The Phantom Speeder let out a piercing alarm, which, far from deterring That one outside the car, only made her escalate, delivering several more heavy kicks:
“You bastard, what do you mean by abandoning me?”
Luo Nan looked out of the car, and his eyebrow twitched.
He saw a raised, snow-white thigh, and the hem of a hip-hugging skirt that was almost torn.
His gaze flickered upwards, scanning the person’s face, and after a brief recollection, he matched her to the right person.
It was “Long Legs”… Well, this woman’s name is Lian Yu, and she also participated in the club promotion event on the 24th, as the student union’s club representative.
In the early hours of the morning, it was That one who was hugging and embracing Xie Junping, almost being dragged into the car.
However, when her political life was compared to Xie Junping’s, she was discarded like a worn-out shoe.
Luo Nan was not a moral judge, too lazy to comment on anything, and even less willing to get entangled with her, so he directly pressed the car window down and simply responded:
“Senior Xie isn’t here, Senior Lian, is there something you need?”
Lian Yu stared blankly at the empty driver’s seat, then was startled awake by a “Senior Lian.” Her still somewhat dazed eyes scanned Luo Nan’s face twice, and her figure suddenly moved away from the car window.
Seconds later, the car window on Luo Nan’s side was also vigorously knocked.
Luo Nan shook his head and lowered the car window, but to his surprise, the next moment, two hands with long, manicured nails reached in, grabbing his collar tightly, and pulling him with all their might out of the car window:
“Thief, catch the thief!” Lian Yu’s sharp voice carried far down the road.
The surrounding car owners, who had already been full of gossip over “long-legged beauty furiously kicking a luxury car,” now saw a spectacle they could join, and their hearts were itching like a cat’s paws, all eager to move.
However, more direct than them were a group of young people who were still tipsy.
They ignored the Police’s warnings and rushed down from a row of luxury cars in the back, then swarmed over.
Lian Yu, from before, also came from that direction.
It seemed they had finished their nightclub revelry and were stuck here on their way back.
With this lawless group of young people taking the lead, the surrounding car owners, on the contrary, dared not approach.
What kind of people were these!
Amidst sharp jeers, the young people first crowded towards the car window, but finding the narrow space couldn’t fit more people, they howled and yelled, striking the five-hundred-million-worth speeeder with fists and feet, trying to leave marks or damage on the car body, completely disregarding the piercing alarm.
Someone even drummed on the car’s hood, creating a chaotic, nightclub-style rhythm.
“Rumble, check it out; thief, catch the thief!”
“Old Xie’s trick is good, turning into a pretty boy to scare me!”
“Lian Yu steals people, not cars; Old Xie loses his car and his face!”
“Look, look, see, see, is there anything in the trunk…?”
In the chaos, someone actually went to lift the trunk, but how could it be opened?
Instead, he was kicked in the butt by a companion and rolled under the car.
The chaotic and frenzied scene left the surrounding car owners stunned.
Inside the car at this moment, although Luo Nan was caught off guard and had his collar grabbed by Lian Yu, he reacted quickly.
As soon as he was pulled up from the seat back, he grabbed Lian Yu’s pulse point, directly draining her strength.
Lian Yu cried out in pain, lost her balance, and fell into the car, their faces instantly close.
At this time, Lian Yu was still wearing heavy nightclub makeup, making her features even deeper and more defined, alluring and seductive.
Luo Nan’s gaze, however, pierced through the highlighters, blush, and false eyelashes, seeing the woman’s swollen contours and the densely woven abnormal bloodshot eyes, coupled with the physical reaction under his fingertips, he could confirm:
Lian Yu, including her crazy companions, were not only still hungover but had also taken drugs to varying degrees during their revelry.
In the circle of wealthy scions, this was nothing, but had they never considered the trouble their unbridled behavior in public might cause? Especially with an experienced officer nearby!
Forget it… Expecting this group to use their brains was overestimating them too much.
Luo Nan absolutely did not want to be implicated by these two idiots.
He pushed Lian Yu away, but before he could decide how to deal with her, the middle-aged police officer returned, talking on the phone, his gaze growing increasingly wary, even placing his hand on his weapon’s trigger.
It was also at this moment that the Car Intelligent Brain issued another warning, completely different from before: “Attention, multiple scanning methods detected, risk of privacy exposure, recommended to enable…”
Before the warning ended, a buzzing vibration sounded, and dozens of small police drones, crossing the congested traffic, shuttled back and forth in the area above, and a cold mechanical voice came down:
“All non-Police personnel on the road, immediately put your hands on your heads and lie down.
You have violated Article 16, Section 5 of the ‘Emergency Security Law’ and should accept inspection; repeating…”
The group of young people stared blankly at the small drones flying like bats in the sky, and the noisy, chaotic atmosphere immediately dissipated by more than half.
