F-class thief? Sorry, I can steal anything.

Chapter 394 The Old Team Badge Exposes a Traitor Within the Holy Church

"In your old unit, besides you, who else is still alive?"

Chen Yifan's words caused a brief pause on the battlefield.

The half-staff that Shenhou had just swung up stopped in mid-air.

Zishu squatted beside the corpse, holding the half-rotten metal team badge between his fingers, not in a hurry to get up.

Wang Qingyun did not loosen his grip on the sealing layer.

The gray-blue veins continued to press into the crack, and the polluted threads on the Holy Lord's side were pushed back halfway before quickly wrapping around again.

A few seconds later, Wang Qingyun finally spoke.

"Bring it here."

Zishu stood up and handed over the team badge.

Shenhou tried to stop him.

"Captain, don't get distracted right now."

Wang Qingyun didn't look at him.

"Give it to me."

Zishu walked to the edge of the sealed layer and placed the blood-stained team emblem in Wang Qingyun's palm.

The team emblem was covered in blood and mud.

Wang Qingyun rubbed it with his thumb.

Half of the pattern is visible.

【J-07-Qing】

Shenhou choked for a long time before finally uttering a curse.

"grass."

Chen Yifan sensed something was wrong.

"Is this thing special?"

Shenhou did not respond immediately.

Zishu reloaded the pistol and added in a low voice.

"The previous generation of Dragon Leader candidate squad."

"Blue Smoke Group".

"Only their internal members have this numbered team badge."

Chen Yifan looked at Wang Qingyun.

Wang Qingyun's finger stopped on the half of the character "Qing".

He didn't yell, nor did he lose control.

He simply held the team emblem in his hand, then opened it again.

"How many are left?"

The rat raises its head.

Chen Yifan also paused for a moment.

The calmer Wang Qingyun remained, the uglier Shen Hou's expression became.

Zishu returned to the corpse of the heretic, using the tip of his knife to pry open the rotting flesh and bones.

"Only one has been found so far."

Bai Zhi's voice came through the communicator, accompanied by static.

"I'm comparing old files."

"J-07-Qingyan Group... has very high privileges, and the old files have been sealed with three layers of security."

Rabbit connects to the channel.

"I authorize it."

Immediately, a rapid knocking sound came from Bai Zhi's side.

"Authorization approved."

"File retrieval in progress..."

Shenhou turned his head and smashed away a heretic from the Holy Cult who was rushing towards him, his voice deep and resonant.

"Wasn't the Qingyan Group completely wiped out back then?"

Wang Qingyun took a drag of his cigarette.

The bluish-gray smoke seeped into the sealing layer, and the crack was pushed back in a little.

"Not all of them were wiped out."

Shenhou suddenly turned around.

"You've never said that before."

Wang Qingyun responded calmly.

"You've never asked before."

Shenhou almost laughed out of anger.

"What era are you in that you're still playing this game?"

Wang Qingyun coughed.

Blood dripped from between his fingers onto the textured surface of the sealant.

The grayish-blue light dimmed for half a second.

Chen Yifan immediately raised his hand, removed a clump of polluted runes, and threw it into the gap in the sealing layer.

"Don't make a sound."

"Let him finish speaking first."

Wang Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief.

"The Qingyan Group carried out a cleanup operation to eliminate the remnants of the disaster back then."

Less than half of the people returned.

"There are still a few people who have been registered as missing."

The rat chimed in.

Where is the missing persons list?

Wang Qingyun paused.

"I checked later."

"That's all."

Bai Zhi suddenly took a breath.

"Found it!"

"The follow-up records for the Qingyan Group's disaster cleanup mission are 62% missing."

"I've marked the location of the gap."

Several projected images popped up.

On the diagram of the underlying structure of the celestial dome, more than a dozen red dots lit up.

Bai Zhi's voice quickened.

"These missing mission routes highly overlap with the coordinates of the Holy Church."

"Maintenance level 7, the old energy well, the abandoned interrogation area, and the area surrounding the old J-07 elevator rails were all within the clearing route back then."

Shenhou looked grim.

"Does this mean these coordinates weren't buried by Chenlong only in the last few years?"

The Rabbit remained silent for two seconds.

"At least some of them existed a long time ago."

Bai Zhi continued flipping through the data.

"There's one more thing."

"After Chenlong took office, he cleaned up the old files three times."

"The stated purpose is to eliminate records of pollution residues."

"But not all of the data that was deleted was technical data."

Chen Yifan raised his hand and dismantled the chest node of an outsider, then casually tossed it to the black-armored man next to him.

"What else?"

Bai Zhi paused for a moment.

"Personnel statements."

"The survivor recounts."

"Medical observation records".

No one was speaking in the channel.

Shenhou gritted his teeth.

"That bastard Chenlong isn't clearing up evidence, he's clearing up human language."

Chenlong lay prone behind, pinned down by the metal beam.

He suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice.

"I'm clearing out the archives because those records would corrupt readers."

