"Well, I have some ideas."

Yi Shen nodded and asked her in return:

"Xing, in the memories you absorbed, was there any mention of the 'Specimen Incident'?"

"The specimen incident? Let me think..."

The girl frowned slightly and searched the female prison guard's memory for relevant information.

Somewhat unexpectedly, she soon found it:

"There was an incident, seemingly a series of vicious murders a few years ago, which caused a great panic in society. How did you know about this, Yi Jun?"

"Well, I seem to have seen works related to this world."

Yi Shen shrugged, simply evaded the question, and then said:

"Your intelligence confirms my suspicions. The next steps are clear. After we enter this city, we need to find someone."

"one person?"

Yamasaki An and Sakurajima Mai both looked at him curiously.

"Yes, a person with the 'guilt-free constitution'. No matter what crime he commits, the Sibyl system will not detect it!"

Yi Shen said this.

Chapter 120: The Police in Pursuit

"Eh? There are actually people like this?"

Yamasaki An exclaimed.

Having read the memories of the female prison guard, she understood very well how incredible the Sibyl System in this world was. It was a super-intelligent system that could scan out even the most hidden criminal thoughts and impulses. How could someone be immune to its detection?

"Hmm... That's not surprising. No matter how advanced and sophisticated a system is, as long as it's man-made, it's bound to have flaws and loopholes. As long as the population is large enough, it's not surprising that someone will appear who can transcend the system's control."

Mai Sakurajima was relatively calm and gave this explanation.

"Mai is right. The Sibyl System may seem powerful, but it's not invincible after all. Naturally, there are people who can break through this system. Our goal is to find this person, figure out the principles of his guilt-free physique, and apply it to ourselves."

Yi Shen said this, explaining the purpose of his plan.

"Is this so..."

The two girls nodded after hearing this, and felt more at ease.

……

After nightfall, Yi Shen and the other two took action according to their plan.

They came to the "weak point" chosen by Yi Shen, and then after approaching the ring road, Yi Shen launched an electromagnetic pulse, paralyzing all electrical equipment within the affected area.

All the streetlights on an entire stretch of highway suddenly went out, and the accompanying networked cameras were all destroyed.

And in this man-made darkness, a dark shadow quickly crawled across the road and entered the building area in the city.

As the shadow approached, the lights in the buildings went out one by one, and at once a large number of complaints and screams were heard from the houses.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, three black shadows rushed out from the shadows in an instant, jumped up dozens of meters, and instantly rushed to the roof of a building.

Then, without any stopping, they jumped between rooftops, quickly moving away from the area and infiltrating into the city.

When the police officers from the Public Security Bureau's Criminal Division received the report and rushed over, more than four hours had passed.

"Why didn't you call the police immediately?"

Nobumoto Ginoza, who was in charge of following up on the jailbreak case, questioned the person in charge sent by the municipal government with an unhappy look on his face.

He rushed over after hearing reports of a suspected electromagnetic pulse damaging the power system, but when he arrived he found he was too late.

"Well... when we first received the complaint, we thought it was just an accident. It wasn't until the workers thoroughly inspected the damaged electrical system that they discovered signs of sabotage. We then called the police immediately. There was no time wasted!"

The short and fat middle-aged person in charge wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained in a panic.

"..."

After hearing the other party's explanation, Ginoza Shinmoto was no longer angry.

The other party has done everything they should do within the scope of their responsibilities. The time it took was so long because a comprehensive inspection of the power systems required so much time. He had no way of saying that they did anything wrong.

But just like that, precious time was wasted and their subsequent investigation work was made more difficult.

Not far away, Chang Shou Zhu, who was accompanying the executive officers to survey the scene, saw this scene and couldn't help but tremble:

"Wow! I didn't expect Ginoza-senpai to be so terrifying when he gets angry!"

"Well, he's actually okay. Don't be scared by his appearance. He's actually a person with a sharp tongue but a soft heart."

A handsome man with a scar on his mouth and a prosthetic hand said this, then turned to look at the young executive on the other side:

"You're right, aren't you, Sly?"

"..."

Jiao Ni Shen didn't answer. He squatted on the ground and looked at the grass for a while, then stood up and walked quickly to the corner of the building in front.

"Mr. Kougi, have you discovered anything?"

Tsunemori Akane asked curiously.

"The footprints of the escaped prisoners stopped here."

Kougi Shinya said.

"The footprints are broken?"

Tsunemori Akane looked back along the path that Kougi Shinya had just walked. With the help of the scanning robots, she did see some faint mud footprints on the ground.

And the end point of these footprints, just as the other party said, is at the corner of this building.

"Could it be that they changed transportation here?"

She looked up at the building and made this guess.

The reason why it is not believed that the escaped prisoners entered the building is that the wall of this building is a glass curtain wall with no protrusions at all. There is no entrance and it is difficult to climb.

If this point is ruled out, the biggest possibility is that they transferred here to a means of transportation that may have been prepared in advance, and used the fully enclosed carriage to avoid being scanned by cameras along the street.

"The problem is, the means of transportation you're talking about doesn't exist here."

