Although Yang He responded quickly, their next actions went very poorly.
The old city, Ruifeng District, was indeed the most prosperous area in Fengcheng. It was also the first place in the city to install surveillance cameras. It was once considered the safest area in Fengcheng.
But this is all in the past.
The reality is that with the continuous development of Fengcheng, the city center has moved to Haitong District in the new city. New commercial streets, residential buildings, hospitals, etc. and a series of infrastructure have been built. The population continues to flow to the new city, whether it is investment or investment. Both capital and high-tech power began to change direction, giving priority to serving the booming Haitong District.
In Ruifeng District, which is gradually declining, apart from the locals who can't bear to live with their old neighbors, there are only the migrant population who can't afford houses in the city center. Even this group of people craned their heads to watch the movements of Haitong District, and they might move away at any time.
In such a place, not to mention thieves and robbers, even the little gangsters who cause trouble find it deserted. It turns out that the sporadic surveillance cameras were still working, but the superiors thought they could postpone the matter for a while, but they never had time to redeploy the cameras.
What Nie Tianyao can adjust are these surveillance images with unstable signals, numerous blind spots, and widely spaced distributions. Except for the first few street surveillances where Yu Huisheng could be seen, no valuable clues were found later.
Even because of the approaching thunderstorm, many small merchants closed their stores early, and it was difficult to see even a few living people on the street.
"What should we do? Do we really have to figure it out all the way if this continues? Even if we know that he will go to the joint, after all, the Huo family will definitely move faster than us. Who knows if there will be new variables. The scope of positioning is too big now. .”
Sitting in the back seat of the speeding modified car, Nie Tianyao held the computer with a worried look on his face.
"It's still half an hour before we can reach the old city. It's still possible. But if we really don't have any clues, we can only disperse and search."
Meng Jie'an, who was sitting in the front row, turned sideways, stuck out half of his head, and said comfortingly,
"As long as we can hold on until Black Tiger and the others have settled things down, they will be able to get here quickly and the speed will be much faster."
Yang He said nothing. He just sat next to Nie Tianyao, holding the headphones in his hands and staring at the screen closely, for fear of missing any clues.
Gray sky, swaying tree shadows, low-flying crows, intertwined power lines, and sporadic hurried passers-by.
other? No. Nothing at all.
The old city looks as usual, even though everyone knows what kind of storm is brewing under the "usual" appearance.
But the hunter's sharp eyes can always find some clues in the calm.
"...Tianyao, stop these scenes and rewind! Is this the same person riding a bicycle?"
"I'll compare the data right away!"
Nie Tianyao suddenly became energetic, holding on to the computer case, and started typing code. The results came out quickly:
"Yes! Although I can't see the face clearly, I can tell from the clothes and the bicycle that they are the same person!"
"Is this the road from Haitang Park to Ruifeng District? Oh, this scene is almost as fast as a motorcycle, right?"
Dong Jie, who was next to him, also looked over and said in a loud voice,
"But he doesn't look like a member of the Huo family. This doesn't cover his whereabouts at all!"
"This time, this action trajectory, is unlikely to be a coincidence. In Fengcheng, we will find Professor Yu...that student of his? His name is...Nan Botu? If I remember correctly, this person was there just now Wu's Medical Clinic was released just now after being ruled out of suspicion by the Huo family, right? How could it appear here across half of the city?"
"Are you sure he was 'released'? At least he has the support of the Nan family behind him. Otherwise, why would he walk out of Wu's Medical Center so arrogantly?"
Xie Mingming, who was driving, suddenly said,
"Tianyao, hold on to your computer. I'm going to speed up and overtake you in the front corner!"
"? No, wait, sister Xie, you already said it was a curve, why are you accelerating again!!"
Accompanied by howls of ghosts and wolves in the car, the car passed several cars in front of it one after another and drove steadily on the acceleration lane.
"We are leaving Haitong District soon. The traffic flow will be reduced a lot. It will take about ten minutes to reach the last surveillance point found by Tianyao. Be prepared."
"Understood. Others have got their equipment and are ready to take action at any time! Tianyao, continue to keep an eye on the surveillance, and Professor Youyu will report to me any new clues. In addition, if you have time, confirm whether the person in the picture is Nan Botu. If so. , also lock his whereabouts. Don’t let ordinary people and Huo family elites face each other. Maybe there are other clues on him."
"clear!"
Everyone responded.
…
The sky is getting darker and heavier, making it difficult to tell whether it is night or dark clouds. Faint thunder flashed between the clouds, and the humid air made the atmosphere more depressing.
Probably because the speed of the bicycle was too fast, the newcomers he met by chance always looked at him with strange eyes. But Ling Yao didn't put too much energy on them.
