Chapter 134: The Bureau of Heresy and Dangerous Treatment

Bai Liu's tongue moved in his mouth, the cold coin moving slowly under the thin mucous membrane at the base of his tongue, and with an inexplicable emotion in his eyes, he looked calmly out of the small window at the policeman who was guarding him with fearful eyes.

The lorry with its heavy metal tailgate sped across the deserted road at night, followed by several other cars, towards a huge, domed, stadium-sized white building in the middle of the moor.

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The interior of the domed building is smooth and silvery white, a shiny metal that reflects light and is cast in a tightly knitted manner, each side resembling a mirror, with a huge lamp hanging in the centre like the sun, the cold white light reflecting blindingly off the walls and coming from all sides, with dark goggles on all those who come and go inside.

The men who had arrested Bai Liu in the name of the police had expertly put on their goggles before they entered the huge building, but Bai Liu, whom they had tied with metal chains, had no goggles to wear.

It only takes a second or two for the eye to lose its normal visual function in this high light level without goggles and open eyes, and only a few spots of light can be seen.

Bai Liu had wanted to take a look at the interior of this peculiar building to make it easier to run away later, but the high intensity of the light and the construction of the building were clearly designed to prevent people like him from memorising the road map if they wanted to escape.

In this light, the human eye is unable to see anything at all, let alone remember the route.

Bai Liu instantly gave up on the idea, and closed his eyes in good humour, pulled along by the others.

The men eventually placed Bai Liu in a small, grey metal room of approximately square construction, not too high, with a table and two benches, a bright lamp on the table, and a small window in the wall the size of the one Bai Liu had seen in the car, from which Bai Liu could hear voices coming from outside.

"Reporting to the 3rd Detachment Lieutenant! The squad has successfully captured the high-risk humanoid heretic with proposed code 006!"

"No one has gone mad on this mission! No one committed suicide after being compelled by the heretics! No one was physically maimed by the heretic's attacks! Because Team Tang has predetermined this heretic to be a red high-risk heretic monster, the capture of this heretic involved 5 modified armored vehicles, 17 barrel guns and a straight gun barrel, 33 members of Team 3, and no personnel or weapons have been expended, the mission has been successfully completed!"

A gentle male voice said, "Trouble the team, I will interrogate the rest of the information about this captured humanoid heretic creature myself."

The reporting voice was a bit anxious, " Captain Su, what's your hurry, you should go with Team Tang! He's more resistant and it was Team Tang's idea to capture this heretic by force tonight, it's too dangerous for you to face such an unknown heretic alone."

" Where is Team Tang?"

The gentle voice chilled a little subtly and the man addressed as Team Su seemed to sigh with some disappointment, "After going on a rampage to get us to catch the heretic tonight, he went back to drinking and is now drunk somewhere, and his phone is not working and he's got people looking for him."

"...... Team Tang went and drank again?!" The team member's voice was tinged with disbelief, "How can he do that?! He used his captain's privilege to force us to arrest these heretics before thoroughly investigating this mission tonight! Didn't Team Tang say he was going to do it himself? Why is he getting drunk again?!"

"This isn't the first time he's gotten carried away and sent a detachment off on a whim to catch a monster in some very strange place." Captain Su laughed bitterly, "He looks at anyone as a monster when he's drunk, but this is the first time he's used his captain's prerogative, and that serious one of his tonight gave very specific and exact information about this humanoid heretic called Bai Liu, I thought he wanted to do it after really checking it out, but now that I look at the situation, maybe the person is an innocent ordinary citizen ......"

"Let me go in first and see what's going on."

With that, the metal door in Bai Liu's small room was pushed open.

The visitor was a man in his thirties, wearing a police uniform, a protective mask and brown leather gloves, with a gentle and modest face, measuring over 5'8", with soft eyes of a greyish-yellow, or light amber colour, his hair seemed to have been unkempt for some time, hanging half-long on the sides of his face, and his eyes seemed to be a little green and black from staying up all night, but overall clean and tidy. He seems to be a man who is relatively good at keeping his life in order in the midst of a demanding job, and at first glance looks affable, the type of man who can easily let his guard down.

Bai Liu's eyes fell on the identity tag he had clipped to his right breast pocket: [Su Yang, Deputy Head of the Third Detachment of the Dangerous Heresy Unit].

Su Yang gestures to Bai Liu to sit down, and after Bai Liu sits down Su Yang notices Bai Liu's gaze resting on his ID tag, he nods to his own ID tag and looks up to Bai Liu and explains helplessly, "Perhaps you won't believe this comrade who has been violently arrested, but we are indeed regular state department."

Bai Liu raised his eyes nonchalantly at Su Yang and did not answer.

The helpless look on Su Yang's face intensified: "Here's the thing, as far-fetched as it sounds, at a time when many ordinary people are not aware of it, many existences have appeared in this world at some point that are completely unexplainable by human scientific common sense, like monsters, and we call these unknown monsters that come from nowhere heretics. "

"Some of these heretics compel people to go insane, others suck the flesh and blood out of people, and in order to deal with these dangerous heretics who can harm the general population, a special department, the Department of Heresy Disposal, was created, and these men who arrested you tonight are members of this department."

Bai Liu lifted his eyes, "What does that have to do with me? Do I look like a heretic?"

