Civil Security Bureau Qinghu Branch.
First floor, large office.
Countless square screens are neatly arranged on the wall that is eight meters high and 20 meters long. At first glance, it looks like a lighted honeycomb.
Under the honeycomb-shaped screen, there are three rows of operators and observers wearing headsets.
There are countless voices constantly intersecting in the hall:
"Long Yingbin Hotel in Changqing District confirmed that two Yellow Pages-level monsters were found and have been transferred to the Changqing branch for processing."
"There are suspected traces of foreign lands on the east side of Jinhua Community on Zixia Avenue, and a director-level team is required to inspect them."
"The fugitive wanted criminal Xue Chang'an has appeared at Chen's Lao Hotpot on Huo'an Road. The relevant personnel of the Magician Alliance have already met and the other party expressed that they need support."
…
Looking at this busy scene, Su Mo had a slightly surprised expression on his face.
When Yu Hongfei saw this, he couldn't help but explained with pride:
"This is an observation station that we have just opened recently. Through the large arrays deployed at the headquarters and various branches, and then linked to Skynet, as well as the magical artifact components placed in various places, we can retrieve the changes that occur in various places to the greatest extent, including but It is not limited to escaped wanted criminals, traces of foreign lands, and powerful power fluctuations.
Based on this, we can rush to the scene as quickly as possible to deal with various emergencies.
Similar to the Tian Kuang Scatter disaster that broke out in the city center last time, if it happened again now, the losses could be reduced by at least four-fifths! "
Su Mo felt very emotional as he listened.
Even in the ancient world of cultivation, such a large-scale and precise detection would be difficult to achieve, or it would be difficult to achieve it at such a small cost.
It can be seen that not everything is better in ancient times, and the wisdom of later generations cannot be underestimated.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask aloud:
"So can we detect those weird delivery guys?"
Yu Hongfei showed an embarrassed look on his face and said helplessly:
“The observation station here has extremely surprising sensing capabilities, but it is mainly for observing relatively high energy levels.
Generally speaking, only energy fluctuations above level 4 will be included in the scope of observation.
As for levels below 4, although it is not unobservable, the load on the entire system is too great.
With the spiritual stones we have on hand, I am afraid it will be difficult to support it.
Moreover, there are many practitioners living in our city, and they will transmit corresponding energy fluctuations even if they are casually training or fighting at home.
Once the observation level is reduced, it will only cause great interference to the accuracy of observation, making it difficult to accurately lock the corresponding target. "
"The other thing is those weird delivery guys. Since they deal with ordinary people, they basically don't produce any big energy fluctuations, so they are currently outside the system's observation range.
Moreover, most of them have the ability to distort light and cognition. It is difficult for Skynet to work on them, and ordinary people often do not notice them. This brings huge difficulties to our work.
That's why I came to you. "
Su Mo's brows couldn't help but frown slightly.
Yu Hongfei mentioned in the previous phone call that since today, there have been many cases of strange deaths of customers taking out food in the city.
Their situations are all very similar. Their bodies are intact, but their souls are missing, and they are suspected of being devoured by the weirdo posing as a delivery boy.
The most critical point is that multiple cases in different locations occurred at the same time.
This means that there is not just one weird person playing the role of a delivery boy.
Based on the available information, it is estimated that there are at least five.
But these five weirdos are now causing the Civil Security Bureau a very difficult situation.
It should be noted that a delivery person can deliver many orders in a day.
Even leaving aside special cases like Su Mo, a skilled delivery person can easily deliver twenty orders a day.
Considering that these delivery people are not human beings, it may not be a problem to deliver fifty orders, or even one hundred orders.
Five delivery guys, that’s five hundred orders.
In other words, that's five hundred lives.
Maybe five hundred people are nothing compared to the entire Qinghu City.
However, such a large scale of casualties will definitely cause huge panic among the people and is not conducive to social stability.
Especially in this special period when the spiritual tide is about to break out, there might be some trouble.
And if those weird delivery guys can't be removed for a day, ordinary people will keep dying.
No one can sustain such a huge loss.
Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine the attention of the Civil Security Bureau.
Compared with the powerful monsters that hunt cultivators, they are more disgusted with such low-level monsters that attack ordinary people on a large scale.
