Chapter 100 Trust Her

After he finished speaking, the other two people present—Xue Ran and Zhao Yunxiao—simultaneously looked at Officer Chen's expression. Although they hadn't directly participated in the conversation, they were just as nervous.

They noticed that after Fu Qing uttered the last words, "More people will die," Officer Chen's aura completely changed. His approachable demeanor when receiving ordinary citizens vanished, and the oppressive aura cultivated from years of investigating major criminal cases quietly emerged.

His expression didn't change much, but Xue Ran could tell from the subtle changes in his body that he was tense. Even his right arm, which was close to the gun holster, shifted slightly by two centimeters.

He was considering his options, so he didn't reply or speak for a long time.

But it was clear that Officer Chen did not entirely trust what Fu Qing said.

Xue Ran became secretly alert, and even the more oblivious Zhao Yunxiao noticed that the atmosphere had changed.

Fu Qing, however, seemed oblivious to everything, staring intently into Officer Chen's eyes as she asked her final question: "Officer Chen, are you willing to believe me?"

Zhao Yunxiao's expression shifted slightly, and he glanced at her discreetly.

On the way there, the three had already briefly discussed their plan of action after arriving at the police station. Zhao Yunxiao had shared his experience of submitting information to the system with Fu Qing, and knew that such important news was not something Officer Chen could hide from him.

As long as the information is reported, someone at a higher level will take over. Fu Qing doesn't actually need to lower himself and ask for Officer Chen's "trust".

But her words at that moment changed the atmosphere.

Officer Chen seemed to be taken aback for a moment. The slightly soft tone of the words made him relax a little, and it reminded him of their past interactions.

I remembered how Fu Qing risked his own safety to save a student trapped in a tree and subdue a suspect who drove into a car in the middle of the city.

Then I remembered some rumors circulating within the police station recently.

After everything that has happened... she should be a trustworthy person.

Officer Chen's eyes flickered, and he finally made up his mind and stood up: "Please wait a moment, I'll be right back."

The door closed, and soon after, very light footsteps were heard, stopping at the doorway after a few steps.

Xue Ran thought to himself that they had probably sent someone to watch over them, but the next second the door was pushed open and a young policeman came over with paper cups and poured water for the three of them.

"Please have a seat, the captain will be back soon."

After saying that, he left in a hurry.

Xue Ran looked at the cold water in the glass, somewhat incredulous: "They believe us now?"

It went much more smoothly than she had imagined; she hadn't even revealed her identity as a descendant of a hero.

"It's probably thanks to the goodwill I gained from that case on the pedestrian street," Zhao Yunxiao thought to himself.

“Not only that.” Fu Qing leaned back in his chair, glancing at the bewildered Xue Ran, seemingly in a good mood. “We also have to thank those students who couldn’t stay idle during the summer vacation and went around doing good deeds.”

"As far as I know, during the two months of summer vacation, there were four news reports of college students performing acts of bravery in S City alone, and all four were students of Fangzhou."

Because it made the local news, the system found out and immediately informed Fuqing.

Of the four incidents, one involved rescuing a drowning child, and the other three were criminal cases. Officer Chen, as the head of the Criminal Investigation Division, would naturally know about them.

Even Fu Qing didn't expect that the students would help her in this matter by chance.

With Officer Chen willing to trust her, things became much easier. The head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Municipal Public Security Bureau—this position wasn't lowly, nor was it particularly high-ranking. It might not seem significant in the eyes of the people she was about to face, but her words carried considerable weight.

With his help in endorsing the text, everything will go much more smoothly.

...

The director was in a meeting, so Officer Chen went straight to the deputy director's office, quickly reported the situation, and after another period of chaos, he was sent back to "stabilize the situation first." So he turned around and ran back to the conference room.

On the way, Officer Chen suddenly remembered something, slammed on the brakes, and ordered his subordinate, "Have everyone who goes out find something to cover their entire bodies, except for their eyes, leave no gaps. Under no circumstances can they be bitten by those things!"

He solemnly instructed, "Didn't some people just come to the bureau for refuge? I saw that some of them had wounds. Wrap yourself up, go over and ask how you got those wounds. Separate all the people with wounds to prevent them from coming into contact with others."

Before Fu Qing arrived, they had watched some videos and roughly knew that some people would become abnormal after being bitten.

However, the people who acted strangely in the video lost their minds the moment they were bitten. The police, of course, did not suspect those who, although bitten, were still able to communicate and act normally afterward, or even came to the police station for help.

They treated those people like ordinary citizens and placed them together for unified protection.

But from what Fu Qing said earlier, it seemed that anyone bitten, no matter where they were bitten, could become infected. Although Officer Chen didn't understand why these people didn't change immediately like the people in the video, he still became vigilant.

The police officer standing nearby, without suspecting anything, accepted the order and quickly ran away.

Before Officer Chen could return to the conference room, a commotion could be heard from afar.

He hesitated for a moment, then turned and walked toward the source of the sound, only to find a group of people pushing and shoving each other.

One of them was the very policeman he had just sent out. He was holding a middle-aged man's arm. The man's short-sleeved shirt was stained with blood, and upon closer inspection, there was a ring of teeth marks on the skin covered by the shirt.

It's not very deep, but it's bleeding continuously.