Su Yang did not answer Bai Liu directly, but pulled out a remote control from the table in front of Bai Liu and flicked it against the wall, a white screen slowly landed on the wall and a projector appeared on the opposite side and started projecting a PowerPoint on the screen.

[Dangerous Heresy Department Section

Su Yang looks to Bai Liu: "Let me explain to you what I just said and then I'll talk to you specifically about your situation, just talking about how we are responsible for dealing with these heretics that suddenly appear in this world, our department has been around for a long, long time, but up until now we still don't know where these heretics come from, but they just appear, in all sorts of weird and scary positions, people, animals, objects."

Su Yang pressed the remote control and the PPT projected on the white cloth switched between screens.

He went on, "These heretics have a terrible power to destroy us, remember the Mirror City bombing that happened?"

The PPT shows a photo of the antique mirror Bai Liu saw in 'Last Train to Burst', surrounded by a few people wearing similarly shaped and coloured uniforms as Su Yang, frowning and seriously surveying the mirror.

Su Yang said, "This is the mirror in the Mirror City bombing. After the bombing, many members of the public questioned how someone could bring a bomb onto the underground in plain sight, didn't the security checks work, when our public announcement was that the thieves had hidden the bomb in the shareholder's mirror, and we were scolded for almost a month for saying that we could say anything to push the pot and lower our intelligence. There's no way a mirror of that size and thickness could hide a bomb that would blow up a workshop."

He pressed the remote again and the picture on the screen changed to another one, still of this group of men in uniform, a group of men who were pulling an immense black bomb out of a mirror with shocked expressions, a totally anti-space and anti-common sense image.

"But that's what happened." Su Yang turned to Bai Liu, "The mirror shattered in the explosion, and it took us quite a bit of work to piece together the mirror from the underground station where the accident occurred, and after recovering it, we did a lot of testing and experimentation on the mirror, and we found that it was like a folding point in space, from which something far larger than its own size could be removed, and what was put in there was simply undetectable by all our known rays or devices."

"Then with our long experiments and tests, we discovered that this mirror would not only store items, but it also had a certain mental materialisation function; if our experimenters gazed into this mirror for a long time, things in this mirror would change from bombs to the last thing they wanted to see at the time."

"We found out in our investigation afterwards that what was in the mirror before was a bomb because the thieving brothers so badly didn't want the mirror they had managed to get to break, they were afraid of anything that could break the expensive mirror and gazed at it day and night, and eventually their fears converged into a bomb stored in the mirror that eventually exploded on the train The bomb exploded on the train."

The screen on the PPT continues to switch, this time to that of a set of instructions:.

[Heresy Name]: Murphy's Mirror of Theorem

[No.]: CEDT-0714

[Report]: found in a mega-explosion, the process of recovering the debris found that the train was in an unstoppable, circular underground line loop an hour before the train exploded (the line was not circular), it was later confirmed that it was the fear of the people who died in the explosion that was projected within the shattered mirror fragments before they died, these passengers on this train were too scared to leave the train that was about to explode, so the mirrors were reflecting the unstoppable cycle of explosions ......

...... After recycling all the lenses, no repair is required and the pieces fit together on their own to form a normal mirror surface, no trace of shattering can be found after the patchwork ......

...... tested, gazing for more than 17 minutes can transform the object in the mirror into something that the person gazing at it fears ......

[Reception method]: Placed in the ground at a depth of 17 metres, wrapped in a dark polyethylene fabric and kept out of the light, the room CEDT-0714 is only accessible with the permission of three detachment lieutenants or one full captain.

[Danger Class]: Light Grade Red

"Of course after our experiment the mirror was no longer filled with bombs." Su Yang joked with a smile. Su Yang smiled and joked, "We had an experimenter who really hated spicy food stare at this mirror after eating extra spicy hot pot on one side, and after an hour the mirror stored all the stuff from the devil's spicy hot pot base."

Su Yang continued with the PowerPoint presentation, "You saw the mushroom poisoning case in the orphanage on TV a while ago, right?"

Bai Liu looks up at the wall - on the screen is a picture of the blood primrose, not a photograph, but a hand-painted one.

"We took over the case in the middle of the process, and our investigation revealed that those investors back then were most likely related to this kind of stuff, which could supposedly cure all diseases, but unfortunately there were no concrete clues." Su Yang smiled shallowly and swept Bai Liu a look that seemed to mean something, "But you say coincidentally, this morning someone suddenly revealed a clue prize package to us, and the team members of the second team have gone to arrest someone."

The scene on the PPT continues down to a small video of surveillance in a hospital ward.

In the video Bai Liu is visiting a small child in a hospital bed, who recovers quickly after Bai Liu leaves and then turns his head to look at the door of the ward Bai Liu has left and whispers thank you.

Bai Liu gave a soft mental tsk at the sight.

Thinking he's going to flip.

"We did a vomit and faecal examination of this little comrade's throat with a cotton swab after you left and found that there was indeed a very peculiar mycelium residue." Su Yang pulled out a thumb-sized glass jar with a blood-red mycelium placed inside in a fixative from her right breast pocket.

He looked straight up at Bai Liu, " Comrade Bai Liu, there was no one but you visiting these children that day, and these children got better after you came, can you explain where these mycelium came from?"