Most heavy smokers smoke about one cigarette every half hour. Even if their cigarette packs aren't full, they'll always have at least seven or eight cigarettes inside.

In this situation, the only logical explanation is that Song Guangxi and Shui Haohua bought cigarettes from this grocery store multiple times.

That is, they would stay in this area for a considerable period of time each time, so much so that they didn't have enough cigarettes to smoke.

Furthermore, they probably don't have a fixed place to live here, because smokers usually keep some cigarettes at their fixed residences and don't need to buy them from outside.

Tian Tian had bought water and spicy strips from the grocery store more than once, and even brought cigarettes for Song Guangxi and Shui Haohua.

Therefore, it can be inferred that the three of them had been here together, and each time they stayed for at least a few hours.

What can three young people do when they meet in an old residential area with no entertainment options?

Surely it's not some kind of silver party?

Even if you really want to throw a party, wouldn't those fancy love hotels with their variety of services be much better? Why go to those old, dilapidated houses where the beds might shake and the ceiling could fall down?

So the most likely explanation is that the three of them have some unspeakable secret here... such as coming into contact with some kind of supernatural power to satisfy their desire for revenge.

By comparing the other traces left by the three men in Baiguang City after their release from prison, Qin Huanyu believed that the possibility was at least 70%, and that they could take direct action.

Actions that would likely involve direct confrontation with supernatural forces are no longer suitable for ordinary criminal police officers like Xiao Liu.

Therefore, after locking onto the target, Qin Huanyu's task for Xiao Liu and the others was to continue to keep a close eye on Tian Tian, ​​Song Guangxi, and Shui Haohua.

After Qin Huanyu and the armed police force dealt with the source of the supernatural power, Xiao Liu led his men to arrest Tian Tian and the others.

After making the arrangements, Qin Huanyu immediately got to work.

She rode her motorcycle to the designated location to meet up with two six-person squads of the armed police, and together they headed to an old residential area in the west of the city.

The person in charge of the case involving extraordinary power carries some weight, and with Director Bai also speaking well of Qin Huanyu, the armed police force agreed to the request to deploy heavy firepower.

The two teams that cooperated with Qin Huanyu this time were traveling in a large truck disguised as a logistics transport vehicle.

The trailer towed behind the truck was completely camouflaged; it contained no cargo at all, only a Type 3 Iron-Eating Beast infantry fighting vehicle, currently in service with the Holy Zhou Army.

This infantry fighting vehicle is equipped not only with a 20mm autocannon that can fire armor-piercing incendiary rounds, but also with a prototype portable rocket using Lingsu technology, which has a power similar to an old 1000-pound aerial bomb and can create a crater more than 100 meters in diameter on the ground.

In the city, this is basically the limit of heavy firepower that can be used... Even if that rocket is eventually used, it can still put a strain on the gas company and make them take the blame.

Upon arriving at the old residential area in the west of the city, Qin Huanyu instructed the armed police to remain in disguise and wait by the roadside, while she herself went to a grocery store outside the residential area.

Qin Huanyu activated her abilities by eating a white cat milk candy outside the store, carefully observed the area around the grocery store to confirm there was nothing suspicious, and then took out her phone to open a specific app to scan the area. After detecting that the concentration of spiritual essence in the grocery store was not high, Qin Huanyu took out her police ID to identify herself and asked the grocery store owner to cooperate with the investigation.

The grocery store owner was a rather fat middle-aged man who was lying on a recliner scrolling through his phone. He was clearly not very willing at first, but when he looked up and saw Qin Huanyu, his attitude immediately changed, and he became very cooperative.

Have you seen this person before?

Qin Huanyu directly showed the fat boss Tian Tian's photo:

"She has shopped at your store several times, and our police have records of it. You'd better not try to get away with it."

Although Tian Tian's looks and figure are not as good as Qin Huanyu's, she is definitely considered a pretty girl in the eyes of ordinary people.

In addition, Tian Tian's standard sexy style of dressing and her ability to pretend to accidentally expose herself and seduce others should leave a deep impression on any normal man.

"Well..."

The chubby boss clearly remembered Tian Tian, ​​but he didn't answer immediately. Instead, his small eyes darted around, revealing a hint of greed.

"What did she do wrong, officer? I saw online that there's a monetary reward for providing important clues about criminal suspects, is that true?"

"That depends on whether the clues you provide are valuable."

Qin Huanyu was not angered by the fat boss's greed:

"Tell me, what do you know... As long as your clues are valuable, even if the bureau doesn't approve your reward application, I can still give you a reward privately."

Chapter 27 Building No. 3

[Beep! Payment confirmed, 5000 yuan.]

After making the promise, Qin Huanyu didn't even wait for the fat boss to say anything more, and readily scanned the code to give him 5000 yuan.

"This money is considered a deposit."

