Chapter 354 - 354 234 Chaos

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354: Chapter 234: Chaos 354: Chapter 234: Chaos “Ding, recharge successful, your hang-up cheat has been activated, a hundred times experience is waiting for you.” No “Golden Finger”, just create it yourself. No system prompt, just dub it yourself! “Tsk, there are only three ‘investment’ spots, which is really not enough.” “…any more, and you’ll fall into an ‘am I still me?’ mental confusion.” This was the previously mentioned limitation. Now, Lu Ping’an could only helplessly shake his head. [Life-points: 2678 (-3000)] Rarely in the positive value, the life-points had already returned to the negative after recent expenses. This was because Lu Ping’an had been using them sparingly, with many plans still just on paper. “Shuiyun? Are you busy lately? Do you have time?” “Meow… tell me what it is first, meow.” Meow had already learned to be clever and not to say whether she had time or not, and let Lu Ping’an speak first. “Aren’t there a group of Ghost Club members in our club? Since they’re idle, I intend to use them as tools. If you have time, guide them for me, as I am a bit busy recently.” “Okay.” This was a trivial matter, so Meow readily agreed. As for Lu Ping’an himself, he indeed had something important to do. He made a trip to the hospital to mock an old acquaintance… ahem, to visit an old comrade. “Elder Brother Xue, how did you come back so soon?” Sitting by the bedside, Lu Ping’an laughed and visited the patient. Familiar places, familiar people, wasn’t this a comeback? Xue En had one arm in a sling, and the upper half of his body was covered in knife wounds. While they weren’t severe injuries, it was obvious that his mood was pretty terrible. His roommate, Deputy Captain Lu, looked at Lu Ping’an with a helpless expression. The experienced old hand had also fallen this time. He really didn’t expect that he, the deputy captain, would end up in the hospital before the month was up. An elder leading a younger, the two partners were capsized at the same time. If they had encountered a strong enemy, Lu Ping’an would not have come to mock… visit. However, something strange had emerged in this situation. A 2-tier soldier and a third-tier Taoist were sent to the hospital when they tried to seal off a medium-graced gang’s smuggling channel. Such a thing was simply unheard of. “…Magic potions or something similar, very dangerous.” The problem was with the gang’s smuggling platform – a new type of weapon-grade smuggled item called “Angel’s Hope”. “It looks like a golden apple. As soon as you take a bite, you’ll start laughing. It’s a creepy laugh, and then your strength increases greatly, you become insensitive to pain and even unafraid of life and death.” “A few madmen, when they saw they could not escape, directly ate the golden apple and then blew up the explosives. It’s like they were all mad… Don’t they know that even if we caught them, it would only be imprisonment, not the death penalty?” This was the reason why Lu Ping’an came to inquire. “How strong is it? First-tier battle-profession? Or a first-tier Magic Monster?” “…Hard to say. The increased power barely breaks the lower limit of a mortal, but their reaction speed and keenness have greatly increased. The people who eat those apples will even employ tactics and encircling strategies. A few of them will distract our attention and let the suicide bombers wearing vests get closer.” “They laugh very eerily, and there’s a strange sense of self-confidence, as if everything is under control.” “There’s no major change in their combat capabilities, but when you chop them with a knife, they don’t even dodge, splashing you with blood. Then their body locks onto your knife as they bite you with that laughing face. Disgusting and creepy.” Lu Ping’an took out his notebook, twirling the pen and jotting down the notes. Such a thing, which could pose a threat to special agents, must be notified internally. “Chris?” While he seemed to be copying notes, Lu Ping’an was asking the big cat for her opinion. The cat was well-informed and might have some useful information. “Ask them what happened afterward? Are those who ate the apples still alive?” Lu Ping’an followed the instructions, but the answer was somewhat ambiguous. “Those who escaped are still alive and on the run, while the dead are still corpses and under dissection. The living ones who were captured turned to ashes on the spot.” Lu Ping’an frowned; this was obviously not normal. If it was a “self-detonating medicine”, the fugitives should have died as well. The living ones died immediately after being caught? It felt as if it was being controlled from behind the scenes. “Big cat?” “There are too many possibilities. I know of six or seven methods, four or five gods that could do it. Get a finished product and have a look.” Lu Ping’an closed his notebook and prepared to leave the hospital directly. Xia Qin called him out, but of course it wasn’t just a special visit to see how Xue En was doing. Perfect for the task of handling this case… After injuring the special agents, these people won’t be leaving unscathed. Xia Qin released Lu Ping’an, expressing her anger. When leaving, Lu Ping’an greeted the watcher of Team Two. This was the “Special Care Area” of the hospital, where treatments that ordinary people couldn’t bear could be applied. Additionally, special agents took turns on guard duty to prevent anyone from being killed in their sleep. This was one of the special agents’ perks… although most of them were truly unwilling to enjoy such a perk. “How’s it going lately?” “Hard to handle, two from your team, three from ours. Recently, more and more people have been coming in ‘to rest’.” The watcher’s brother was a familiar face that he seemed to have met before. “…Are you dealing with golden apples too?” “Golden apples? No, we were checking out smuggling in airships, but they were equipped with near-polluted bombards and harpoons comparable to military-grade equipment, much better than our garbage. The two unlucky guys’ aircraft were blown up, falling from a height of around seven stories…” They chatted briefly, and the other side also had a lot of grievances. The Bureau of Anomaly Management was trying to “crack down” on violations and gray industries, investing several times more manpower in the Special Service Team than before. It was like stirring a hornet’s nest, causing the seemingly calm pond to ripple and agitating the stinking sludge that had accumulated beneath for years. It’s hard to say whether the golden apples and militarized airships were recent products… Lu Ping’an leaned more toward the idea that they had already existed, and it was only now that they were being dealt with. As the underworld of the ancient city began to grow chaotic alongside the bureau’s determination, it would be a bit tricky to find out any clues in such a chaos. “…As expected, beating the grass has startled the snakes.” The previous gang that trafficked golden apples had no one left, with just a few survivors on the run… But at least that let Lu Ping’an know who to look for. “Go to the steam factory and talk to the ‘Big Crow’ Tie Xin (Old Tie).” In such moments of grey-area chaos, instead of personally searching, it was better to directly talk to the local snakeheads. However, the development of this incident turned out to be somewhat unexpected. “Hey, hey, hey, Old Tie, this isn’t friendly.” With a dozen guns pointing at him, Lu Ping’an could still smile.

Chapter 354 - 354 234 Chaos

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