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"Ah? I have no objection. Whether she is eliminated and continues to be protected in secret, or she is allowed to retain her memory and be careful not to do stupid things again, I can accept both. The key is your idea, URUZ-7, Sagara Sosuke, you are the direct executor of the mission, this is appointed by Captain Tessa. But I remind you that the memory police's car is almost downstairs, and it will be at your place in two minutes. You need to reserve seconds for yourself to retreat. No matter what, you must make a decision quickly."
Just as Cruz said, two minutes later, Shuten and his memory police force knocked on Chidori's door.
When the door opened, Shuten saw the panicked girl, but there was no one else in the room except her.
"What do you see?"
"Monster! A monster just tried to come in from the balcony. It looked like a reptile, but it had lots of tentacles!"
Shuto Saya walked to the balcony of the apartment and indeed saw the remains of quite a few alien beasts. There was more than one, but it looked like there were about six or seven of them, all of which were killed.
“Who destroyed these monsters?”
"It was a man in combat uniform who came in from the balcony and used guns and artillery shells to destroy these monsters!"
The girl was still in shock and really looked like she was terrified.
Chidori Kaname was indeed frightened. No one would not be afraid of alien beasts. But her fear was also a disguise. It was always difficult to see through a girl's lies.
"What about the man who destroyed the monster? Did you see what he looked like?"
"He jumped off the balcony. He was so tightly dressed that I couldn't see what he looked like."
Shuto Saya thought she knew the truth.
"Who is he?" Chidori asked.
"It's a secret."
The people of the association, no doubt about it. As the head of the memory police force, Director Shou Teng certainly knew about the association.
To be able to destroy so many alien beasts, the weapons must be as heavy as those of the regular night raid team.
TLT and the association are not enemies, and of course it is difficult to simply classify them as "friends".
As for Chidori Kaname, he was just an innocent person who was unfortunately implicated.
Shuten pulled out a device that looked like a cell phone and turned it on Chidori.
"What is this..." Before the girl could finish her words, the device flashed white light. Chidori's voice stopped abruptly.
Being familiar with the process, Shu Teng certainly didn't think there would be any problems with the memory erasing device, as it had never had any problems before.
"Send her to the hospital to check if she is injured. Send people to seal off the building. Announce that it was a gas pipe explosion."
It's not just Chidori Kaname who needs to have their memories erased. All residents around the entire apartment building who heard the gunfire need to have their memories modified. This will be a big operation, and they will be very busy tonight.
"Director Shuto, take a look at this. This is the record of the girl Chidori wants."
The assistant handed over a record, and Shuto thought it was something else. The record showed that she had her memory erased many times.
"This child is so unlucky, he has witnessed so many alien beasts?"
However, I don’t know whether to say that he is unlucky or lucky to have survived so many encounters with alien beasts.
It’s not a big deal.
Chapter 547: The Seal of the Forgotten River
Chidori Kaname was not treated specially.
The memory police did not link her to the cause of the alien beast attack. After all, there were more than one alien beast outbreak tonight. She just happened to be unlucky and her home was attacked.
Therefore, after being sent to the ambulance, there were no TLT staff following except regular medical staff.
They had a more difficult task. In the surrounding communities, the memories of thousands of people needed to be revised.
Tonight is expected to be a sleepless night.
More than ten minutes after the ambulance left the community, Chidori's dull expression became lively and she sat up from the bed in the ambulance's compartment.
The nurse next to her wanted her to lie down for a while, but Chidori was not feeling uncomfortable, so the nurse did not force her.
Chidori took off her contact lenses, which were uncomfortable to wear for a long time.
A contact lens produced by the association that can avoid amnesia.
Isn't it easy to pretend to be hypnotized, or do I actually have a talent for acting?
Of course, alien beasts are scary, but knowing nothing is scarier.
The alien beast tide ended in just ten minutes after the visitor's barrier was broken. The alien beasts that had flocked to the Forgotten River under the Freedom Fortress disappeared.
There is a new long-term task in the association.
"Guard the Seven Seals?"
Not long after returning, Sosuke logged into the association and saw the top task posted by Miss Kainar in the task hall.
"The merit reward for the mission is so high! Good evening, Pancake, you must have worked hard on the mission just now."
"Captain!"
"Really? I told you to just call me Tessa. Sosuke is such a wooden man."
Tessa, Mithril's highest officer and captain of the Sons of Danu, muttered.
She is a silver-haired girl, and she is also known as a silver-haired girl in the association.
"Personally, I think this mission conflicts with my current mission of protecting Chidori."
There are two types of missions to protect the Seven Seals. One is to temporarily transfer the Seven Seals when they are attacked, to carry out the task of killing the invading alien beasts.
The second type is to stay at the seal location permanently and guard it all the time.
The merits of the latter are much higher, but it is also more dangerous. Generally speaking, even members of the association cannot bear it without sufficient strength.
Ling is also very clear that the Dark Giant's target is the River of Oblivion, so the enemies they will encounter when guarding the seven sealed places will not only be alien beasts.
