just a tube of reagent. Can you really make a system modification with such a small amount of raw materials?"
Tang Yu curled his lips: "What can I do? I can't get more. If he has a warehouse, I would like to take a warehouse."
Lin Yaoxin was almost choked by Tang Yu.
"Doctor An is truly remarkable. With her help, perhaps this can be accomplished right away... By then, I'll upgrade all of our classmates to A-level, and we'll become the strongest Extraordinary School..." Tang Yu continued, still looking across the river, "Let's see who dares to look down on us."
Lin Yaoxin remained silent... Tang Yu's words seemed like fantasy to outsiders, but Lin Yaoxin knew that all of this was very likely to happen, because Ango was Sangria from the Genius Research Institute, and even his own abilities came from Ango's research.
If one day, Tang Yu suddenly discovered that Ango was Sangria... Lin Yaoxin shook his head, as if trying to get rid of this idea, because he seemed to have heard the other party's deafening scream.
The other two didn't notice his abnormality because Tang Yu suddenly bent his left elbow and poked Ace next to him: "Look, the people behind are coming out to change shifts. The next shift change should be in an hour. We should take action then."
Then, Tang Yu turned to Lin Yaoxin and said, "You stay here, wait for the opportunity, and listen to my instructions."
As the moonlight flows, time passes by minute by minute.
Fifty minutes later, Tang Yu and Ace quietly went around the side to the other side of the river. Their goal was to transport the spare purification reagents to the government building. Lin Yaoxin was on the other side of the river, and his eyes gradually became difficult to open.
Today was too tiring for him.
He held a bag of snacks in his arms and ate them absentmindedly, waiting for news from Tang Yu and the others.
Suddenly, the computer vibrated. Lin Yaoxin thought it was Tang Yu and hurriedly put down his snacks, only to find that the sender was Jiang Can - yes, Jiang Can from MAA, the Jiang Can who had said he wanted to have dinner with him last time but was rejected by Xi Sen.
"Where are you?"
Lin Yaoxin frowned, and Jiang Can asked what he was doing.
"I passed by Sun Town to see you, but I knocked on the door and no one answered."
Seeing this, Lin Yaoxin quickly replied: "My classmates and I are outside and will be back soon."
Why is Jiang Can here again? Does Xi Sen know? Lin Yaoxin suddenly felt a little confused and a little uneasy.
Xi Sen didn't want Jiang Can to come to town because he was worried that Jiang Can would find out about An Ge. Xi Sen believed that Jiang Can would immediately put An Ge in the MAA and completely control him, but An Ge was not someone who could be coerced into cooperation through violence.
After spending some time together, Lin Yaoxin also became convinced of Xi Sen's judgment - Ango is soft-hearted and does not respond to toughness.
If this is true, there will be trouble next.
Lin Yaoxin shook his head, trying not to overthink things. Things might not turn out the way Xi Sen imagined… Jiang Can was just passing by and might not discover Ango's true identity.
Thinking of this, Lin Yaoxin turned his attention back to the other side of the river—damn, he still had an important mission that couldn't be distracted! Then, he received a signal from Tang Yu.
"Start!" Tang Yu said.
A few minutes later, a few thin wisps of black smoke rose from the other side of the river in the central square. The black smoke was actually not eye-catching. From a distance, it even looked like wisps of smoke coming out of a chimney.
It's just that... there aren't many chimneys in Sun Town, and no one cooks in the middle of the night. And after what happened during the day, people are still very wary of fires. If anyone notices something unusual here...
It was shift change time, and the security agents on duty behind the government building were walking to the side when someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, "What's going on over there? Is there another fire?"
As soon as this sound came out, everyone looked towards the other side nervously.
The events of the day had already caused extremely bad consequences. If the church went wrong again at this juncture, it would probably cause even more panic among the people. So the priest who had temporarily taken charge of the situation immediately ordered: "Go to the other side of the river and take a look."
Everyone looked at each other, and the detectives took the lead and said, "Let's go ahead, you guys continue."
For a moment, everyone watched the bushes anxiously.
At this moment, Tang Yu and Ace stuck to the back wall of the government building. Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was distracted, Ace used his ability to decompose elements as planned, making the soil in the empty space at the base of the wall float in the air.
The soil gathered in mid-air, slowly fell down, and piled up in the grass. A deep pit with a radius of about one and a half meters immediately appeared on the ground, just enough for two children to stand in it.
