MMB Chapter 543 Emergency Meeting Late at Night
Chapter 543 Emergency Meeting Late at Night
The warning signals issued by the Hero Association can be roughly divided into the following categories:
Category D – Large-scale hostage kidnappings or attacks caused by ordinary criminal gangs can usually be handled by dispatching a team of Category C heroes or on-duty Category B heroes.
Category C – Riots caused by superpowered criminals must be investigated by on-duty heroes of Category B or higher to confirm the criminals' abilities and promptly dispatch appropriate personnel to apprehend them.
Category B – Large-scale superpowered criminal gangs, similar to the Avengers. On-duty personnel cannot handle this level alone and need to contact higher-level heroes for assistance.
At the A-class level, without exception, all incidents are caused by attacks from astral monsters, while S-class represents attacks by witches, requiring S-class heroes to personally arrive and command the response.
As for SS-class...
"Is everyone here?"
A young man in a Hero Association uniform strode down the corridor and spoke to a woman next to him who was also in a uniform.
Qi Yun reached up and pressed the earphone hanging on her ear, replying:
"Meteor has brought everyone to the conference room, and Thousand Eyes has also come from Suicheng to provide support, bringing 'Palette' from Gangcheng as well. I'm trying to connect to the city's camera network."
"Hmm. Also, I think we should contact the boss again and see what he says."
"Leave it to me."
As soon as they finished speaking, the two arrived at the conference room door, pushed it open, and met the gazes of the people sitting around the conference table.
All registered S-rank heroes of the Chengdu Heroes Association, the support hero [Thousand Eyes] of the Guangzhou Association, and—
Magical Girl Hyacinth, Magical Girl Dandelion.
Everyone watched silently as the young man walked to the head of the conference table and sat down. They took the folder from him, glanced at the words "SS-level Highest Alert" and "Top Secret, Read and Destroy" printed in gold lettering on the cover, and immediately tensed up.
"What happened? Why is the highest alert being issued so late at night?"
"[Iron]" Frank muttered under his breath, flipping open the folder to look at its contents. His already furrowed brows tightened even more, twisting into a pretzel shape.
In Dandelion mode, Su Tianqing quietly yawned, feeling drowsy and having to allocate almost all of her fox brain's computing power to Dandelion, carefully reading the contents of the folder.
This was the first time I'd ever been woken up in the middle of the night. My real body was still fast asleep in bed. Luckily, Dandelion stayed up a little longer, otherwise I would have missed this good show.
It's quite a show for me, look at Hyacinth in the next seat, she's practically asleep sitting there.
Let me explain it to you briefly.
Moira spoke calmly, pulling out psionic threads from his hand and unfolding a projection screen behind him, displaying a photograph of a town ruin.
It was a rural town, but it had been completely destroyed by an unknown force. All that could be seen were ruins, and even the surrounding forests were broken into pieces. You could even see charred tree stumps left by the raging fire.
"What's being shown on the screen is a rural town that was attacked by an unknown assailant a month ago. It's located deep in the mountains north of Kunming in Yunnan Province."
"Due to the suddenness of the incident and the absence of any magical girls stationed in the area, the monster was stopped by a retired magical girl residing in the area after causing widespread destruction. By the time the Songyan Squad from Kuncheng arrived, the monster had vanished without a trace and could not be tracked down."
"How could this be... such a large town, and yet..."
Hyacinth woke up with a start and, seeing the horrific scene on the screen, immediately gritted her teeth and said indignantly.
Su Tianqing stretched out her tail and gently patted Hyacinth's back, calming Hyacinth down from her anger.
"I was also very sorry when I learned about this, and I believe everyone here feels the same way. Hmm? Do you have something to say? Please speak," Moira continued, before someone raised their hand to take over the conversation.
The person who answered was Meteor.
"So, what does this have to do with our emergency meeting today? Have we detected the strange man who attacked this town reappearing?"
"That's the topic we're going to discuss next," Moira nodded, "but I don't think we're that good at dealing with Astral Projections, so it's better to let the parties involved explain it themselves."
