Five people fell to the ground, and the whole process took no more than a minute.
Even after everyone recovered a little, they still couldn't believe it. They had received strict and professional training, and two or three ordinary strong men could not get close to them at all.
Now, they were knocked to the ground by someone in the alley, and were crushed without any ability to fight back.
"Cough cough!" Zhou Yaning was kicked in the stomach and couldn't help coughing.
Lu Chengchuan waited for a while, and when the person calmed down a little, he spoke again: "You can tell me now."
"We are investigators from the Investigation Bureau. We are here to look for clues about monsters." Zhou Yaning could only bow her head when she was under someone's roof.
She also couldn't believe that none of them could last a round with the other party. All of them were knocked to the ground at the first encounter. No wonder they could kill monsters with bare hands. Such martial arts skills were really terrifying.
"Investigation Bureau, I don't know what Investigation Bureau, are you an official organization?"
"We are affiliated with a state secret agency and basically do not appear in public, and there will be no reports mentioning the Investigation Bureau." Zhou Yaning explained to him.
"Why are you following me?" Lu Chengchuan knew very well that they were here for the monster.
Zhou Yaning slowly raised her head: "Can we go somewhere else to talk? This is not a place to talk."
The alley is quite remote and not many people come here usually, so the conversation here is very secretive. However, since people said so, Lu Chengchuan did not refuse.
He knew that sooner or later the authorities would find him. The power of the state apparatus was terrifying. Unless he ran into the deep mountains and forests, or was very powerful, he would not be able to hide.
"Where are you going?"
"Let's go to the teahouse across the street and talk there." Zhou Yaning stood up despite the pain.
The other four also recovered and slowly stood up, but there was still some fear in their eyes.
The investigation team stumbled out of the alley, Lu Chengchuan followed behind them, and then followed their captain Zhou Yaning into a teahouse of medium size.
They came to a private room and all six of them squeezed in.
"Captain Zhou, can you tell me what you want to talk to me about?" After sitting down, Lu Chengchuan asked her again.
In response to his questioning, Zhou Yaning took out a laptop, opened a slightly blurry video, and then placed the screen in front of him.
Chen Jingxing looked at the screen. The video was in a square where a man wearing a mask was fighting a monster.
The person in this video is him. These people really came here for the monster. Lu Chengchuan watched the video without changing his expression, and then his eyes turned to Zhou Yaning.
"You didn't seem to know there were surveillance cameras on the road. We searched all night before we found you."
Yesterday they saw the surveillance footage and saw a mysterious man killing three monsters with his bare hands. They were a little bit unconvinced. If there were no corpses as evidence, they would have thought it was a fake surveillance footage created by the police.
After the police checked the surveillance footage for a whole night, they finally found some clues and determined Lu Chengchuan's location.
She originally wanted to ask someone directly, but she wanted to know the person's strength, so she tried to test him, but ended up being knocked to the ground with one move.
"This person is me, so what's the matter?" Lu Chengchuan nodded in agreement.
The person in the surveillance video is him, but so what? He just killed a few monsters, didn't hurt anyone, and didn't do anything harmful to society.
On the contrary, he is helping society maintain stability, and the police should give him a bravery award.
"We want to know, do you know where the monsters come from?"
Her question was baffling, and Lu Chengchuan shook his head: "How would I know? I was just strolling down the street that day, and when I heard some noise up ahead, I went over to take a look."
Before this, he didn't believe that there were monsters in the world.
Zhou Yaning seemed to know what he would say, so she asked, "Have you ever practiced martial arts?"
There are also many powerful people in the Investigation Bureau. Each of them is worth ten people. They can defeat me and others in just two moves, but Lu Chengchuan is more powerful than those in the Investigation Bureau.
Even those masters couldn't defeat them so easily.
"I've practiced a little." Lu Chengchuan answered casually.
When the people around heard this, they kept muttering in their hearts, saying that he was so powerful after just a little practice. If he practiced more, he would be able to catch bullets with his bare hands and kill people from a distance.
"What do you think about those monsters?"
"What do you mean?" Lu Chengchuan asked her.
"We checked the surveillance cameras. No matter which one, it was interrupted when the monster appeared. The picture went black for a few seconds. Then the monster appeared and attacked passersby, and the surveillance returned to normal."
"I want to hear what you have to say. Do you think the monster is man-made, or is there something else?"
Monsters suddenly appeared, and not just in one city, but also in other cities where monsters were killing people. The Investigation Bureau mobilized a large number of people to investigate in all the cities where monsters appeared.
In other cities, the monsters were dealt with by the police, but only in Anyang City did a powerful warrior appear.
"I don't know, you haven't seen anything like this before?"
How could he, who had been seriously ill for several years, know all this when even the country's mysterious agencies didn't know about it?
"There were always all sorts of mysterious incidents reported to us before, but when we looked into them, we found they were all fake. There were stories of ghost villages, zombies, and spirits taking lives. They were either man-made or completely fake, not real events at all."
Zhou Yaning didn't believe it until she saw the monster's corpse and the surveillance footage.
"If you don't know, I won't know these things."
Lu Chengchuan had a vague idea in his mind: what was the connection between the system and the monster? He had a guess, but couldn't say it. It was a secret of his own, so he had to keep it to himself.
"There's a monster! The monster is coming again!"
While they were drinking tea, they heard shouts from passers-by outside the teahouse, and the passers-by on the street suddenly ran to the other side in panic.
Hearing that there was a monster outside, Zhou Yaning and others immediately got up and ran out, and Lu Chengchuan also ran out.
They ran back to the car, grabbed their weapons, and prepared to go over and see what the monster was. Zhou Yaning grabbed his pistol and walked over to Lu Chengchuan: "Please come with us to take a look."
She wanted to pull Lu Chengchuan over. With such a master around, they would be more confident in dealing with the monster.
Lu Chengchuan was naturally happy to do so. Monsters represented lifespan, so it would be best for him to kill a few monsters and save a few more days of life.
The six people ran upstream for about a hundred meters, and Lu Chengchuan was the first to see the monster.
Crawling monsters were killing pedestrians. They looked a bit like humans, but they had no skin, their red flesh was exposed, and they had sharp teeth and claws.
This was the first time that the five members of the investigation team saw a living monster, and they were so shocked that they were speechless.
Several pedestrians on the street were knocked down by the monster, and more people were running around.
The crowd was in chaos. A few people from the Investigation Bureau came to their senses but did not dare to shoot. They were confident in their marksmanship, but they could not guarantee that no one would bump into the muzzle of the gun.
Everyone was anxious and wanted to draw their swords and knives and rush forward.