"Liwen! Liwen! How's the situation?!"

He Zhongze called out to Li Liwen through his earpiece.

They couldn't hold back any longer. For more than three hours, apart from the occasional clear voice of the person addressed as Lady Ellen, they could only hear the heavy breathing of Li Liwen and the others.

Judging from Hong Quan's words, it should be almost over now, so He Zhongze quickly called Li Liwen.

"It seems your people are getting impatient. Well then, let's call it a day. We should be leaving now; I'll be quite busy for the next while."

"I'm already fed up. You've been rambling on and on."

Bartlu beeped again, then stood up from his cross-legged position, which he had been sitting in for hours because the chair had been shattered in Windsor's attack.

The others also stood up, as if preparing to leave.

After a long silence, Ma Yu finally spoke.

"Then I'll cover everyone's escape. After all, this is a private meeting with the Chinese government, so it's not advisable to go too deep."

Upon hearing this, Li Liwen seemed to realize something.

"Wait, I can let them leave, but I really hope that one of you will accompany me to see my superior."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, we'll leave it at that for now."

After saying this, Ma Yu slowly looked up at the sky, her eyes filled with a blank, unfocused gaze.

For some reason, Sun Cheng, Wang Peng, and Li Liwen all felt that he definitely wasn't looking at the ceiling.

...

At this moment, outside Bao'er Seafood Restaurant, whether on the main street in front or the street behind, there were nearly a dozen plainclothes officers, some disguised as passersby and some sitting in cars.

Their eyes were intentionally or unintentionally observing Bao'er Seafood Restaurant in the distance.

Several groups of snipers were on the rooftops of nearby buildings, their scopes constantly fixed on the various exits and windows of the seafood restaurant.

An observer breathed on his hands from the rooftop.

"Why did it suddenly get cold today?"

The sniper next to him, his eyes glued to his scope, muttered, "Indeed, my hands are almost frozen."

An undercover officer carrying a bag of hot drinks walked to a Volkswagen parked nearby and handed the hot milk tea from the bag to the two people inside.

"Here, it's hot. I'm going to take a walk in front."

"Okay, thank you, Captain Xing."

The two people in the car took the hot milk tea, held it in their hands to warm it, and after a moment, they opened the packaging and started slurping.

"The air conditioning can't be turned on without starting the car, and it's really cold today."

"Who says otherwise? This mission is so strange and not clearly explained. When it actually starts moving, we won't know who to arrest. They're just saying we're on standby."

"I'm a little envious of people who can walk around outside and warm up a bit. The car is like an ice cave. What's the weather forecast saying today?"

"It seems to be between 8 and 14 degrees Celsius."

"Bullshit! It was this temperature yesterday, but it wasn't cold at all."

After giving the two cups of milk tea he bought to his teammates, Xing Gang walked across the street.

He tightened the collar of his coat and then put his hands in his pockets.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Xing Gang couldn't help but shrink his neck.

This weather is awful! The temperature doesn't drop like this even after nightfall.

This street is located in the bustling area of ​​Qiantang and is brightly lit at night. Although there are far fewer people on the street, it does not affect visibility.

A clicking sound came from inside.

Xing Gang paused, turning his head to look at a small puddle by the roadside.

The water in the puddle is freezing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like a video clip of freezing being fast-forwarded in a science documentary.

A white blur flashed before my eyes, followed by two or three more, and then a dense mass of white.

Xing Gang subconsciously looked up at the sky.

It's snowing! Such heavy snow! I haven't seen this much snow in Qiantang since I was a child.

At this moment, dense snowflakes were covering the entire Qiantang River.

Each snowflake was about half the size of a little finger as it fell, and the sky was filled with them. This was truly a heavy snowfall, and a thin layer of snow accumulated on the ground in no time.

The command center where He Zhongze was located received a series of reports.

"Report: The personnel monitoring the area have reported that there has been heavy snowfall and visibility is extremely low."

He Zhongze stubbed out his cigarette and strode over to the laptops with surveillance cameras.

The original intersection and shop entrance in the scene have been transformed into a vast expanse of white snow, and because it is nighttime, the light from the streetlights appears dim due to the dense snow cover.

He walked out of the conference room and into the traffic monitoring center. Outside, the staff's phones and wires were in complete disarray, and the large screen and various monitoring feeds showed only static.

Because of the sudden arrival of the university, several major roads experienced minor collisions, and traffic speeds dropped to a snail's pace. Furthermore, the traffic lights were difficult to see, causing significant congestion in many areas. If it hadn't been nighttime, the situation would have been even more severe.

Several snipers stared at the white expanse in their scopes, then shook off the snow that had covered half their bodies in moments, and helplessly explained the situation over the radio.

Inside the private room at this moment.

"Let's go."

After saying this, Ma Yu and his nephew Ma Xiaolin were the first to leave the private room, followed by Batru, and then Windsor and the others.

Li Liwen and the other two instinctively wanted to follow, but found that they couldn't move their bodies at all.

No, it's not that it can't move, but rather that it strangely "doesn't want to move." The brain desperately tries to urge the limbs, but the limbs seem unusually lazy, not even bothering to acknowledge their owner.

Before leaving, Hong Quan turned back and said, "You don't need to pay for the meal, someone else is treating. Oh, and don't forget my bakery's hygiene license."

I want to open my mouth to speak, but as soon as my thoughts reach my mouth, I feel like "never mind, I'd better not say anything."

"Liwen, Liwen, how are you? It's snowing heavily outside, we can barely see the road. Quickly, tell me, are they still there?"

He Zhongze's voice kept coming through the earpiece, but the three of them couldn't move or speak.

After calling into the walkie-talkie for a while without receiving a response, He Zhongze seemed a little worried and irritable, and hesitated for a moment.

"No, we can't wait any longer, call the assault team! Try not to fire!"

The doors of two black vans hidden around the corner of the parking lot suddenly opened, and two teams of SWAT officers, armed with automatic weapons and dressed in black combat uniforms, rushed out.

"Quickly! Group one, take control of the entrances and the lobby immediately! Group two, storm the private rooms!"

As the special police stormed into the restaurant, the few diners who were eating there got up and moved away.

"Ah~" a waiter cried out, but was immediately stopped by the special police.

"Don't shout, where is your boss's private room?"

The waiter swallowed hard and pointed to the end of the straight corridor.

"The only one over there."

It only took less than two minutes.

"Bang!"

The door to the private room was quickly opened from the outside, and several SWAT officers rushed into the room, pointing their guns in various directions.

But apart from Li Liwen and the other two who were still sitting in their seats, there was only a broken piece of table debris in the room, and a blank wall covered with nails, with only a large human-shaped character in the middle.

They looked up at the ceiling but didn't find anything. The two of them went up and checked on Li Liwen and the others, finding that there was nothing wrong with their bodies, but they were unable to move as if they had been acupunctured.

"Report to command post, target disappeared, Team Leader Li and the other two are safe."

Then the leader shouted something outside.

"Continue to control the entrances and exits, and search the entire hotel!"

PS: Actually, the idea of ​​a united Earth with a hypothetical enemy (which isn't actually fake) could be a part of the main storyline, since writing about conquering the Earth these days is just asking for trouble.