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Chapter 95 A Swarm Arrives

Outside No. 1 Garden, on Anning Street.

Chen Liming sat in the driver's seat, still shaken. He reached out to start the car, but couldn't get it to start.

The spasm in his calf just now made Chen Liming, who was sitting in the driver's seat, realize what had happened and start thinking about what was wrong.

What just happened? Really? At the door of 802?

Why did Lu Wenying tell the woman to leave immediately after she opened the door? Why did Lu Wenying even pull out a gun?

The brief sound they heard when they went downstairs just now... that was a gunshot, right?

Why didn't I go back to provide support after hearing the gunshots, but instead just ran back to the car?

His chest heaved violently as he looked at his subordinate beside him, who also looked bewildered.

"Brother Chen...should we go back to help Xiao Lu?" the subordinate asked, his voice trembling slightly.

Upon hearing this, a hint of confusion flashed in Chen Liming's eyes, but he quickly realized that this matter, from the beginning until now, was not something that he—or rather, they—could solve.

"Brother Chen...look!" The subordinate looked ahead and pointed.

Chen Liming looked in the direction he was pointing and saw that the previously deserted street was now filled with people wearing pajamas or even naked, weeping with their faces covered.

They walked slowly toward Garden No. 1, crying as they went. The sound of crying had started to fill the entire street at some point.

Whether in front or behind... the crowd was slowly walking towards Garden No. 1.

An unusually sad feeling rose in Chen Liming's heart. The next moment, the car was finally started, and he stepped on the gas and drove the car away.

I can't go back... I must report this quickly...

The vehicles were speeding forward, and on both sides of the street, there were mostly people going in the opposite direction.

How many people are there...? What exactly happened?

Lu Lingyun definitely knows something, and Chen Liming knows it too. They are currently at the traffic police station and have been occupying the dispatch room for several days.

"Ah Hao, make a phone call and inform the other comrades that the target has been spotted."

Chen Liming accelerated to almost maximum speed, the engine sounding like it was groaning, as he sped towards the traffic police detachment.

"Boss, Captain Chen is looking for you. He's from the criminal investigation team. He says he has an urgent report to make. We've already taken photos, and there's nothing unusual."

"Bring it over." Lu Lingyun nodded, stood up, and looked towards the door.

Have you found it?

Lu Lingyun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boss Lu! Come quick!"

Just then, a technician in the dispatch room suddenly shouted something, drawing Lu Lingyun's attention.

Lu Lingyun strode forward and looked at the technician's computer screen.

It was a surveillance camera on a street, seemingly in the new urban area. It was almost midnight, yet there were quite a few people walking in the same direction.

The technician switched the surveillance cameras at several intersections in succession. With each switch, Lu Lingyun felt her heart sink a little deeper.

It wasn't until the camera switched to a surveillance video at the entrance of a residential complex that Lu Lingyun raised her hand and rubbed her temples.

Too late...?

"Get all frontline personnel together, surround and control this area, and prevent anyone from getting any closer to this residential area."

"Notify the Municipal Bureau to implement control measures on the outermost layer to prevent others from entering the core alienated area."

"Has the command vehicle been delivered yet?"

"Where's Chen Liming? Bring him here immediately!"

"The information department will leave a team to continue monitoring this area and review previous footage from these areas. Everyone else, go help out and seal off the surrounding areas—get moving!"

Lu Lingyun was rapidly issuing instructions while simultaneously pushing open the glass door and heading towards the elevator at the end of the corridor.

When he was halfway there, the elevator doors opened, and Chen Liming strode towards him.

Lu Lingyun grabbed him by the collar, dragged him to a nearby conference room, and forced Chen Liming into a seat before asking directly, "Why are you reporting? Where are the investigation team members?"

"She...she stayed there. We were just checking at Garden No. 1..."

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Chen Liming was no stranger to big storms. He was initially a little nervous, but he still reported what had happened that night to Lu Lingyun as quickly as possible.

"You said you saw a teenager carrying a bloodstained knife, right?" Lu Lingyun asked again to confirm. "After the investigation team told you to retreat, they stayed behind and then opened fire?"

"Yes... We waited there for a while, but she didn't show up, so I drove here to report."

Chen Liming nodded.

In case of any unusual situation, once the unusual target is identified, you can fire at any time without any problem.

The fact that they were allowed to leave instead of staying suggests that the people on site believed they would only die if they stayed, and that the person on site seemed to have made plans to cover their retreat.

The boy had likely been corrupted and mutated; the blood on the knife he was holding indicated that there had already been injured or killed before they went to investigate.

The unusual phenomena did not stop after the gunshot, which means that the person at the scene was most likely killed.

The shooting or other actions made the anomaly sense danger, causing it to go berserk and out of control. It began to control the affected crowd, drawing them toward its location.

Lu Lingyun sighed inwardly. He took a breath and asked, "What's the name of that member of the investigation team?"

Being able to withstand a high-frequency electric shock every 3 seconds indicates that the other party is already very accustomed to electric shocks, and may be someone who has been with the Ninth Detachment since its inception.

It is precisely this high-frequency electric shock, delivered every 3 seconds, that allows the other person to remain more conscious than the other two officers when faced with abnormalities that could affect their mental state.

This way, the other side could direct two officers to escape while they stayed behind to cover the retreat, giving them enough time to escape.

"What's his name?" Chen Liming's silence prompted Lu Lingyun to tap the conference room table and ask with a frown, "You don't remember?"

Chen Liming opened his mouth, and after a long while, he finally spoke: "Lu... Lu Wenying".

Upon hearing this name, Lu Lingyun was momentarily stunned.

But he quickly recovered and said to Chen Liming, "You are responsible for directing the city police force to maintain a perimeter. I will have someone send you the specific perimeter area. Stop the people."

"We'll send you a message every ten minutes from the inner circle. If you don't receive a message for twenty consecutive minutes... then you should take your colleagues from the Municipal Bureau and retreat. Report directly to the higher authorities. I'll give you a phone number."

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Lu Lingyun left a phone number with Chen Liming, then patted him on the shoulder to encourage him before getting up and heading downstairs with the prepared information team members.