Girl, you form the head.

Chapter 13 It's too dangerous for me to stay here.

Being stared at by hundreds of people with the same expression, Xia Tian felt an indescribable sense of panic rising in her heart.

But as a police officer, she quickly realized: "A special being?! He's Ito Kou!"

Xia Tian immediately pulled out her gun, but there were too many people in the arcade, and she didn't have Bai Chi's sharp eyesight, so she couldn't even find Ito Kou's location.

“My hunch was right, you really are police.” Hundreds of people in the arcade spoke in the same tone. “I have to say, this is quite surprising. It’s been more than ten years, and I almost forgot that I was a wanted criminal.”

"Ito Kou! Don't think that just because you've been on the run for so many years no one remembers you!" Xia Tian shouted. "I'm telling you, you can't escape! Put down your weapons right now, or else..."

"Oh, so what?"

Summer couldn't answer.

Despite achieving the second-highest score in the police academy's graduation exam, making her a truly outstanding graduate, this was also her first time facing a criminal, and a criminal with special abilities at that. That second-highest score proved utterly useless against hundreds of stiff faces, to the point that her hand holding the gun trembled slightly.

Police academy instructs ordinary officers when encountering individuals with special abilities to empty their magazines immediately upon meeting them and kill them if possible. If they cannot kill them, or if they find the individual's abilities incomprehensible, they should immediately retreat and request support from the Special Abilities Department.

But right now, Te Yi Ke isn't there; the only person beside her is Bai Chi, who is also an ordinary person.

They were facing a fugitive who had been on the run for fifteen years. The peculiarities he displayed were indeed incomprehensible. Faced with hundreds of identical faces, Xia Tian found that he couldn't even empty his magazine.

So my hands started shaking even more.

But the next second, her hand was grasped by Bai Chi. She subconsciously raised her head and immediately met Bai Chi's calm, unwavering eyes.

"You go first," Bai Chi said. "Go and request reinforcements."

"And what about you?"

“I’m here watching him.”

"How can this be?" Xia Tian said anxiously. "How can I leave you here alone? I want to stay with you."

Bai Chi shook his head: "No, it's too dangerous for you to stay."

Summer opened her mouth, then suddenly felt a stinging sensation in her eyes, followed by a wave of regret.

The senior was actually going to sacrifice himself... and she had just thought that such a senior was a pervert.

Summer felt she deserved to die, so she gritted her teeth and said firmly, "No, I'm not afraid of danger."

"But I'm afraid."

"……what?"

Bai Chi looked down at Xia Tian's hand holding the gun and said seriously, "You can't even hold the gun properly. I'm afraid you'll accidentally shoot me. It's too dangerous for me to have you here."

summer:"……"

Before Xia Tian could respond, Bai Chi caught a glimpse of two furtive figures sneaking towards the arcade's door out of the corner of his eye, and immediately realized what Ito Kou was up to.

"Get out of here!" He quickly disarmed Xia Tian and then shoved him out of the arcade.

Before Xia Tian could even react, she was pushed to the elevator entrance and almost tumbled down.

Once she regained her balance, she immediately looked up and saw the arcade door closing.

The instant she closed the shutter, she saw two figures lunge at Bai Chi.

"Senior!!!" she cried out in anguish.

……

Poof, poof.

Bai Chi knocked the two men who lunged at him to the ground, and as they tried to get up, he delivered two clean and decisive elbow strikes, knocking them unconscious.

This is not the power of the Dual Knights, but rather their own skill.

The fact that the two attackers were dealt with so easily also indicates that although they were controlled by Ito Kou, they did not possess any special power and were still just ordinary people.

It's clear that Ito Kou's intention in sending two ordinary people with no special training to ambush a well-trained policeman wasn't to injure him.

Bai Chi straightened up and looked towards the spot where Ito Kou had been standing.

Sure enough, there was no one there anymore.

But Kou Ito did not leave; he remained in the arcade because those he controlled were still silently watching Incandescence.

“I’m curious, young police officer,” the crowd spoke up again, their voices coming from all directions. “You don’t look very old, and you’re clearly not one of those guys who chased me down more than a decade ago. So how did you recognize me?”

