Big Data Cultivation

Chapter 2552: Chapter 2544: Interrupted

The military couldn’t handle the situation with other patients in the hospital.

They could order these people to go back obediently, but this matter couldn’t be suppressed; it would only ruin the military’s reputation.

In the end, they could only give some threats and leave, "You should know what happened today. It’s best not to be linked with this, or you’ll take full responsibility."

"That’s right," Ninth Sister-in-law laughed coldly, "If Xingzheng Star falls, it’s entirely my family’s responsibility."

"With your sharp tongue, does that make sense?" A military officer couldn’t stand it, "In extraordinary times, everyone must cooperate with the requirements of the Wartime Management Committee. You’ve already refused. Are you still trying to stir conflict between the military and civilian sides?"

Ninth Sister-in-law wasn’t afraid of him. "Then I won’t stir conflict. I’ll go complain on the committee’s webpage; telling the truth should be fine, right?"

"Suit yourself!" The officer snorted coldly. They weren’t really afraid of the complaints; even though the military’s demands seemed a bit excessive, the other party didn’t agree, and they didn’t force it. So, there was no issue.

As for saying their demands were somewhat cruel, that was subjective. For victory, they’ve issued even colder orders—just being exposed might make them somewhat passive—should someone truly investigate, they might face some insignificant punishments.

So the officer just retorted and led everyone away.

Returning to the military headquarters, someone recalled something, "Wait, yesterday at noon, a number from Xiajing contacted Zuo Jing’s Hesheng Production Base... Could it have been Chen Jiu’s doing?"

The Xiajing military wouldn’t eavesdrop on He Huiqing’s communications—they didn’t even have the right to eavesdrop on He Runxian. This was operated by the Zuo Jing military, who wouldn’t inform Xiajing.

But Zuo Jing needed to know the source of the Xiajing number, so they had to get cooperation from Xiajing people. Hence, Xiajing military learned that someone in the city had called Hesheng’s He Huiqing.

They checked the number, but couldn’t figure it out and left it behind—Xingzheng Star civilians’ determination to resist the insects was strong, but it couldn’t be ruled out that some individuals might be exploiting the national crisis.

Until now, it started to rain in Xiajing too, and looking back, they realized it might be a clue—did the mysterious force come to Xiajing because of this phone call?

But the military had just returned from the hospital, and if they hadn’t gone there yet, they would definitely intensify the investigation, but since they had gone, and Chen Jiu’s wife wasn’t easy to mess with, they didn’t want to get involved again.

The leading officer remarked, "You should have mentioned it earlier, it might have been an opportunity that you just missed."

However, the one who hinted felt quite innocent, "But yesterday, everyone thought, that this was just a farce."

Someone suggested, "Why not, let’s go back to the hospital and check the surveillance footage or something?"

"If you want to go, find someone," the officer shook his head decisively, "Don’t mention whether there’s anything wrong or not, even if there is, do you think they’ll let you catch them? A little electromagnetic energy leakage would be enough to destroy all data... we’re better off investigating the Qin Family."

Sister Qin seemed relatively low-key, but Chen Jiu was severely injured and unconscious, Salina was a military Colonel, so they could only investigate her.

"The investigation team has been sent out," someone chimed in, "But reportedly... the investigation results might not be optimistic."

"No results," just as another team returned, "That woman is too shrewd, her movements are clearly arranged, and she always has at least three witnesses around... including when resting."

"That just means she didn’t personally operate it. What if she assigned someone else to handle it?"

"What does sending someone to investigate accomplish?" The investigation team replied gloomily, "If she gets unhappy and halts mall maintenance, the morale will drop significantly. Besides, even wartime rules don’t support such assumptions."

"There’s a situation!" Suddenly someone shouted, "A swarm of over a thousand insects is moving into Xiajing... it’s not even daylight yet."

"Definitely testing the rain clouds," someone immediately gave the answer, "Just received the news, the insect swarm in Zuo Jing has never stopped testing the rain clouds... What is the highest rank of the insects?"

"At least two General Level, or more, but most are at Colonel Level."

"That’s right," the prior speaker lazily responded, "It’s definitely a test. Who knows if it’ll disappear... really anticipating."

"It’s already starting to disappear..."

Upon learning that this insect swarm began to disappear, the military immediately made the right decision and sent troops to the location where the insect swarm disappeared, checking for white mist formation.

As expected, there was indeed white mist in that area.

Of course, the military wouldn’t recklessly provoke the other side, but they were still quite puzzled, "What should we do next?"

"What do you mean, ’what to do’? With them protecting us, isn’t this a rare chance for us to rest for two days?"

"You’re an idiot. I mean, what about the energy stones? Zuo Jing City had rain for a whole day to facilitate the transport of energy stones."