Even though a heavy rain was approaching, they seemed too leisurely - they neither encountered anything worth being vigilant about nor had any premonition of a crisis.
To them, this rain is indeed just rain.
The street in front of me gradually narrowed, and the strange and winding roads branched out like branches of a tree, stretching and endless.
This is the densest residential area in Ruifeng, and it is also the smallest area where Ling Yao can guess that the Secret Service base is located based on only inference.
After all, it has to be a place that needs to be entered and exited frequently without attracting attention.
Next, we can only rely on some unconventional means.
Ling Yao stood at the intersection with the most forked roads, parked the bicycle he had turned halfway, closed his eyes, and muttered something silently.
Squeak, squeak, squeak--.
On both sides of the street, colorful signboards and fluttering flags hung in the half-covered wooden doors that were shaken by the wind. The most common ones are nothing more than horoscopes, feng shui, professional naming, fortune telling from the Book of Changes, etc. On weekdays, it seems that they are cheating or opportunistic business, but this kind of atmosphere has a bit of a supernatural and mysterious atmosphere.
got windy.
The only sound in the quiet streets is the wind.
But Ling Yao could hear the footsteps walking back and forth, the whispers, and even the light or heavy, shallow or deep breathing and heartbeats, coming from the layers of gray bricks.
thump. thump. thump.
Suddenly, he dropped his bicycle and ran toward an alleyway behind him.
…
"Wait a minute, why did Nan Botu suddenly change direction and run away!"
A group of people who had just been discussing why Nambotu suddenly stopped to meditate were startled by this sudden move.
They had just arrived in Ruifeng District, and the Black Tiger Team and the Red Bee Team had already spread out to conduct a blanket search. Several members of their Golden Scale team were also equipping their weapons and preparing to find a vantage point that was convenient for observation.
"No one was seen chasing him on the surveillance. Did he see or hear something?"
Meng Jie'an analyzed.
Yang He only thought about it briefly and made further judgment:
"Let's follow him. Maybe he really knows where Professor Yu is."
"The car ahead can't go in. Are you following on foot?"
Xie Mingming patted the steering wheel and unlocked the car.
"Tianyao, which area does that alley lead to?"
Yang He turned to ask. Nie Tianyao called up the terrain map:
"I'm not sure. I don't know if he will go to other forks or climb the courtyard wall. But all the way to the end, it should be the cultural street near our base...the one selling yellow talisman, cinnabar and mahogany swords."
"Okay. Jie'an and Xiaojie, get off the car here and approach where Nanbotu just parked his car. I will ask the black tiger to move in your direction. Xiaoxie, let's take a shortcut to North 3 Outpost! I will Let the red bees pick us up."
North 3 is the highest point closest to Cultural Street. Although on the surface it is just a shabby and deserted small teahouse.
"clear!"
Meng Jie'an and Dong Jie were both Qi practitioners, so they only needed to take their magic weapons with them and leave lightly. Xie Mingming waited for them to close the door, immediately turned the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator and drove the car away:
"Captain, judging from his reaction just now, I'm afraid that Nan Botu is not that simple. Even if he doesn't cooperate with the Huo family, we have no way of knowing whether he can become our side."
Nie Tianyao has been able to protect his computer very familiarly, and can even nod in response to Xie Mingming's words:
"He seems to know a lot. He feels that his goal is very clear. We can't treat him as a simple rescue target and be defenseless against him."
"As long as he has the same purpose as us now... No, as long as he doesn't hinder us. The rest can be put into saving Professor Yu before making plans. He has the Nan family behind him, and it is not suitable for him to have a close relationship with us. You guys Just don’t use classified equipment in front of him.”
Yang He nodded, obviously he had already made plans in his mind.
"I'm more worried about the Huo family now. Red Bee just sent a message and has seen Xu Wenbo's people. They should also be looking for Professor Yu, but their speed is obviously faster than ours, and their goals are clearer than ours. I We have asked them to follow the Huo family to narrow the search scope, but in the end they will be a step slower than before."
"You should have made a decision early on, whether to give priority to ensuring the safety of Professor Yu, or to take this opportunity to kill all the Huo family members. This is related to everyone's follow-up actions, whether to conduct a vigorous search without any cover-up, or to quietly hunt down all the members of the Huo family." They are completely surrounded. How important is what Professor Yu has in his hands? Is it worth killing the Huo family, and is it worth letting the Huo family go?"
Xie Mingming's words were very straightforward and unpleasant. Even the two people who were used to hearing her talk couldn't help but frown.
But they understand that this is indeed a choice that should be made sooner or later.
