Six o 'clock in the morning.
Cangyang City.
The first ray of light did not appear in time.
The night had yet to disperse.
The hair of Yi Lin and the others was covered in morning dew, shining white. From afar, they looked like they were covered in frost.
Oda Wu and Gu Sinan were resting in a corner with their eyes closed.
Wang Bing held a mini submachine gun and a few incendiary bombs on his waist. His eyes were bloodshot as he looked around vigilantly.
His subordinates, the field team, were also trying their best to stay alert and be on guard against the strange insects that might come out of nowhere at any time.
But in fact, ever since they left the city center and retreated after fighting those strange insects, they had not been attacked by the insect swarm.
Half an hour ago.
"What about the other victims?"
"I haven't seen them yet, but it should be about the same."
Gu Tianqing smiled and said, "But the person controlling the 'leeches' in the dark is very smart. He purposely left the mucus of the leeches all over the scene to hide the 'entrance' where the army of leeches invaded. Moreover, the targets he chose seemed to have been carefully selected. The version of the AI butler in the house was the type that did not have video surveillance. Interesting. "
"Actually, if he really wanted to hide it, he would definitely not be able to. After all, such a simple method might not even be able to fool a police officer who graduated from the Special Warfare Department with a certain amount of experience. It's just that ordinary people have never seen such a scene before, so they don't know how to deal with it. "
Gu Tianqing's smile faded as she looked at Irin and said slowly, "Oh? You mean that the other party has already predicted that he would be exposed? "
"In this circle, don't underestimate anyone who can survive the trial, even if he looks very funny and needs a beating. Right, I'm temporarily assuming that 'he' is an apostle. " Irin said to Gu Tianqing what he had experienced deeply, "What I'm more curious about is why the person controlling the leeches had to kill 11 people in the same place."
Gu Tianqing nodded and agreed, "That's right. If it were me, killing one person and changing the location would reduce the chances of being exposed. "
"Oh, you're very experienced."
Irin's expression was calm as he looked at Gu Tianqing.
Gu Tianqing replied with an elegant smile, "I'm just giving an example."
"Hehe."
Irin's smile and did not say anything.
"What should we do next?"
Gu Tianqing asked with a smile.
Although she knew that Gu Tianqing was trying to change the topic, Irin was too lazy to say anything and walked out of the neighborhood.
"After investigation, although we can confirm that the group of cute little leeches are hiding in the sewers, we can't find them. However, this area was too large. It was very impractical to carry out a carpet search. Moreover, if our opponents are really a group of intelligent leeches, we won't be able to catch them all in one fell swoop under the current conditions. "
"So, we can only wait."
Irin nodded in agreement.
That was right.
Wait.
This was the only way at the moment.
"We'll talk about it after you wake up."
Irin yawned and left Gu Tianqing with his back facing her.
Gu Tianqing looked at Irin who was quickly leaving and suddenly chuckled. She said to Irin's back, "I don't know if it's my misperception, but you seem to be a little impatient right now. Did something happen? "
Irin stopped in his tracks.
But he didn't turn back.
"That's just your imagination. Moreover, what does it have to do with you whether I'm impatient or not? "
"Yeah, it has nothing to do with me."
…
…
They waited for three days.
During these three days, Molly finally replied.
"Awesome. How did you get your hands on this document? "
Molly gave high praise to Irin's efficiency.
"Haha, it's a trade secret."
"Bah." Molly spat, but she didn't ask any more questions. "I've checked. According to the information, there are a total of seven research institutions that have Star Steel, excluding my laboratory. By the way, you're now in Cangyang City, right? I don't know if it's a coincidence, but there's a research institute that specializes in new semiconductor materials not far from Cangyang City. I'll send it to you later. Find a place to receive it. "
"Understood."
After Irin received this information, his eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't say anything.
There were some things that Molly couldn't know too much about.
Irin wasn't in a hurry to find Star Steel.
To be precise, he couldn't be in a hurry.
Although Yu Meng and Zhao Yulong didn't pay much attention to what happened in the Research Division, they didn't pay much attention to a document in area A. However, Irin wasn't completely sure that the loss of the document wouldn't attract anyone's attention. Therefore, Yi Lin could only put all his thoughts aside for the time being and deal with the leech murder case in Cangyang City first.