"You’ve got water in your brain? Zuo Jing has Hesheng helping to buy energy stones; do we have people like that in Xiajing?"

"No one said there isn’t, right? Shouldn’t our task now be to find this person or facilitate this cooperation?"

The military department was in chaos, everyone was saying something different. Feng Jun, standing amidst the ruins of the stadium, sighed, "So ruthless, huh? Testing the waters before dawn?"

"Isn’t this normal operation?" Yi Jue was sitting in the Spirit Restoration Array, absorbing spiritual energy. "This proves that we’ve hurt them."

Feng Jun was silent for a while before replying in a muffled voice, "I’ve noticed you’ve used Si Ganlin again."

Yi Jue also fell silent. After some time, he finally spoke, "I can still use this level of Si Ganlin twenty more times."

Feng Jun murmured, "Anyway, it doesn’t make me happy. Come daylight, the pressure will probably be even greater."

Yi Jue secretly rolled his eyes, thinking to himself, can such words be spoken casually? It’s simply too inauspicious.

As expected, eight waves of insect swarms assaulted the rain clouds after dawn. However, to their surprise, the strongest swarm consisted of only a few dozen Golden Cores, without a single Nascent Soul.

By the afternoon, Feng Jun began to complain, "No sincerity... Could it be that we’ve almost wiped out their Nascent Souls?"

"I think that’s quite possible," Yi Jue replied seriously, "The insects didn’t have many Nascent Souls on Xingzheng Star to begin with."

Feng Jun pondered for a moment and then laughed, "In that case, wouldn’t a few Great Sages be disappointed?"

That night, the rain in Xiajing City unexpectedly stopped. The insects, noticing this immediately, launched an attack on the city despite it being nighttime and the rain clouds not yet dissipated.

During this process, five Insect Race Nascent Souls appeared, observing from the outskirts of the rain clouds.

Xiajing City was thrown into chaos.

Fortunately, people had experienced nocturnal insect attacks in previous nights, so this wasn’t unfamiliar. Moreover, when the rain stopped, both the military and local government were vigilant. Upon detecting signs of the insect hordes, they immediately issued warnings.

However, people couldn’t help but murmur to themselves, what does this mean? Is that force really going to retreat just like that?

Did they just come to Xiajing to let it rest for a day?

It’s not only the people of Xiajing who wanted to ask. After the Insect Race Nascent Souls appeared, Ren Tu True Sage descended his consciousness, "Are you still going to stay in Xiajing? With five Insect Race Nascent Souls present, what are your plans?"

"We’ll activate the Rain Prayer Array again shortly," Yi Jue replied with thought communication, "When we take action, we’ll inform you... Those five Nascent Souls will be left to the Great Sages."

Ren Tu felt a bit strange and couldn’t help but ask aloud, "Why turn it off? To set a trap for the insects?"

Yi Jue responded, "It’s not entirely a trap; it’s also to handle some matters."

What matters? It was, of course, to detoxify Chen Jiu.

In fact, there was an unexpected turn of events. Feng Jun had initially thought that the military had already harassed Chen Jiu, and with Ninth Sister-in-law being so spirited, he should face no issues going to the hospital again.

But the military had not given up on monitoring Chen Jiu. Though they seemingly abandoned surveillance of the hospital, they secretly set up ten surveillance points around its perimeter and placed several monitoring devices there.

Though the incessant drizzle slightly affected visibility, and even though insects wouldn’t come, they opted for close monitoring. All precautions were against the hospital, not considering the insect factor.

Once the rain stopped, the observers realized they were in big trouble: they hadn’t prepared defenses against the insects.

The observation posts had some defensive capabilities, even in open areas. While they could activate energy shields to temporarily withstand insects, the energy fluctuations would absolutely be detectable by the hospital guards.

Yes, the hospital was shut down, but many patients still resided within, so there remained a dozen defensive points with strong observational capacity at the surface level.

Feng Jun couldn’t attack the observation posts directly, so he reduced the output of the Rain Prayer Array to the minimum, merely maintaining the rain clouds without any rainfall. This was to force the military to make a choice — whether to continue the surveillance was up to them.

The military also showed resolve, refusing to withdraw the observation posts even when they knew the insects were attacking... isn’t it just sacrifice? For victory, we are not afraid of sacrifice!

For the first half-hour, the military didn’t encounter much trouble. There weren’t many attacking insects, and this area wasn’t a prime target.

But wishful thinking has no place on the battlefield. Half an hour later, a night-vision-capable early-stage insect discovered a few members of the Human Race who were barely protected, just exposed out in the open.

The inherent nature of all creatures is to bully the weak, fear the strong, and insects are no different. This night-vision insect signaled to its companions: there’s some tasty food here, seemingly without much defense.

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