It wasn't difficult to transport the animals back. Even if they had to smuggle them secretly, they could still manage to bring them back.
However, finding a proper place to house them became a huge problem after they returned to the country.
Xiaotuanzi still wanted to send these animals back to their original habitats.
But the fact that they had been stolen meant that the back mountain of the Taoist temple where they originally lived was no longer safe.
Where could they put so many large, untamed animals, many of which were fierce beasts?
The zoo?
Definitely not. They might scare the visitors.
In Shen Weixun's manor?
Even less so. They would frighten the servants there.
In the end, the relevant authorities stepped in and temporarily housed these animals in a research base.
The mutant viruses in these animals' bodies were of great research value.
Xiaotuanzi was initially dead set against it. Only after the repeated assurances of the relevant authorities did he reluctantly allow them to take the animals away.
The news about A Jiu and the others had reached the country. Besides researching and dealing with the mutant viruses in the animals,
the relevant authorities also brought another piece of news.
Based on the clues they provided, various departments conducted a thorough investigation and uprooted many of the remaining minions of the Holy Cult.
Moreover, they found the whereabouts of the murderers who had killed Dana's parents and made her into a human - skin drum.
After their plan failed, they fled to the Sun Country.
Now they had become citizens of the Sun Country.
In fact, these two were not even a real couple, and their life trajectories were mostly separate.
By tracking the actions of this fake couple in the Sun Country, the authorities had investigated many people they had come into contact with.
One group of people was particularly noticeable.
They were the onmyojis of the Sun Country.
After arriving in the Sun Country, the couple had contacted the local onmyojis quite a bit, but most of the meetings were brief, or they just made some money and left.
Due to the difficulty of cross - border investigations, in just a few days, they could only gather this much information.
But it was already enough.
Combined, this information was sufficient to prove that there must be a group of Holy Cult members operating in the Sun Country.
The doomsday laboratory secretly set up by the Holy Cult had been destroyed.
The people who had been rescued were now receiving normal social education. If they could be reformed, that would be great. But if not...
they would not have a happy ending.
Perhaps because the national machinery had been very active in the investigation of the Holy Cult recently, causing quite a stir,
a small number of the remaining cult members in the country had secretly smuggled themselves into the Sun Country.
It was impossible to chase them.
The people behind the virus laboratory had finally revealed a bit of their whereabouts, and their tracks also led to the Sun Country.
This information could not be made public. After learning about the Holy Cult's secret activities, the national machinery took this matter very seriously.
They initially speculated that the Holy Cult's lair, or perhaps their most important stronghold, was hidden in the Sun Country.
However, since they were crossing a national border and without solid evidence, they could not search for the Holy Cult in a forceful manner.
Finally, this burden fell on Niannian.
There was no other way. Even the relevant departments working in the shadows were all official employees.
From various perspectives, they could not be sent on such a mission.
People like Xiaotuanzi, who had no official status, could cause a ruckus without being faulted.
Even if they caused chaos in the Sun Country, they could just flee back to China in the end, and the country would still protect Xiaotuanzi and the others.
The relevant authorities compiled a list for Xiaotuanzi and the others.
This list was of the onmyojis the couple had contacted.
Coincidentally, one of them had also been in contact with Taoist Priest Qingyun.
He was a quite prestigious onmyoji in the Sun Country.
When he was young, in order to retrieve his wife's soul, Taoist Priest Qingyun had traveled abroad quite a bit.
But since he was poor at that time, he couldn't afford to go to Europe and other places. He could only wander around in Asia.
He had also been to the Sun Country.
During his visit, Taoist Priest Qingyun had provoked the local onmyojis quite a bit. He challenged them one by one without showing any mercy. This person had been his defeated opponent back then. Later, the onmyoji was not convinced and sent several challenge letters, but Taoist Priest Qingyun ignored them all.
"We can start with this guy. If I send him a challenge letter, he will definitely respond,"
Taoist Priest Qingyun said, pointing at the person's name.
Toyoda Ichido.
In addition to the names, the relevant authorities also provided the current addresses and contact information of these people.
Without hesitation, Taoist Priest Qingyun wrote a letter and sent it over.
After waiting for a few days, he finally received a reply.
The letter Taoist Priest Qingyun sent was full of provocation.
It roughly meant that Toyoda Ichido was really petty. Just because he had lost a match when he was young, he had held a grudge until now.
Taoist Priest Qingyun was magnanimous and didn't want to argue with him. He really didn't expect Toyoda Ichido to be so ungrateful and keep sending him challenge letters.
He had been annoyed by these harassments for so many years.
So now he was officially challenging Toyoda Ichido. The loser should give up all his skills to avoid future troubles.
Toyoda Ichido's reply also revealed his anger between the lines.
He naturally agreed to this challenge.
But he had heard that Taoist Priest Qingyun had taken in many disciples, and he had just taken in a few as well.
He hoped that there would also be a competition between the disciples. If a master's disciples lost, he would have to admit that he was unworthy of being a teacher, and his disciples' skills would have to be abolished.
Taoist Priest Qingyun looked at the letter in his hand, full of questions.
Why did this guy suddenly target his disciples?
This had never happened before.
But he didn't take it too seriously. Except for his fourth disciple, his other disciples were all outstanding.
Although he scolded them often, he was actually very proud of them.
Except for Xiaotuanzi, who was an anomaly, his other disciples were basically invincible among their peers.
The onmyojis only had so many tricks. It wouldn't be difficult to deal with them.
Taoist Priest Qingyun replied to the letter aggressively and agreed on the competition method and the location.
Toyoda Ichido, for some reason, proposed that the disciples should compete first. After the disciples had decided the winner, they would then have a magical duel.
The location was chosen in a famous haunted hospital in the Sun Country.
Each side would send three disciples. Once they entered, life and death were at their own risk.
The side whose disciples could walk out of the hospital would be the winner.
If they could completely solve the haunting problem in the hospital, the Onmyoji Association would offer an additional reward.
The competition would be held in seven days.
By then, many onmyojis from the Sun Country would come to watch.