Chapter 42: They Are the Only Ones Dancing in Shackles
"Exploding Flame Fist!"
Li Xiaogou's fist tore through the air and hit the abdomen of the human-faced spider. With a crisp cracking sound, the iron-hard skin instantly caved in.
The mountain-like body was overturned, rolled several times in the air, and fell to the ground, leaving a long gray trail on the ground.
Blood stuck to Li Xiaogou's eyelashes, and it seemed like red rain was falling in his world.
The body could no longer support itself and fell straight down.
The pain he had imagined did not come, and a slender body supported him.
"My students said that the name of this ultimate move is too childish." The woman smiled gently.
Li Xiaogou slowly raised the corners of his lips, but before the smile reached his eyes, a figure flashed by in his peripheral vision, and he suddenly pushed the woman away.
The man pretending to be Liang Bin had his throat bitten off, revealing the pink and white tissue inside, but he was still not dead. He held the dagger and attacked Li Xiaogou again.
“Is this ever going to end?”
A loud shout resounded through the sky.
Li Xiaogou opened his eyes slightly wide and looked at Liang Bin in surprise as he fell to the ground.
The gentle woman's chest heaved violently, her fair face stained with yellowish-white brain matter. She looked disdainfully at the man lying on the ground, a dagger stuck in the back of his head, and said with a smile, "You scum who dragged the child into this? Death is a gift to you."
Li Xiaogou raised his hand with difficulty, gave her a thumbs up, and then fainted with relief.
I don’t know how long it took, countless scenes from the past flashed through my mind, and suddenly I smelled a strong smell of disinfectant. Li Xiaogou felt his eyelashes itchy and slowly opened his eyes.
"Wake up, brother is awake!"
The first thing that caught my eye was four or five chubby faces huddled together.
The owners of the faces all looked at him with their round grape-like eyes, and one of them didn't have time to retract his hand.
It turned out that she was pulling her eyelashes.
The little girl calmly withdrew her hand and smiled sweetly at her.
At this time, Xia Han walked in holding a box of cut fruit.
Seeing that Li Xiaogou had woken up, she quickly put down the fruit and poured him a glass of water.
"Thank you." Li Xiaogou took the water. "How long have I been unconscious?"
Xia Han: "A lot of people came to see you throughout the day and night. The doctor said you need to rest more, so they left after seeing you."
Suddenly realizing something, Xia Han asked, "Didn't they wake you up?"
The chubby kids were so disloyal that they betrayed their teammates. They pointed at one of the little girls and said, "She pulled her brother's eyelashes."
He was the one caught by Li Xiaogou.
She didn't blush or gasp, and defended herself sincerely: "They said my brother is very handsome, and his eyelashes look like they are fake and glued on. I said they must be real. I just touched it once, I didn't use any force at all."
Under Xia Han's gaze, the little girl's voice became smaller and smaller.
"I'm fine. It's time to wake up after sleeping for so long." Li Xiaogou's voice still sounded weak.
Xia Han drove all the little fat kids to the corridor. When the ward was empty, she spoke, "Thank you."
“That’s my job.”
Xia Han shook her head: "No job requires sacrificing one's life. It's a personal choice after all."
"Those things I...saw, have you been fighting them all this time?"
"Yeah." Li Xiaogou nodded.
"It's really hard." Xia Han forced a smile, then looked like she was about to cry.
Li Xiaogou was stunned.
Xia Han was the kind of person who didn't shed tears even when she saw the giant human-faced spider.
If Wang Bo cried in front of him, he would just beat him up.
But now it's a girl, what should he do?
When Li*straight*Xiaogou's computer crashed, Xia Han had already calmed down. Glancing at Li Xiaogou's dazed expression, she burst into laughter.
She didn't know what she was thinking of, but her smile turned a little mischievous. She said with a smile, "The students didn't see what happened at that time, but later they found out that it was you who saved them. Several girls in the class said you are good-looking. When they grow up, they will definitely..."
Seeing Li Xiaogou's ears reddened as expected, Xia Han pursed her lips and quickly continued, "I must marry you."
Li Xiaogou: …???
Are kids these days a little too wild?
"I will keep it a secret." Xia Han solemnly promised Li Xiaogou as she left, standing beside his bed. "I will also always remember that there are people who have been bleeding and sacrificing in the dark for our lives."
"Your little face is so red, what evil things are you thinking about?" The voice came before the person arrived.
Li Xiaogou was still thinking about what Xia Han said before she left. He looked towards the door and saw Wang Bo with a huge plaster cast on one of his legs. He pushed the wheelchair in with his two arms and did not forget to close the door with his plaster leg.
Li Xiaogou collapsed backwards, squinting at Wang Bo and sneered after a moment, "What a low level of combat power."
Wang Bo immediately exploded: "You said I was even more miserable when you were carried in, okay?!"
"I defeated a three-meter-tall spider. What did you do?"
"I, I even subdued a vampire."
"Tsk, everyone has the same thing."
Unable to refute, Wang Bo could only weakly sternly say: "Just wait, you'll see what I do next time."
After that, he quickly changed the subject: "You're famous."
Li Xiaogou was still lazy: "I am famous."
Wang Bo gritted his teeth: "What I mean is, after this incident, you have become more famous."
Li Xiaogou turned over and faced Wang Bo: "What do you mean?"
Wang Bo smiled smugly: "You will suffer for not listening to the old man's advice - hey, hey, what do you mean by turning around?"
Li Xiaogou grabbed Wang Bo's plaster leg that had kicked him and said, "You want to become Li Tieguai, right?"