Shenhou kicked the metal beam.

"Shut up!"

Chenlong's chest heaved, his face covered in ash.

Believe it or not, it's up to you.

"After that mission by the Qingyan Group, everyone who read the full report experienced auditory hallucinations."

Three people committed suicide.

"Two things are out of control."

"One of them...voluntarily opened the sealed door."

Chen Yifan paused for a moment.

The information Chenlong provided was useful.

But every word this person utters must be taken with a grain of salt.

The mouse lowered its head to examine the corpse of the heretic on the ground.

"What he said may not be entirely false."

The monkey turned its head.

"You're still defending him?"

Zishu used the tip of his knife to pick out the lines behind the corpse's ears.

I don't speak for anyone.

"Let me see the evidence."

Bai Zhi immediately zoomed in on the image.

"There are old medical suture marks behind my ear."

"It wasn't left over from the conversion of the Holy Church."

"This heretic received treatment from the Lamplighters' medical system before the conversion."

Shenhou gripped the stick tightly in his hand.

"In other words..."

The mouse stood up.

"He might have actually been one of ours before."

Just then, a scream came from the evacuation team at the rear.

A black-armored man who had just been rescued suddenly rushed out of the crowd.

Half of his shoulder armor was shattered, and a broken bone spur was stuck in his chest.

But he ran extremely fast.

Clutching a dark purple sphere, he charged straight at the core of the old blockade layer.

Bai Zhi's voice instantly rose in pitch.

"A pollution bomb!"

"Stop him!"

The Monkey (申猴) is the closest.

He cursed and lunged at it.

The two rolled on the ground.

The contamination bomb was flung away and was about to hit the core outer shell of the containment layer.

Chen Yifan raised his hand.

"Stealing everything."

The detonation structure on the surface of the bomb was forcibly peeled off.

The sphere landed, only emitting a plume of black smoke.

Shenhou pressed the black-armored man to the ground and raised his fist to smash him.

"You've been charged?"

The man in black armor raised his face.

There was no facial contortion or pain.

He is laughing.

"Not under control."

Shenhou's fist stopped.

"What did you say?"

The dark green patterns on the wound on the black-armored man's chest lit up on their own.

He grinned, blood gushing out.

"The farm has woken up."

"Livestock should choose their owners."

Shenhou's expression changed immediately.

"Say that again, you fucking idiot?"

The man in black armor laughed even louder.

"You've lost your profession, so what are you pretending to be human heroes for?"

"When the Divine Court arrives, those who kneel early will live long."

Shenhou threw a punch.

boom!

The ground has sunken in a dent.

The black-armored man's head was turned to the side, and he stopped breathing.

But the dark green markings on his chest were still glowing.

Bai Zhi shouted urgently.

"He still has a trigger beacon on him!"

Chen Yifan reached out and pulled the beacon out of the corpse.

The moment the beacon left his body, it began to vibrate wildly in his palm.

He clenched his five fingers together.

The purple-gold light pressed down.

The beacon was crushed into pieces.

Shenhou stood up from the ground, his face no longer showing the playful smile he had just displayed.

"Proactive sanctification".

"Do we even have this kind of stuff in our team?"

The rat did not speak.

He turned to look at the evacuating team.

Dozens of wounded, medical workers, and technicians were crammed behind the collapsed walkway.

Gun muzzles and flashlights were interspersed.

No one dared to make any more moves.

Chen Yifan looked at Zishu.

"Can you check?"

The mouse touched the side of its body where it was missing an ear.

"The voice of the heart can no longer be heard."

Shenhou frowned.

"How do we investigate?"

Zishu handed the short gun to the black-armored man next to him, and picked up a flashlight for himself.

"Use the old method."

He walked up to the evacuation team.

"Everyone, put down your weapons and spread your hands."

Some people immediately expressed their dissatisfaction.

"Are they still investigating their own people?"

The mouse raised its flashlight and shone it over.

"When you said 'our own people' just now, you tapped your palm with your right index finger."

"This gesture appears in the third section of the Sacred Prayer."

The man's face stiffened.

Shenhou lunged forward and pressed the stick directly against his throat.

The rat continued walking forward.

"You, step forward."

The person who was called on was a repairman.

He spoke up quickly.

"No! I was on the line the whole time!"

The mouse stared at his cuff.

In the old cryptic language used by lamplighters to avoid danger, what is the response to "the thread breaks three inches"?

The repairman got stuck.

"I...I'm not in the combat order, I don't know."

Bai Zhi immediately added insult to injury in the chat.

"I've also learned about maintenance sequences."

"The first question in the basic safety assessment."

The repairman turned and ran.

boom!

Zishu took the short gun back from the black-armored man beside him, raised his hand and shot him in the calf.

The man fell, and a tiny bone needle popped out from the back of his neck; he was trying to commit suicide.

Chen Yifan made a grabbing motion from a distance.

The bone needles were stolen.

Shenhou pounced and pinned the person down.

