Chapter 2 Compartment 02

The provincial military police officer who had accompanied Yuan Zhenghong placed the sealed file on the table and opened it.

Inside was a document.

At the top of the document were five solid gold star seals.

This was a Level Five file!

In peacetime, this was almost the highest possible level of classification.

The instructions Wang Dongchuan had given Yang Yong earlier were only rated at two stars!

Roughly calculated, a document of this level was something he would never normally have the opportunity to see.

"Teacher Yuan... what is this?" Yang Yong asked tremulously, cold sweat pouring from his forehead. "A Level Five classified order... maybe... maybe I should excuse myself?"

As the director of the military police bureau, Yang Yong naturally understood the principle of "what level of personnel can participate in what level of operations". His administrative rank was not high enough to access a Level Five document.

This kind of document was extremely confidential, and the consequences of a leak would be severe.

Even Yang Yong felt it was a hot potato.

He instinctively wanted to avoid the trouble.

"You are not qualified to participate in the action detailed in this document, but there is a special order for you." Yuan Zhenghong waved his hand and took out a special order from within the document.

It was printed on special paper, requiring a special coating to reveal the text.

The text would self-destruct twenty seconds after appearing.

There was absolutely no possibility of a secondary leak.

Yang Yong took the order with trembling hands and applied the military police bureau's backup special coating, revealing a line of large characters.

"According to wartime regulations! Nan City Military Police Bureau Director Yang Yong will obey the command of Inspector General Yuan Zhenghong in all actions! - Yanhuang National Security Third Division."

Yang Yong's face turned pale when he saw the words "Yanhuang National Security Third Division."

This department was the direct leadership of all military police in Yanhuang.

In ancient times, this department would be equivalent to the "Six Doors", commanding all constables in the land!

Yang Yong immediately saluted. "Yang Yong of Nan City is at your command!"

The rest was completely out of his hands.

Seeing the scarlet five-pointed star seal on the order, Yang Yong already knew that the rest was beyond his rank.

Since Yuan Zhenghong had arrived with an order from the National Security Department, all command of the Nan City Military Police Bureau would be handed over to him. He could temporarily step aside.

Perhaps... even the city committee leaders would have to temporarily yield...

Yang Yong muttered to himself.

Li Tianran watched all this silently, rubbing his fingers together, increasingly uneasy.

Things seemed to be escalating.

Now even National Security was involved?

Li Tianran didn't think he had that much influence.

The Wells gang, although causing some trouble in the small towns around Nan City, were just insignificant riffraff compared to the whole of Yanhuang!

Li Tianran didn't believe that merely wiping out Wells would warrant an award from the National Security Department.

"Leave," Yuan Zhenghong waved his hand with great authority, "Do you know how to respond to Wang Dongchuan?"

"I understand!" Yang Yong nodded repeatedly.

*Click!*

The door closed again.

Only Li Tianran and Yuan Zhenghong remained in Compartment 03.

Yuan Zhenghong smiled and tossed the file in front of Li Tianran. "Take a look!"

Li Tianran looked at the file in his hands. It was light, but it felt like it weighed a thousand pounds.

Especially the scarlet five-pointed stars, making Li Tianran feel like he was holding five mountain peaks!

"You're joking with me!" Li Tianran gave a forced laugh, placing the file to his right. "I'm not part of the military police, I'm not qualified to see this."

"This file was brought for you in the first place." Yuan Zhenghong smiled.

"For me?" Li Tianran was taken aback.

"More accurately, for people like you," Yuan Zhenghong added.

Li Tianran was even more confused.

Yuan Zhenghong walked over, personally opened the file bag, and placed the contents on Li Tianran's lap.

Besides a file, there were dozens of photos!

Li Tianran lowered his head and picked up the photos, flipping through them.

The first one made Li Tianran feel intensely uncomfortable.

It was a wild bull, but its back had something like a human face growing on it. It was the size of an elephant, with ferocious horns and blood-red eyes, rampaging through a city!

Continuing to flip through, there were more photos, all related to this wild bull.

In some of the photos, there were human corpses under its hooves.

In the most terrifying photo, it used its horns to collapse a house!

Li Tianran had seen mutated beasts before, but never one as disgusting and powerful as the one in the photos!