Su Mo also felt a rare anger rising in his heart.
Not to mention that the large number of casualties of ordinary people affects his basic base for earning attribute points.
The other party plays the role of a delivery boy, and he is just disgusting with him.
If he couldn't find a way to contain it, Su Mo could fully imagine the scene where people were too frightened to order takeout.
He couldn't have come to the end of his career, only to be suddenly interrupted by these little thieves.
When he thought of this, the anger in Su Mo's heart ignited.
At this time, Song Ruyuan walked in with a serious expression.
After seeing Su Mo, his expression relaxed slightly, but his brows were still furrowed and he said directly:
"Lao Yu should have discussed the general situation with you. I just received several more cases over there, and the situation is not optimistic.
According to the existing data, those weird delivery guys are most likely regular.
In other words, they have to be triggered by a certain rule to cause them to engage in cannibalistic behavior.
We have reason to believe that the weird food delivery boy’s cannibalism rules are related to food delivery.
Once a customer accepts their takeout, the rules are fulfilled and cannibalism is allowed.
But something strange is that the rules generated by regular monsters are generally related to obsessions during life.
For example, many of the monsters who died in fires would immediately go crazy once they saw the light of fire.
But I have never seen or heard of such strange things as their collective death from takeaways.
At least in the history of Qinghu City, there has never been such a large-scale food poisoning incident.
Inferring from this, it is likely that there is more than just one point of contact between them: food delivery.
There's no telling what other gangsters are hiding behind this. "
"No matter who the culprit is, I will find him completely!"
A coldness flashed in Su Mo's eyes.
Song Ruyuan's face showed a little sadness, and he said in a deep voice:
“Because ordering takeout is closely related to the safety of citizens.
In order to prevent widespread casualties and chaos.
We will arrange for many team members to order takeout and set up an ambush tomorrow.
And try to find them through other means. "
Having said this, Song Ruyuan paused, stretched out three fingers and said:
“But we only have three days at most.
If we can't catch them within three days, solve this problem completely.
We will issue a notice to the outside world to remind the public of the risks and prohibit everyone from ordering takeout. "
Su Mo frowned suddenly when he heard this.
He knew that what Song Ruyuan did was not against him.
As the acting director of the Qinghu Branch of the Civil Security Bureau, he needs to be responsible for the safety of the people of the city.
If there is no way to deal with the weird delivery man in time, he must spread the news to prevent innocent people from being implicated.
Even if this affects the entire industry of delivery workers, you still have to make a decision when it's time to make a decision.
But Su Mo would never allow this to happen.
Not just because of the attribute points.
Especially because of his dignity as a strong man!
"Three days? Three days is more than enough!"
Su Mo's eyes suddenly revealed a dangerous light.
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In the following time, Su Mo went out at night to patrol Qinghu City.
The Civil Security Bureau is also increasing surveillance and has deployed many personnel to conduct searches.
However, perhaps because it was late at night, the number of people ordering takeout suddenly dropped sharply.
And there have been no corresponding deaths.
But it doesn’t rule out that someone is dead and hasn’t been found yet.
After all, many of those who order takeout are single social animals.
Even death is difficult for others to know immediately.
Su Mo, who had been busy all night and gained nothing, simply returned home and had a good meal.
The Civil Security Bureau carried out operations according to the established plan, contacted the Magician Alliance, Peace House, and many practitioners, issued a reward for killing the weird delivery man, and tried to fish for law enforcement by ordering takeout.
After this series of busy work, clues finally emerged!
Beibin Street.
Beautiful home.
Building 6, 309.
A middle-aged man with messy hair was leaning at the door, complaining to Wei Cang with a pale face:
"Why didn't you say that the other party was a mid-level monster when you offered a bounty? By good chance, the ship didn't capsize in the gutter!
If I hadn't used several explosive potions, I would definitely have died on the spot today. You must compensate me for the losses! "
Listening to his chatter, Wei Cang, who had just inspected the battle scene, responded casually:
“Loss and other things are just minor issues, and it’s nothing to compensate you.