After investigating the location of the latest victim's death with Gu Tianqing, Irin had roughly figured out the sequence of events.
There was a person who had the ability to manipulate leeches.
For a certain purpose, he manipulated leeches and killed 11 ordinary people in a month.
Apart from the fact that they were all single, there was nothing else in common about these eleven victims.
In fact, "being single and living alone" was a common point in most serial murders without a specific target.
Because this type of target was easy to kill.
Generally speaking, the murderer of this type of murder was also collectively known as a "perverted serial killer".
"In a sense, it can really be called a 'pervert'."
In the past three days.
The mysterious "leech man" seemed to know that a large net was about to be spread out in Cangyang City. He had no intention of showing up at all.
It was as if he had completely disappeared.
Because the case was special and involved "abnormalities", the entire case was forcibly concealed.
At present, Cangyang City was still a peaceful scene. It hadn't fallen into chaos because of this.
However, it wasn't as if nothing special had happened in the past three days.
At the very least, today, in the temporary office set up for Irin and the others in the Cangyang City Police Station, a special person had come.
…
Irin looked at the young girl in front of him with a long saber in a black scabbard hanging from her waist. He felt a headache coming on.
"Why are you here?"
Oda Wu raised her eyelids slightly. Her gaze was cold. She said slowly in an indifferent tone, "Can't I come?"
"Ah, no, that's not what I meant." Irin retreated behind Gu Tianqing without leaving a trace. "What I mean is, why aren't you practicing your saber at home? Why are you getting involved in this mess for no reason?"
Oda Wu said in a muffled voice, "My saber has encountered a bottleneck."
"So?"
What does encountering a bottleneck have to do with you coming to Cangyang City?
Continue practicing!
Who knows, maybe you'll break through the bottleneck as you practice!
Irin was stunned and couldn't connect the two things together.
"So, I want to cut something different."
Oda Wu said matter-of-factly.
Irin: "…"
Wang Bing: "…"
Yuan Zhiye: "…"
He was most afraid of the sudden silence in the air.
This girl's murderous aura was too strong.
Irin was even more puzzled.
He had met Oda Wu by chance during the preliminary trial at the River Styx.
Speaking of which, what other monsters have you not killed?
Gu Tianqing clapped her hands and smiled. She tried to smooth things over. "It's fine. We're short of people anyway."
While Oda Wu was pressing the katana on her waist, Irin had already sent a question mark to Zhao Yulong.
This question mark contained all of Irin's emotions.
Zhao Yulong seemed to understand.
He laughed mischievously in the communication channel. "Are you satisfied with the pink assistant I arranged for you? According to my rich experience, I'm definitely a fan, definitely — "
"Click."
Irin turned off Zhao Yulong's communication channel and blocked him.
When he was in a good mood, he would release Zhao Yulong.
In short.
Irin more or less understood.
Zhao Yulong had used some unknown method to trick Oda Wu into joining the Special Case Team.
According to the Special Case Team's style of operation, most team members worked in groups of two to three according to the abilities and characteristics of each team member. There weren't many weirdos in the team who liked to solve cases alone.
Oda Wu was currently considered an official.
Wang Bing and Yuan Zhiye had already received Zhao Yulong's notice, so they weren't surprised.
Gu Tianqing, on the other hand.
As soon as Wang Bing saw Gu Tianqing's harmless smile, alarm bells went off in his mind.
In his opinion, Gu Tianqing was obviously not a good person.
If it weren't for Irin's guarantee that Gu Tianqing should, maybe, possibly be of help, Wang Bing might have just pressed Gu Tianqing down and interrogated her.
With Oda Wu here, the field team obviously had no place to be used.
Irin didn't hesitate either. He directly used the field team as an investigation team and sent them out to search for all kinds of information in Cangyang City.
The key areas to search were some places closely connected to the sewer exits.
For example, sewage outlets, light factories, and major residential areas.
On the other hand.
Yuan Zhiye was responsible for locking onto the next possible target and narrowing down the scope of the leech people's crimes in advance.
Gu Tianqing didn't object to Irin's decision, but of course, she wasn't qualified to object.
But Gu Tianqing only said one thing.