However, not everyone could maintain basic sobriety, so one “brave man” gave the finger to the “bat swarm” in the sky:
“Police dogs, get lost!”
His response was flickering electric sparks.
The “brave man” didn’t even hum, falling face down onto the ground with a chilling thud.
Around the Phantom Speeder, an empty space immediately formed.
Anyone with a brain immediately obediently put their hands on their heads and lay down, and even the occasional dazed ones were forcibly pulled down by their companions.
You can’t reason with police drones, alright?
Society has always had complaints about intelligent police enforcement, saying they lack discretion and are prone to accidents.
But when faced with chaotic scenes, the recognized most efficient method is still “drone carpet bombing,” which can maximize the elimination of human factors and is easy for all parties to explain.
This group of “well-trained” rich second-generation heirs already knew that their privileges only worked against “live people.” A wise man knows when to retreat.
At most, they would go to the police station; otherwise, what were lawyers for?
Outside the car window, Lian Yu also lay on the ground, and Luo Nan found peace, but this “peace” was not what he wanted.
The middle-aged police officer came back to the car.
The young people on the ground were very obedient, at most carefully shifting their positions, afraid of being stepped on the head by the heavy Exoskeleton Armor.
However, some people firmly remembered the police officer’s face, vowing to make him pay later.
The middle-aged police officer ignored the young people’s petty thoughts on the ground.
He stood by the car window, staring at Luo Nan, and also scanning the interior of the car.
The Car Intelligent Brain was still issuing “privacy exposure” warnings.
Luo Nan found it noisy and simply turned it off.
He knew very well that the so-called “multiple scanning methods” were most likely done by this officer retrieving instruments.
Luo Nan felt at ease and proactively asked: “Officer, is there something wrong?”
Since Luo Nan cooperated, the middle-aged police officer also followed the rules, saluting Luo Nan and showing his ID.
It showed that his name was Xue Weilun, and he was surprisingly over fifty, which his appearance certainly didn’t show.
Up to this point, the negotiation between the two was actually quite peaceful.
But this atmosphere immediately collapsed after Officer Xue asked Luo Nan to open the trunk.
In the trunk, Officer Xue picked up a translucent container, said no more to Luo Nan, and directly opened the box.
His armored fingers demonstrated astonishing flexibility, and soon he saw small bottles sealed and partitioned within the box.
He unscrewed one of them, took out the capsule-shaped pill inside, and then gently rubbed it, scattering tiny white powder.
Officer Xue’s waist-mounted scanner flashed red, and he turned to stare at Luo Nan, his expression displeased.
Luo Nan’s eyelids twitched slightly; years of experimental experience made him particularly sensitive to certain drugs, and he instantly realized the current troublesome situation:
Xie Junping, that good-for-nothing!
Immediately after, another absurd thought popped out: Perhaps, he could get channels from him in the future?
Xie Junping sneezed again, his nose glowing red.
He knew this must be the result of many people’s resentment virus at work. Catching a cold and being in a mess were all his own doing.
Just when he had finally temporarily settled the situation on Mangzhong’s side, the sudden change in Xia City almost made him wet his pants: there was still a can of “True Fate” in the car, how could he have forgotten it?
The one who informed Xie Junping of this news was Young Miss Zhang Yingying of Youlan Firm.
At this point, the two sides no longer needed to be secretive; a direct virtual communication was sufficient. With the support of AR technology, the two conversed face to face as if in a reception room.
Xie Junping had always inwardly grumbled that Zhang Yingying was a “telephonist,” only doing answering and processing work at Youlan Firm. But he had to admit, this “poison-tongued telephonist” was indeed a very striking beauty.
Zhang Yingying looked only eighteen or nineteen, with shoulder-length hair casually draped, and clear, grand features that had a slight boyish charm, but her figure was anything but boyish.
It was already autumn, and she wore a sleeveless halter top that exposed her fair shoulders and neck, with two thin straps crisscrossing above her ample chest, enough to attract the gaze of all men.
From the waist down, she wore a denim mini-skirt with multiple strap decorations, exuding a cool vibe.
At this moment, her fair, long legs were propped high on the boss's desk, and her Roman-style flat sandals swayed back and forth, very casually. The denim mini-skirt had slipped down to her thighs, but due to the angle, there was no advantage to be gained.
Xie Junping had no mind to take advantage now; he paced back and forth in the room, restless.
Everyone knows that “low-addiction psychotropic drugs” are currently rampant worldwide; it’s almost inconceivable for private parties in wealthy circles not to feature such things. But political opinion doesn’t care about this; if you’re stupid enough to expose it, you’ll definitely be hammered down, with no chance to explain yourself.
