Guo Chunfeng was caught in a haze and could not free himself for a long time.
Thankfully, the well-trained Secret Sword Agents were much more efficient than he expected. After only an hour and a half, they gave him a satisfactory answer.
Guo Chunfeng's guess was correct. In the age of the Spiritual Nexus, few people bought tickets with cash. In the past two days, there were only 129 tickets from North Tranquility City to the capital city, all of which were bought with cash in the ticket office.
The 129 passengers were all contacted urgently. Three of them could not be reached, and two of them said in confusion that they were still in North Tranquility City and had never bought tickets to the capital city.
After investigation, it was found that the two residents of North Tranquility City had gone to the same bank for business two days ago at almost the same time.
What was odd was that both of them had 'lost their ID cards'.
One of them went back to the bank half an hour later and failed to find his ID card. He thought that he had lost it on the street. But three hours later, the bank staff found it in a corner of the ticket office and contacted him.
The other person went back to the bank two hours later and found his ID card without any trouble.
It meant that the ID cards of the two residents of North Tranquility City had gone missing for one to two hours before they returned to the bank.
The time was exactly the same as the time when the two ID cards bought the tickets.
Through the surveillance cameras in the ticket office, it could be seen that 'someone', who was suspected to be the two residents, bought the tickets with cash. The two real residents, on the other hand, were somewhere else at that time. There was a complete picture of the street as proof.
He had been caught!
Later, according to the investigation from various train lines, the three passengers who could not be contacted had all been found. They were on the crowded train, and it was impossible for them to walk or recharge their portable crystal processors. The crystal processors ran out of spiritual energy and shut down automatically.
The surveillance cameras in the ticket office of the west station of North Tranquility City soon sent in the pictures. The picture of the two residents entering the station after being checked could be seen clearly.
Of course, it was not them in person but Vulture Li Yao.
Right now … It was 100% certain that Vulture Li Yao had disguised himself as one of the two residents of North Tranquility City and was hiding on one of the two trains!
The two trains were both temporarily added and not very fast. They were about to arrive at the capital city.
The first train would arrive at the main railway station of the capital city in half an hour, and the second train would arrive at the north railway station of the capital city in two hours.
"Inform all field personnel to set up surveillance at the main station and the north station immediately. Send out the images of the two citizens that Li Yao is disguised as!"
"That's right. The hundred square kilometers around the capital city must be monitored closely. It is possible that Li Yao will jump out of the vehicle and run away!
"There's no need to search on the train. Both trains are packed with people. If we search rashly, it's easy to alert the enemy and even hurt innocent people!"
"Stop him at the station! Don't attack rashly after discovering it! He was not someone that regular Secret Sword Agents could deal with! Contact the battle-type Yuanying cultivators of the major sects in the capital and tell them that there is an extremely dangerous fugitive on the run. If necessary, they should assist in capturing or … killing him! "
Guo Chunfeng rose abruptly. From a sleepy cat to a ravenous tiger, he glared at every Secret Sword Agent.
Everyone who was swept by his gaze couldn't help but shudder. He felt as if there were a few more bloody holes on his face.
"Understood!"
All the Secret Sword Agents were in high spirits and took action!
Very soon, all the information about the two citizens of North Tranquility City that Li Yao was disguised as was sent to all the Secret Sword Agents in the five hundred square kilometers around the capital city.
In the main railway station of the capital city, the north railway station, the stations of other cities in the capital city, and on the rails … countless Secret Sword Agents were out!
In the main railway station of the capital city …
The first train that Li Yao had bought with the middle-aged man's ID card slowly arrived.
The overloaded anti-gravity rune arrays were gasping and spurting out intense white fog. Half of the platform was covered in white fog, and the train crouched on the rails.
Countless people stood there for a day and a night. The exhausted passengers, the old and the young, carried them. Carrying bags large and small, they congregated into a noisy tide and flooded to the exit of the station.
Hundreds of Secret Sword Agents, who pretended to be receptionists, shop owners, cleaners, and ordinary policemen, were sweating in anxiety when faced with the overwhelming crowd.
On the roofs, on the treetops, in the sky, and in the corners, countless surveillance cameras were aimed at the crowd. Thousands of invisible mystic rays scanned the appearance of all the passengers and analyzed them crazily!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
The hundred-day memorial ceremony was about to begin. The security of the capital city had been upgraded to the highest level. All the passengers who were leaving the station had to have their tickets checked and their identity checked. It was even decided that their ID cards would be scanned!
The decision naturally raised the complaints of the exhausted passengers. The situation was even more chaotic than before.
However, even after all the passengers on the train had left, the middle-aged man that Li Yao pretended to be was still not discovered.
According to the ticket inspection records, the ticket that Li Yao bought was not scanned.
He did not leave the station at all. At the very least, he did not leave through the exit openly.
The Secret Sword Agents had blocked every gap in the main railway station. Even an earthworm would not be able to crawl out of the ground.
In the command center of the Demon Execution Division of the Secret Sword Bureau …
"That's great, boss!"
Reading the message sent back by the field agents, Mosquito smashed her fists in excitement. "Vulture Li Yao bought two tickets to the capital city under two identities. Since he was not on the first train, he must be on the second one!
"The second train will arrive in half an hour. He can't escape!"
"Well …"
Narrowing his eyes, Guo Chunfeng looked at the complicated route map of the crystal trains on the enormous light beam. He rubbed his temples so hard that his skin was almost broken. Then, he nodded without giving any comment.
