Chapter 2: Living Towards Death Meeting on the edge of the ruins, fate lies at this moment...
This is the fourth time that abnormal gravitational fluctuations have occurred.
As the director of the Seventh Bureau's Supernatural Special Case Investigation Division, Gu Yifeng personally led the special operations team to every scene.
Over the past three months, bizarre explosions have occurred in three cities. The scenes are identical, leaving only ruins. The victims appear to have been crushed alive by invisible giant hands, their limbs twisted and deformed beyond recognition.
However, there were no traces of explosives, residual heat sources or shock wave tracks at the scene.
This is not an effect that an ordinary explosion can achieve.
After preliminary investigation, Gu Yifeng noticed a common point: every time an "explosion" occurred, it would be accompanied by abnormal gravitational fluctuations in the local area, and the energy release curve was different from any known physical law.
This wasn't a natural disaster, nor was it an explosion in the traditional sense—it was caused by some unprecedented special ability.
He led his team to track the coordinates of the latest abnormal gravitational fluctuations, traveling at lightning speed, and finally arrived in Yunhu City before dawn the next day.
The SUV stopped on the empty street, its headlights unable to penetrate the thick darkness ahead.
Gu Yifeng stared out the window, actually wondering when he'd get off work. Since he was already here, should he stop by Yunhu Cuisine? But parking there was so hard to find...
"Boss, the gravitational fluctuations have disappeared." Xiao Gao looked up from behind the screen. "The target was nearby."
The pretentious meditation was interrupted.
The coordinates suddenly disappeared, and the clues came to an abrupt end again. They could not even confirm whether the target was still nearby.
Amid the roar of the engine, Gu Yifeng's eyes unconsciously swept across the intersection ahead. A dilapidated ice cream truck was quietly waiting for the green light to come on, and the exhaust pipe at the rear of the car continued to spew out an unusually thick white cold mist.
Is this the refrigeration requirement for a regular ice cream truck?
"What's up, Old Gu, you want some ice cream?" Deputy Captain Ni, who was sitting in the passenger seat, said teasingly, "Don't you hate sweets?"
Gu Yifeng didn't answer, but frowned slightly. Something was wrong with that ice cream truck. He lowered the window to take a closer look. The window at the vending machine was covered in icicles, but the driver's window remained clear. There was an indescribable sense of disharmony.
The light turned green and the ice cream truck started moving. He followed the truck with his eyes until it disappeared completely into the darkness.
Gu Yifeng retracted his gaze. Hadn't there been enough strange things happening around him recently? He'd been driving all night, and even the coffee had given him hallucinations... His slender fingers tapped the steering wheel. "Xiao Gao, immediately initiate the emergency coordination procedure. Enter the police channel and screen all 'abnormal event reports' within this coordinate range after the gravitational fluctuation occurred."
"Police channel? The procedure would at least require..."
"Let's go through the internal process first, and then complete the formalities later." Gu Yifeng glanced at his watch. "I want to see all the abnormality reports in five minutes."
"Boss! Five minutes is too…" A keyboard clicked, and after a moment he said, "Got it. The Yunhu police received an anonymous report last night. A young woman was abducted and put into an ice cream truck on Yunshun Road. The location of her disappearance overlaps with the coordinates of the gravitational wave peak!"
The fingers gripping the steering wheel suddenly tightened, and Gu Yifeng's eyes were fixed on the ice cream truck that was gradually moving away.
Is it a coincidence? Could the person in the ice cream truck be the bombing suspect?
Should I immediately chase after the strange ice cream truck in front of me, or go to Yunshun Road to investigate clues of the missing case?
After thinking for a moment, Gu Yifeng stepped on the accelerator and swung the steering wheel, the tires making a harsh sound: "Go!"
He should lead the team to Yunshun Road to investigate the missing case, which would be a more logical choice.
"Follow that ice cream truck." He ordered decisively.
Gao Yiyuan was stunned for a second: "Boss, Yun Shunlu over there——"
"Follow orders."
This wasn't a logical answer, but he chose to trust his intuition.
The SUV quickly turned around and sped off in the direction of the ice cream truck.
The silver ice cream truck quietly lurked in the darkness.
The special operations team cooperated with the Yunhu police to block the road section and quietly gathered towards the truck together with the criminal police.
The carriage suddenly began to shake, and it was suspected that a fight had occurred.
We can’t wait any longer! The police chief picked up the intercom and said, “Action now!”
The leading officer was about to shout to the car when Gao Yiyuan suddenly exclaimed from behind him: "Wait! The gravitational distortion reading has exceeded the threshold!!"
Gu Yifeng's pupils shrank when he heard this, and he snatched the intercom: "Stop the operation immediately! Retreat!"
As soon as the words fell——
An invisible giant hand seemed to stretch out from the void and grab the truck tightly.
The roof instantly caved in, the sheet metal twisted and deformed, and cracks quickly spread along with a harsh friction sound.
The car window glass shattered into pieces, and fragments flew everywhere.
The policemen instinctively protected their heads and stopped in shock.
The cold starlight falls on the earth, shining with the police lights, like a silent witness.
An explosion? Why didn't I hear any explosion?
There was no flames rising into the sky, no thick smoke billowing, and the police officers on the scene could not smell any scent of gunpowder, burning materials or chemicals.
The scene was suffocatingly quiet. Only the sinister silhouette of the truck reminded everyone that what they had just seen was not an illusion.
Gu Yifeng turned to the person in charge and said, "From now on, this case will be taken over by the Investigation Bureau. You will immediately organize all units to retreat outside the safety line. At the same time, notify the bomb disposal team."
