About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

"Calm down first! I agree to your terms, Aaron, you and I will come together——"

"That's a nice thought. Let me pick the person!"

Shi Huaiya originally planned to arrange for another special police officer from the assault team to follow him into the interior, but the gangster interrupted him very angrily.

"That short guy over there looking up at the sky, don't look at anyone else, it's you—Hey! I'm talking to you!"

"Shhhhhh~?"

Orson whistled a completely off-tune folk song from his hometown, pretending it had nothing to do with him.

"Stop shushing, I'm calling you!"

"……what?"

The gangster yelled at Orson, who was pretending to fly a kite... no, pretending to control a drone. Orson pretended not to hear at first, but with half the street looking at him, he couldn't play dead anymore and could only respond with "that short guy over there."

"He looks harmless, isn't very tall, and doesn't have the aura of a Guards officer at all. Is he a support officer? You two are the ones who will be exchanging hostages!"

"Tsk...Come here, rookie. I've dragged you into this."

Little Tiger frowned. The bandit's demands exceeded her original expectations, but now she could only temporarily comply with the other party's demands.

"..."

Orson didn't say anything, he just walked silently to Shi Huaiya.

The two men handcuffed their hands as requested by the gangsters. After that, the seriously injured hostage was transported out, and the two men dropped all their weapons and walked into the jewelry store.

After entering the jewelry store, Orson and Shi Huaiya immediately surveyed their surroundings. The store was quite large, and the hostages were gathered in a corner away from the floor-to-ceiling windows. Three bodies lay nearby. Surrounding the hostages were two or three masked men, each wearing a self-destructing Originium bomb vest and wielding heavy crossbows.

"Don't try to play dirty, Officer Shi. We're at our wit's end, and we don't mind dragging a few more people down with us."

"What do you mean by cornered?"

"Haha... go ask those bastard mafia!"

The bandit leader cursed loudly and pushed Shi Huaiya to the ground.

"Woo- these bastards!"

The little tiger cursed softly, and at the same time she noticed that the "rookie policeman" beside her was trembling slightly.

"I'm sorry, rookie, because my mistake has put you in this situation. I know you weren't taught how to handle this kind of situation in the police academy, but don't worry, I'll keep you safe."

Shi Huaiya changed her previous decisive attitude when making plans, and instead comforted Orson in a voice that was suitable for a "noble lady".

But what she didn't know was that Orson wasn't trembling because of fear of being kidnapped, but because of being called a shorty in public.

"After all, ha... I'm not the first one to be taken hostage."

Shi Huaiya said with a wry smile, while observing the patrol routes of several bandits, looking for the most appropriate time for the Guard Bureau to enter.

—I have often been tied to a spear by patriots.

Orson thought so and used his "frequency detection" ability to sense the surroundings of the building. After a few seconds, Orson noticed that there was a figure in the blind spot on the second floor, but Orson could not be sure whether the other party was a hiding civilian or one of the bandits.

"Boss, there's no way we can escape if we keep going like this. What should we do?"

"Don't you understand? We're hopeless! Those Mafia bastards don't even think about letting us live!"

--mafia?

Orson frowned. He had only heard this term from Penguin Logistics before.

A few minutes later, as the situation remained highly tense, one of the gangsters left his patrol position, walked up to the leader and loudly questioned him.

——Good opportunity

On the other side, Shi Huaiya decided that this was the best opportunity to launch an assault. She turned her head slightly, preparing to give orders using the satellite walkie-talkie hidden in her collar.

"Attention all teams, now—"

"What now, Officer Poetry?"

"——!?"

Before Shi Huaiya could even finish issuing the order, he was suddenly pulled up by the bandit leader.

"I've said before, 'Don't even think about doing anything small,' so what are you doing now?"

"Well……!!"

Shi Huaiya was grabbed by the collar by the gangster and slammed against the counter beside her. The explosion-proof glass and her head made a dull sound, and then a stream of scarlet blood flowed directly from Shi Huaiya's forehead.

The bandit leader took the miniature walkie-talkie off the inside of Shi Huaiya's collar, crushed it with his fingers, then raised the crossbow arrow that could pierce armor in his hand and pressed it against Shi Huaiya's head.

How did he notice the Guards' communication method? No, now we should think about how to command the assault team!

The gang leader seemed to have known the Guards' Chief Inspector's hidden communication method from the beginning. Like a hunter waiting for his prey to take the bait, he intercepted Shi Huaiya's message the moment she "issued the order", causing Shi Huaiya's originally planned tactics to completely go out of control.

Not only that, Shi Huaiya also completely enraged the bandit leader who was already a little crazy. The cold crossbow arrow was directly against his head, which reminded Shi Huaiya of the kidnapping incident he had encountered when he was young.

The only difference is that this time no one will come to rescue him, because he is the member of the Guards who "want to save others".

"Hey"

Just before the crossbow trigger was pulled, a young man's voice came from behind the bandit leader.

"Who—Pfft!"

The gang leader instinctively turned his head towards the sound, and the next second his cheek was hit hard by the oncoming fist, and he flew backwards.

“…Rookie!?”

Shi Huaiya's eyes widened. Orson, who was originally handcuffed and shivering in the corner (from Shi Huaiya's perspective), somehow got his handcuffs undone and knocked the bandit leader away with one punch.

"What's going on!?" "Don't, don't fucking move!"

The other two bandits didn't even realize how Orson broke free from his shackles and walked behind the bandit leader. The two bandits belatedly aimed their crossbows at Orson.

"Wait a minute——"

The bandit leader who was knocked away signaled his subordinates not to take action. He got up from the ground, covering his nose, and walked to Orson.

"You're such a fucking daredevil, shorty. Do you know that I... Pfft!?"

