The Result

Long Ao and Hong Yuan finished clearing the roadblocks and returned to the perimeter. Their bodies were covered in grayish-white dust.

Hong Yuan anxiously asked, "Has the instrument detected any signals?"

Yin Chen looked at the distant equipment and shook his head. "There is no signal feedback for the time being."

Long Ao stared at the flickering detection screen stubbornly and said, "It's just that the equipment you brought is no good."

The person in charge beside him carefully explained, "This is already the highest - specification search and rescue equipment that can be mobilized."

Long Ao turned around and glared angrily. "Can the highest - specification equipment never make mistakes?"

The person in charge wisely retreated to the rear and stopped answering.

Su Yuehe stepped forward and gently persuaded, "Long Ao, don't deliberately make things difficult for them."

Long Ao turned his gaze back to the distant ruins and said coldly, "I'm not making things difficult for anyone. We can't search for Chen Guan with such ordinary standards."

Yin Chen added beside him.

"I've already asked the search and rescue team to add an anomaly comparison. His black coffin, sickle, and even the coat he often wears can all be used as the basis for the instrument to locate him at present."

Hong Yuan held the handle of the axe and looked into the bottomless distance. Suddenly, she said, "What if all these things can't be found in the end?"

Apart from the roar of the machines in the wind, no one answered this question.

Time passed little by little in the roar of the machinery.

The thick night completely covered the sky of Shanghai. The high - power searchlights illuminated the entire ruins in a pale white light. The rescue teams in the core area had been rotated three times in a row, and the search and rescue dogs at the forefront were so tired that two batches had been changed.

Su Yuehe sat beside the temporary medical vehicle, holding a cup of hot water with both hands. An Changqing stood in front of the isolation line like a statue, staring into the depths of the ruins. Long Ao squatted on the broken curb, staring intently at the core area of the search and rescue.

Hong Yuan leaned her body against the long handle of the giant axe. Her face was covered with mud and dust, and she refused all suggestions to take a rest.

Yin Chen looked at the latest summary form that had just been delivered and began to read out the data loudly.

"The result of the first round of life - signal search is zero. The result of the second round of soul - wave detection is zero. In the third round, only a large amount of scattered traces from the power of demons were found at the scene, and no personal traces of Chen Guan were captured at all."

Long Ao suddenly stood up from the curb. "Tell them to continue searching."

Yin Chen looked up at him. "The team has been searching intensively for a full eight hours."

Long Ao stepped forward threateningly. His tall figure blocked the last bit of light. "I told you to continue searching."

Hong Yuan straightened up and loudly declared.

"No one is allowed to stop before dawn."

Su Yuehe raised her eyes and stubbornly said, "Don't stop even after dawn."

Yin Chen forcefully closed the summary form in his hand.

"I never said I would stop. I'll immediately ask them to expand the search scope to the entire collapsed area."

An Changqing walked over from the isolation line.

"Add the underground drainage system too."

Facing Yin Chen's confused look, An Changqing calmly added the reason.

"Chen Guan might have been shifted to other places underground due to the shock of the space rift. Add the drainage system, subway lines, and underground shelter areas for a thorough investigation."

Yin Chen immediately turned to the search and rescue person in charge.

"Did you all hear that?"

The person in charge replied loudly, "We've all heard. We'll immediately retrieve the underground building survey map of this area."

The search and rescue work continued for a full day and night.

The cold rain in Shanghai fell in the second half of the night, and all the flying dust in the sky was pressed back to the ground by the water vapor.

Until the next morning, a muddy search and rescue worker led a search and rescue dog and ran out of the core area at full speed.

"Major discovery!"

Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on them.

Long Ao rushed through the isolation line recklessly. "Give it to me."

The search and rescue worker gasped and took out a transparent sealed bag.

"No living beings were found below. The search and rescue dog found this thing under the gap of a severely deformed metal plate."

Lying quietly in the sealed bag was a severely charred piece of cloth. Most of the patterns on the cloth had been burned by the high - temperature, only the edges and corners remained.

Su Yuehe just glanced at it through the bag and tears welled up in her eyes.

"This is really his coat."

Hong Yuan stretched out her hand as if to touch it but then stopped in mid - air.

"Could it be that someone else just happened to be wearing the same style of clothes?"

Long Ao immediately echoed.

"Yes, there are so many people in Shanghai. There are people wearing black clothes everywhere."

Yin Chen reached out to take the sealed bag and directly handed it to the professional testing personnel on standby.

"Go and do the comparison right away. I need your fastest result."

The testing personnel took the evidence and quickly ran towards the mobile laboratory.

The two hours of waiting for the test report seemed extremely long.

Su Yuehe stared intently at the door of the testing vehicle. Long Ao paced back and forth restlessly on the open ground for dozens of times, and finally was stopped by An Changqing.

"Stop pacing back and forth."

Long Ao stopped his messy steps and sighed.

"I'm so annoyed that I just can't stop."

In fact, he also knew that his current state of mind was wrong, but he just couldn't control it and didn't want to control it either.

An Changqing quietly looked directly at him.

"If you can't stop, then stand still."

Long Ao strode up to An Changqing and questioned.

"Do you already accept the fact in your heart?"

An Changqing fell into a long silence.

"I don't want to accept it either."

Long Ao raised his chin high. "Since you don't want to accept it, then don't. We'll just wait for him to come back here. He's always managed to come back every time he was in danger."

Su Yuehe nodded vigorously in agreement.

"He will definitely come back alive this time too."

Hong Yuan raised her muddy face.

"If he really can't come back, I'll chop all the killers who caused his death into pieces."

Yin Chen calmly pointed out the fact beside them.

"But we still don't know who is behind this. Why did the seal suddenly loosen for no reason?"

Hong Yuan tightly clenched the handle of the axe with both hands.

"The mastermind behind this must be those demons. It was them who invaded Shanghai. It was also Guan Jinyue who led us to that remains of the demon god. This matter definitely has something to do with them."

Yin Chen reminded everyone present.

"Guan Jinyue saved that lightning cheetah at the last moment. At the same time, it was also her who helped us open the spatial passage to escape."

Hong Yuan snorted heavily.

"She only cared about and took away that cheetah. Don't forget, that cheetah is also a demon beast, and it was picked up by Chen Guan in the wild!"

Long Ao looked at the ruins under the rain curtain and retorted.

"It was Chen Guan himself who ordered her to save the cheetah."

After this sentence fell, the few people on the scene fell into another difficult silence.

The door of the testing vehicle finally opened outward.

Yin Chen immediately strode forward.

"Is the final result out?"

The tester nervously handed out a printed paper report.

"Young Master Yin, please read it yourself first."

Yin Chen reached out to take the report. His eyes only swept across two lines on the paper, and his fingers pinching the paper paused.