Mephisto, Zaki, and even Dark Lucifer may attack.
Because of the seal, their power must have been weakened, perhaps only one tenth of it remains, but it is still not something ordinary people can handle.
So far, the only person who has truly been confirmed to be the guardian of the seal is Huang Angliu.
The defection of Kiraraze had a great impact on TLT, and all confidentiality routes had to be adjusted. The planned projects he had participated in had to be stopped.
This includes almost all technology received from visitors.
Since Kirarazawa is the Dark Giant, no one can guarantee whether there are any backdoors inserted in the weapons created by the visitor's technology that he passed on at the time.
"Is Chrome Chester also banned?"
Ling was also notified that the Chrome Chester fighter jets were not allowed to be used in recent operations.
"It's just temporary. The logistics department is analyzing and ruling out the possibility of malicious code in the operating system. It will take two to three weeks," said Manager Matsunaga.
"So if there are combat missions in the near future, we can only use the Eagle or the Sky Whale as replacements. I hope the team members can get used to it."
These were weapons I exchanged from the association, and were only used for research. I never thought they would be used in actual combat.
Ling also felt a little strange. The Eagle and Sky Whale felt like they were fighting side by side with the ZAT and TAC teams again.
"Assistant, do you have time now?"
"Well, there's nothing urgent."
Matsunaga took Ling to the lower level of the Freedom Fortress.
Under the water layer of the dam, there is still "water". At first glance, it looks like a vast ocean.
The orchid-colored light gathers and leads to an infinitely deep place.
The river of oblivion, Lethe.
"The three commanders probably didn't authorize me to contact the River Oblivion, did they?"
The sea seems infinite and deep, and the bottom cannot be seen with the naked eye.
This is indeed the case. Its "bottom" is several kilometers underground. It is a huge device that holds the Wangchuan River.
"It was like this before, but this time it was authorized by the three superiors. They asked me to bring you here."
"You should know that Lethe is the technology of the visitors. It existed long before Kiraraze came to TLT. It was created five years ago."
Kirarasawa is not the only one who can communicate with the visitor. In fact, his genes also come from the first communicator.
So no one would have thought that the product of artificial genetic technology, the person who knows everything about it, would actually be a dark giant.
"Because of Kiraraze's defection, we must now seal off the River of Oblivion. There is too much darkness in it, and once it overflows, the consequences will be unimaginable."
"It's that simple to seal it?"
Ling also looked down at the deep sea, which was different from the real ocean. Because she had borrowed the power of Aguru, she could clearly feel the difference.
The so-called sea is actually the sea of human mind, more like the sea of soul. There are too many impurities, so it almost condenses into a curse.
The negative energy of human beings, even if nothing is done about this curse, after a long time it will give rise to disasters, monsters, or even more terrifying things.
"That's all we can do."
Matsunaga certainly knew that simply sealing it would have consequences, but originally they couldn't even "seal it". Facts proved that the bastard Kirarasawa really destroyed the visitor's barrier.
During those ten minutes, the alien beast vibration wave detectors across the island kept sending out warnings as if a virus had been triggered and gone crazy.
The radar was marked with densely packed light spots of alien beasts, hundreds of them, all advancing towards the Fortress of Liberty.
Once the alien beasts break through the River of Oblivion, the "darkness" that has accumulated for five years will be obtained by the alien beasts, and mankind will be only one step away from destruction.
Fortunately, the association's barrier worked. Even though it was incredible, humans had long since dismissed it as superstitious, and it really worked, preventing the alien beasts from getting out of bounds.
Ling also understood why Manager Matsunaga brought her here.
"Administrator, do you want me to maintain communication with the association?"
"It's like this. Before, Kirarasawa was in charge of the alien beast barrier. He communicated with visitors and maintained the barrier regularly. Now the barrier has become the 'Association' that maintains it, and someone is needed there to keep in touch as well."
"But wasn't it Mizoroki who was in charge of the association?"
"We can't completely trust Goroki." Matsunaga said, and then felt that his words were a bit ambiguous. "Of course, we trust Vice Captain Goroki. But after what happened to Kirasawa, the three commanders all thought that we can't put our trust in the same person."
It can't be just one person communicating with the group. This will result in repeating the same mistakes as what happened to Yu Kirasawa and the visitor.
"I used to be the assistant to the deputy director of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, and then I was transferred here to serve as a management officer. I thought my job was no different from the Intelligence and Research Office, until I came into contact with alien beasts. They are things that can pollute people's hearts and make them no longer themselves."
"I have known Kiraraze for a long time. I have been in contact with Yu since the beginning of the Prometheus Project as a member of the Cabinet Intelligence Investigation Office. He does not seem like someone who would betray humanity. Assistant Officer, I believe in my own eyes. Until now, I still believe that Kiraraze is a kind child. I cannot imagine that he would do anything to hurt humans."
"Yeah." Ling also understood what Matsunaga said.