You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Jiangcheng City Public Security Bureau.

Temporary command center.

The atmosphere was extremely oppressive.

Lu Zhenhua stood in front of the huge electronic screen, his eyes bloodshot.

The 56-year-old bureau chief was like a raging lion trapped in a cage.

"Hasn't it been cracked yet?"

Lu Zhenhua's voice was extremely hoarse.

Zhang Zheng, the former captain of the criminal investigation team, was also ashen-faced.

He stared intently at the cybersecurity experts sitting at the control panel.

The lead technician was sweating profusely, his fingers leaving afterimages as he typed on the keyboard.

A red "Connection failed" warning kept flashing on the screen.

"Director Lu, no way!"

The technician slammed his hand on the keyboard, his expression revealing a deep sense of powerlessness.

"The full-band electronic shielding around Miracle Island is too thorough."

"Jack's signal source was encrypted through at least a hundred intermediaries."

"He's like a cyber ghost; we simply can't pinpoint his physical location!"

The entire command center fell into dead silence.

The lives and deaths of 100,000 tourists weighed heavily on everyone's hearts like a mountain.

Panic quickly spread among the officers.

At the same time.

The forensic laboratory on the ground floor of the municipal police building.

In stark contrast to the chaos in the command center upstairs, it was so quiet here that only the hum of the instruments could be heard.

Jiang Tingxue was wearing a white lab coat, and the stray hairs on her forehead were slightly damp with sweat.

She kept the chaos of the outside world and the life-or-death countdown outside the heavy, airtight door.

In her world, there was only the microscope in front of her.

The slide contains a water sample that was just urgently extracted and delivered by the marine police from the waters near Miracle Island through special channels.

Jiang Tingxue skillfully adjusted the focus of the microscope with her slender fingers.

Under a high-magnification lens.

Some extremely tiny, unusual crystals appeared in the originally clear seawater sample.

Jiang Tingxue narrowed her eyes slightly and quickly transferred the sample into the spectrometer.

A few dozen seconds later, the analysis report appeared line by line on the monitor.

Jiang Tingxue stared at the chemical formulas on the screen.

Liquid fluorocarbon.

"High-concentration industrial-grade preservatives."

She uttered the two words softly, her gaze deep.

Liquid fluorocarbon is a top-tier coolant for electronic components, while preservatives are often used to treat large aquatic specimens.

The simultaneous appearance of these two substances at the nearshore discharge outlet points to only one thing.

Jiang Tingxue turned around abruptly and strode to the whiteboard.

Her gaze followed the pipeline route of the near-shore discharge outlet, tracing it upstream.

The view eventually settled on an area marked "abandoned" in the northwest corner of the island.

An abandoned underground aquarium!

Jiang Tingxue's eyes lit up instantly.

She did not report to the chaotic command center because the network had already crashed.

Jiang Tingxue walked to the safe deep inside the laboratory, entered the password, and verified her fingerprint.

The cabinet door popped open.

Inside lay a simple, even somewhat bulky, single-soldier encrypted radio.

This device is not connected to any public network.

It uses an extremely old frequency-hopping radio wave technology.

This was Su Qingge's last contingency plan before she landed on the island, just in case.

It is also the only communication channel in the entire Jiangcheng police force that could possibly penetrate Jack's signal blockade.

Jiang Tingxue put on the headset and pressed the send button.

It begins to continuously send call signals within a preset dedicated frequency band.

Miracle Island.

The terrifying exterior of the Hell Corridor.

Su Qingge gripped the gun with both hands, staring intently at the tightly closed alloy door.

Ten minutes have passed.

Lin Chen has been inside for a full ten minutes.

There was no sound coming from inside.

There were no gunshots, no screams, only deathly silence.

Su Qingge felt that these ten minutes were longer than all the time she had ever experienced in her life.

She could even hear her heart pounding wildly in her chest.

Just as she was about to lose her temper and was about to force her way in,

zizi——

A faint electrical sound suddenly came from the miniature earpiece hanging at the collar.

Su Qingge was startled.

Immediately afterwards, a clear, anxious voice, yet tinged with barely concealed pride, rang out in my ears.

"Qingge, can you hear me?"

"I am Jiang Tingxue."

Su Qingge's eyes widened suddenly, and she quickly pressed the communication button.

"Tingxue! I'm here! Did you find anything over there?"

Jiang Tingxue skipped the pleasantries and quickly got to the point.

"Stop looking on the ground."

"Jack is not in any of the above-ground buildings."

"He's hiding in an abandoned underground aquarium in the northwest corner of the island!"

Su Qingge was stunned.

How did you know?

Jiang Tingxue's voice conveyed the rigor and confidence unique to forensic doctors.

"Analysis of nearshore seawater samples shows that there are large amounts of liquid fluorocarbon emissions there."

"He is using the aquarium's existing massive seawater circulation system to cool down his super server."

"The low temperature of the circulating seawater masks the infrared heat source, which is why thermal imaging radar is blind."

After hearing these words, Su Qingge's eyes flashed with extreme amazement.

In this desperate situation where the entire internet is paralyzed and everyone is being led by the nose by Jack.

Jiang Tingxue actually managed to dig out the lair of this international thief from just a few drops of seawater.

"Understood."

"I'll organize a team to investigate immediately!"

Su Qingge's tone rekindled her fighting spirit.

Boom—

Just then.

A dull mechanical grinding sound interrupted Su Qingge's thoughts.

The alloy door of the Hell Corridor, smeared with inferior blood plasma, slowly slid open to both sides.

The blinding sunlight shone back into that absolute darkness.

Su Qingge turned her head sharply, instinctively raising the muzzle of her gun.

next second.

She was stunned.

A tall and imposing figure slowly emerged from the shadows.

Lin Chen.

His breathing remained steady, though there was a barely noticeable bit of lime powder on his cuff.

That angular face still held that reassuring calm.

Behind him, five students wearing Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School uniforms were following closely.

Although they were all pale-faced, their legs were still spinning.

But they were all completely unharmed.

Su Qingge stared at the scene before her, her mind going blank for a moment.

Five fully armed, top-tier mercenaries lying in ambush in the darkness.

Was it resolved so quietly and without a trace?

Is there any limit to this man's strength?

"Lin Chen!"

Su Qingge put away her gun and quickly went to meet her.

Her eyes were slightly red, but she held back her emotions.

Lin Chen looked at her and nodded slightly.

"The person has been brought out."

"Let Su Ke'er come and take them away."

Su Qingge took a deep breath to suppress the shock in her heart.

She quickly removed the miniature earpiece from her collar and handed it directly to Lin Chen.

"Tingxue's communication."

"She's found Jack's location."