Before the fat boss's eyes could grow even more greedy, Qin Huanyu's expression turned cold, and she pulled out her gun, pointing it at the fat boss's head, whose face had drastically changed:

"But if the information you provide is wrong, you'll be committing both extortion and harboring a criminal! Considering the extreme danger of the target I'm trying to apprehend, any act of harboring or assisting him can be considered a serious threat to public safety... In other words, even if I shoot you, you'll only get a few days of paid leave at most... Do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand! I understand perfectly!"

The fat boss nodded repeatedly, sweating profusely, while inwardly groaning.

This policewoman looks pretty, but I didn't expect her to be anything but a pretty face; she's got a lot of tricks up her sleeve.

With the 5000 yuan transfer record, the fat boss's demand for money before providing clues could indeed be considered extortion, though it's hard to say for sure.

Even if the police promise to give a reward, they usually apply to the police station and go through the procedures before issuing the bonus. How can they just give money directly without saying a word? If you're so rich, why do you still work hard to earn a few thousand dollars a month?

More importantly, although the fat boss is not a big shot, he has been running a stall business for almost 20 years, so he has a strong ability to read people.

He could tell that Qin Huanyu wasn't bluffing him... If he dared to provide false information, Qin Huanyu would really dare to kill him.

There was no pity in those beautiful eyes, as bright as the night sky, as if the person in front of her was not a living person at all, but just a talking piece of flesh.

"I do have a strong impression of this girl, and I even secretly followed her, thinking about whether I could take advantage of her... after all, she really is a hot chicken."

The chubby boss answered honestly:

"But I've never succeeded because she's always surrounded by two men, two men who don't look like good people, like gang thugs."

"Are they these two people?"

Qin Huanyu then showed the fat boss photos of Song Guangxi and Shui Haohua one by one.

"Yes Yes."

The portly boss examined it carefully before nodding in affirmation.

"very good."

Qin Huanyu narrowed her eyes in satisfaction:

"Tell me more, how much do you know about them?"

"Well... I don't really know much about them. They only started showing up in my area in the last two months."

The portly boss thought for a moment, then pointed at Song Guangxi and said:

"This man must have come to my shop a long time ago, but I can't remember. After all, what normal man would bother to remember another man? I only became really familiar with them after he brought that girl who looked like a roast chicken to the shop once."

"Then just tell me what you know."

Qin Huanyu waved her hand:

"For example, which building in the community do they enter each time they come? How long do they stay? Have they ever stayed overnight here? Are there any other strange people like them coming and going from this community?"

"There are no others, just the three of them... In fact, apart from the three of them, the only people who come and go in this community now are a few old men and women."

The fat boss recalled again:

“They do come and stay for a few hours each time, but I don’t know if they stay overnight, because I also have to close up shop at night, and I don’t live in this neighborhood myself.”

“They always go to Unit 2 of Building 3 when they come. I followed that girl with the roast chicken once, but I don’t know which floor or which apartment it is exactly… I didn’t dare to get too close.”

"Building No. 3..."

Qin Huanyu quickly searched through the information she remembered:

"Wasn't Building No. 3 identified as a dangerous building 5 years ago? Besides the three of them who occasionally spend time inside, is there anyone else living there?"

"Gone."

The fat boss shook his head:

"The best-preserved building in this community is Building 5. Those elderly people all live on the first floor of Building 5. The other buildings are currently uninhabited."

"I see... um, thank you for your cooperation."

After extracting all the information the fat boss knew, Qin Huanyu smiled slightly, and then, just as the fat boss showed a look of infatuation, she took out a spray bottle and sprayed it at him.

"You...! Cough cough cough... Achoo... Ugh."

The fat boss pointed at Qin Huanyu in surprise, covered his nose and coughed a few times, then sneezed, but still couldn't resist the sudden wave of drowsiness and fell asleep within seconds.

"Sorry, you already know a bit too much."

Qin Huanyu lightly patted the fat boss twice with her boots to make sure he was fast asleep before she greeted the armed police officers on duty and asked one of the stronger officers to carry the fat boss away.

To prevent the existence of supernatural powers from becoming known to ordinary people, all cases involving supernatural powers must be handled with extreme caution.

People like the fat boss, who are already somewhat involved, are usually given chemical agents and psychological guidance to erase part of their memories, and then receive a sum of money as compensation under other pretexts.

Out of caution, Qin Huanyu did not immediately enter Building 3 to search. Instead, she first had the armed police send out a drone and attached her specially made mobile phone to the drone.

As a result, when the drone approached within about 40 meters of Building 3, the concentration of Ling Su detected by Qin Huanyu's mobile phone had already exceeded the safety limit.

Although places with high concentrations of spiritual energy don't necessarily harbor strange occurrences, and could simply be places with abundant spiritual energy as described by ancient practitioners, Qin Huanyu still felt that, considering all the current clues, the probability of her having found the right place was greater.

Therefore, Qin Huanyu immediately ordered the armed police to fly the drone back and began to make combat deployments.

The armed police force deployed a total of 12 people, of whom 3 were required to remain on the infantry fighting vehicle as the final fighting force, leaving only 9 to accompany Qin Huanyu into the search.