"Heh, this is a stupid method."
That's right. In Gu Tianqing's opinion, this kind of carpet search was a solution within a solution.
Strictly speaking, it couldn't even be considered a solution.
It was just that under limited conditions, she went crazy to find the culprit.
During the three days when the leech people were completely in hiding, Irin even used high-tech means to try to use mini robots with cameras to enter the sewers to see if they could find any traces of the leech people passing by. But this method only tried for a while before it was declared a failure.
Not to mention that the routes of the underground sewers in a city were too complicated, even more ridiculous than a maze. Moreover, the sewers were dark and damp, and could almost completely wash away the mucous membranes and residual secretions left behind by the leeches when they passed by. Unless an army of tens of thousands of robots was invested in the sewers, it would be impossible to achieve results.
Everything was back to square one.
As the field team and investigation team led by Wang Bing and Yuan Zhiye sent back "no discoveries" one after another, Irin, who was in charge of the temporary office, didn't show much emotion on his face, but it was undeniable that waves of anxiety were indeed rising in his heart.
Just as Gu Tianqing saw through him at a glance, he was too impatient.
Irin thought of that guy's annoying smiling face and couldn't help but scratch the dead skin on his head. He asked himself.
… Was it really that obvious?
Admittedly, there were indeed many things that made Irin irritable.
He felt that he shouldn't spend too much time on this kind of thing.
But at the moment, he wasn't fully prepared, and it wasn't time to completely leave the special group.
Compared to Irin's impatience, Gu Tianqing was strangely leisurely.
He even used his phone to open a game that was very popular recently and started playing a ranking match happily.
"Hmm, so this is how heroes act?"
"Ah, so mages will be scolded if they act like meat …"
"Forget it, I'll just surrender."
"…"
Gu Tianqing was having a lot of fun.
Oda Wu moved a small stool and sat in the corner. She took out a piece of flannel and carefully wiped the blade.
Another four hours passed.
At night.
Yuan Zhiye hurried in with a heavy expression.
"Oh no! Someone was killed again! It's the leech people! "
Someone gave the murderer such a down-to-earth name, "leech people". At first, Yuan Zhiye felt that the name was weird, but as he shouted it, he inexplicably got used to it.
The three apostles sitting in the temporary office suddenly stood up with different expressions.
Irin and Gu Tianqing looked at each other and said at the same time:
"Five days!"
…
The signal to fire was quickly transmitted to the other eight warships.
In an instant, from all around Shipwreck Bay, the sound of cannonballs being loaded completely broke the silence of the sea.
Ka ka ka ka ka …
Boom boom boom boom boom!
Countless cannons, within the shooting range, spat out terrifying fire at Shipwreck Bay. Wave after wave, round after round of cannon fire, there was almost no pause. In the blink of an eye, the hazy lights in the night fog were completely drowned out.
It turned into even more beautiful fireworks!
Boom boom boom boom —
Waves rose on the surface of the sea, and the fog became thicker. But this was not a normal fog, it was the smoke caused by the excessive firing of cannons. It was extremely terrifying.
No ship, no person, could withstand this level of firepower on the sea.
The remaining nine warships, the caliber of the cannonballs was not comparable to the weight of the cannonballs used by the pirates. Just by looking at the rows of cannons that protruded from the iron plates, the cannonballs were black and thick.
Shipwreck Bay, was a place that everyone knew about in the navy's teaching materials.
It was said that the largest naval battle in recent years took place here.
Because after that battle, the pirates did not dare to gather here in large numbers. Even if there were, they were just some unknown pirates. Shipwreck Bay's barren fortress was located in the middle of a terrain that was easy to defend and hard to attack. Generally speaking, no navy would choose such a thankless place to earn work points.
Even if they were passing by, they would take a detour to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Those small fries, even if they were ignored, who knows when they would die in the sea.
Night.
Shipwreck Bay.
Nine warships.
Thick fog, smoke.
The sky was full of cannonballs.
All of this, formed a magnificent picture. Gu Tianqing stood at the bow of the ship, no one knew what he was thinking, his expression was emotionless.
At the same time.
In the second level of the cabin.