After saying that, Moira turned back to look at the conference room door and said:
"Come in, it's your turn."
.
A crimson figure walked in from outside the door.
Meteor and Steel stared wide-eyed, and Su Tianqing's fox eyes also widened, her ears and tail standing straight up, instantly turning her fur into a fluffy fox ball.
The most surprised was probably Hyacinth—she had already stood up from her chair, looking incredulously at the familiar yet unfamiliar crimson figure:
"Click-clack".
The petite, bright red girl walked to the podium, hooked her foot over a footrest, stood on it, and then successfully peeked out from behind the podium, scanning the people around the conference table as if searching for familiar faces.
Finally, he met the hyacinth's gaze, raised an eyebrow, and grinned.
"Hyacinth, right? And that one over there must be a dandelion. Hello."
"You, you, you... no, you, you are..."
The hyacinth was so startled that it stammered, then immediately changed its words to polite language. Its dazed and surprised expression was just like that of a fangirl meeting her childhood idol for the first time.
"Let's put those aside for now; time is of the essence. Let's get down to business."
"Clatter".
Chi Xue reached out and pressed the PPT button on the podium, and the content displayed on the screen switched to the next slide.
"I traveled to many places during my retirement trip. A little over a month ago, I hiked to a village of winged people and spent more than two weeks there."
"A month ago, around the time of this bizarre attack, I was on my way from that town to my next destination when this guy attacked me—"
As the PowerPoint presentation progressed, a blurry photo appeared on the screen.
Because it was shot at night, the lighting was terrible, and the photo quality was blurry. You could only vaguely see a huge bird-shaped black shadow and a pair of eyes that looked straight at the camera as hot as molten gold.
Everyone took a deep breath, but Su Tianqing stared blankly at the photo. No one knew what the little fox was thinking.
When Chi Xue finally spoke, Dandelion uttered those words in unison with her:
"Garuda."
Chi Xue froze, her gaze falling on the dandelion, meeting the eyes of this seemingly harmless support-type little fox. Then, she suddenly realized what she had done and added:
"Yes, that's exactly what Dandelion said."
"The fourth astral behemoth, following the astral jellyfish, Leviathan, and Jormungandr."
silence.
After a long silence, Hyacinth, who had always been at the forefront of every battle against the giant beasts, spoke up:
"Since it's a new behemoth, senior... do you know where it is now?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know. But I know what it's looking for."
"A person. To be precise, a winged person. The reason for calling everyone to this meeting in such a hurry is to find this person as quickly as possible."
Hearing this, Su Tianqing forced herself to stay awake from her dazed state and looked around.
With the exception of a few combat personnel, almost all the S-class heroes present possess excellent intelligence gathering abilities.
Afterwards, Chi Xue gave a detailed account of the battle that night, omitting the backstory and starting directly from when she appeared and rescued the winged girl from under the giant bird's beak.
The more he explained, the stranger the hyacinth's expression became.
Especially after hearing Chi Xue say that she used magic to find out where the winged girl was, and that she had come to Rongcheng after many twists and turns, the expression on Fengxinzi's face became even more interesting.
"Um...senior, may I interrupt for a moment?" Hyacinth mustered her courage and raised her hand, trying to answer first.
"Hmm? You go ahead." Chi Xue didn't hesitate and immediately passed the buck to her junior.
"That winged girl you mentioned earlier... do you remember what she looked like?"
"This... oh..."
Chi Xue fell silent, took a deep breath, stared at the table with unfocused eyes, as if racking her brains to think.
"Hmm... that town is mostly inhabited by small winged people, such as the Sparrow Clan or Swallow Clan, but that winged girl was incredibly big, about my height."
"And she has amber eyes, and her head can rotate 180 degrees..."
The hyacinth and the dandelion exchanged a glance.
"……senior."
After some internal struggle, Hyacinth decided to honestly express her speculation.
"I might know the person you're talking about."