Something was not right. Something was not right.
It was too straightforward and too simple. Had the renowned Vulture Li Yao been caught so easily in such a crude way?
No. He must have a more ingenious approach, one that was more …
Guo Chunfeng immediately bulged his eyes. His eyebrows were almost falling off. He smashed the teacup on the table and shouted, "We've been fooled!"
All the Secret Sword Agents were shocked by him. They looked at him in a daze.
Guo Chunfeng jumped to his feet and operated the light beam in person. He zoomed in on the crystal trains around the capital city and drew a giant circle outside of the capital city. Breathing heavily, he said, "Consider this possibility!
"Vulture Li Yao's destination is the capital city. But why did he have to take a crystal train directly to this place?
"Look. A giant circle five hundred kilometers in diameter with the capital city as the center. It can be found in more than ten major cities!
"There are express trains between those cities and North Tranquility City!
"Also, those cities are not popular destinations recently. The tickets are not hard to sell. You can even buy them on the same day!
"Don't you find it odd that Vulture Li Yao's fake identity has been discovered so quickly?
"What if the two fake identities that he threw out earlier were just smoke bombs to confuse us, and he never intended to go to the capital city directly?
"He bought a ticket to a place hundreds of kilometers away from the capital city with his third fake identity. After he arrived at the destination, he could take a taxi, rent a car, steal a car … and get a random shuttle. He could've swaggered to the suburb of the capital city and walked in on foot. It would've only taken him one day to sneak into the city! "
Everybody was shocked by the possibility.
"How's the investigation of the ID cards in North Tranquility City going? Any progress?" Guo Chunfeng asked anxiously.
Mosquito was dumbfounded. He stammered, "Well, after we locked onto the two ID cards, we — we thought we had him. But — but we did not continue the investigation. "
Guo Chunfeng bulged his eyes. His eyes were immediately bloodshot. He swallowed a bottle of tea together with the tea leaves. Holding back his fury, he gnashed his teeth. "Who asked you to stop? Keep investigating! There must be a third fake identity! "
"Buy the tickets with cash in the ticket office. The departure date is in the next two days. The destination is all the stations in the ten or so major cities around the capital city. That's all. Go now!"
Mosquito and the other Secret Sword Agents stared at each other in bewilderment.
It was easy to investigate the ticket records from North Tranquility City to the capital city, but to investigate all the suspicious ticket records from North Tranquility City to the major cities around the capital city?
Even if it was not like fishing for a needle in a haystack, it would be more like fishing for a needle in a pond. It would be quite troublesome.
Shrinking his head, Mosquito asked, "Boss, what about the surveillance in the north railway station?"
Guo Chunfeng pondered for a long time and waved his hands helplessly. "Let's continue. What if the enemy is playing the trick of 'fake but real' and 'fake but real'?"
…
In the north railway station of the capital city, the second crystal train that Li Yao had bought with the young man's ID card slowly arrived.
Countless Secret Sword Agents were still patrolling in the crowd warily.
As it turned out, they had wasted more than an hour without finding anything.
Missing two targets in a row was definitely a heavy blow for the proud Secret Sword Agents. Frustration was looming over every Secret Sword Agent's head.
While the well-trained, highly-professional Secret Sword Agents were looking at each other in bewilderment and sighing in regret, a direct train from North Tranquility City slowly arrived at the north railway station of Green Plateau City two hundred and fifty kilometers away from them.
A stout woman with dark blonde curly hair and heavy makeup walked toward the exit of the station, shaking her butt as she mixed in the bustling crowd.
She was wearing a cheap suit of the latest style that was of poor quality. The collar of the suit was very low, revealing a lot of her fair breasts. She was not young anymore, but she was wearing the smoky makeup that was most popular among girls. Her false eyelashes were long, but they were not applied properly. Some tape was leaking out of the corner of her eyes.
Whenever passersby were attracted by her chest and cast indecent glances at her, she would always snort coldly. Her eyes, which were wearing contact lenses, would shoot out a look of disdain, but her chest would stick out even higher.
Holding two bucket bags, she pushed a lot of passengers away as if she were waving two hammers and squeezed her way to the exit.
"Please show me your ID card."
After checking her ticket, the ticket-checker said with a smile.
The brawny woman cursed in the most vulgar dialect of North Tranquility City and handed over her ID card.
Beep!
The ticket inspector put the ID card on a small and delicate rune array and scanned it with a bright green mystic ray. A pleasant voice immediately came over.
There was nothing wrong with the information chip. It was a real ID card.
Spiritual energy was shining on the top of the ID card, projecting a tiny hologram. It was exactly the image of the brawny woman, except that she had no makeup on and looked rather plain, if not … ugly.
The brawny woman was somewhat anxious. She did not seem willing to expose her real appearance to the public and grabbed the ID card while mumbling.
The ticket inspector hesitated for a moment, but the crowd behind her pushed the brawny woman forward.
Infuriated, the brawny woman turned around and cursed at the person who pushed her in the North Tranquility City dialect.
"That's enough. Thank you for your cooperation!"
Looking at the crowd, the ticket inspector hurried to wave his hands and let her pass.
Vulture Li Yao had snuck into the downtown of Green Plateau City in such a way.
At this moment, there were still four and a half days to go before the much-anticipated hundred-day memorial ceremony.
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