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

Chen Yuan's maniacal laughter, amplified through the loudspeaker, not only echoed in the deathly silent underground main control room, but also traveled clearly through Lin Chen's individual communication headset to the command vehicle on the ground.

"What?!"

The moment Li Mingyu heard the recording, he was as if he had been electrocuted, and he jumped up from his chair, his face as white as paper.

"We've been tricked? The first one was bait? The real bomb is in the third spot?"

Su Qingge's face instantly turned extremely pale. She snatched the communicator and urgently shouted into the microphone:

"Lin Chen! Lin Chen, did you hear that? This is a feint! His real target is the third demolition site!"

The atmosphere inside the command vehicle, after a brief moment of joy, instantly plummeted to freezing point. Everyone's heart sank to the bottom with Chen Yuan's maniacal laughter.

The third detonation point!

Abandoned flood discharge channel in Zone D!

That's the deepest and most complex location in the entire underground pipeline system!

Even at his speed, it would take Lin Chen at least twenty minutes to get there from Area A where he is currently located!

Judging from Chen Yuan's tone, the bomb there could detonate at any moment!

That's too late!

It's too late!

A sense of despair spread rapidly through the command vehicle, like a plague.

However, Lin Chen, who was at the very center of the crisis, made a reaction that no one expected.

Instead of panicking or being anxious, he stood still and listened quietly to Chen Yuan's recording, which was full of provocation and boasting.

Then he smiled.

It was an extremely composed smile, even with a hint of amusement.

It was as if he wasn't hearing a death knell, but rather a clown performing a farcical one-man show with all his might.

"Lin Chen! What are you waiting for! Hurry up and get to the third seat!"

Through the headphones came Li Mingyu's almost distorted roar.

Lin Chen ignored him and spoke calmly into the communicator in an eerily calm tone:

"Qingge, calm everyone down."

"Also, please extract the background noise from this recording and amplify it tenfold."

Although Su Qingge didn't understand what Lin Chen was going to do, she immediately gave instructions to the technicians around her because of her absolute trust in him.

Soon, the sound, processed by professional equipment, was transmitted back to Lin Chen's headphones.

Chen Yuan's maniacal laughter was weakened to the maximum extent, while the extremely subtle background sounds hidden beneath his voice were amplified infinitely and became clearly audible.

Lin Chen slowly closed his eyes.

[God-level Hearing Ability], now activated!

In his world, all visual information disappeared, replaced by an incredibly vast three-dimensional space composed entirely of sound.

He heard it.

He heard a buzzing sound as the current passed through the old lines.

He heard the "drip-drip" sound of water droplets falling from a height and hitting the metal pipe.

He also heard...

A deep, continuous, thunderous roar!

That wasn't the sound of water flowing through pipes; the sound was much grander, much more powerful, carrying a terrifying force that seemed capable of swallowing everything!

"Chen Yuan, your psychology is a joke in front of me."

Lin Chen opened his eyes, and his dark eyes gleamed with an all-knowing wisdom.

He spoke clearly, word by word, into the communicator:

"The background echo in your recording is very peculiar."

"Its reverberation time exceeds 2.5 seconds and it has a noticeable low-frequency resonance."

"This means that the space you were in when you recorded the audio was definitely not a narrow, abandoned flood discharge channel like the one at the third explosion site."

"Your location is an extremely spacious area with a ceiling height of at least fifteen meters, and the four walls are smooth concrete structures."

Lin Chen's words were clearly transmitted to the ground command vehicle via the communicator.

Everyone was dumbfounded. They didn't understand what Lin Chen was talking about at all. What did this have to do with finding the bomb?

Only Lin Chen's brain, at this moment, had perfectly overlapped and compared the acoustic model analyzed by [God-level Hearing] with the underground three-dimensional map constructed by [God-level Architectural Mastery]!

"And that booming sound in the background..."

A cold smile curled at the corners of Lin Chen's lips.

"That's not pipe noise; it's the resonance sound produced by a high-powered water pump unit running at full capacity and the flow of a huge volume of water!"

"A spacious underground space, smooth concrete walls, high-powered water pump sets..."

Lin Chen's voice suddenly turned extremely cold!

"In the entire underground city of Beijing, there is only one place that meets all three of these conditions!"

In his mind, the vast map of the underground pipe network instantly locked onto a coordinate!

A coordinate that wasn't even on those three red-marked maps, a coordinate that everyone had overlooked!

"The only underground water storage hub in Beijing!"

"Chen Yuan! You're a madman!"

Lin Chen instantly understood Chen Yuan's most vicious and insane plan!

A feint to the east while attacking in the west!

No, this is even more ruthless than a feint!

The first bomb was a decoy, used to buy time and deplete police resources.

He didn't even bother to set up the second demolition point (the power exchange shaft in Zone C). He only placed a few mannequins and a recording to psychologically mislead and mock the target audience.

And his so-called third detonation point is a complete lie!

A smokescreen used to lure the enemy away from their prey!

His real goal, from the very beginning, was that giant reservoir, like an underground ocean, that would provide emergency water supply and flood control for the entire capital!

He not only wanted to detonate the gas pipeline and create a massive fire!

He also wants to blow up the load-bearing structure of the reservoir, so that millions of tons of floodwater will gush out from underground and submerge the entire city!

Fire!

Add floodwaters!

This is the ultimate "work of art" he prepared for this city!

A devastating feast of ice and fire!

"Unfortunately, I've seen through your script."

Lin Chen suddenly turned around, his gaze piercing through layers of darkness, precisely locking onto a direction completely opposite to the third detonation point!