Chapter 257 Chapter 259 Situation Hint
Cui Lie saw that Rong Xianxian was in good spirits except for her pale face, and his expression relaxed a little.
"Sister Rong, my investigation was not comprehensive and I didn't understand the situation clearly. I didn't expect there was a mechanism underneath. None of the dozen or so people who came before let the cat out of the bag. I was careless." Cui Lie said to Rong Xianxian with some guilt.
"Alie, don't blame yourself. This underground mechanism should be their escape route. How could it be revealed so easily?" Rong Xianxian waved her hand to comfort him.
"I didn't expect that they had so much explosives in their hands. I underestimated them." Rong Xianxian said a little depressed. It turned out that no one who survived in this world should be underestimated.
"Sister Rong, do you still need to take medicine?" Cui Lie asked worriedly.
"No need. This situation hasn't happened once or twice. I can recover slowly on my own." Rong Xianxian waved her hand. Although her body was depleted of spiritual energy, she still had other means of self-protection. She probably wouldn't need to take action later. The only two soul-restoring pills she had on her couldn't be wasted.
When Rong Xianxian and Cui Lie returned to the gate, they found Jiang Jie, Wang Lin and others looking unhappy. "Sister Rong, when we came back just now, we found that six people were poisoned. The others ran away and we didn't catch up."
Jiang Jie and Wang Lin were breathing unevenly, obviously having just gone after those people.
"These people are quite vigilant, but I have been prepared. Don't worry about them. Can this gate be opened? Let's park the car in." Rong Xianxian asked.
"Sister Rong, when we went to chase those people just now, we saw an iron gate on the corner. It is much easier to open that gate than this one." Jiang Jie said, pointing to the northwest corner.
"Then go through that door." The two cars and the pickup truck were driven into the paper mill.
"Captain Cui, what should we do with these people?" Jiang Jie said, pointing at the pile of people on the pickup truck.
"Since there is a mechanism underground, we have to ask them again." Cui Lie thought about Rong Xianxian's pale face just now, his expression cold.
"It has come to this point, I'm afraid they may not be willing to tell us." Jiang Jie said worriedly.
"It's not up to them to take those people over there." Cui Lie sneered and pointed to the abandoned factory building in the corner of the factory area. A trace of blood flashed in his eyes.
This time the interrogation process was not as gentle as before. Rong Xianxian could hear the howling of ghosts and wolves coming from the abandoned factory from a distance, which sounded shrill and terrifying.
When Cui Lie, Jiang Jie and Xia Kai came back, Xia Kai, who had volunteered to help Cui Lie, had a strange expression on his face. He stayed far away from Cui Lie and seemed to be evasive when he accidentally glanced at Cui Lie.
After the second interrogation, they learned that this paper mill was originally a secret military factory. Later, the military enterprises moved away. This place was far away from the city and had inconvenient transportation, so it was idle. Later, the owner of a paper mill took a fancy to this place and bought it to turn it into a paper mill. There were air-raid shelters under the factory area, and several tunnels leading to the outside. The mechanism in the office area was designed by this group of people themselves based on the original tunnels. There were such mechanisms in the warehouse, the general manager's office, the third factory building, and the product display area. Cui Lie was going to take Wang Lin and the others to find them one by one. Among the people interrogated by Cui Lie, there was a former employee of the paper mill who was very familiar with all the underground routes. He drew a blueprint of the underground route for Cui Lie, which corresponded to the positions on the ground one by one, so that people could see it at a glance.
Half of the house in the office area had been blown down, and the other half was also not safe. Rong Xianxian and the others parked the car and entered the exhibition area next to the office area. There was a large air-raid shelter underground in the exhibition area. This air-raid shelter was protected by heavy steel plates and was connected to several other tunnels. It was an ideal escape route.
"Sister Rong, it's getting late now. The environment outside is very unsafe, and there is no safe place to stay nearby. I don't think Cao Xing and the others will run away. They are either hiding in the tunnels below or in the houses with mechanisms. I will take people to pull them out now." Cui Lie said to Rong Xianxian inside the exhibition area.
"Don't worry, Ali, wait a moment. The drug I put on Cao Xing should have taken effect by now. Those who ran away have probably reunited with Cao Xing. Let me listen first to see if I can hear any movement." Rong Xianxian took the thing that functioned like a long-distance sound collector from Jiang Jie and put it into her ears. Rong Xianxian and Cui Lie opened the secret door and entered the air-raid shelter. She found a total of four passages on the wall and ground of the air-raid shelter. However, after listening for a while, Rong Xianxian pointed to the downward passage on the ground and said, "Those people are in this tunnel, in this underground area." Rong Xianxian drew a circle on a factory area on the drawing that Cui Lie was holding.
Cui Lie took Wang Lin and Wang Qirui out, and after a while they came back carrying a man with blood all over his face.
"Sister Rong, these people just started fighting in the tunnel. Cao Xing was beaten to death by them, and the rest are half dead. Only this one is still energetic. He said he can make mechanical devices and explosives, and asked to join us. Captain Cui said to bring him back first." Wang Qirui threw the bloody man in his hand to the ground and said excitedly.
Originally, Rong Xianxian and the others guessed that there should be one person in this group who was good at making explosives and another who was good at designing mechanisms, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why these people had so many explosives. However, they did not expect that the person who was good at making explosives and designing mechanisms was the same person.
"Sister Rong, why did those people fight among themselves? How did you do it?" Wang Qirui instantly turned into a curious baby, looking at Rong Xianxian with curiosity in his eyes.
"I just gave Cao Xing some drugs, which caused him to have some illusions." Rong Xianxian smiled slightly and said lightly.
That drug does have the effect of producing hallucinations, but that was just a trigger. Rong Xianxian used the effect of the soul-calming bell to implant a situational hint of a fight with the enemy in Cao Xing's mind in advance. As long as someone comes into close contact with him, that hint will be triggered.
This was not the first time that Rong Xianxian had used the Soul-Calming Bell. She had previously tried it on Lan Shuang at the official supply point in Xiangshan Town, but she had left in a hurry at the time and did not see the results of the experiment.
(End of this chapter)
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