Bai Chi walked deeper into the arcade, his gaze quickly sweeping across every face, openly searching for Ito Kou's whereabouts, but ignoring Ito Kou's questions.

"Don't want to answer?" Ito Kou said. "Tsk, well, with your unapproachable attitude, you're probably an unpopular guy in the police station, someone who hides in a cold corner and grows mushrooms, right?"

Bai Chi originally didn't want to answer Ito Kou, but at this moment he had to retort: ​​"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a very good relationship with my colleagues."

“Okay, let’s add ‘lack of self-awareness’ to that.” Ito Kou sneered, “Like right now, you’re just an ordinary policeman, yet you think you can catch me, a special being? Don’t you think that’s a bit of a pipe dream?”

Bai Chi stopped and looked at a set of clothes that had been taken off not far away.

This is precisely Ito Kou's.

"Stripped naked and hid in the crowd, is that your escape route?" Bai Chi looked around. "Don't you think that once backup arrives, the police can just shoot that naked guy and kill you?"

"Heh, you're quite the joker," Ito Kou said with a laugh. "If that's really the case, you can shoot me right now if you can find me."

Bai Chi frowned slightly.

Ito Kou's reaction surprised Bai Chi. Xia Tian had already gone out to call for reinforcements, and the police would soon surround the place. However, Ito Kou did not seem to feel any urgency and did not seem worried about being caught at all.

Did his special abilities give him confidence?
There was no record of Ito Kou's special abilities in the files from fifteen years ago, and there was no clear evidence to suggest that he was a special person, because the files described his methods of killing as normal and he did not demonstrate any abilities beyond those of ordinary people.

However, the file also records that Ito Kou evaded several secret arrests, and that there were almost no witnesses at the crime scenes, even in crowded downtown areas.

So how exactly Ito Kou did it, and if there was any special ability involved, what kind of special ability it was, has always been a mystery, especially since fifteen years ago when there wasn't much experience with special crimes.

However, Bai Chi now knows that this guy's special ability is to control others, but he doesn't control them out of thin air; there must be some kind of medium involved.

And the medium is...

Bai Chi looked at the flyer that almost everyone had.

The medium is that, which means that Ito Kou had already discovered Bai Chi's tracking from the beginning, which is why he came to this narrow arcade to set up his plan.

In other words, this arcade with only one exit wasn't a death trap for Ito Kou, but rather his true escape route. What should he do?

After a moment's thought, Bai Chi came up with an answer.

"You want to control these hundreds of people to rush out while the police have completely surrounded this place, right?" Bai Chi said.

Hundreds of people rushed out at the same time, and the police, who were not prepared in advance, had no way to stop them. In addition, since these people were all civilians, the police did not dare to fire their guns.

“A very good idea.” Ito Kou neither admitted nor denied it, but said with a smile, “I will give it a try if possible.”

Indeed, this is just one method.

Being able to control hundreds of people simultaneously for one's own use means there are countless things one can do, such as...

Bai Chi looked out the window of the arcade.

On the surface, the only exit from the arcade is the escalator outside, but that's the conventional exit. If we don't consider conventional exits, then the windows are also exits.
Although it's the fourth floor, jumping down directly would most likely result in death, but what if someone jumps down first to cushion the fall?
This is a crueler, but more effective, method, because the police will inevitably rush to help the injured and will therefore be less likely to pursue Ito Kou.

“You are indeed a very smart cop,” Kou Ito’s voice rang out again. He said slowly, “At least much smarter than those guys who chased me more than ten years ago, so you should understand that there is no way you can stop me from leaving here.”

"really."

Bai Chi did not deny this point; relying solely on his current abilities, it was indeed impossible to find Ito Kou.

"So what do you mean?" Ito Kou asked, "Are you leaving here?"

"You're willing to let me go?"

“Why wouldn’t I be willing?” Ito said calmly. “I was indeed a murderer, but that was fifteen years ago. In the past fifteen years, I haven’t killed anyone again, which is enough to prove that I have turned over a new leaf. In that case, I don’t need to burden myself with the crime of assaulting a police officer. As long as you don’t push me too hard, I guarantee that no one will be hurt today.”