"This was discovered by patrolling soldiers in the Kelangma Mountains five days ago. Like other mutated beasts, its size changed after eating radiated plants." Yuan Zhenghong said, "But unlike other mutated beasts, its body didn't collapse and die after a few hours. Instead, it grew stronger. It started attacking humans, other beasts, and even its habits changed drastically. It started eating meat!"

"Because the Kelangma Mountains are in a border region, the patrolmen took great pains to find the mutated beast's lair, but we found that... it wasn't just its size that mutated, but even its intelligence was increasing!" Yuan Zhenghong rubbed his brow, and said in a deep voice: "The patrolling border soldiers conducted several encirclements and suppressions against it, but were unable to kill it."

"Not only that... two days ago, the border army camp once again discovered its whereabouts via drones, but found that it was eating, and the food it was eating was..." Yuan Zhenghong paused for a moment, without speaking, he tapped his forehead with his old finger.

Li Tianran suddenly felt a chill.

Gnawing on human skulls?

"Later, we discovered traces of a human face on its back."

Yuan Zhenghong's voice wasn't loud, but it revealed an extremely cold tone.

Li Tianran's breathing became heavy.

"Do you know what this represents?" Yuan Zhenghong asked in a deep voice.

Of course Li Tianran knew.

This meant that the wild bull's gene recombination was not moving in a deteriorating direction, but like Godzilla, it had unlocked its genetic potential!

"A new species is being born!" Yuan Zhenghong said, one word at a time, "And this species poses a great threat to mankind!"

Li Tianran felt a little suffocated.

Just now, he was still engaged in a battle of wits and courage with the military police, trying to find ways to exploit legal loopholes, but in just a few minutes, he had switched to a sci-fi interface.

This sudden change of style made it difficult for him to accept for a while.

"Most importantly, this is not an isolated case," Yuan Zhenghong said, "In the Southern Xinjiang Mountains, we discovered a giant ape nearly three zhang tall! In the depths of the North Sea, a fishing boat caught a two-headed sea lizard, and the entire fishing boat was slaughtered by the sea lizard..."

"In the Southeast..."

As Yuan Zhenghong spoke, Li Tianran kept flipping through the photos.

One mutated beast after another appeared in the photos, their faces ferocious, and their limbs had also undergone drastic changes.

There were giant apes covered in bone spurs, and rat kings the size of cattle...

And with the rampant behavior of these mutated beasts, their paths were filled with腥风血雨 (xīng fēng xuè yǔ, bloody storms).

Before the mutation, humans were the masters of this land, squeezing the living space of wild animals to the extreme, but after the mutation, those wild animals that had not died due to the mutation began to frantically retaliate against humans and expand their territory!

"Within Yanhuang, we have already discovered no less than five cases of this kind of perfect mutated beast, and this number will continue to increase..." Yuan Zhenghong said in a deep voice.

The main source of the beasts' mutation is the grass and plants on the irradiated land.

Although most of the irradiated plants in the urban area have been disposed of at this time, there are still large areas of irradiated grass fruit in some natural reserves and wild farmland.

When those beasts have no food source, they will gnaw on radiated grass fruit.

If there is a one in one hundred thousand chance that a beast will not die violently after eating radiated grass fruit, and a mutation occurs, and among these mutated beast groups, a one in a million perfect mutant appears, then this probability is extremely terrifying within the scope of the entire Yanhuang.

Within Yanhuang, there are more than a dozen natural reserves, as well as some natural pastures.

Added together, these wild animals, excluding those frozen to death due to low temperatures, are also enough to number in the billions!

What is one in a million of billions?

Nearly two thousand!

Li Tianran couldn't imagine what it would be like for two thousand mutated beasts the size of elephants to run rampant in the city.

And the most important thing is not that their body size has changed.

But that they have intelligence.

If it was just a simple change in shape and a surge in power, Li Tianran didn't think they could cause much damage.

As long as it is a carbon-based creature with a flesh-and-blood body, it is impossible to survive under artillery shells!

But what he was afraid of was... the plot of science fiction movies happening in reality.

Godzilla and Chimera reappear in the world.

After all, no one knows whether there is an upper limit to evolution.

These mutated beasts, in the process of slowly becoming stronger, will they awaken some strange powers?

"These are... people?" Li Tianran continued to flip through the photos, but the next one was no longer a mutated beast, but a photo of a man.

