Noticing Lu Qing's gaze, Gu Xicheng turned his head and whispered:
"Qingqing, stop looking at me like that, or I'll get a reaction!"
Lu Qing blushed slightly, coughed lightly, pushed Gu Xicheng's head away, and continued to ask:
"Nian Chun, I'm asking you, where are all those people who were looking for you before?"
Ding Jinghuan then realized what was happening and angrily said:
"Yes! Tell me quickly! Where did you send all my colleagues?"
Nian Chun sneered and said, "I won't tell you, and you'll never find them!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Yanjun took a deep breath:
"Old Gu, it seems your methods aren't ruthless enough!"
Gu Xicheng summoned the Nine Nether Lotus Flame once again.
Nian Chun's expression suddenly became flustered, and he hurriedly said:
"It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that I really don't know."
"Your father tricked everyone into going to the cemetery. You were right there, how could you not know?"
Nian Chun: "I really didn't know that those people were taken away by the mountain god."
Lu Qing frowned slightly, a hint of worry flashing in her eyes.
Judging from Nian Chun's expression, he probably wasn't lying.
If those people were really taken away by the King of Li, then things would be in trouble.
"Those people all went to the cemetery, and they were taken away from there, right?" Lu Qing asked.
Nian Chun nodded:
“After they went to the cemetery, I led them to the big locust tree, and the mountain god took them away.”
"It seems we'll have to go to the cemetery again," Lu Qing said in a deep voice.
Ding Jinghuan: "But we just came back from there. After you were sucked into the big locust tree, I searched the whole area, and there was no one alive except us."
Gu Xicheng: "What if they are already dead?"
Ding Jinghuan's face paled: "You mean they've all already..."
Just then, Ding Jinghuan's phone rang; it was a call from a colleague at the branch office.
A few seconds after the call was connected, Ding Jinghuan exclaimed in surprise:
"What! You mean they all got back safely?"
Gu Xicheng, Lu Qing, and Wang Yanjun all looked over.
Ding Jinghuan nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I'll go back right away!"
After hanging up the phone, he looked at the three of them and smiled:
"A colleague from the bureau just called to say that the four missing colleagues have all returned safely."
"Everything's alright?"
The three of them keenly sensed that something was wrong.
If these four people were indeed captured by the King of Li, then they could not possibly have returned safely.
Unless Nian Chun lied, they were not taken away by the King of Li.
Was it necessary for Ke Nianchun to tell such a lie?
"Something's wrong!"
"Captain Ding, send the video back again. We need to check on the condition of those four people."
Ding Jinghuan immediately nodded and sent the video call back.
However, the phone rang for a long time but no one answered.
Everyone's hearts sank.
Ding Jinghuan laughed and said, "They probably didn't hear it. I'll have someone else call."
Ding Jinghuan called another person, but the phone rang for a long time without anyone answering.
"Why won't she answer!"
Ding Jinghuan suspected that the network signal was bad, so he called back.
This time, they called two people in a row, but still couldn't get through.
"Something must have happened!"
"Let's go back quickly!"
Wang Yanjun: "What about these people?"
It was dark, and the way back was not short, so taking them with us was inconvenient.
Lu Qing immediately decided to send the three living dead to the underworld.
As for Nian Chun, he still had to go back to face trial and couldn't die yet, so they knocked him unconscious, trapped him with the Nine Nether Lotus Fire, and gagged him.
After finishing everything, the four of them hurriedly headed back.
It takes too much time to go from Huangni Village to the town, and then from the town to the city by bus.
Lu Qing had no choice but to take out all the flying and speed-up talismans he had and stick them on the tricycle, so he could travel by both land and air.
After rushing for three hours, we finally arrived at the Jizhou branch.
It was already past midnight, and the streets were completely silent.
The Jizhou branch was hidden inside a library. Ding Jinghuan led them in through a side door, and after passing through a corridor, they saw a tightly closed door.
Just as Ding Jinghuan was about to use his fingerprint to unlock the door and enter, Lu Qing stopped him:
"Wait a moment!"
"Did you hear anything?"
Lu Qing stared at the door, his ears twitched, then his gaze darkened, and he shouted:
"Get out of the way!"
The next second, the door was kicked open from the inside.
Lu Qing reminded everyone to step aside in advance, thus avoiding being hit by the door.
A wolf-headed, human-bodied monster rushed out of the door, its gaping maw agape as it lunged forward.
"Wasn't the werewolf locked up in prison? How could he have escaped!" Ding Jinghuan exclaimed in shock.
"It wasn't just werewolves that ran out!"
Lu Qing looked solemnly into the room.
A zombie hopped out of there, its blue fangs covered in blood, clearly having just drunk human blood.
"We need to seal these monsters inside first, and prevent them from escaping!"
Gu Xicheng immediately kicked the werewolf back, and then built a barrier at the door to block them.
At that moment, cries for help came from inside.
The four men immediately rushed in to rescue the person.
All the demons and monsters imprisoned in the entire Jizhou branch of the Investigation Bureau were released, and blood was everywhere.
"Help! Help!!!"
A girl was pierced through the shoulder by the stinger of an armored scorpion demon and cried out for help.
Lu Qing quickly ran over and dragged her over before the scorpion demon could pierce her heart with its stinger.
"Can Can, how are you?" Ding Jinghuan asked hurriedly.
When the girl saw Ding Jinghuan, she burst into tears: "Captain, Captain... Waaah..."
There were too many demons and monsters ahead, so the four of them could only take the girl into the nearby archives room to bandage her wounds.
"Can Can, what happened?" Ding Jinghuan asked hurriedly.
"Captain, the four missing...the four missing people...they've gone mad! They've all gone mad!" Sun Cancan cried.
Ding Jinghuan was extremely anxious:
"Can Can, stop crying. Explain things clearly. What do you mean those people are crazy?"
Sun Cancan, suppressing her sobs and wiping away her tears, said:
"Lu Qiang and the others...the four of them are back, and everyone...everyone is very happy, but when we ask them what happened, they just won't say anything."
Then they suddenly went berserk and attacked us, killing Leng Kangsheng instantly.
Then...then they went down to the prison and released all the demons and monsters locked inside.
Ding Jinghuan stared wide-eyed in surprise:
"Where are they now?"
Sun Cancan shook her head and cried:
"I don't know, all those things came out, and I couldn't beat them, so I hid."
"Where is the director? Where was the director when the accident happened?" Ding Jinghuan asked.
Sun Cancan: "They should... they should have hidden in the defense room. I saw the emergency defense lights were on. All the survivors should be there."
Wang Yanjun looked at Ding Jinghuan and asked:
"The Bureau of Investigation's branches should all have defense mechanisms, including protective rooms for personnel and demon-subduing arrays. Where is the array's core?"
Ding Jinghuan: "In the main control room on the fifth basement floor."
Wang Yanjun: "We need to go to the main control room and activate the Demon-Subduing Array to lock these monsters back in."
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