Captain Mao spoke while taking out a tablet, bringing up the internal records from the action department titled "Mysterious List," and handed it to Lv Bai.

Sequence 43 - Wriggling.

This anomaly is only recorded in text on the "Mysterious List."

The description of the Wriggling above looks somewhat eerie.

Before the textual introduction of Wriggling, there is a warning written in bold red: If you see a White figure wriggling in the fields of the countryside, you must close your eyes and turn around to run away immediately.

"So, does every person who sees the Wriggling turn into one of them?"

Lv Bai glanced at several Death Fighters tied to the tree trunk, still wriggling.

"Exactly."

Captain Mao, with some pain, took out his gun.

Perhaps just hearing the above introduction, compared to anomalies that cause thousands of casualties upon appearance, Wriggling doesn’t seem to be high-risk.

After all, you need to see it for it to affect the observer.

And previously, Wriggling only appeared in the countryside, so besides some unlucky ones, it shouldn’t pose too much danger to the public.

But the reason the Wriggling anomaly ranks at position 43 is due to its other terrifying characteristic.

That is a kind of meme-like contagion.

When a normal person sees someone influenced by Wriggling, it triggers an unconscious imitation of the victim and has a great chance of attracting the Wriggling to appear.

This process of assimilation, memory, and expression, eventually achieving spread, hardly raises alarms.

By the time people realize it, it’s already too late.

Captain Mao raised his gun, aiming at the direction where the three Death Fighters were.

The spreading effect of Wriggling has not been clarified so far, and despite his reluctance, Captain Mao had no choice but to shoot the Death Fighters dead.

Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Lv Bai suddenly raised his hand to block Captain Mao’s gun.

Captain Mao’s expression was slightly complex as he explained, "Master Lv, I know they are your new disciples, but there’s no other way..."

Lv Bai’s palm lay flat, controlling his face to not show a smile.

"What I mean is, let me do it."

Captain Mao looked at Lv Bai’s expression, understanding that having to kill his newly accepted disciples must be painful for Lv Bai.

Though he thought he should take on the task, since Lv Bai spoke up himself, he didn’t dare refuse but felt a bit sorry.

Captain Mao’s imagination moved himself, and with a deeply respectful look, he put his gun in his hand.

"If you can’t do it..."

Without a word, Lv Bai decisively opened the safety and pulled the trigger.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Three consecutive gunshots.

The three Death Fighters tied to the trunk were all shot in the forehead and quickly fell silent.

[Score +3, Current Score: 19, Current Ranking: 1/134]

After pocketing these three points, Lv Bai casually returned the gun to Captain Mao, adding: "We have to find this hidden anomaly."

The death of the three Death Fighters wasn’t significant, after all, there are still so many fighters present.

Instead, it was the whereabouts of the Wriggling that caught his attention.

To know, there were no commonalities among the three Death Fighters affected by Wriggling.

They neither lived in the same room nor acted alone.

When and where did they see the Wriggling?

These questions had no clues at all.

Captain Mao signaled his subordinates to handle the bodies of the three Death Fighters, then turned and said: "I should have someone investigate their rooms first?"

"Okay."

Lv Bai nodded slightly, then squinted his eyes, looking towards the sky.

By now, the day was fully bright.

The rising sun in the east was dispelling the darkness, bringing light to the earth and its people.

...

Keshan Reception Center, a family compound with a connected front and back yard.

This was just transformed into a temporary command center yesterday.

The area is not large, but it is well-equipped.

Many staff who worked from last night till now are still busy.

The central screen, made up of several smaller screens, occupied the entire wall.

Minister Zhang stood with his hands behind his back, in front of the central screen, observing the real-time footage coming from various places.

At this moment, a bespectacled secretary came over, holding a stack of documents.

"Minister, this is the recently organized budget from the logistics department. Currently, we have sufficient water supply, but due to the recent siren head issue on the Sak National Road, food transportation might be tight.

According to our reception center’s food allocation plan, our remaining supplies will only last until the day after tomorrow."

The anomaly on the transport road, although a sudden incident, fortunately had contingency plans made, so Minister Zhang showed no panic.

"No need to inform the public about this matter, initiate the emergency transport plan."

He took the documents, casually scanning through them, then asked: "Has Master Lv found any trace of the Wriggling?"

The secretary seemed to anticipate this question and answered without hesitation: "No report from Captain Mao has been received yet."

With an anomaly hiding in the reception center, a densely populated place, a mistake could lead to chaos, so extreme caution is necessary.

Minister Zhang acknowledged with a hum and added: "Continue to keep a close eye, anything Master Lv needs must be met immediately."

... 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Lv Bai sat at the desk, leisurely putting away a painted Yellow Talisman.

After completing all this, he looked up at Captain Mao in front of him and cheerfully said, "I don’t need anything."

"We’ve thoroughly searched the place where those three lived multiple times, but found nothing unusual."

Standing in front of the desk, Captain Mao hesitated for a moment but couldn’t resist asking: "Master Lv, where do you think the Wriggling could be hiding?"

"I don’t know."

Lv Bai honestly replied.

Such an answer inevitably disappointed Captain Mao.

After some simple chit-chat, Captain Mao mentioned he needed to leave to continue searching for the Wriggling with his department’s team.

Of course, everyone knew such a search would yield no real results.

Lv Bai watched Captain Mao leave, pondered for a while, then picked up a brush, deciding to prepare a few more Yellow Talismans.

However, just as he reached out to fetch new vermilion and ink from the yellow cloth bag on the floor...

An unexpected event occurred.