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"You really don't have a long memory." Ito Cheng sighed when he saw the brown-haired man turn into a bat again and escape.

He immediately thought and imprisoned all the bats that had not flown far away in mid-air. Then with a thought, a large number of flames suddenly appeared in mid-air and burned the imprisoned bats.

"Squeaks ~" Under the burning of the flame, the bats that couldn't move completely made a miserable scream, and then turned into a scorching corpse falling towards the ground.

"Exposed~" After the bat corpses landed on the ground, they were all broken into a pile of black ash, mixed with the soil on the ground, and their shapes were indistinguishable.

"It's a pity that one escaped." Ito Cheng, who had dealt with the brown-haired man, turned to look at the location of the castle and sighed with some regret.

"Forget it, killing a task holder and servant is just an offense to the owner of the castle, but chasing after him and silencing him is tantamount to provoking a vampire family, which is not worth the gain." Ito Cheng looked at it hesitantly. Looking at the dark castle not far away, he sighed and started teleporting away from the vicinity of the castle.

"Speaking of it, today is the day when the Black Ball Team goes on a mission." Said Ito Narishin, who teleported several times back to the city and finally stopped at the top of a building. Then he turned his hand and turned into a small black ball. Holding the ball in his hand, he lowered his head to check.

"Huh? The last Uchio Tanaka from the Ministry of Environment is actually dead!?" Looking at the information displayed on the small black ball, Ito Cheng said to himself in surprise.

"Search for the current location of Tanaka's little black ball." Ito Cheng then ordered.

As soon as he finished speaking, the picture on the laser screen of the small black ball changed quickly. First, there was a satellite picture of the entire Japanese island and the nearby sea areas. The connected picture was quickly pulled up and locked to the Japanese main island area. Then he pulled it again to zoom in on the entire Tokyo area, and then quickly moved the screen. It is locked at Building No. 5, Contract Office Building, 1-2-2, Kasumigoseki, Chiyoda-ku.

After that, the picture quickly changed from solid to transparent, and the lines of the three-dimensional drawing flipped into lines. Then a shining red light spot appeared in a room in the building that had been turned into a three-dimensional model.

"This location... is the Ministry of Environment, and I remember this floor was the floor I didn't break into at the beginning." Ito Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the flashing red dots on the screen and said secretly, "If we speculate based on this situation. Tanaka is very He might have been killed by someone from the Ministry of Environment, otherwise his personal belongings would not have appeared here. In other words... the existence of the Black Ball Team has attracted the attention of the Ministry of Environment."

"But yes, so many middle- and lower-level people have been blocked. If the Ministry of the Environment doesn't pay attention, it will not be the Ministry of the Environment." Ito Cheng chuckled with disdain.

"Connect with that little black ball and show me the environment around it." Ito Cheng then ordered.

As soon as the words fell, the picture quickly changed from three-dimensional graphics to real images, and then a strange room filled with various scientific research equipment, spells, crystals, and corpse fragments appeared on the screen.

"This should be the sixth room of the Ministry of Environment." Ito Cheng said softly to himself after seeing the content of the screen.

"How are you, have you found a way to open this thing?" At this moment, a male voice suddenly came from the screen.

"No, find any wiring point at all. It's as if it is what it is." Then, another male voice came out.

"The time given by the higher-ups is running out. Even if this thing is destroyed, a report must be produced." Then the screen changed, and a hand grabbed the small black ball from outside the screen and picked it up from its original position.

At the same time, two male bodies wearing white coats appeared on the screen.

"I think so too. But I've tried it. No matter whether it's powerful cutting, laser strike, ultra-high temperature burning, ultra-freezing or other extreme destruction methods, they can't leave even the slightest trace on this thing. Now I'm a little doubtful. Is this a product of the earth?" One of them said with a helpless tone.

"Tell me, is this a product of the United States?" Then the man said cautiously in a mysterious voice.

"Don't talk nonsense." The man holding the small black ball in his hand paused and scolded in a low voice.

"Yes, I said too much." The person being scolded immediately lowered his head and responded respectfully.

"Try to figure it out. After all, this is the only thing we have found so far that may be related to the recent attacks. No matter what, we have to find clues from it." The man holding the black ball changed his hands and replaced the small black ball. Putting it back to its original position, he sighed.

"Yes." The other person responded.

Then a sound of gradually fading footsteps came from the screen, and it was obvious that the person had left the vicinity.