Tang Yu pulled Ace and jumped in without hesitation, then reached out and touched the wall to confirm the location, and drew a small door half a person's height with his hand. The two pushed the door open, and a flash of light passed by, and they fell into the basement of the government building.
"It hurts, it hurts--" Ace's head hit the ground and a big bump immediately appeared. Tang Yu quickly covered his mouth to prevent him from making any sound.
"Who?" A chair slid on the ground and someone stood up to check.
In the dim basement, there was only a small light on. Looking at the boxes piled up randomly around him, Tang Yu suddenly had an idea. He pushed Ace into the cardboard box and got into another one next to it.
They are small in size and it is quite easy for them to hide in cardboard boxes. Once covered with cardboard, no clues can be seen on the surface.
The man's footsteps were getting closer and closer. Tang Yu felt his heart beating deafeningly, even faster than the frequency of the footsteps.
Suddenly, the footsteps stopped in front of the cardboard box. The man took two steps to the left and right. Perhaps because there were no windows in the basement and he had been guarding the main door of the room, and there was no place for an adult to hide in the corner where the noise came from, he muttered to himself in confusion: "Could it be that I am old and heard it wrongly?"
The voice was not loud, but it reached Tang Yu's ears clearly.
It was this sentence that made Tang Yu suddenly realize that the person outside was the old priest who guarded the church's treasure house!
I wonder if Ace heard it! Tang Yu was very anxious and wanted to tell Ace to let him know that the purification reagent was most likely with the old priest, but she never heard the priest leave.
"Mr. Priest, are you okay here?" Two agents came to ask outside the door.
"Oh...that's all right." The old priest turned around, walked away slowly, and responded with a smile, "The entrance to this building is guarded by people with special abilities. With excellent agents like you here, no one dares to break in."
"There's another fire outside." One person said, "Let's make sure it's safe here."
"Another fire? That's not good!" the old priest said in a startled voice. "I don't have anything serious here, just two bottles of purification reagent that need looking after. And this thing has never had any problems before... If you're busy, why don't you go check on what's going on up there first?"
As he said that, he walked towards the door and waved his hand, indicating that the two could leave first.
After a while, the whole house returned to silence.
Tang Yu carefully lifted the cardboard and saw that the box opposite was motionless, so she tiptoed out and tried to knock on the cardboard. Unexpectedly, Ace had already crawled out and was hiding behind the shelf, waving at Tang Yu and asking her to come over.
Ace said in a hoarse voice: "The people with special abilities have all left. This is a good opportunity."
Then he pointed at the white-bearded priest sitting on a chair at the door, his eyes closed, resting. "Look at his waist. There are two tubes of blood tied around his waist."
Tang Yu's eyes lit up instantly: "He has it with him!"
"Get your things ready. It's still a bit far from here. We need to get closer..." Ace said softly to Tang Yu.
"It's been prepared long ago." Tang Yu took out two "storage" test tubes filled with red liquid. As long as these test tubes are used, the blood of the person with special abilities can be preserved, as well as the extraordinary power contained therein.
The two men used the debris in the basement as cover and moved slowly, step by step. Their movements were extremely gentle, not daring to make any noise. Their four eyes were fixed on the old priest's back, their hearts almost jumping out of their throats.
Before coming, Ace was not nervous at all, thinking it was just a prank like the ones he played in school in the past. But when he actually arrived in this basement, he suddenly felt pressured - he couldn't help but ask himself why he was fooled by Tang Yu into doing such a dangerous thing.
But it's dangerous... and exciting.
A gleam flashed in Ace's eyes, and he raised his hand to make a stop gesture, meaning that this was enough.
He held his breath, operated carefully, and slowly used his elemental decomposition ability to open the lid of the reagent bottle. Then the components in the purified reagent slowly floated up and gathered towards him little by little.
The red liquid in Tang Yu's hand also flowed towards the opposite side in the air under his control.
They planned to replace the purification reagent with ordinary water mixed with beet juice and dye.
If you are lucky, it may not be discovered for a long time. By the time it is discovered, it will have been too long and nothing can be found.
But... changing the liquid was not an easy task for him because his extraordinary ability was not very high.
But the three of them are a team, and everyone's ability is an indispensable part of the protection. His partners have already succeeded, so he must not fail.
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