Yu Huisheng is very important, but there will almost never be another chance to deal with the Huo family like this and completely lose their ability to continue to do evil.
There is never the absolute best of both worlds. The only way to get anything done is to drag it on.
Yang He picked up the walkie-talkie and started giving orders. Soon, he hung up the intercom.
"...Black Tiger has brought other teams that have come to join to surround this area. These people...have countless lives on their hands. Since they dare to come to our territory, they will not let go of any of them. Red Bee will Keep an eye on them. As long as they don't silence Professor Yu immediately, we still have a chance. Obviously, how many more minutes are there?"
"Right away, just around the corner."
The car suddenly swerved and turned into a new fork in the road. It quickly slowed down and stopped, and Xie Mingming's voice came out,
"OK, we're here. You go first, and I'll follow."
The two people in the back seat didn't say much, picked up their belongings, got out of the car, and climbed up to the rooftop of the tea house.
"Namboto did indeed cross the alley and come to this street. It's just that he is at the east end now and we are at the west end."
Before Nie Tianyao finished speaking, an astonishing light suddenly flashed across the sky, followed by a huge roar.
Boom——! Boom——click——!
Both of them were attracted by that. Bright purple lightning tore through the clouds and quickly dispersed in the sky.
Like a signal, the rain poured down in torrents.
Neither of them was surprised by this, since they were both indoors after all. Nie Tianyao also pulled the bamboo curtain in front of her to prevent the rain from splashing in.
Nambutu, who was running on the street outside the window, was not so lucky. The sudden heavy rain immediately made him wet.
But in the picture, he seemed to be frozen in place, motionless.
"The signal is not good, the video is stuck?"
"...No. The rainline is still changing, but he stopped moving on his own. There are quite a lot of surveillance on this street...but nothing unusual was found."
Soon, the expressions of both people gradually became weird due to the changes in the picture. Nie Tianyao couldn't help but complain:
"Perhaps the most abnormal thing here is him. Wait, why did he suddenly...aren't these prop swords cheap goods everywhere? Why did he catch them one by one? Also, what was he drawing in the void? He was not in a hurry Looking for Yu Huisheng? Did we guess his purpose wrong, or did we overlook something?"
Yang He squinted his eyes, staring at Nan Botu who was moving quickly but methodically in the picture, and slowly exhaled:
"Maybe...we did miss something through the screen."
Their intelligence all revealed Nanbotu's marginal status in the Nan family, but facts have proven time and again that the Nan family values Nanbotu much more than they imagined.
If the things that happened at the beginning can be considered as the Nan family's compensation for Nan Botu, and Nan Guozhong's little connivance to the junior, then everything that happened later has obviously crossed the line between "compensation" and "connivance".
Unless Nan Botu still has value worthy of the Nan family's plans.
Cultivator.
The flow of true energy is indeed something that digital devices cannot capture.
However, before returning to the Nan family, how could Nan Botu have the opportunity to come into contact with spiritual practice? Yu Huisheng obviously would not take the initiative to tell him.
So...a genius who only started practicing in his early twenties, but is already on par with ordinary people who have been practicing for many years?
Eighth grade? Seventh grade? No matter how talented he is, if he only started practicing Qi at this age, it is impossible for him to break through to a higher realm.
But this level is still not enough to compete with so many people from the Huo family. How could he have the courage to come to Yu Huisheng alone? Is it because they don't know the true strength of the Huo family?
Yang He felt that he had caught a piece of thread to untie the ball in the mess of information. But he didn't have time to peel off the cocoon bit by bit.
"Jinlin, this is the base. We haven't received a distress signal from Professor Yu. Our entrance has been camped by people from the Huo family. I'm afraid Professor Yu doesn't dare to show up."
"Golden Scale received. The base continues to be on alert and is on standby to receive injured patients at any time."
"Basic received."
"Jin Lin, this is Black Tiger. We have surrounded the entire residential area. We are retreating towards the base. Please give us the next step of instructions."
"Jin Lin received it. Continue to close the scope. Try to control the Huo family in Area C. Those who are scattered around the edges will be dealt with on the spot."
"Black Tiger received it!"
"Won't you alert the enemy? There is communication between them, right?"
Nie Tianyao asked.
"No. Xu Wenbo is a very conceited person. He believes more in the results of his personal leadership than in the stragglers who were separated. The temporarily formed team is inherently unreliable."
Xie Mingming, who had climbed to the rooftop, took over the conversation. Nie Tianyao turned around and saw Xie Mingming lying down and adjusting the tripod facing the street.
"Wow."
Nie Tianyao's eyes sparkled, and he poked Yang He's waist with his elbow.
