After listening to these words, Pei Yan didn't respond immediately. The first thing he thought of was when he first encountered Shangxing, and it told him about the Divine Desire Organization conducting experiments on superhumans. Then during the Secret Prison battle, they released cheap superhumans with only strengthened physical abilities, and later Amendina controlled a superhuman puppet army during the team competition, up until today with subordinates that can completely mimic others' appearances and abilities.
This connection made Pei Yan deeply fearful of the rapid development of Divine Desire, and this ability closely resembled his sister's branch ability, making him feel an ominous premonition.
"Does the hall have no countermeasures for such attacks?" Pei Yan threw the almost finished cigarette to the ground, crushed it out, and looked at Shang Yong, asking.
"What you're seeing now is the precautionary measure. The code between the patrol teams changes every time, and each team is properly filed before departure. Any investigating hall team appearing before us without a record, all members must be prepared for combat. Once an anomaly is discovered, don't hold back. The hall has developed an instrument for this type of ability user. A scan by this instrument can identify if someone is a disguised infiltrator. However, you know this is a different plane, unfriendly to internal high-tech electronic devices. Without your ability adding to it, this instrument frequently malfunctions here. We have no choice but to take it back to the real world and deploy it as needed." Shang Yong also crushed out his cigarette and looked at Pei Yan apologetically: "Actually, I recognized you at first glance, but you've changed so much and appeared out of the blue. We had to be cautious!"
"I understand!" Pei Yan nodded, looking at the honest uncle in front of him. Although the other's age was clearly older, his seniority in the hall was much later than his own. Feeling the change in his internal energy, Pei Yan noted happily, "Half a year apart and you've already broken through the bottleneck to the fourth awakening stage, advancing two stages in a row, impressive!"
"That's all thanks to our leader. During several battles with Blood Veil, he protected us so we could escape!" The team members behind Shang Yong, hearing Pei Yan praise their leader, beamed with pride and sought to claim credit.
"Hehe, it's all thanks to you! All the pieces you gave, Gu Chu handed them to me without missing one. Without those fragments, I'd still be running around in the second stage of ability." Shang Yong scratched his head humbly looking at Pei Yan.
"My things only serve as auxiliary. Breaking through relies on yourself! Advancing two stages in half a year, my personal advice is to slow down. Focus on stabilizing your current level for your future development!" Seeing Shangxing's successor being so adored by his team members, Pei Yan found it his happiest moment in half a year. Giving his advice, he turned to ask, "But even with you here, doesn't it seem like training time isn't enough, is the investigating hall short of staff?"
This squad, besides the fourth-stage Shang Yong, mostly consisted of second and third-stage members. Their strength was too low. The investigating hall's previous Hell training plan targeted the fourth stage and above, so Pei Yan's question was understandable.
"Er, the hall currently has enough staff! Compared to other national investigating halls, we're doing well. Although Divine Desire has caused a few attacks, they haven't done anything major." Shang Yong responded.
"Yes, I heard from the hall's report that the Divine Desire Organization is causing quite a ruckus in other countries. In one small country, their investigating hall was wiped out allegedly to get a superhuman with an origin fragment. Hence the hall organized joint investigators to probe into it!" A team member behind Shang Yong interjected.
"Exactly, that's why I heard from above there might be big battles in the future. The hall is intensively rotating agents under training to less conflict-heavy areas to quickly adapt to real combat for upcoming battles." Shang Yong concluded.
Hearing this, Pei Yan nodded knowingly. It seemed that the upper-level struggles that moved even the slightest part had already spread to every aspect of the superpower realm. All planes were readied like wound-up war machines, prepared for the upcoming war.
As Pei Yan pondered this, the team with the detection instrument finally arrived from the base realm. After being screened, Pei Yan naturally had no issues. Upon being let through, he applied his ability to the instrument, enabling it to operate freely on the alternate plane.
"Pei Ke! Can we win this battle?" Just as Pei Yan stepped into the warehouse where materials were stored, a team member behind Shang Yong couldn't suppress his emotions and shouted, viewing Pei Yan and his teammates waging fierce battles on the Magic Realm through the broadcast as heroes and the investigating hall's future main combat force.
"We will win!" Pei Yan didn't turn around but pointed upward for an answer that filled everyone with confidence.
Looking over the list given by Engineer Li, Pei Yan in the warehouse absorbed his materials piece by piece. The entire process was long and monotonous but familiar to Pei Yan. After half a day absorbing all the warehouse materials, he sat in the empty warehouse, savoring his own slice of calm.
Pei Yan didn't hurry to leave but employed his ability to connect with the Holy City, contacting the Demon God in the Holy Hall through their nanobot communication method. Established when they met, Pei Yan didn't expect to use it so soon.
"Oh, you're still in the Hell Plane? Moving fast, not even saying goodbye. I thought you'd left here back to the Daoist Realm." The Demon God's lazy voice sounded through the receiver, somewhat regretfully.
"I need you to handle something for me..." Pei Yan said, standing up and walking to the warehouse door. He opened it to the brilliant sunlight of a new day shining on him, with the team still on guard at the entrance under Shang Yong's direction. Seeing their friendly and kind smiles, Pei Yan returned it and slowly voiced his request.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Hearing Pei Yan's words, the Demon God immediately perked up and asked.
"I'm sure! Can you accomplish this in such a short time?" Pei Yan answered firmly.
"Of course, I can. I need to talk to Lin Ruxue first, but given her temperament, she'll be happy to accept these terms. It looks like those Blood Veil guys have stirred your wrath again, they're in trouble!"