Hearing that the young policeman was going to take the man away for solitary confinement, the family member became furious, his face turning red with anger. Ignoring everything else, he grabbed the man's other arm and kept pushing away the young policeman who tried to approach, shouting, "What are you doing? It's so chaotic outside, and you're treating someone trying to escape like a criminal! Are you police or robbers?!"

"No, we're letting the injured person stay in a separate room. It's better there, they can rest more comfortably, and we can also help treat their wounds," the quick-witted policeman explained.

But the other party wouldn't listen at all, and instead angrily shouted: "Bullshit, I think you're just lying! You're just making up an excuse to lock people up and not let them go!"

Officer Chen frowned at the man's agitated state, instinctively sensing that he was hiding something. But before he could say anything, the middle-aged man, who was being held by the two men on either side, suddenly collapsed to the ground with his legs giving way.

His eyes kept rolling upwards, revealing the whites, and he was mumbling something incoherently. The family member, seeing this, became furious: "My brother's been out in the sun for so long, he's already feeling unwell, and you're pushing him! Now what are you going to do about it?!"

Before he could finish the last word, it got stuck in his throat. He looked down in horror and saw his brother unconsciously opening his mouth wide to bite him.

Despite still rolling its eyes, it seemed to have a predatory instinct flowing in its blood, and it bit down hard on the leg of his jeans even when he couldn't see it.

Realizing that there was no skin under his mouth, he turned his head and opened his mouth towards the arm that his younger brother was supporting.

The young policeman next to him finally reacted, shouted "Watch out!" and quickly separated the two, but he himself let out a cry of surprise.

Officer Chen's heart clenched. He sprinted across half the corridor, dislocated the man's jaw in a few swift movements, and then turned to look at his subordinate's hand, his eyes bloodshot: "Were you bitten just now?"

Looking down, I noticed he was wearing thick gloves.

The young policeman was startled by his superior and instinctively wiped the saliva off his gloves on his pants: "No, no, he bit my gloves..." He only uttered the sound because he thought the man's actions looked a bit disgusting.

"You just told me to tell everyone to wrap themselves up properly, so I grabbed a pair of gloves and put them on," the young policeman said cautiously. "Is something wrong?"

The heart that had been pounding in his throat finally calmed down. Officer Chen, still shaken, looked at the man next to him whose jaw had been dislocated but was still trying to bite back down.

His saliva had already formed a small puddle on the tiled floor.

The family member who claimed to be his brother stood silently to the side, his eyes constantly scanning his brother, but he kept a distance from him.

He was indeed hiding something.

Officer Chen snorted coldly—this person probably discovered someone had been bitten and mutated while on the run, and was afraid his family would be arrested, so he hid the truth, and then caused this commotion after being brought out.

But after discovering that her brother had indeed mutated and could hurt people, she became afraid to interfere and simply waited for the police to help resolve the problem.

Officer Chen coldly ordered his men to handcuff the mutant. Before his brother could say anything, he ordered his men to handcuff him as well: "Didn't you want to stay together? Lock them both up together."

The man's expression instantly twisted.

Even though his brother's movements were restricted, being locked up with someone who had lost their mind was still immense psychological torture. But Officer Chen didn't give him any more chances to argue. He waved his hand and ordered his men to take the two away, while he couldn't help but glance at the mutated middle-aged man.

His skin was rapidly losing its color, and faint blue veins were emerging on his neck, turning into grotesque protrusions.

[Zombified individuals will have bluish skin, prominent blood vessels in their face and neck... and lose the ability to speak...]

[As long as zombies can create wounds, contact between their saliva and blood can lead to infection...]

What she said was all true.

Officer Chen patted his chest; even with his strong mental fortitude, he couldn't help but feel dizzy at this moment.

An extremely simple mode of infection, a 100% chance of infection, and the infected person's strong aggressive desire and virtually non-weak body.

Like a bucket of ice water being poured over his head in the dead of winter, Officer Chen felt a chill run down his spine.

He had a feeling.

The end of the world has truly come.

His phone rang at that moment. Grabbing it like a lifeline, he picked it up and yelled into the other end, "What she said is true! Just now, a civilian who had been at least fifteen minutes away from the attack, and who hadn't shown any abnormalities during those fifteen minutes, suddenly mutated! We must get to the top, by any means necessary..."

When reporting to the deputy director earlier, Officer Chen believed he had done a good job of portraying Fu Qing's past experiences and the character and reliability he demonstrated. But now he only regretted not saying more so that the other party and the person the other party was about to report to would trust Fu Qing's words even more.

The next second, the other person opened their mouth and said something.

Officer Chen's excited voice stopped abruptly. He held his breath for a few seconds, then his eyes widened suddenly. He strode to the conference room door and pushed it open forcefully.

The three people inside the door turned to look at them at the same time, only to see Officer Chen's face turn red: "There is an emergency meeting in three minutes. Please cooperate and attend."

Thinking of the other attendees mentioned on the other end of the phone, he subconsciously glanced at the attire of the four people, including himself. In his twenty-year professional career, this was the first time he had felt so nervous.

But in just two seconds, he forcibly banished this sense of tension.

What time is it? Why are you still thinking about all that nonsense!

Composing himself, Officer Chen turned around and said, "Please come with me."