Chapter 263: Familiar Faces — Meeting Old Acquaintances After Years
As the SAI investigator had said, the rest of the journey went very smoothly. Aside from one member developing a fever due to an infected wound, nothing else bad happened.
After two days of trekking, the group of thirteen finally walked out of the forest and reached the end of the hiking route, where they met the SAI agents who had been waiting there for quite some time.
What was a coincidence was that the reception team sent by SAI this time included someone Everly already knew—Gregory and Remia, who had visited the gas station six years ago during the investigation of “Megan Clinic” and the “Butterfly Fall Incident.”
Everly had previously heard someone say that SAI was an organization with extremely rapid personnel turnover and very high risk—working there for one year already counted as senior experience, and those who could last five years were considered elite among elites.
Yet Gregory and Remia, this pair of partners, had actually survived in SAI for over six years with all their limbs intact. Everly would not believe they weren’t the protagonists of some movie!
It should be noted that unlike branch investigators like Dees, the two of them were from SAI headquarters. Only incidents assessed as posing a severe threat to federal security would warrant their deployment.
In that case, did this mean that the danger posed by the Black Goat cultists was actually more serious than the Golden Anchor cruise incident back then?
No, that couldn’t be said.
In the cruise incident years ago, the SAI investigation team that interviewed Everly and the other survivors was indeed from the SAI branch in Yalijifu State. However, the investigation also involved personnel from SAI headquarters, not just branch staff. It was simply that the headquarters agents arrived later, and by the time they appeared, the branch team had already nearly solved the case, so the headquarters investigators only came in to “pick up the results,” leaving little impression.