"If you can't speak, don't speak."

The leader had barely finished his words when he was hit hard in the stomach by Orson's right fist.

"Ahem... Damn it! Do you know what you've done?! The vest on me is loaded with an Originium bomb that can blow this building up. Do you believe I'm going to take everyone here with me to hell right now?"

"You'll have five seconds to apologize."

"what?"

The leader was stunned. This 'harmless-looking dwarf' in front of him seemed to be completely unaware of the seriousness of the situation. He didn't even look at the Originium bomb vest on his body, but instead said something incomprehensible.

"NMLGB!!"

Feeling fooled, the bandit leader roared and swung a punch at Orson, but the latter simply dodged it by gently leaning to the side.

"I'm going to die anyway, so if you want to die so badly, then die with everyone else!!"

"Don't provoke him, rookie...!!"

Shi Huaiya shouted in the hope of stopping Orson, and the hostages also showed expressions of extreme fear at the same time.

However, it was too late. The gang leader, who was attacked by Orson, directly pressed the detonation button of the bomb vest.

The next second—

【take a bow】

Nothing happened. The jewelry store seemed to have been suddenly muted, leaving only endless silence.

The moment Orson was "taken into" the jewelry store, he noticed that the detonators on these gangsters had the same structure as the one W used at that time, both relying on "originium energy" to trigger the explosion.

In fact, it is easy to understand. More than 8% of the equipment in this world uses Originium as its basic structure. The pure mechanical structure is like "using chopsticks to hold a fork to eat instant noodles". Normal people will never make such a complicated structure.

Since it is driven by the 'Originium', it does not exist for Orson.

"what happened!?"

After a brief moment of confusion, the gang leader pressed the detonator button again, but the result remained unchanged.

“What the hell did you do…!”

The bandit leader, realizing that the detonator had failed, raised his crossbow and aimed it at Orson, but the latter snatched the crossbow away from him and put it against his own chin.

"Hmm!? Wait a minute—"

The reversal of the situation was beyond everyone's expectations. The bandit leader, who thought he had an absolute advantage a second ago, instantly became a hostage with a crossbow at his throat.

The instinct of survival made him try to stop Orson, but the young man in front of him did not respond at all. He remained silent and just looked at him silently, as if looking at a corpse.

"puff!!"

The crossbow trigger was pulled, and the heavy crossbow arrow blew off half of the bandit leader's head.

"kill him!!"

The other bandits who realized the situation later panicked and aimed their crossbows at Orson, but this seemingly insignificant young man came up to the other party at an extremely strange speed. He held the crossbow arrow that he had taken out from the back of the bandit leader's body, and pierced the thigh of the first small fry directly. Then he snatched the crossbow arrow from the other party's hand and aimed at the figure hiding on the second floor that he had sensed before.

“Crack!!”

The gangster on the second floor hadn't even set up his crossbow when Orson pierced his arm and pinned him to the wall. The last gangster yelled and pulled the trigger, but Orson easily dodged the crossbow. He then walked up to him, swung his crossbow, and knocked him down.

In less than 10 seconds, the "rookie" as Shi Huaiya called it solved the crisis of the entire jewelry store by himself.

"...?"

The little tiger blinked, obviously still unable to understand what was happening in front of him.

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Like most modern action movies, after everything was settled, the special police from the Guard Bureau finally broke into the room.

The special police officers who were originally responsible for the storming were a little confused by the scene before them. Only then did they begin to escort and comfort the frightened hostages, and at the same time arrest the gangsters who were not dead.

"You're doing well, rookie… No, what's your name? I don't have your file here."

In the corner, Shi Huaiya sat on a chair and asked Orson, while Orson used the first aid kit borrowed from other policemen to bandage the wound on Shi Huaiya's forehead.

"Don't move, I, uh... Orson."

"Thanks to your actions, Orson, we avoided the worst-case scenario, but your actions were still too reckless. How did you know those people's detonators were faulty?"

"luck?"

"..."

Shi Huaiya showed a stunned expression. For a moment, he didn't know whether this guy was wise but pretended to be stupid or just mentally retarded.

"It's bandaged, Officer Shi. Although our coordinated operation was successful, please consider your own safety next time."

"Thanks. It was my fault for not thinking it through this time. If it weren't for you, I might have—Orson?"

Shi Huaiya wondered why these bandits possessed these prohibited equipment and why they knew the secret communication methods of the Guard Bureau. She thanked Orson, but when she looked up, she found that the young man had disappeared at some point.

"Strange newcomer."

The little tiger sighed. In the end, after so many years, he was still the one who was 'saved'.

As a child, the daughter of an heir to a large family business from Victoria, Shi Huaiya was targeted and kidnapped by a group of terrorists.

The terrorists were not after "ransom", their intention from the beginning was to "kill the hostages", but they just wanted to do it in a way that everyone would know.

When she learned that she was going to die, the young Shi Huaiya almost fainted, but no matter how much she cried, she could not change the robbers' plan.

However, Shi Huaiya was finally rescued, and the terrorists were defeated by a special operations team, which was the predecessor of the current "Longmen Guard Bureau".

Those horrific experiences were sealed deep in Shi Huaiya's memory. She only remembered the snowy scene she saw when she was rescued and her determination to join the Guards.

“…In the end, I’m still completely unqualified.”

Shi Huaiya frowned, not because he almost died at the hands of the bandits, but because he almost made a big mistake.

If this action fails, he might be completely surpassed by that 'rice noodle dragon'.

It is a well-known fact in the Longmen Guard Bureau that although Officer Chen and Officer Shi do not get along with each other, they both regard each other as a goal that must be surpassed.

I wonder if the dragon will mock me? I wonder if the new guy named Orson will be disappointed in me?