The other party made a quick gesture: "Understood."
"How long will it take for the bomb disposal team to arrive?" Gu Yifeng's eyes were fixed on the strange ice cream truck. His tone was calm but revealed a hint of suppressed anxiety.
"It will take at least ten minutes." Gao Yiyuan responded in a low voice.
Just as he was about to give the order, footsteps were heard from inside the truck.
Gu Yifeng quickly drew his gun and turned to Ni Qianfan, saying, "We'll surround the truck from the front and back. If we find any survivors, we'll immediately apprehend them. That person is most likely the perpetrator of the serial bombings."
The two men surrounded the truck, one in front and one behind, and quietly approached the twisted ice cream truck under the moonlight. The broken glass under their feet made a slight cracking sound as they moved forward.
Just when Gu Yifeng was about to touch the car door,
“Click—”
The slightly deformed car door was suddenly pushed open from the inside.
Outside the car door, red and blue police lights flashed silently, and the dazzling flashlight light suddenly shone over in unison.
Wen Yi subconsciously raised her hands to cover her eyes.
——A truly dazzling appearance!
She smiled bitterly in her heart.
Just a few seconds ago, her consciousness was in another world.
Until she was "pushed" back to reality by a gentle force, and the vision before her eyes began to fade rapidly.
In the darkness, her eardrums detected something strange: the sheet metal inside the car vibrated slightly.
She curled up in the corner of the car, watching the window glass shatter into pieces, but it did not fall.
The dim light from inside the car illuminated the fragments suspended in the air, each of which reflected her terrified face.
She could clearly feel the floor lifting her up and the ceiling pressing down suddenly.
The entire interior of the car suddenly shrank, and the deformed roof was just within her reach.
Wen Yi couldn't help but reach out her hand to the twisted roof, but she heard a crisp "click" sound - the inner wall of the car that she touched was peeling off.
She blinked, wiping the debris from her face. Coughing, she pushed herself up and glanced around. What was going on? Where was the murderer?
Her eyes fell on the motionless man not far away... Why did he fall down?
Wen Yi quickly crawled to his side, and taking a look through the faint light that filtered through the crack, she gasped. He was like a squashed clay figurine, his body twitching constantly. Thick blood gushed out of the part of his face that she could barely make out. The man seemed to be still moving, but he was no different from being dead.
She covered her mouth and backed away, her heart filled with horror. Who had done this? Her mind went blank, and she stared at her hands in disbelief. She had done nothing. But everyone else at the scene was dead, so even if she had grown mouths all over her body, she wouldn't be able to explain herself.
Before going down the mountain, the elders in the family repeatedly reminded me not to disclose family matters and not to easily interfere in worldly causes and effects.
The police should be here soon, so she... must leave now!
She gritted her teeth, lowered her body, hunched over and ran quickly to the rear of the car.
The moment she pushed open the car door, Wen Yi raised her hand to block the strong light, but saw a tall figure standing against the light between her fingers.
The moonlight outlined the tall and slender figure of the man in front of her. He was wearing a bulletproof vest and holding a gun in both hands. He was about to approach, but stopped when he saw her.
The moment he raised his eyes, his cold gaze, filled with scrutiny and a strong sense of oppression, cut through the night sky like a sharp sword.
The moment their eyes met, Wen Yi finally saw who was coming.
The man had slightly curly hair, prominent brow bones, sharp eyes, and a high nose bridge. Perhaps from years of frowning, there was a faint fine line between his eyebrows.
At this moment, the male protagonist who fell from the sky in the novel that Wen Yi read about finally had a specific appearance.
Police? Are they here to catch that psychopathic murderer?
"Uncle police..." Wen Yi immediately raised her hands, trying to squeeze out a trace of helplessness in her eyes, and her hands trembled more violently, "If you had been half a step later, I would have been dead!"
The air stagnated for a second.
The man frowned slightly, his cold eyes became sharper, and he quickly glanced at her. After confirming that there was no obvious threat, he slowly put away his gun.
"Don't move!" His voice was low and serious. "Your behavior is very suspicious. Now-"
“Crack—”
The wreckage of the truck collapsed again.
"ah!"
Wen Yi screamed and fell forward.
She thought she was going to fall on the broken glass, so she instinctively closed her eyes and shrank back.
But her falling momentum suddenly slowed down, and a strong arm passed through her knees and held her firmly.
Her cheek hit the hard chest, and the cold and hard bulletproof vest made her breathing short.
He held her tightly, as if afraid she would fall again.
"Don't move." A low warning voice came from above.
She didn't dare move, nor did she dare look up. Her heartbeat inexplicably quickened, but she couldn't tell if it was because of panic or because of him.
Gu Yifeng lowered his eyes and looked at her, his brows slightly furrowed.
He knew very well that she was just a stranger, and even her behavior was suspicious.
But the moment he met her eyes, his heart suddenly beat faster.
It was as if an invisible hand pushed him forward a step, and before he could even react, he had already held her tightly.
The interlaced and flashing lights are dazzling, like a hazy dream.
The ambiguous atmosphere didn't last for three seconds before the man suddenly put Wen Yi down.
Before she could stand firmly, she felt the warm hand suddenly tighten with such force that it hurt.
Wait, this isn't going the right way?!
The world was spinning around her, and before she could even scream, her arms were instantly twisted behind her back.
“Crack!”
The cold handcuffs were already fastened around her wrists.
The author has something to say:
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The first three chapters were revised, and the hero and heroine finally met earlier.
Gu Yifeng: "Director, I think this hug shot could be longer, and shot from different angles."
Wen Yi: Get out! Get this stinky man out!
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