Bai Chi silently looked at the two people he had knocked unconscious earlier.

"That was from you, it has nothing to do with me... well, you could blame it on me too." Everyone in the arena shrugged strangely. "But if it ends here, I promise no one else will get hurt. What do you think?"

Bai Chi's gaze swept over the countless faces that were staring at him.

Most of the people in the arcade were teenagers, and there were even quite a few children pretending to be adults.

"Okay." After a brief moment of thought, Bai Chi nodded. "I won't look for you anymore. You can leave on your own. Where you can go after that is up to you."

“A wise choice,” Kou Ito said with a smile. “Don’t worry, officer, I’m a good person now.”

Bai Chi ignored Ito Kou and walked towards the exit. Those controlled by Ito Kou did not attack him; they simply watched in silence.

Just as Bai Chi reached the gate, grabbed the handrail, and was about to leave, he realized that Bai Chi was about to step out.

There was a "pop" sound.

His leg was grabbed.

Bai Chi looked down and saw that it was the young man he had knocked unconscious earlier, with a strange smile on his face.

"This seems different from what we agreed on," Bai Chi said calmly.

“Yes, because I changed my mind,” Ito Kou said with a smile. “But you can’t blame me. If you were an ordinary policeman, I would have let you go.”

Bai Chi turned around and saw that everyone in the arcade had already stood up.

"You mean I'm a special being?" Bai Chi asked.

“No, you are an ordinary person, but you are not an ordinary policeman,” Kou Ito said. “I have been on the run for fifteen years, and during that time I have met a lot of policemen, but very few are like you. Your eyes seem to speak.”

"say what?"

"You mean..." they all grinned, "You definitely won't let me go, right?"

Bai Chi didn't say anything, but first kicked away the person who was grabbing his foot.

But this time, the other person did not faint. Instead, he quickly got up and walked shakily toward Bai Chi.

Bai Chi frowned.

“The kind of cop I hate the most is someone like you. No personal relationships, no physical needs, just a hound eyeing anyone you want to catch,” Ito Kou said. “I know you won’t let me go, especially after seeing my face, so I can’t let a guy like you get away; that would only be asking for trouble. Don’t worry, after I kill you, I won’t kill anyone else. You’re the last one.”

Faced with the approaching crowd, Bai Chi put away his gun and picked up the baseball bat hanging to the side.

“You’re half right,” Bai Chi said. “I certainly won’t let you off the hook.”

"And what about the other half?"

“My interpersonal relationships,” Bai Chi said, picking up his baseball bat and walking over, “are not bad.”

……

Downstairs in the mall, Xia Tian was setting up a cordon with the patrol officers who had come to provide backup.

Thanks to Bai Chi's earlier shot, most of the people in the mall have been evacuated. The next step is to seal off the entrances and exits and wait for support from the SWAT team and the Special Forces.

too slow!
If she could, Xia Tian would rush back immediately to help Bai Chi.

But as mentioned earlier, the police officers on the scene were all from various places and didn't even have many guns. They were no match for a special person who had taken hundreds of hostages.

So all summer could do was pray that the incandescent light would last a little longer.

"Officer Xia, are all the entrances and exits sealed off?" a patrol officer asked Xia. "How many routes lead to the fourth floor?"

"There should only be the elevator on the front and the emergency exit on the other side, but the emergency exit doesn't lead to the arcade," Xia Tian replied quickly.

"Only two?" The patrol officer frowned. "But I heard there's also a freight elevator that goes directly to the arcade."

A freight elevator that goes directly to the arcade?
Summer was slightly taken aback. Before she could speak, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye.

She subconsciously turned her head and saw a strange girl wearing a thick police coat, wrapped up like a rice dumpling, slip into the mall.

"Hey, you can't go in!"

Xia Tian immediately tried to stop him, but the other person ran faster and faster, disappearing from Xia Tian's sight in the blink of an eye.

This left Xia Tian somewhat bewildered.

Not only because she didn't know who it was, but also because something was sticking out of the girl's pocket as she ran away.

That was a road that looked quite familiar to Xia Tian.
Fox tail.

(End of this chapter)