Irin was just about to lift his skirt, summon the nightingale, and try to sneak into Shipwreck Bay in [Dark Night Mode] to see if he could take advantage of the chaos, Irin's movement stopped.
At this time, one of his long legs had already stepped out of the ship and was fixed outside the ship.
After hesitating for a moment, Irin remembered Gu Tianqing's poker face and could not help but sigh: "Forget it, it's too late."
So Irin retracted his leg.
He also dispelled the idea of sneaking into Shipwreck Bay.
He had almost guessed the consequences of Shipwreck Bay completely disappearing from the sea, but he did not know how Tower would deal with this consequence.
"Is this a bug? I've encountered a lot of bugs recently. Or is this a new way of clearing the game that I have never thought of before? "
The "past" in Yi Lin's words was obviously referring to his previous life, which was a little salted fish.
"Gu Tianqing also found out? No, how did he know that the pirate's main mission is related to Shipwreck Bay? Among the pirates … there is a mole? "
But just as this thought flashed through his mind, Irin also felt that it was ridiculous and could not help but laugh to himself.
The so-called pirates should not have a faction. How could they be called a faction when they only cared about benefits and did not differentiate between friend and foe?
Now, there were only two apostles that he had never met before. Their roles were very likely to be "Nicholas Zhao" and "Indiana Jones."
Among these two, was there someone secretly working with Gu Tianqing?
Or was it …?
Boom boom boom.
Outside, the cannons were still crazily firing, seemingly endless.
The vibrations even reached the cabin, and the four walls that were not sturdy shook.
Irin was still thinking in the dark.
The light from the cannons shone on Elizabeth Ling's white skin, reflecting a gorgeous red light, making this woman in the dark look as delicate as a flower.
In the cabin.
The silence lasted for a few minutes.
Suddenly, Irin did not turn his head and laughed in a low voice: "You really want to go to Shipwreck Bay?"
Not knowing when it started, the half transparent lonely mother spirit Alice appeared behind Irin. Her expression was gloomy, making the atmosphere in the cabin more inexplicably creepy and treacherous.
Alice silently floated behind Irin, her feet not touching the ground.
On her pale face, new scars split open and blood seeped out.
"I say, Miss Alice, it is useless for you to release special effects here to scare me." Irin turned his head and said with a smile.
Irin was already immune to this kind of visual feast. Moreover, he still had two half transparent spirits like Alice in his warehouse, so it was not rare.
Alice did not say anything, but with a whoosh, the blood on her face disappeared. The fresh scars on her face slowly healed and became as smooth as before.
"Let me guess, your man is up there."
Alice lowered her head: "I hate him, but our fates are connected."
"The kind where the love is deep and the hatred is deep? Oh, sorry, I should say it in a more down-to-earth way … Oh, do you wish for him to die a horrible death and never be able to find a lover who loves him more than you? "
Under Irin's teasing, although there was no wine, Alice finally told her story.
"That day, our ship encountered it, and then …"
And then, there was no more and then.
Alice seemed to recall the terrifying scene, her expression was ferocious, and her spirit body trembled slightly.
"He is Alice's fiancé. His long brown hair is like the fur of a lion, slightly curly and delicate. His eyes are like the stars, but also like diamonds, bright and dazzling. Oh, his voice is like the most luxurious pure gold bell, oh …"
Irin's expression was strange, and he interrupted Alice's singing: "Don't 'oh oh oh oh', my orientation is very normal, you don't have to describe it in such detail. From what I hear, your ex-husband seems to be very rich?"
Alice's fantasy was interrupted by Irin, and the blurriness in her eyes disappeared without a trace. She tightly pursed her lips: "That's not important, he is a very talented musician."
Irin chuckled: "Yes, a well-matched love, and then?"
Alice continued: "We were lucky to survive in the lifeboat, and it seemed to have no interest in us. On the sea, we drifted for seven days … "
"There was no food, no water, I suffered from severe dehydration, and the fever did not subside. He also suffered the same."
"Alice remembered that on the seventh night, there was fog all around, and there seemed to be someone singing in the fog."
"In a daze, he said the names of twenty-three women, including Alice's own aunt and grandmother."
Hiss —
Yi Lin suddenly sucked in a cold breath.
Alice: "?"
Irin: "Nothing, please continue."