"The second one."

The rat didn't stop.

He walked up to one of the wounded.

"Your breathing is too steady."

The wounded gritted their teeth.

"My wound hurts, can't I just bear it?"

Zishu raised his flashlight and shone it on his hand.

"When someone loses their job, their hand shakes when they hold a knife."

"Your fingers are too clean."

"When the first wave of outsiders rushed in, you didn't touch a weapon."

The wounded soldier's facial muscles twitched.

"I'm injured!"

The mouse nodded.

"So you instinctively protected the area below your left breast just now."

"There's a beacon hidden there."

Shenhou reached in and pulled out a dark purple shard from his inner lining.

Shenhou laughed in anger.

"Your Holy Church seems to distribute benefits quite uniformly, huh?"

The wounded soldier suddenly opened his mouth, and a venom sac popped out from under his tongue.

Chen Yifan raised his hand.

"steal."

The venom sac disappeared.

The wounded soldier bit at empty air and froze.

Chen Yifan walked over and patted his face.

"Don't rush."

"You have to wait in line, even if it means dying."

Shenhou dragged the person aside and tied them up like a rice dumpling.

No one in the evacuation team uttered a sound.

The mouse stood still, panting heavily.

After losing the resonance of his heart, his complexion was even worse than before.

But he managed to pick out three people from the group.

Shenhou walked over and patted him on the shoulder.

The rat tilted its head.

Aren't you going to say something sarcastic or sarcastic?

Shenhou held back for a long time.

"You can judge people even if you don't have talent."

"good."

The rat remained silent for half a second.

Is that considered a compliment?

"Don't be picky."

Chen Yifan dismantled an attacking insect wing outside the channel and passed the node to Bai Zhi.

"You two shouldn't try to develop feelings for each other."

"Bai Zhi, can the list be locked?"

Bai Zhi's team has already combined the biological data of the three infiltrators, old access records, and missing data from the Qingyan Group.

"able."

"Lord Rabbit, I need a manual password from the Judgment Council; I cannot use the system."

The Rabbit immediately took over.

"Report column."

"Old energy well maintenance team, numbered K-19 to K-27, full review."

"Temporary guards in the abandoned interrogation area, numbered S-04, S-11, and S-13, are to be placed in priority isolation."

"besides……"

Bai Zhi stopped.

Chen Yifan frowned.

"Who else?"

Bai Zhi lowered her voice.

"In the Sky Dome Medical Logistics Department, the files of seven people were personally altered by Chen Long."

The Rabbit immediately gave the order.

"isolation."

"If they resist, treat it as a case of latent contamination."

Several gunshots rang out in the distance.

Someone reported this on the communications channel.

"Two spies caught at the old energy well!"

"One person detonated in the abandoned interrogation area; the connecting bridge has been sealed off!"

"Three medical support personnel resisted arrest and have been taken into custody!"

Shenhou swung his stick and smashed a polluted silk thread, letting out a roar.

"Did you hear me?"

"You can work even if you don't have a job!"

"Anyone who says we're useless, I'll twist their head off and use it as a light bulb!"

A few laughs came from the black-armored team.

very short.

But that tension, which had been so strong it was about to break, eased a little.

Wang Qingyun, however, did not laugh.

He put the old team badge into his pocket and turned to look at Chenlong.

How much do you know about the missing names from back then?

Chenlong remained silent.

Shenhou immediately went over.

"You'd better not pretend to be mute."

Chenlong raised his head.

"I only know part of it."

"Among the missing members of the Qingyan Group, some had contact with the remains of the Gate Disaster from the previous era."

"Things changed after they came back."

Wang Qingyun's cigarette burned down to his knuckles.

He didn't let go.

Chen Yifan noticed that the gray-blue dragon pattern began to become discontinuous.

Old Wang won't last much longer.

Chenlong continued speaking.

"I'm clearing the files to prevent them from spreading."

"But later... someone beat me to it and changed the record."

Rabbit immediately pressed for an answer.

"Who?"

Chenlong's throat moved.

"List of candidates for the Dragon Head."

Shenhou cursed:

"Name the person!"

Chenlong shut his mouth.

The next second, a piercing notification suddenly sounded from Bai Zhi's side.

"etc!"

"The Qingyan team emblem we just saw has a passive trigger structure."

"After gaining access to the Smoke Dragon, it unlocked a recording."

Wang Qingyun's hand, which was resting on the sealed layer, paused for a moment.

Chen Yifan looked up.

"put."

Bai Zhi did not play it immediately.

"The audio is severely damaged; I can only recover the first few seconds."

The voice of the Rabbit came.

"Release them."

A buzzing sound of electricity rang out.

A hoarse male voice came from the channel.

very tired.

He was still breathing heavily and with suppressed gasps.

"Old Wang..."

The cigarette ash in Wang Qingyun's hand broke off.

The sound continued to emerge.

"If you were still alive..."

"Never trust the list of candidates for the Dragon Head."