"Boom~"
A thunderclap sounded in the clear sky, but it was summer, so it wasn't unexpected.
"Xiao Hao, don't play outside, come back quickly, it's going to rain."
The proprietress of the small shop heard the thunder, her gaze shifted from her phone, she glanced outside, saw her son squatting at the door playing, and called out casually.
Hearing this, Xiao Hao looked up at the sky. It was clear and cloudless, nowhere near like it was about to rain.
So he turned a deaf ear and continued to play with his head down.
Seeing that it didn't really look like rain, the proprietress didn't bother anymore, lowered her head, and continued playing on her phone.
But just then, another rumbling sound came from the sky.
This time, the proprietress didn't even look up. Instead, Xiao Hao, who was playing outside, looked up at the sky.
A strange phenomenon appeared in the sky. The originally clear sky suddenly became covered with rolling dark clouds, quickly obscuring the sky, and the earth was instantly plunged into darkness.
"Rumble..."
"Mom, Mom, I saw a dragon, there's a dragon in the sky." Xiao Hao rushed into the shop, saying excitedly.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Where are there any dragons in this world? But why is it suddenly going to rain? They didn't say it would rain today."
The proprietress looked outside the shop. The pitch-black world surprised her a bit.
"There really is a dragon, there really is a dragon." Xiao Hao grabbed his mother and ran outside.
The proprietress couldn't refuse him and was dragged to the shop door.
Then she looked up at the sky. She saw the sky filled with dark clouds, as if the sky was falling. The proprietress was also startled.
"Where did these clouds come from? How could they be so fast?"
Just moments ago, it was sunny and clear outside. How could it instantly become so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face? Clouds don't just appear out of thin air; there has to be a process. The proprietress wasn't highly educated, but she understood these principles.
"Huh, where did the dragon go?" Xiao Hao asked, looking confused.
The proprietress playfully rubbed his little head.
"Silly boy, there are no dragons in this world. Those are from myths and legends."
Just then, a huge bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, illuminating the clouds. Behind those clouds, a massive dark shadow seemed to flash by.
"Huh?" Xiao Hao looked surprised.
Just as he was about to say something else, he heard a thunderclap that made him tremble all over.
"Hurry home with me, immediately..." The proprietress grabbed her son and ran back, about to say immediately there would be rain.
But she heard her son interject, "Monsters are coming, I need my Ultraman."
Saying that, he broke free from his mother's hand and ran inside to get his Ultraman.
Just then, a heavy downpour suddenly poured down outside.
The proprietress quickly turned and closed the glass door.
"This rain is really strange."
The proprietress spoke a bit formally and then made herself laugh heartily.
Xiao Hao came out from inside with his Ultraman. Seeing his mother laughing inexplicably, he looked surprised, then raised his Ultraman high and said, "Come on, Ultraman Taiga, my friend, let's go! Defeat the mother monster in front of us."
"Pia~ pia~ wa..."
A little rain and spanking go well together.
...
"Where's the team leader? Where did the team leader go?"
Wei Xiaoming rushed into the team leader's office, looked around and didn't see anyone, then rushed out again.
The other employees of Section Nine saw him asking, and someone said, "The team leader went out this afternoon."
"Went out? Why did he go out at this time? Call him quickly." Wei Xiaoming said anxiously.
"What's wrong? So urgent, the sky is falling?" someone joked.
"Something like that. Quickly contact the team leader, forget it, I'll call him myself." Wei Xiaoming took out his phone.
"Even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up, what's there to be afraid of," someone else said.
Wei Xiaoming didn't want to bother with them. These office dwellers had no idea how serious the situation was.
"Dududu..."
The call was quickly connected, and then he heard An Bohou ask, "Why are you calling me in such a hurry?"
"Team leader, something bad has happened. The intelligence department reported that a dragon is flying towards Jiang City."
"A dragon? Who is it?"
"Based on the biological wave... uh..."
Before Wei Xiaoming could finish speaking, he saw An Bohou walk out from behind him.
He looked stupidly at his phone, then realized that the voice he heard earlier wasn't from the phone.
"What are you spacing out for? Don't finish your sentences." An Bohou frowned.
He had just returned from outside, still holding a file bag.
"Based on the biological wave, it should be Ao Haiping." Wei Xiaoming said quickly.
"What madness is he up to again?" An Bohou said helplessly.
Then he stuffed the file bag in his hand into Wei Xiaoming's arms and said, "I'll go to the intelligence department to take a look. You put the files on my desk."
After that, he hurried towards the intelligence department.
Wei Xiaoming was about to follow, but remembered the files in his hand, so he quickly turned and rushed into the team leader's office.
The opening of the file bag was probably not tied properly, and a large stack of receipts fell out.
Wei Xiaoming quickly bent down and picked them up one by one.
But when his gaze swept across one of the receipts, he was stunned.
Because this stack of receipts were all donation receipts.
An Bohou arrived at the intelligence department, which was a large circular office with about ten people inside, all looking busy.
On the walls of this circular office were all display screens.
They showed street views of various corners of Jiang City, which looked somewhat like traffic monitoring, but in reality, these were all images transmitted by satellites.
And at this moment, on the largest screen in the center, a giant dragon was soaring through the sky, accompanied by rolling dark clouds that obscured the sun.
In the lower right corner of the screen, there was a radar-like pattern, with red dots flashing continuously.
Various data were listed next to it: coordinates, direction, speed, impact force, danger level, and so on.
"Team leader." At this moment, a girl with a ponytail and round black-rimmed glasses walked over.
"Do we need to report the situation to headquarters?" This girl was Huang Yuying, the head of the intelligence department.
Speaking of which, Huang Yuying's position was even higher than An Bohou's, but she was an ordinary person. Therefore, even so, in Section Nine, everyone had to obey An Bohou's command.
As for why An Bohou was only a team leader, there were reasons for that, which would not be elaborated on for now.
"Notify them." An Bohou said after thinking.
In fact, with such a large commotion, let alone the headquarters in Xiajing, even other regional branches would probably have monitored it. However, whether they knew it or not was one thing, and whether to notify them was another. If he didn't notify them, it would be his dereliction of duty.
Huang Yuying turned and left upon hearing this, without another word.
Her responsibility was only to collect intelligence and establish data models; nothing else concerned her.
This sudden behavior made An Bohou feel very helpless. This girl, apart from not having special abilities, was outstanding in other areas. She was definitely a genius, just not very good at understanding human relationships.
"Connect me to the external line." An Bohou said to a nearby staff member.
By the time Wei Xiaoming arrived at the intelligence department.
He saw An Bohou using the dedicated line to make a phone call.
"Hello, Brother Ao, long time no see..."
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