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Li Haotian took the encrypted phone away from his ear and casually pressed the speakerphone button.

Su Wan's voice came from inside, tinged with nervousness.

"Boss, there's some activity at the No. 7 air raid shelter."

"Our drones detected at least two small teams rapidly moving equipment inside."

Li Haotian remained nestled on the sofa, not even lifting his eyelids.

He picked up the remote control with his other hand and started randomly pressing buttons on the TV screen.

"Let them move."

"When acting, you always need props."

Su Wan remained silent for two seconds on the other end.

"You mean...this is a trap?"

"Otherwise what?"

Li Haotian found a channel that was showing Animal World and started watching it with great interest.

Have you ever seen a mouse that decorates its nest in a lavish, opulent way and hangs a sign that says, "Come and catch me!"?

He picked up his phone from the coffee table and swiped his finger across the screen a few times.

Three real-time monitoring feeds popped up, showing the "worker bees" he had sent out.

In the footage of the No. 7 air raid shelter, several people wearing tactical vests are frantically moving several large boxes, their movements exaggerated, as if they are acting in a third-rate action movie.

In the footage of the abandoned pharmaceutical factory in the east of the city, everything is quiet, with only an inconspicuous exhaust fan that has just stopped turning.

Footage from the downtown plastic surgery hospital showed a black garbage truck leaving through the back door ten minutes earlier than scheduled.

Li Haotian chuckled softly.

"Su Wan, give an order to your drones."

"Let it fly to the entrance of the air-raid shelter and turn the searchlight on to its brightest setting."

"Just wave it in front of the cave entrance, the bigger the noise the better, to make it look like 'We've found you.'"

Although Su Wan didn't understand, she immediately agreed.

"Yes, boss."

Li Haotian didn't hang up the phone; his gaze remained fixed on the surveillance footage of the plastic surgery hospital.

Just as a blinding beam of light appeared over the air-raid shelter, the garbage truck that had left earlier noticeably accelerated at the corner.

"The fish has taken the bait."

Li Haotian turned off the monitoring screen and switched back to the game forum interface.

He found the post from the "Donghai Three Heroes Fan Club" and posted it again using his alternate account, "Donghai Fishing King of Kings".

"Is it possible that these three are actually one person, and he's currently picking his toes while watching you guys brag?"

After posting the message, he tossed his phone aside with satisfaction and focused on watching the lion hunt on TV.

……

Dragon Shield Bureau, East Sea City Branch.

The atmosphere in the temporary command center was extremely tense.

Qin Yue rubbed her temples hard. The table in front of her was piled with various reports, each one seeming to mock her incompetence.

"Report! New sighting photos of the 'East China Sea Fishing God' have appeared online, located at the cross-sea bridge!"

"Report! An anonymous tip-off reports that 'sewage monkeys' are hiding at the West City garbage incineration plant!"

"Report! We interrogated the deliveryman who delivered the 'Doomsday Crayfish' order. He's just an ordinary rider, and the order platform shows that the orderer's network address is in Antarctica!"

One report after another was like a series of slaps to Qin Yue's face.

She felt like a hamster trapped in a cage, being forced by an invisible hand to run wildly on a wheel, only to be stuck in the same place forever.

She grabbed the now-cold coffee from the table and gulped it down.

"It's all fake!"

"The photos have been edited, the report is a prank, and the IP address is a proxy!"

She slammed her fist on the table, making the documents rattle.

"That bastard, he's making a fool of us!"

The entire command center was completely silent; no one dared to provoke trouble at this moment.

Just then, a young analyst wearing black-rimmed glasses, carrying a tablet computer, cautiously approached.

"Qin... Captain Qin..."

Qin Yue raised her bloodshot eyes and glared at him.

"Spit it out!"

The young analyst was so startled by her that he almost dropped his tablet.

He steadied himself and held the tablet computer up to Qin Yue.

"Captain Qin, I...I have a very...very immature idea."

"I've marked the coordinates of these recent major incidents on the map."

On the screen, an electronic map of Donghai City unfolds.

The red dot at the East City Wharf lights up.

Another red dot lights up at the Genesis Building in the city center.

The third red dot lights up at the No. 3 suburban waterworks.

"and then?"

There was no emotion in Qin Yue's voice.

"And then...and then I impulsively touched..."

The analyst's finger swept across the screen, and three straight blue lines connected the three red dots.

A huge, highly irregular triangle covers a large portion of the urban area of ​​Donghai City.

In the command center, someone let out a suppressed gasp.

Qin Yue's eyes narrowed.

Seeing that she didn't get angry, the analyst became bolder and tapped the screen again.

"I...I used a program to calculate the...geometric center point of this triangle."

On the map, at the center of the triangle, a green cursor began to flash wildly.

"The location is Tianhua Biopharmaceutical Factory in Chengnan Industrial Zone."

"Production ceased three years ago and it has remained abandoned ever since."

"boom!"

Qin Yue suddenly understood.

She stared intently at the flashing green dot. All the previously chaotic clues, at this moment, seemed to automatically find their place, like pieces of a puzzle.

That blue plastic stool, which is regarded as a sacred object by the entire internet, is not a provocation; it is a landmark.

That "doomsday crayfish" ordered five minutes in advance wasn't a prophecy; it was a timestamp.

The water pollution that swept the entire city was not an attack; it was a signpost.

Docks, skyscrapers, waterworks...

These were not random acts of sabotage; they were three carefully placed signal towers, sending her a message in the most audacious and unbelievable way.

She always thought that the bastard lurking in the shadows was playing tricks on her, showing off his power, and enjoying the cat-and-mouse game.

She was wrong.

That's completely wrong.

That person wasn't playing a game with her at all.

Qin Yue slowly squeezed out the words one by one from between her teeth, her voice filled with indescribable trembling and horror.

"He's not playing a trick on me..."

"He was..."

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened them again, her gaze had completely changed.

"He was teaching me how to do things."

The entire command center was deathly silent.

Everyone was deeply shocked by the amount of information contained in Qin Yue's words.

Qin Yue suddenly stood up straight, all her previous fatigue and irritability vanished, replaced by an almost frantic calmness.

"Pass on my orders!"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

"Abandon all investigations into the 'Three Heroes of the East Sea,' and withdraw them entirely!"

"All units and resources will be transferred to the Chengnan Industrial Zone!"

"Satellite thermal imaging, drone high-altitude reconnaissance, ground-based life detectors, signal monitoring—surround that Tianhua Pharmaceutical Factory like an iron barrel!"

She walked up to the huge electronic map, stretched out her hand, and pointed to the flashing green dot, as if declaring war on an unseen adversary.

I don't care who you are.

"Don't you like setting questions?"

"This time, it's my turn to check the papers."