I will attack as a player!

Chapter 24 Bank Robbery

"Robbery of a bank?"

As Chu Wuji walked home, he looked up at the distant sky with some curiosity.

There, an airship was projecting a live report of the Red Cloud Bank branch in the outer city at that very moment.

In the projection, a huge circular hole has been cut into the bank's heavy metal emergency door by heat cutting. A faint trail of frost can be seen running from the door through the hole and extending into the bank's interior.

Outside, a large number of police cars from the Anti-Corruption Bureau had completely surrounded the area. The officers were like busy ants, running around with their guns in hand, but no one dared to go in.

Just then, a police officer from the Pingkou Division, whose face was obscured, shouted, "Scatter! 'Super Division' is here!"

Super Officers are the counterparts to superheroes within the Anti-Corruption Bureau; as the name suggests, they are police officers with superpowers.

As the voice rang out, the crowd slowly parted to make way, and a crew-cut young man in the uniform of the Pingkou Division appeared in the crowd.

Chu Wuji felt that the person in front of him looked somewhat familiar, and after a moment's thought, he realized something was wrong.

Logically speaking, the Super Division is usually composed of police officers who are already on duty, but the young man on the screen, Chu Wuji, remembered that he had seen him once when he visited his sister in her department.

He is a trainee police officer!

Without hesitation, Chu Wuji immediately dialed Chu Tong's number.

The phone rang for a while before Chu Tong answered it.

"Where are you now?"

"Hey, bro, you saw it too?" Chu Tong sounded a bit helpless on the other end of the phone: "I was watching a 'TV series'!"

Chu Tong pronounced the words in the TV series very heavily.

"The scene?" Chu Wuji frowned.

"Yeah, I almost got selected as an actor, but the script was so disgusting that they said I couldn't portray the feeling, so I wasn't selected."

Does this mean this is a performance?

Chu Tong must have signed an agreement that prevents her from saying it directly, but as a family member, my supervision isn't very strong, otherwise I wouldn't have let her give such blatant hints.

"Is it dangerous?"

"No, they've rehearsed."

"...Take care of yourself and don't do anything unnecessary."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Wuji was no longer sleepy at all.

Even though Chu Tong said on the phone that everything was safe, Chu Wuji, as a prestigious member of Qidian in his previous life, was all too familiar with this kind of scenario.

Something is bound to happen!

Without further delay, Chu Wuji hailed a taxi and headed straight to the scene of the crime.

Through the car window in the intelligent driving mode, Chu Wuji continued to watch the images projected onto the airship.

The boy revealed a resolute expression, then flames erupted from his body, and he transformed into a fireball as he charged into the fire.

Amidst a fierce fight and argument, the boy was knocked out of the bank and rolled on the ground for a while before getting up.

At the same time, another figure rushed out like a persistent leech, covering everything in its path with a thick layer of ice.

The camera zoomed in on a middle-aged man wearing a breathing mask and with thinning hair on his head.

"It really is you, Doctor Frozen!" The boy, after standing up, uttered these words in a gesture that was difficult to decipher: "In the name of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, I am stopping you from continuing to disrupt the city's peace!"

"...What kind of boring, third-rate superhero comic has such a weak villain name?" Chu Wuji muttered helplessly, while simultaneously checking the other party's information in his brain.

Dr. Frozen, who used his unique freezing abilities to rob an aquarium, attempting to turn the visitors and animals inside into ice sculptures, was arrested and imprisoned several months ago. He escaped from prison early this morning and robbed Red Cloud Bank.

It's worth mentioning that the opponent's freezing ability is not a superpower, but rather something he obtained after transplanting some kind of ice-making organ from a monster called the Breath Beast outside the city.

After the boy uttered lines that felt very familiar, the two transformed into two balls, one red and one white, and began to wrestle, sometimes with flames raging and sometimes with frost covering the ground.

The windows of roadside shops shattered from the temperature difference, and some fire hydrants also broke due to repeated thermal expansion and contraction. The water that sprayed out was first evaporated and then sublimated at low temperatures.

The escalation of the battle forced the surrounding police officers to expand their encirclement to prevent accidental casualties.

Chu Wuji also saw a familiar blonde ponytail swinging as she walked away, which put him at ease.

The water vapor that condensed turned into snow mist, covering the street corner, and for a moment even the projection of the airship could not see what was inside.

The battle continued, but after a short while, accompanied by a piercing scream, the boy was thrown out of the icy mist.

The flames on his body had been extinguished, and his right arm and right leg were completely frozen with thick ice.

These ice blocks continued to slowly spread across the boy's body, as if they were alive.

"Quick, get the heat melter!" A man who looked like a sheriff rushed over, helped the boy up, and tried to melt the strange ice on his body with the equipment.

But the effect was visibly ineffective; the ice continued to slowly freeze the boy.

"Hmph, don't be delusional. This is the freezing caused by the organs of the legendary Ice King Beast." A hoarse voice came from the mist, and the middle-aged man slowly walked out. Even from nearly a hundred meters away, he still frightened the police officers into retreating.

"Once frozen, no one can survive."

"All methods are reckless! Hahahaha!"

"I refuse to believe it!" The sheriff's face was filled with determination. "Even if it costs me my life, I cannot stand by and watch our officers who protect the public disappear!"

After saying that, he reached out to pry the ice off the boy's body.

But the consequence of doing so is simply adding another victim, a typical case worthy of inclusion in the Secret Garden.

At the same time, Chu Wuji also successfully arrived at the scene, but the scene was already surrounded by a group of bloodthirsty spectators.

Just as the two were about to perish beneath the eerie ice, a hand suddenly reached out from the crowd, offering a device: "Try this!"

The instrument started, and the ice instantly began to melt as if it had encountered its natural enemy.

"What... what is this? It can even melt ice that the police's hot melter can't handle?!" The sheriff exclaimed with an exaggerated expression.

"It's naturally the Vulcan Technology's heat fusion device."

The crowd parted, revealing a handsome young man with striking red hair styled in a way that no one in real life would ever wear.

"It's Machine Knight Maz!" A child next to Chu Wuji shouted excitedly upon seeing this.

Seemingly having heard the child's voice, the young man called Maz revealed a perfect smile and turned to look in Chu Wuji's direction: "That's right, it's me!"

After saying that, he took out a strange belt and put it on his waist.

"Doctor Frozen, let me end your sins!"

Maz turned and glanced in Chu Wuji's direction again: "Children, watch closely, this is mine..."

"Transform!"

"Machine Knight Maz! Delta Molten State!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful synthesized sound rang out from his belt.

"Permission granted! Melt... Delta!"

"Vulcan Technology - Superior Quality!"