"So, Alice questioned him the next day why he said the names of those women in his dream. Then, we used the last of our strength to wrestle on the ship."
"In the end, I died, and he lived. But we completely merged into one. "
Alice's understatement made Irin unable to react for a moment.
But after thinking about it for a while, he realized that something was wrong.
Merged into one?
"Wait." Irin raised his head and stared into Alice's eyes: "You mean … he ate you?"
Alice grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth that sparkled in the firelight. "He won't be able to abandon Alice again. Alice is very sure."
"Oh." Irin used a few seconds to calmly accept the ending of this horrifying story.
Alice's face was full of confusion: "???"
She did not expect Irin's reaction to be so calm.
"So, he is in Shipwreck Bay?"
Alice smiled, but said something else: "Before Alice died, she cursed him … She cursed him that his soft hair would completely wither, his charming voice would become as unpleasant as a blower, he would rot like a corpse, his skin would be full of abscesses that would never heal, and his body would emit a stench that would make no one dare to go near him … Alice cursed him, cursed him to take Alice's flesh and blood and live in the most painful way."
"As a price, Alice also became an undead." Alice's face was intoxicated. She closed her eyes and pointed in the direction of Shipwreck Bay: "Alice can feel that he is there …"
Shipwreck Bay?
Was it a coincidence?
Irin thought for a moment: "What is the name of your ex-boyfriend?"
"Hehe, Nicholas Zhao! The man whose fate is connected to Alice's. "
Irin: "…"
The moment Irin heard this name, he did not think about anything else. At that moment, he was not shocked or surprised.
But …
"So, there is someone who is more unlucky than me in this role-playing mode."
After knowing the complete horror version of "Alice's Honeymoon", Irin silently mourned for the martyr who played the role of "Nicholas Zhao" for a few seconds.
In the end, Yi Lin decided not to sneak into Shipwreck Bay for Alice in such an environment full of changes.
If he guessed correctly, there must be an important hidden storyline mission hidden in Alice. Once completed, it was very likely to greatly increase the final mission rating.
Just like the "Golden Stone Treasure Map".
Irin did not have the energy and manpower to dig up more storyline missions and missions.
Although it was a pity, there were gains and losses. Under Gu Tianqing's manipulation, the destruction of Shipwreck Bay was a foregone conclusion.
He didn't know whose head it would be if Nicholas Zhao died in this round of gunfire.
After Alice finished the story, she saw that Irin was not moved at all and had no intention of landing in Shipwreck Bay. She curled her lips and disappeared from Irin's head.
The sound of cannons outside the ship gradually subsided.
On the surface of the sea, smoke filled the air. Irin wiped his face and it was filled with the smell of gunpowder. It was abnormally pungent.
One could imagine how much firepower the nine warships had put in to completely destroy Shipwreck Bay.
Suddenly.
Irin lowered his head.
After the sound of cannons subsided, the long-awaited notification did not come late and appeared in front of Irin on time.
"As expected." Irin was expressionless.
The man whose mask was smeared with rainwater heard this and held his breath.
But a moment later, he laughed in disdain.
Nightcrawler?
Hide?
Who are you trying to fool?
Who was the one who told you that bluffing would work on experienced apostles?
Irin was of course not bluffing.
He saw the blinking of the Nightcrawler's headlights. How could he not know the nature of the Nightcrawler?
If he did not stop it, it would turn into a Cybertan in the blink of an eye.
When everyone thought that the Nightcrawler was just an illegally modified motorcycle, letting it stay still was undoubtedly a very good way to hide his trump card.
He could even put his trump card in front of the opponent's eyes. Why not?
When Irin said this, other than Mo Rendi, everyone's expression changed.
This was only the dessert before the meal?
Wait, who would serve desserts before the meal?
And at this moment.
Under the control of Zhao Yulong, the drone approached the bug tower, wanting to find out more information.
But suddenly.
The squirming bugs suddenly split open, revealing a vertical crack that was about ten meters long. There was a faint scarlet light coming out from within.
Staring at the crack, it gave people the feeling that it was slowly opening an eye.
Shua!
Suddenly.
"Buzz buzz buzz —"
On the image sent by the drone, only messy afterimages were left.
There was nothing below.
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