However, there are still a few civilians in Building 5 who may be affected and must be dealt with.

Therefore, after a brief discussion, Qin Huanyu and the two squad leaders of the armed police force decided to split into two groups and act simultaneously.

One of the squad leaders would lead three of the more eloquent members to gather and protect the civilians in Building 5, ideally evacuating them to a distant location before the battle broke out.

Qin Huanyu would personally lead five of her most capable armed guards into Unit 2 of Building 3 to investigate and find out what kind of monsters the enemy really was.

The armed police officers quickly got fully armed and ready to go, and Qin Huanyu also opened the trunk of her motorcycle to make final preparations before the battle.

Chapter 28 We've found the right place!

Qin Huanyu quickly completed her pre-battle preparations. She simply took out three pieces of equipment from the trunk of her motorcycle... or rather, two and a half pieces, since the motorcycle's trunk wasn't very big.

One of the pieces of equipment was the wristband that Qin Huanyu used when she saved Qian Mengyao last time. Inside the wristband was a steel cable about the thickness of a barbecue skewer, which could be shot out and fixed to various objects, giving Qin Huanyu a certain degree of three-dimensional mobility.

The other piece of equipment was a silver revolver, which was also specially made. The barrel and magazine were thicker than those of a regular revolver, and each bullet was about the size of a No. 5 battery.

This gun may seem powerful, but it's actually incapable of killing people, or rather, its lethality against physical life is less than that of a small-caliber automatic pistol.

Because those special bullets, which are about the size of a No. 5 battery, are completely different from regular bullets in terms of construction and design philosophy, except for the primer, which is the same as that of ordinary bullets.

This bullet not only lacks a teardrop-shaped projectile, but its body is also not made of metal; instead, it is a synthetic material that looks like transparent plastic.

The bullet's interior is hollow, and through the synthetic material, it can be clearly seen that each bullet contains a dark blue liquid.

When the primer of this bullet is ignited by the gun and fired from the muzzle, the high temperature generated by the friction between the bullet body and the air can completely melt the bullet casing within milliseconds. At the same time, it reacts with the dark blue liquid inside the bullet, turning into a plasma cluster that lasts for a very short time.

These plasma clusters are not very harmful to the human body. Even if they hit you directly, it will only cause numbness all over your body for a few seconds, like being hit by static electricity, and there will be slight burns at the point of contact. As long as you are not hit multiple times in a short period of time, there is absolutely no danger to your life.

But if the target is grotesque, it's a completely different story.

Most of the monsters have a weakness to lightning. Being hit by this plasma ball is equivalent to an ordinary person being hit by a regular handgun. Slightly weaker monsters will be killed in two or three shots.

This is the plasma bomb, one of the achievements of the Lingsu Research Institute.

Unfortunately, the cost of producing plasma bullet casings and the internal blue liquid is very high. Until a cheaper alternative material is found, this type of bullet cannot be mass-produced and can only be issued in small quantities.

Qin Huanyu's last piece of equipment was a small pouch filled with plasma bombs.

She put the wristband on her left arm, carefully inspected the plasma revolver, and after confirming that everything was normal, she led the armed police into the residential area.

一行人在3号楼前分开,秦环玉带着5名武警去2单元解决目标,另外4名武警则去5号楼那边将平民集中保护。

It wasn't that Qin Huanyu didn't want to evacuate the civilians before dealing with the target, but rather that to get to Building 5, she would have to pass through Building 3 where the target was located, which could easily alert the target and allow him to escape.

Criminals with extraordinary abilities are far more dangerous than ordinary criminals. If such criminals are allowed to escape and go into hiding, it will likely lead to even more tragic consequences.

Therefore, the guidelines for dealing with crimes involving superhuman abilities clearly state that in such cases, the priority must be to deal with the criminals with superhuman abilities, and those who may be affected can only be protected as much as possible.

From the moment they approached Building 3, Qin Huanyu's phone kept beeping, indicating that the concentration of pheromones in the area had exceeded the standard.

After she led the armed police into Unit 2 of Building 3, the 'beep beep beep' sound turned into a long 'beep-' sound, indicating that the current environment was extremely dangerous and that there was a possibility of being attacked by supernatural forces at any time.

Qin Huanyu walked in the middle of the group, holding a plasma revolver in her right hand, while her left hand, which was wearing a steel cable wristband, held a mobile phone. She carefully checked the direction with the highest concentration of spiritual essence in the building.

At the very front of the group was a very burly armed policeman who held a riot shield taller than himself in front of him with both hands, and a single-handed axe and an automatic pistol at his left and right hips, respectively.

The remaining four armed police officers stood on either side and behind Qin Huanyu, using two types of weapons: a standard automatic rifle and a large-caliber smoothbore shotgun.

Unless they are completely immune to physical attacks, these conventional firearms will be somewhat effective against zombie-like creatures. Especially against zombie-like creatures, smoothbore shotguns are far more lethal at close range than Qin Huanyu's plasma revolver.

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