Ultra: Dragon Sword Journey

Under the inky darkness of the night, the construction site fell into dead silence, as if it had been cast under a spell.

TPC patrol officers shot their flashlights like arrows at the parked red sports car and looked around carefully like detectives. However, they could not find any trace of the owner.

At this moment, a strange sound wave, like a ghost's whisper, suddenly sounded in the night sky.

The trainer who heard the noise turned his head like a frightened bird and instantly saw a huge bat flying towards him like a devil. He was so scared that he screamed: "Ah!"

With the sound of the attack, the flashlight flew out like a kite with a broken string and fell next to the construction site.

After the Zierda gas incident came to an end, the Victory Team finally had some rare downtime and began arranging vacations for their members. For these warriors who worked almost year-round, vacations were undoubtedly a luxury.

This time, it's Munakata and Horii's turn, and Horii can finally get his wish and go on a romantic date with his girlfriend Chizuru.

That day, Munakata, as usual, was at his familiar bar, chatting with his drinking buddy, journalist Onoda. Munakata wasn't particularly interested in alcohol; he simply loved the unique atmosphere, which seemed to offer a momentary relief from his tense nerves, a relaxing, spring-like breeze.

"Do you want to believe the recent news about vampires?" Onoda, a reporter with a beard and wearing old-fashioned glasses, looked at Munakata mysteriously and asked softly.

The two of them met when the monster Silizan appeared, and since then, whenever they had free time, they would come to this bar to hang out. It can be said that besides the few familiar people in the Victory Team, Onoda is one of his few good friends in Munakata.

Hearing Onoda's question, Munakata picked up the cup of milk in front of him, took a sip, and answered without hesitation: "I have never been very interested in those so-called monsters and ghosts."

As a soldier deeply influenced by scientific concepts, Zong Fang firmly believed that all phenomena can be explained by scientific principles.

Even beings as powerful as monsters were nothing more than larger creatures in his eyes. As for the theories about gods and ghosts, he simply disdained them.

However, Onoda didn't seem to be affected by Munakata's cold response. He frowned slightly and continued in a low voice, "There have been several strange disappearances in this city recently. You should have heard about it, right?

This month alone, five people have mysteriously disappeared. But in reality, I'm afraid many more have already perished at their hands!"

These words successfully caught Zongfang's attention. He put down the milk cup in his hand and his expression became serious. Indeed, various missing cases have occurred frequently recently, and the number is on the rise. This is not a good sign.

Moreover, these incidents were all very close to each other, yet they were not treated as supernatural events. Naturally, the Victory Team did not receive any relevant reports, but instead handed them over to the TPC police station as ordinary missing persons cases.

So he stared at Onoda and asked, "They? Do you think the murderer is a vampire?"

"This matter should be under the jurisdiction of the Victory Team. Those police are simply unable to deal with it." Onoda looked at Munakata and said earnestly, while also hurriedly raising his glass.

"I think you've had too much to drink." Zong Fang put down his empty cup of milk while shaking his head, then stood up and left: "Sorry, I have to go first."

"I did drink too much!" Onoda turned around and said, "But today is the anniversary of the death of a close friend of mine. I hope you can forgive me."

Zongfang, who had already walked downstairs, looked back at him, said "Goodbye", and left the bar.

After leaving the bar, Munakata walked slowly down the street, his mind replaying every word Onoda had just said. Those words flashed before his eyes like slides, especially the one about vampires.

In fact, Zongfang had heard about this incident from the captain before, but because a long time had passed and no related problems had occurred again, he did not pay much attention to it.

However, now, the series of missing cases hit his heart like a heavy hammer, instantly stimulating his keen sense of smell as a commander.

Just as Munakata was lost in thought, a sudden and urgent ringing sound broke the silence around him - his PDI rang.

After the call was connected, the captain's voice came over: "Command, this is an emergency! Get to area D3 immediately. We just received a report that someone heard that strange noise again, and then someone went missing."

Zong Fang did not dare to delay for a moment and quickly stopped a passing taxi and headed straight for the D3 area.

When the vehicle arrived at the destination, it could be seen from afar that the area ahead had been tightly blocked by police officers with conspicuous cordons.

The members of the Victory Team are busy conducting on-site investigations, not missing any details or clues that may be related to the missing case.

Munakata walked quickly towards the scene, at which point Daigo and Lina noticed his arrival and hurried forward to greet him.

Zong Fang couldn't wait to ask: "How is it? Have you found any useful clues?" Especially after learning that this incident might also be related to vampires, he looked at Da Gu, expecting to get some key information from him.

"There's nothing special at the moment! The detector has searched and found no special energy reaction." Lina and Dagu responded one after another.

"How many such reports have you received?" He continued to stare at Dagu and asked.

"There have been five reports this month, and all of these reports are concentrated in the bay area." Da Gu took out the image of the missing locations sent by Nori and handed it to Zong Fang. It clearly showed that these locations were all concentrated nearby.

"Commander, I found this in the grass." Xincheng hurried over and found a flashlight wrapped with brown hair several fingers long, which emitted a faint fishy smell.

"What is this?" As a light magician, Dagu's keen sense of smell is like that of a hound. He smelled the dark aura carried by this thing at a glance.

"What's wrong, Dagu?" Lina looked at him and asked puzzledly.

"This hair must be related to the recent missing persons. I can feel the dark aura on it! This is the intuition of light magic and it will never be wrong." Dagu said firmly after careful observation.

"Could it really be a vampire?" Hearing Daiko's firm reply, Munakata couldn't help but mutter to himself, and Onoda's words emerged in his mind.

"Have the vampires appeared again?" Lina became instantly excited when she heard this word. She remembered the incident when Zhao Ming eliminated the vampire. It was also at that time that she met Maya!

"Yes!" A trace of worry flashed across Zongfang's face as he said, "Anyway, let's go back to headquarters first. We'll take the next step after we've tested that strand of brown hair."

"Understood!" Everyone responded in unison and quickly boarded two patrol cars, speeding down the road one after the other.