"Work." The remaining person sighed, walked slowly back to the little black ball and sat down, and then there was a man who was about twenty-four or five years old, with short black hair, but I don't know if it was because of The young man who looked very messy and slovenly, whether because of overtime or something else, appeared in Ito Cheng's eyes.

"Do you want power? Do you want to become a master? Do you want to live the life you want without restraint?" At this moment, the surface of the little black ball that was being studied by the young man suddenly lit up. Several green laser beams were fired into the void, forming a laser screen, and then a group of words appeared on the screen one after another like a typewriter.

The young man jumped up from his chair the moment the little black ball changed and retreated a certain distance. But after discovering that the little black ball had no other changes except playing this set of words, he felt a little curious and leaned closer again.

"What is this? An advertisement? Or the devil's temptation." The young man looked at the text displayed on the screen, frowned and whispered.

"Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly...live?" As soon as he finished speaking, the text on the screen quickly disappeared, and another set of text appeared in front of the young man's eyes.

"Alive..." After seeing this group of words, the young man's eyes suddenly became confused and murmured.

"Money, beauty, power, the meaning of life, everything you want to have, you can get it from me, as long as you pick it up and complete the designated task." Under the thought, another set of words came one after another. presented.

The young man who saw the new text appeared again stretched out his hand towards the little black ball with a slight struggle in his eyes.

"That's not right." But just when his palm was about to touch the little black ball, the confused and struggling young man's eyes cleared, and he quickly retracted his palm and stepped back.

"I almost got caught. There is actually hidden hypnosis in the text message that affects consciousness." The young man secretly thought with a slight lingering fear in his expression, then took out his cell phone from his pocket and made a call.

"I am the team leader, Shi Ben. I have a special situation, please come here." The young man Shi Ben said in a deep voice.

At this time, the surface of the small black ball flashed again, retracting the emitted laser screen and turning it into a dead object again to stay in the vehicle.

"Hypnosis is not just hidden in words." Ito Cheng, who cut off the contact with the little black ball, chuckled to himself.

Then Ito Cheng temporarily put the matter of the little black ball behind and browsed the information about the black ball team in Japan.

Overall, it's pretty good. The five black ball teams have all made varying degrees of progress. Among them, unmanned teams like the Shikoku Kyushu team have finally accumulated enough newcomers to start their first black ball mission. As for a team like the Tokyo team that was swaying ahead of the other four teams, two more people scored 100 points after Yoshimi Kikue and received enhancements.

They are the school girl Yuko Nakashachi who chose to strengthen the Ice Release, and the middle-aged special man who also chose to strengthen the Sharingan.

"Not bad." Ito Cheng nodded slightly after browsing the information about the Black Ball Team. Then he manipulated the little black ball to transmit the superpower enhancement information and the information on the two genetic medicines obtained from the absolutely pitiful world to the relay that stayed in the geosynchronous orbit, and then relayed all the information through the relay. Give it to the five black balls scattered all over Japan.

"Anyway, it's okay now. It's late at night again, so I just want to go to the Bounty Guild to have a look." After transmitting the message, Ito Cheng turned his hand and put away the small black ball, and looked at the scattered vehicles and people below and said to himself.

Following Ito Cheng, he walked slowly to the side, buried a message receiver for Black Ball in the corner, and then activated teleportation to move towards the Bounty Guild.

A moment later, Ito Cheng appeared outside a well-known wine shop in a bustling area.

"Is the so-called great hidden in the city?" Ito Cheng casually glanced at the environment around the wine, and then stepped into the wine.

After passing through the entrance corridor about five or six meters long, I found a room with an area of ​​more than 200 square meters. The interior was simple and comfortable, and the overall soothing and elegant wine style was immediately presented to Ito Cheng.

"It's really surprising. I thought it was a high place here, but I didn't expect it to be quiet." Ito Cheng walked slowly into the wine and walked towards the stage. He glanced at the wine sitting in the corner, dressed in the same style. The aura was obviously not ordinary, the guys who were drinking leisurely thought to themselves.

"Pa." Ito Cheng, who walked to the front of the stage, sat down on the high chair next to the stage table, raised his hand and snapped his fingers to call the bartender over.

"What would the guest want?" the bartender asked.

"I heard that you are recruiting workers here." Ito Cheng asked while tapping his right hand on the table with a strange pause and looking at the bartender.

The bartender glanced at Ito Cheng's fingers tapping on the countertop, nodded and said, "Yes, as long as there are people, we have a job for them."

"That's a good feeling." Ito Cheng took back his hand and said with a smile.