Chapter 512 389: This Is My Sister, Zheng Xuezhen
All that remained were the scattered, ghastly bloodstains on the ground,
glowing a glaring red under the sun.
Soon, a patrol team from Chiyoda City rushed to the scene.
At the same time, the ambulance that had been called earlier arrived, its sirens wailing.
When they arrived, however, all they found were the lingering bloodstains.
The people involved were nowhere to be found.
The patrol team captain acted decisively, immediately pulling up the footage from the surveillance cameras in the area.
After all, this was the busiest commercial district in Chiyoda City,
and surveillance cameras were practically everywhere.
There was no shortage of these "eyes" to record the truth.
However, when they reviewed the surveillance footage,
their jaws nearly hit the floor in shock.
The surveillance equipment had already stopped working.
In fact, every single camera that could have filmed the area of the incident had crashed, their screens completely black.
They hadn't left behind a single frame of useful footage.
This development made the patrol team members realize the gravity of the situation.
A somber mood fell over them all.
The captain didn't dare to delay for even a moment.
He immediately reported the anomaly to the local Defense Team,
requesting that they take over the investigation.
After all, based on the reactions of bystanders,
that group was clearly anything but ordinary.
The complexity and mystery of the case were far beyond the capabilities of a regular patrol team.
Personnel from the Defense Team arrived at the scene with lightning speed.
They immediately got to work, first finding a few bystanders to question.
These bystanders claimed they had filmed the entire incident on their phones.
They had been filming on the busiest street in Chiyoda City,
hoping to capture the spectacular scene of the crowd surging forward after the light turned green.
They had intended to capture a slice of life,
but never expected to accidentally film such a bizarre incident.
But when they eagerly pulled out their phones,
ready to show the video to the Defense Team, they made a horrifying discovery.
The video went completely blank at the exact moment it was about to capture the people who had mysteriously vanished.
It was as if the phones had been hit by some powerful, unknown energy interference,
causing them to malfunction instantly.
All the video data had been mercilessly wiped, leaving not a single traceable clue behind.
...
But for Zheng Bolan and the group of youths,
everything had happened in a single instant.
In that instant, they felt as if they had been plunged into a bizarre vortex of space and time.
It felt as if their souls were being violently torn from their bodies by a pair of massive, invisible hands,
nearly separating before snapping back together with incredible speed.
The intense disorientation left their minds blank, their consciousness plunging into a brief state of chaos.
When Zheng Bolan and his sister, Zheng Xuezhen, slowly opened their eyes,
they were so shocked their eyes nearly popped out of their heads.
They couldn't believe their eyes; the scene before them left them completely dumbfounded.
Zheng Bolan and Zheng Xuezhen were standing right at their own front door.
This was a relatively peripheral part of Chiyoda City, an area that could be considered the city's outskirts, where urban sprawl met the countryside.
A three-story villa stood quietly before them.
It was the very house their family had built with their own hands.
The familiar sight and feel of the place washed over them, but they simply couldn't understand...
...how they had crossed such a vast distance and returned home in the blink of an eye!
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