"He is a spy sent by the Sakura Country to our country, and he made a big commotion in the southeastern city of Yanhuang..." Yuan Zhenghong said softly, "Not only the Sakura Country, but now the international situation is chaotic, and major countries have begun to send spies and traitors to neighboring countries, either to create chaos, or to gather information, and prepare for war."

"This is from the European Union..."

"This is from the extremist organization IC..."

"This is..."

Yuan Zhenghong gave a series of introductions.

Finally, the photos were finished.

"This is the current situation in Yanhuang, and we need to face more than one enemy." Yuan Zhenghong said solemnly, "Some small countries have been destroyed in just over ten days, and we are now likely to clash with the European Union at any time, and the problems facing Yanhuang are very serious."

"We have both internal and external troubles."

Yuan Zhenghong said, "In order to solve the current predicament, the upper echelons formulated a policy, and the National Security personally issued this document!"

Li Tianran took the document.

"We want to form a special team specifically to address the threat of domestic mutated beasts and spies." Yuan Zhenghong said in a deep voice, "We want to gather personnel who have performed well in various aspects, leadership ability, individual combat ability, infiltration ability, assassination ability, pursuit ability, as long as they meet one of them, after passing the assessment, they can join this team."

Li Tianran looked at the document and finally understood Yuan Zhenghong's true purpose.

"You mean, you want me to join?" Li Tianran felt his throat was a little dry, and asked softly.

"We estimated your ability based on Wang Bing's confession. If Wang Bing didn't lie, my evaluation of you is S!" Yuan Zhenghong smiled and said softly, "A perfect combination of leadership and individual combat ability, you are a very perfect leader!"

"I think you flatter me too much." Li Tianran finally understood why no one continued to pursue the matter of him possessing standard firearms.

Compared to what Yuan Zhenghong said, Li Tianran's possession of guns, and the source of the guns, had become unimportant!

"The Wells gang are just the lowest level criminals, just a bunch of brainless pigs." Li Tianran waved his hand and said, "Just pull out a company from the army, and you can beat the other side to pieces."

"So, you admit that you did that?" Yuan Zhenghong seized the loophole in Li Tianran's words and said quickly.

"..." Li Tianran raised his eyebrows.

He originally wanted to reject Yuan Zhenghong's invitation, and subconsciously said about Wells.

But he didn't feel any annoyance or regret now.

He didn't think that Yuan Zhenghong and Yang Yong had gone to so much trouble, and created so many secret orders, just to get him to tell the truth and get evidence of his crimes!

He had confirmed that what Yuan Zhenghong said was true.

"The soldiers in the company are well-trained, so they can naturally wipe out Wells." Yuan Zhenghong said with a smile, "But you are different. You have never undergone formal training, but you can show such amazing results. You have proven your own excellence! If you are given further training, you will definitely be able to become the leader of this plan!"

*Pa!*

Yuan Zhenghong stretched out a hand to Li Tianran, his voice thick: "Come on! You will become a creator of history! You will get supreme glory!"

Li Tianran looked at Yuan Zhenghong's hand, and a burst of passion suddenly surged in his heart.

A man should be born into the world, and he should achieve meritorious deeds!

On the battlefield, holding an iron sword and steel gun, galloping and roaring, the heads of enemies fell, paving a road to supreme glory for him!

Which man doesn't have a dream of galloping on the battlefield?

Li Tianran was no exception.

At this time, there was still a set of craft military uniforms hanging in his bedroom!

Back then, due to various reasons, he missed a chance to enlist.

And now, the best opportunity is in front of him, as long as he reaches out, he can get it!

How would he choose?

"Actually, joining the army has always been my dream." Li Tianran said softly.

...

Outside Compartment 03.

Yuan Wen and Han Han stood there, the expressions on their faces were very strange.

Yuan Wen didn't expect that she would actually hear these words.

What she didn't expect was that Han Han also heard these words with her.

She knew how tempting Yuan Zhenghong's words were to men.

But how cruel was this to Han Han?

Han Han was only seven years old. If Li Tianran joined the army, Han Han definitely couldn't go with him.

The two siblings would have to separate!

Han Han stood there blankly.

Yuan Wen squatted down, she gently hugged Han Han, and said softly: "Han Han, don't cry, this matter is not certain..."

Han Han turned her head, revealing a bright smile: "Han Han doesn't cry, Han Han has already said that no matter what choice Big Brother makes, Han Han will support him."

"Even... if he wants to leave me."