novelraw Chapter 124 : Infiltrating Bureau 869
Chapter 124 : Infiltrating Bureau 869
Chapter 124: Infiltrating Bureau 869
In the internet café, Jiang Li followed along with the young man, “watching” that news report word by word and sentence by sentence.
After finishing it, Jiang Li felt somewhat disappointed.
The news reported a murder case that had occurred in the outskirts of Zhu City.
The deceased was an ordinary citizen. No valuable clues had been left at the scene, and the police had preliminarily judged it to be a revenge killing.
The content of the report was plain and unremarkable, with no sign of anything transcendent.
Yet Jiang Li faintly felt that something was off. After thinking for a moment with no result, Jiang Li prepared to drift away from the internet café to search for other clues.
Just then, the glass door of the internet café was suddenly pushed open.
A group of men in black filed in.
They were tall and powerfully built, their presence stern, their faces expressionless.
The one in front had a sharp gaze that swept straight toward the young man who was reading the news.
The men in black ignored everyone else in the internet café and walked straight toward the young man.
He pointed at the news on the young man’s computer screen.
“You—why are you reading this?”
The young man froze for a moment.
“I… I was just casually looking.”
“Interested.”
The man in black did not speak. He merely stared coldly at the young man.
The young man felt his scalp prickle under the stare. Just as he was about to be unable to endure the atmosphere—
“We suspect that you are connected to a transcendent incident.”
“You—come with us for a bit.” The man in black spoke in an icy tone.
“Me?”
The young man was somewhat bewildered. He raised his head and pointed at himself.
“That’s right, you.” The man in black emphasized again.
Several men in black closed in. They directly grabbed the young man and were about to leave.
“Who are you people?!”
“I haven’t broken any laws!”
The young man struggled. “On what grounds are you arresting me?”
The men in black ignored his resistance. They directly hoisted him up and headed outside the internet café.
Jiang Li’s heart tightened. He followed the group of men in black, drifting out of the internet café.
The men in black brought the young man to the side of a black sedan.
The one in front pulled open the car door and sent the young man into the black sedan.
Inside the black sedan, a middle-aged woman wearing glasses was sitting there with a laptop in her hands. She gestured for the young man to sit opposite her.
“Why did you read that article?” the middle-aged woman asked.
“It was… just curiosity. It was pushed online, so I clicked it casually.”
“I’m… relatively interested in these… transcendent matters.” The young man was a bit nervous as he rubbed his hands while answering.
The middle-aged woman stared at the young man without any expression.
“Are you sure it was just curiosity?”
“I—I didn’t lie to you. I don’t know anything.”
“I… I’m not a transcendent!”
“I’m just an ordinary person!” The young man’s voice trembled slightly.
The middle-aged woman continued pressing him. “Zhu City isn’t very safe right now. Staying here means you could be affected by transcendent forces.”
“Why didn’t you leave?”
“I don’t have much money on me, and even if I left I wouldn’t know where to go. If I really ran into something transcendent, I could only accept my bad luck.” Although the young man’s face was still somewhat pale, he had already calmed down.
The middle-aged woman was silent for a few seconds. “We are a government department, acting for your safety.”
“We’ve decided to send you out of Zhu City.”
“At the same time, we’ll give you a sum of compensation.”
“What do you think?”
The young man was stunned.
“Leave the city? Compensation?”
He felt tempted. After all, Zhu City was currently in a state of panic.
If it weren’t for lack of money, he would have wanted to leave long ago. Now he could leave and even get a sum of money.
To him, this was simply a pie falling from the sky.
“Really? That’s great!”
The young man froze for a moment, then joy appeared on his face.
“I agree!”
The middle-aged woman nodded in satisfaction.
“Very good.”
“You can get out of the car now.”
“Someone will arrange for you to leave Zhu City.”
Thus, the young man left the black sedan and quickly disappeared into the night under the escort of several men in black.
Witnessing all of this, Jiang Li sneered inwardly.
Sure enough, the authorities were searching for players. That news article was bait. Luckily, he hadn’t clicked it with his real body—otherwise, the one being taken away now would have been him.
No wonder players had already died just one day after the game started. Thinking of this, Jiang Li once again felt fortunate about his own caution; otherwise, he would already have become the second victim.
At that moment, the black sedan started up. Jiang Li did not hesitate in the slightest. He drifted above the black sedan, tailing it all the way.
He wanted to see exactly what kind of background these men in black had.
The sedan passed through several streets and finally stopped in front of an office building that looked ordinary.
The exterior of the building was plain, with no markings at all.
Jiang Li followed the men in black into the underground level of the building.
To his shock, Jiang Li discovered that beneath the office building was actually hidden a massive underground base.
At the base entrance, security was tight.
Several fully armed soldiers were carrying out routine inspections.
Jiang Li’s spirit body easily passed through the heavy blast doors and entered the interior of the base.
Inside the base, the lights were bright. All kinds of advanced instruments flickered with light, filling the place with a sense of technology, while busy staff moved back and forth.
“This is…”
Jiang Li’s heart jolted.
He looked at the emblem in the very center of the base—the national emblem of the Dragon Nation, with the three numbers 869 engraved in its center.
Bureau 869!
This was the Zhu City branch of Bureau 869.
After a brief shock, Jiang Li began drifting through the base, scouting everywhere.
Very quickly, as he passed by one room, his gaze locked onto a person.
The man who had met secretly with Lei De on the top floor of an unfinished building, wearing a Dragon Nation military uniform.
At this moment, that young man was standing in front of a massive electronic map.
The map was a three-dimensional map of Zhu City, marked with dozens of red points of light.
He wore a military uniform, his expression cold and stern, and was speaking with a middle-aged man in civilian clothes beside him.
“Director Qin.”
The young man pointed at the dozens of flashing points on the electronic map.
“These are the individuals we’ve currently locked onto as suspected players. I ask that you dispatch additional personnel and arrange for verification as soon as possible.”
Hearing this, Director Qin frowned, his expression serious.
“Lin Xun.”
“There are already clear instructions from above.”
“Our Bureau 869 cannot intervene in the transcendent game. We can only recruit players whose games have already ended.”
“The fact that I’m helping you find player information right now already counts as violating the rules.”
Lin Xun turned around upon hearing this, looked at Director Qin, and revealed a faint smile.
“Director, thank you. I know you’re taking a risk.”
“But this isn’t entirely for my own sake. Right now, the transcendent is the general trend. A Zhu City without the transcendent will sooner or later lose its voice.”
“There are so many branch bureaus nationwide. By the time headquarters allocates transcendent individuals, who knows how long Zhu City will have to wait.”
“This game is a huge opportunity—for Zhu City, and for you.”
“Rules are dead; people are alive.”
Lin Xun walked to the table, picked up a cup of water, took a sip, and then said to Director Qin, “If Zhu City doesn’t have its own transcendent power, it will sooner or later be marginalized.”
“Director Qin, you don’t want to see Zhu City completely lose its voice and be eliminated in the subsequent transcendent tide, do you?”