In a sense, this was even more serious than him secretly going to parties. Add in the group of “bad friends” who triggered this fatal problem, and connecting all the lines, the consequences were far from a simple “1+1.”
“Lian Yu, you slut; Li Xuecheng, I’ll remember you; Liu Tao, you bastard must be involved…”
Xie Junping was like a trapped beast, wailing in an invisible iron cage. Of course, he was more eager to know what the situation was like in Xia City… Had he already been implicated?
“What do you keep lawyers for? Let them go!”
Zhang Yingying had a disgusted expression of “troublemaker, stay away from me,” showing signs of slacking off.
Xie Junping knew perfectly well that this girl was clearly treating him as a cash cow again. The problem was, he was panicked, so he could only force a smile:
“During extraordinary times, it’s still more reassuring to have experts like you, and of course, the compensation will be ample.”
Zhang Yingying spread her hands: “Then what do you want me to do? Go to a military transport ship and snatch someone?”
“Military transport ship? Why military?”
Xie Junping’s voice changed pitch.
Zhang Yingying held up three fingers: “The government, the military, and Quantum Corporation. This research base, at least nominally, was jointly built by the three parties. Now a nuclear bomb inexplicably exploded…”
“Nuclear bomb!” Xie Junping’s face turned green.
“Don’t misunderstand, I’m just using an analogy, it’s pretty much the same. In short, no one can accept this result. But what exactly happened? A natural disaster? A terrorist attack?”
Zhang Yingying swung her feet, very relaxed: “Now all parties want an explanation, especially the government and the military, those two hands-off managers. They used to enjoy Quantum Corporation’s tributes immensely, but now that something has happened, they find themselves completely ignorant of the lab’s situation. Who knows if this is an accident or a write-off? How can they explain to the higher-ups without getting deeply involved?”
Xie Junping still couldn’t understand: “But that doesn’t mean they should be thrown onto military ships, does it?”
“That’s because you don’t know the seriousness of the situation.”
Zhang Yingying’s single sentence knocked half of Xie Junping’s soul away, and then she spread her five fingers: “This intelligence is worth this much.”
Xie Junping’s face changed color: “You’re ripping me off!”
Zhang Yingying chuckled: “This is out of consideration for our long-term cooperation, otherwise, outside, I would…”
She flipped her slender white palm, looking very sincere.
“I… accept!”
Xie Junping’s face was ashen, but he still swallowed his anger. Since he had to spend money, he would spend it all the way; giving up halfway was the most foolish way to die.
Zhang Yingying blew him a kiss: “Don’t worry, it’s worth it. Any intelligence involving the Burning Ones is worth this price!”
“Burning Ones?”
“Yes, according to reliable sources, this is a high-end laboratory specializing in the research of ‘burning’ mechanisms. It focuses on neuroanatomy…”
“Human? Live?” No wonder Xie Junping was overthinking; the previous news about Luo Yuandao had left too deep an impression, naturally leading to associations.
Zhang Yingying didn’t make a definitive statement: “In the project proposal, the experimental subjects are listed as ‘Deformed Species.’ As for anything else, who knows?”
After a pause, she continued: “But none of that matters anymore. The key is that when the laboratory conducted a large-scale experiment this morning, its energy System was forcibly shut down, causing the experimental subjects to lose control, leading to a major accident with heavy casualties, and the suspect took the opportunity to steal an important experimental prototype…”
Xie Junping blurted out: “Deep Blue Walker?”
Zhang Yingying gave him a sidelong glance: “How could that be! It’s said to be a newly developed product by Quantum Corporation, in the form of a potion. Now the surrounding area is under martial law and being searched. If there’s no effect, the entire Xia City will be in chaos for a while.”
“Oh, wait… What does this have to do with them being taken onto the transport ship?”
Zhang Yingying responded easily: “Currently, the culprit is at large. Anyone who dares to create chaos will not be treated lightly. Besides, those scoundrels are standing there, each an eyesore. Who has time to screen them one by one? It’s better to directly arrest them in the name of the military and deal with them when there’s time, saving the trouble of going through procedures.”
“So that’s how it is… Damn it!” Xie Junping suddenly realized that he was destined to be a cash cow!
Zhang Yingying went in a big circle, which meant that Luo Nan and others just ran into the government and military going crazy, suffering collateral damage, and the nature of the situation was not as serious as imagined!
Intelligence worth five figures, and in the end, that’s how it was used?
Xie Junping almost wanted to slam the table, but he remembered it was a virtual dialogue room, though his face was still very grim.
Zhang Yingying clearly understood his thoughts and shook her head, sighing: “You’re hopeless. If it were your father, he’d be too grateful right now. The key is the medicine, the medicine! Do I really need to spell this out?”