"Sure enough, I still find Sister Mingming very handsome every time I see her on a mission. You should learn from others."
"Just calm down."
Yang He helplessly slapped her hand away,
"Namboto is coming towards us. He's picking up speed."
Sure enough, after just a moment, the three of them could vaguely see the figure running from the east. It's just that their location is very hidden, and they are definitely not visible from the perspective of Nanbotu.
Xie Mingming turned the gun and stared at Nan Botu through the scope.
In the surveillance footage just now, Nanbotu had grabbed many swords randomly placed on the stalls, but now he only had a mahogany sword that looked strong but not sharp enough.
Although none of them knew why Nan Bo Tu was obsessed with finding a sword that was destined to be unsuitable at such a critical moment, Xie Mingming had an intuition that Nan Bo Tu holding the sword was different from the crazy man riding a bicycle just now. Compared to the people who ran, there seemed to be an inexplicable change.
It was as if the sharpness and hardness that should belong to the sword were transferred to the human body.
However, Nambotu did not continue walking along the street towards the tea house as they expected. As if he had a goal in mind, he naturally walked to the door of a house, used his sword to open the bolted wooden bars, and pushed the door straight in.
Xie Mingming pressed the gun.
No one can rule out the possibility that Nambotu is also a dangerous person.
However, at the moment when she pre-pressed the trigger, she suddenly felt Namboto's eyes cast towards her.
Boom——
An inexplicable sense of crisis suddenly exploded, as if the identities of prey and hunter were suddenly reversed. Xie Mingming's heart beat heavily, and her disordered breathing forced her to release the trigger.
That gaze immediately retracted, as if it had never existed.
Xie Mingming had only experienced this feeling once. It was during a mission. Although she was holding a sniper rifle, she had a premonition that another sniper with better equipment and more experience was looking for her location. As soon as she fired and exposed her position, he would kill her. Shot to death.
But that time, she temporarily gave up the killing mission at that time. Facts also proved that her final choice saved her life.
She had no doubts about her intuition.
But this time the "enemy" was even more bizarre - he had no gun, just a cheap wooden sword.
Moreover, can she really be seen visually from where Namboto is standing?
Just when she was about to report this special situation, Nie Tianyao's voice interrupted her thoughts:
"It's Xu Wenbo and the others! Three o'clock direction. One, two, three... fourteen people in total! They came from the other way! Professor Yu's whereabouts have most likely been exposed!"
Following Nie Tianyao's voice, Xie Mingming quickly turned his sights on Xu Wenbo.
Compared with the uncertain factor of Nan Bo Tu, Xu Wenbo is obviously the key target of their operation.
If they were not too weak and lacked follow-up support, she even planned to kill Xu Wenbo with one shot - her bullets were specially made and could completely break the defense of a sixth-grade monk in a sudden attack.
Unfortunately, the manpower for this operation was scattered. In the end, it was the few of them who were chasing Nanbotu who found the target first, which led to the slightly embarrassing situation now.
They had to wait for backup.
However, it is worth noting that unlike Nan Botu, who was galloping all the way with a clear target point, Xu Wenbo and his group were smashing and rummaging all the way, as if they had just found a path. But exactly which point on the path it was, they seemed unsure.
Therefore, their steps are slower and their movements are louder than those of Nambotu.
But this also raises a new question: If Xu Wenbo and the others found this place by following the traces left by Yu Huisheng, then how did Nan Botu find it directly from another direction?
In the empty streets, Xu Bowen’s yelling voice seemed particularly abrupt:
"Damn, this old guy is really good at hiding! He tries to get into all the nooks and crannies. Do you really think that his little tricks can deceive us cultivators? He's already been spared once, and he still dares to talk about our Huo family's affairs. If you get hit, you should understand what the price will be! Why don’t you get out yourself? Are you really afraid that your daughter and students will be implicated?!”
Unexpectedly but not so unexpectedly, he finally led someone to break open the door that Namboto had just entered.
However, unlike the silence that greeted them when Namboto opened the door just now, what greeted them was an unexpected gift.
Sizzle...
The moment more than a dozen people walked through the courtyard door, Xu Wenbo heard a thin sound of electricity in his ears. He made a defensive posture, but all he could see were the yellow talismans stuck on the walls and doors all over the courtyard, fluttering in the wind.
The louder the wind, the closer the thunder.
Wait...thunder? ?
Xu Wenbo suddenly raised his head, put up a shield of infuriating energy around his body, and looked at the sky.
The yellow talisman in the courtyard suddenly flew up and quickly burned into ashes. And the roaring thunder and lightning fell from the sky and rushed toward him! !