The handsome uncle Zheng Lu Zhiji who followed him said this, and at the same time opened a holographic video in his hand, which showed the picture captured by a camera not far away.

In the footage, there were no vehicles parked there until the camera was destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse.

Chang Shouzhu's eyes widened immediately:

"What...what could be the reason? Could it be that they just changed shoes here?"

"Maybe it's really possible?"

A young man with a cynical appearance came over from the other side and said this.

He is Teng Xiuxing, also an executive. He likes to make all kinds of jokes. When he heard what Chang Shouzhu said, he immediately came over happily.

"Mo~~ Seriously, stop teasing me at a time like this!"

The policewoman looked unhappy and immediately turned to Kougi Shinya and asked:

"Mr. Kougi, do you have any ideas?"

The executive officer, who had been looking up at something, stretched out his hand and pointed to the rooftop.

"My intuition tells me that they may have left through the roof."

"Rooftop?"

Several people immediately looked up and saw the building, which was not tall but had more than 20 floors.

"Are you kidding me? Can they climb up such a tall building with their bare hands?"

Teng Xiuxing said this.

"Not necessarily with bare hands, maybe with the help of tools, like a hook gun or a vacuum cup."

Zheng Lu Zhiji put forward his own ideas.

After all, the escaped prisoners in the prison videos were carrying bulging bags, and God knows what was inside them.

"Whether they did it with bare hands or tools, we'll know if we go up there. As long as they've been there, they'll definitely have left traces!"

Kougi Shinya said this, and then walked towards the main entrance of the building.

Chang Shouzhu and others saw this and hurriedly followed.

Soon, they arrived at the rooftop. After spreading the scanning robots, they soon received feedback - the escaped prisoner's footprints were indeed found here!

Chapter 121: Contradictory Investigation Results

"Strange...why is there only one footprint?"

Zheng Lu Zhiji, who was observing the footprints, made a puzzled sound.

"Only one place?"

Chang Shouzhu walked over and looked at the three pairs of footprints marked by the scanning beam on the ground. He looked around and found that there were indeed no other footprints.

"This...is the clue broken again?"

She raised her head and looked at Shinya Kougami who was not far away, hoping that this senior executive, who she thought was very reliable, could give some guidance.

"..."

Jiao Ni Shen didn't say anything either, but just looked at the footprints on the ground with a frown.

There were no other footprints. Either the prisoners had changed their shoes, as the joke said before, or they had cleaned the soles of their shoes, or...

"Jump directly to the roof of another building?"

Hearing Kougi Shinya's guess, Tsunemori Akane was surprised, but then he quickly realized what he meant:

"You mean, cyborgs? But according to the prison records, those three escaped prisoners didn't have any signs of cyborg modifications!"

"Yeah, that's where I feel conflicted."

Kougi Shinya nodded:

"From the traces they left along the way, their goal is clear: to avoid ground-based surveillance equipment whenever possible. Only when unavoidable will they resort to methods like electromagnetic pulses to destroy the equipment, so moving through the rooftops becomes a very natural choice. However, at this scene, we haven't found any signs of them using any equipment like cables. The only possibility we can surmise is that they possess superhuman athletic abilities."

And there is only one kind of such person in this world, and that is a cyborg whose flesh and blood limbs are replaced by machines!

Although they are not common among ordinary people, there are actually quite a few such cyborgs among the disabled and the military and police departments.

Most of them only have a few prosthetic organs, such as mechanical hands and feet, or electronic eyes, but there are some extreme examples where all parts of the body except the brain and spinal cord are replaced with mechanical ones.

The higher the proportion of prosthetics, the higher the athletic ability will generally be. Those who use military-grade prosthetics can even be extremely powerful to an inhuman level, and jumping dozens or hundreds of meters is no problem.

But here lies the problem. According to prison records, the three escaped prisoners were ordinary people with pure flesh and blood and had not undergone any prosthetic surgery. This contradicts his previous reasoning.

"Could this be a trick used by the criminals? Maybe they just changed their shoes or cleaned the soles, and then slipped into the building in the dark?"

Chang Shou Zhu gave his own guess:

"Perhaps they've already prepared evacuation vehicles in the building's underground parking garage. Or perhaps they're still hiding in a room inside the building, trying to trick us by hiding from view?"

She gave full play to her imagination inspired by her past reading of detective novels.

"...First up and then down, is it really necessary to go through so much trouble?"

Teng Xiuxing disagrees with this:

"As for the hidden danger tactic...after we discovered these footprints, we must have searched the entire building. There's no point in them hiding, right?"

"...Anyway, this is a possibility."

Zheng Lu Zhiji on the side tried to smooth things over:

"Of course, we can't ignore your suspicions, Jiao Nie. The prison system's records might have been tampered with. Let's assume the prisoners are unregistered cyborgs and check the rooftops of several nearby buildings. If we don't find any clues, we can conduct a comprehensive search of this building."

"It can only be the……"

Chang Shou Zhu frowned and nodded.

After arranging some police officers to temporarily block all entrances and exits of the building to prevent the criminals from really playing tricks in the dark, several people went to the rooftops of several nearby buildings to investigate again.

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