But we mentioned in the notice that when an abnormality is discovered, we should trigger the alarm as soon as possible, contact the nearby Civil Security Bureau, or detain the other party. It seems that you didn't even listen, right? "
"I was only focused on fighting. Who could think so much?"
The middle-aged man speaks plausibly.
Wei Cang sneered, not bothering to expose the lies fabricated by the other party.
Just when he was about to ask about Weigui's whereabouts, a figure suddenly appeared next to him.
The middle-aged man looked like he had seen a ghost.
Su Mo asked immediately:
"Where did the weirdo go in the end?"
"I'm asking you."
Wei Cang shouted to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man seemed to have just come to his senses and quickly pointed to the back of the community and said:
"That's it-"
Before he finished speaking, a hurricane suddenly blew by.
Su Mo's figure suddenly disappeared from his eyes.
The middle-aged man was stunned when he saw this scene.
At the same time, Su Mo continued to search along the west.
Finally, I found traces of the strange thing by a water bridge twelve kilometers away.
Looking at the few water-stained footprints remaining by the bridge, a cold look suddenly flashed in his eyes:
"You ran pretty fast, but it's a pity that it was me you ran into today!"
Su Mo stretched out his right hand and suddenly grasped it towards the wide river.
In the blink of an eye, tens of millions of tons of water were suddenly lifted into the air, like amber frozen, and even the countless fish and shrimp in the water looked lifelike.
And inside the fish and shrimp, a translucent figure still had a look of shock and fear on his face.
"Got you!"
Su Mo raised his hand and pulled the figure out of the countless water flows.
In the river that crashed down, Su Mo stared at the strange man with dull eyes, already knowing that this was the type that he couldn't communicate with.
He didn't waste any time and crushed it on the spot.
In the blink of an eye, countless broken memory fragments appeared before his eyes.
Among the fragments, he saw many customers killed by this strange monster.
Those incredulous faces still expressed the shock before death.
He even saw a scene of a monster fighting a middle-aged man.
But that was not what he wanted to know.
After a careful search, Su Mo found the information he wanted from the blind spots in his memory.
It was a wizened old man wearing a white exercise suit.
He stood by the river and gently blew a green Qiang flute engraved with runes and seals.
With his blowing, the water suddenly emerged from the river and came to the other party.
And there was no sign of attack, as if he was bewitched.
The other party then issued an order to Shui Gui to pretend to be a delivery boy and attack customers.
Then the water ghost left his lair here and went to perform the task according to the order.
This scene also explains why so many weird delivery guys suddenly appeared.
As Song Ruyuan guessed, there was a black hand behind this.
The green Qiang flute in the opponent's hand was the culprit behind all this.
He suspected that the green Qiang flute was very similar to the God Worship Bell he had obtained earlier, and both had the effect of bewitching strange people.
The difference is that this Qiang flute has even greater bewitching abilities, and can even artificially implant commands into monsters.
Considering that this water trick is already at level 4 and can be manipulated so easily, the Qiang Flute is at least a high-level, or even a top-level magic weapon.
As for why the other party suddenly ordered Weigui to act as a delivery boy, he had a rough guess.
Because he had already recognized that the little old man was not an ordinary person, but Chaos, the vice-president of the Guild.
He had previously tried to contact the other party through Gou Chen and Ying Yu, but unfortunately the guy was extremely cautious and never responded.
I didn't expect to see that guy here now.
Presumably, the series of strongholds that were destroyed previously had dealt a huge blow to the Order.
From this, it is not difficult to imagine why the Guild cult would turn against him.
In addition, his family members who were targeted not long ago must be well protected there now, so they specifically targeted his profession.
It has to be said that the other party really hit his Achilles heel at the wrong time.
But now that even the body shape has been exposed, the ending may not be as wonderful as they imagined.
Just as Su Mo was thinking, his cell phone suddenly rang.
After seeing the address on the screen, he said nothing and disappeared immediately.
at the same time.
In a desolate cemetery.
Chaos, whom Su Mo had just seen before, was whining the green Qiang flute towards the cemetery.
Sad music floated in the cemetery, and several graves suddenly trembled slightly.
The bone-like palms suddenly broke through the soil and were exposed to the outside world.
Seeing this scene, the corners of Chaos' mouth quietly raised upwards.
(End of chapter)
