Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 549 - 123: Pear Blossom Mountain (Part 2)

The team leader hesitated for two seconds and then gave a negative response: "No, do not change the original formation, continue the carpet search... As for the footprints in Area 12, I will send Team F to cooperate with the airborne team for tracking!"

After the team leader finished speaking, he gestured to the four field agents on standby beside him, who immediately marched toward Pear Blossom Mountain.

"Be careful, the footprints might be the target’s attempt to mislead us. Watch out for traps, I don’t want to see any casualties," the team leader said again on the communication channel.

"Or should I go take a look?" Sun Hang suddenly suggested.

"Thank you very much for your help, but I still hope we can capture the target ourselves," the team leader shook his head, "After all, it’s our department’s negligence that let him escape, we have to find a way to make up for our mistake."

"Alright." Sun Hang was happy to be idle—he originally wanted to ask what if they messed up again, but considering Yao Yu was just an ordinary person, sending such a force to capture him seemed like "using a butcher’s knife to kill a chicken," so Sun Hang naturally chose the path of less trouble.

Anyway, as long as he’s here, Yao Yu won’t escape from Pear Blossom Mountain.

...

Pear Blossom Mountain, halfway up.

"Fumin Plantation."

Yao Yu, his breathing slightly calmer, took a pill bottle from his pocket, poured out two pills, threw them into his mouth, and swallowed them with his saliva.

These were the pills he left in the car, but they weren’t for treating heart disease, rather a type of military stimulant.

He deceived the security guard at the checkpoint, he didn’t have heart disease at all, he bet that the guard wouldn’t go through the trouble of checking his medical history... and he was right.

Tablet efficacy takes longer to manifest than injectables, Yao Yu leaned against a tree trunk and stood up, looking toward the top of the mountain.

Crossing this Pear Blossom Mountain, the north slope with a gentler gradient harbors several larger pear plantations, offering more hiding places... it might allow him to evade the first wave of search.

As for what to do after evading the first wave, Yao Yu didn’t think about it.

Thinking about it wouldn’t help.

Yao Yu was someone who loved making detailed and meticulous plans for everything, but now, he had no choice but to take one step at a time, which made him smile self-deprecatingly, then start coughing again. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The Field Operations Department of the Mysterious Creature Research Institute will definitely come to search the mountain, they might even borrow personnel from the military... but Yao Yu also knew that the thing Tianfu City lacks most right now, is manpower.

He estimated that the Institute could gather at most a search team of four to five hundred people, and even with drones, it would be impossible to search every corner of Pear Blossom Mountain within a few days.

Yao Yu didn’t know how many pawns the organization had planted in Tianfu City besides himself and Wen Ya, but one thing was certain: he and Wen Ya were certainly not the only pawns the organization had there.

It won’t be long before the organization learns that he and Wen Ya have been exposed.

The organization won’t rescue him, but it absolutely won’t let the Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute capture him.

The organization will surely find a way to interfere with the Institute’s search operation while... sending assassins.

Thinking that he might also have to face assassins coming to silence him, Yao Yu could only muster a bitter smile.

He never considered the organization as anything good, but to achieve his goals, he had no choice but to join them — only the organization could accept his crazy ideas, ideas that if proposed within the Dubhe Tower, would at best be criticized for having problematic research integrity, and at worst would result in strict scrutiny or being thrown into an asylum-like psychiatric hospital as a madman.

Yet Yao Yu continued to believe he wasn’t wrong... The second wave of large-scale supernatural activity was on the horizon, and this time, the Xiazhou Continent couldn’t be as lucky as before... Human civilization was on the brink, but those in power seemed oblivious.

A century of peaceful development gave the Federation Government a false sense of security, as if maintaining the status quo would allow humanity and supernatural entities to coexist "peacefully" like this...

No, everyone would be harmed by this notion... To survive, change is essential!

Yao Yu felt a jolt inside; that determination which had kept him pushing past his physical limits surged again, alongside the military stimulant he had just swallowed.

The burning sensation in his lungs quickly diminished, replaced by a pounding vein on the back of his head... Yao Yu recognized it as the stimulant’s effect and without any hesitation, he sprinted briskly toward the mountain summit.

...

...

Celestial City, Mysterious Creature Research Institute.

Interrogation Room.

Seated on a folding chair, Ye Jiu crossed his arms, frowning at the battered woman behind the isolation glass, a hint of compassion in his eyes.

Over the past hour, a professional interrogation team had conducted an extremely "inhumane" interrogation on the captured supernatural being... It was more fitting to call it torture than interrogation.

The sullen-looking man entered without asking any questions, first removing all ten fingernails of the woman with pliers, then dousing them with a special solvent... The woman passed out from pain before she could even scream.

The medical team, on standby, immediately stepped in to resuscitate her. After reviving the woman, the sullen man took a small scalpel from his pocket and began slicing pieces of flesh from her arm right under her nose, arranging them neatly on a delicate porcelain plate... it looked just like sashimi, a favorite of the Dongying people.

The word "lingchi" (death by a thousand cuts) popped into Ye Jiu’s mind.

However, after several rounds of "brutal torture," and losing consciousness multiple times only to be revived, the supernatural being still refused to divulge any information. Each time Ye Jiu signaled the interrogators to pause so he could question her, all he got were strings of insults.

Even when her voice weakened to the point of struggling to utter a complete syllable, she remained unwilling to yield, refusing to reveal even a word of intelligence.

"Continue... Why did you stop?" the revived supernatural being muttered, "Any suffering I bear will become a testament to my devotion upon returning to the Holy Master... Your tortures only glorify me further... I..."

Before the woman could finish, the sullen man landed a punch on her abdomen, forcing her to choke back the rest of her words.

"Has this person been brainwashed so thoroughly?" Ye Jiu mumbled under his breath.

"Conventional interrogation techniques might not work on her," the sullen man returned to the prep room, removed the bloodstained white gloves, and tossed them into the trash, "Mr. Ye, I need a higher level of clearance."

"A higher level of clearance, what do you mean?" Ye Jiu paused, asking, "I’ve given you nearly all the access except banning you from killing her, what more do you want?"

"I hope to utilize a mysterious entity during the interrogation," the sullen man stated.

"A mysterious entity?" Ye Jiu’s expression froze slightly.

"I understand that using supernatural forces for interrogation is strictly prohibited for non-infected individuals," the sullen man explained, "but she’s a supernatural being, technically, she’s not an ordinary person. So..."