"Iron Crutch Li? Why should I have your last name?"
"If you have to fart, do it now."
Wang Bo groaned, "When you left the air-raid shelter that day, your disguise time was almost up. I wanted to remind you, but you ran too fast."
The image of a young man suddenly appeared in Li Xiaogou's mind. No wonder he called himself Li Xiaogou...
He frowned and said, "So everyone knows?"
"Yeah, the guy you met was a blogger, and your conversation was live-streamed."
"It's actually a continuing drama. I saw someone post a summary online. Didn't you announce your retirement a while ago? Some of your fans clung to your Judge persona, insisting that your mission to stay clean in the entertainment industry was complete and that you were leaving to carry out other secret missions. As a result, they were ridiculed by other fans. After this incident, they finally felt proud and reposted all the previous posts mocking them, even compiling them into a collection."
"Don't talk about them, I feel relieved just watching them!"
Li Xiaogou was a little surprised. He didn't understand the ecology of the fan circle, and he never thought that even after he retired from the circle, there would still be so many people who would relentlessly scold his fans.
"So...how was the aftermath of what happened at Yuelai Plaza handled?"
"Oh, that. Didn't you chase everyone out at that time? Later, many people actually wanted to go in to watch the excitement, but the blogger was moved by you, so he stayed outside the square to stop those who were not afraid of death and wanted to sneak in to watch the excitement."
"The final announcement was that someone was smuggling birds of prey, and the strange noises they heard were also made by birds of prey."
Li Xiaogou nodded, indicating that he understood: "Did Situ Ming catch him?"
"That's a must." At this point, Wang Bo sighed deeply, "But before we arrived, Situ Ming told his son the truth. That Que Song was also there, and he... converted Situ Yan."
Speaking of which, they were classmates with Situ Yan for a few days. Although the whole incident was caused by Situ Yan, Situ Yan did not do anything wrong. If being transformed can really extend his life, Li Xiaogou would be happy to see it.
But looking at Wang Bo's expression, that wasn't the case.
"What else happened?"
Wang Bo scratched his head. "Those people in the air-raid shelter were transformed after being bitten by the human-faced spider. Wu Liang has never actually tried to transform humans into humans. After Que Song transformed Situ Yan, his personality disappeared."
It turns out that lovers finally getting married only exists in fairy tales.
"Situ Yan offered to help the bureau with the experiment, hoping to help his father Jian Xing. Li Chenglu's situation is similar, and many of them have volunteered to assist us."
"Where's the kid from Yuelai Building?"
After a moment of silence, Wang Bo whispered, "Dead."
Li Xiaogou was not very sad, because he knew that if he could avenge himself before dying, death would not be such a sad thing.
The two patients talked for a while, and the head nurse who was in charge of Wang Bo came over directly. Only then did Li Xiaogou realize that Wang Bo had sneaked out.
Li Xiaogou felt a slight headache after receiving too much information at once.
After eating two slices of pear, Li Xiaogou was about to lie down to rest when someone started knocking on the door again.
Li Xiaogou: ...
The person who came this time was Yunlou.
The moment he saw Yunlou, Li Xiaogou's fatigue disappeared and his eyes lit up instantly.
He immediately activated his melon-eating system and tried to eat the melons from Yunlou.
But to his disappointment, even though he had been upgraded, the secret of Yunlou was still shrouded in mystery.
Well, actually he wasn’t that curious about Yunlou, he just wanted to get Yunlou’s skills for free.
When fighting against the human-faced spider, he copied Wang Zheng's skills in a hurry. That was because among the four captains, he had only eaten Wang Zheng's melon before.
Although he gave that punch a cool and domineering name, the copied skill was still only one-third of the power of the original skill.
With only one-third of his effort, he blew the human-faced spider away.
At that moment, he realized how much he had underestimated the four captains.
The dream of possessing four captain skills at the same time and becoming the strongest force in the Special Investigation Bureau was aborted.
Li Xiaogou glanced at Yunlou with a bit of resentment.
Yunlou paused slightly, lowered his eyes and glanced at his clothes. There seemed to be nothing wrong?
"I'm sorry, I disobeyed Captain Du in your name—"
"You don't need to worry about Dutu—"
They both spoke at the same time, and Yunlou smiled: "You did a good job. This is our case. He crossed the line."
"Wu Liang died at the hands of Du Tu. He didn't have to kill Wu Liang at the time."
The young man sat on the hospital bed, his face almost as white as the wall behind him, but his expression was extremely stubborn, as if he would not give up until he gave a reasonable explanation.
Yunlou was silent for a moment, then answered him seriously: "Du Tu and I are on the same level. I have no right to punish him. I can only promise you that I will investigate this matter to the end."
Yunlou didn't make promises easily, and Li Xiaogou knew that this was the limit of what Yunlou could do. He nodded gently, but still asked in confusion, "Du Tu used to be a member of the organization. Why would the bureau trust him?"
"...and he interacted a lot with Situ Ming. Most of the money Situ Ming donated to the bureau went to their team. I think you could investigate in this direction."
"Did you use your powers on Dutu?"
"Well, I knew the situation well enough to negotiate with him."
Yunlou smiled, and Li Xiaogou noticed that he smiled a lot today.
"Have you ever scolded me behind my back, thinking that I set too many rules for you?"
"What rules?" Li Xiaogou asked.
Yunlou ignored his verbal advantage and said frankly, "For example, I won't let you use your supernatural powers casually."
"Isn't this the rule of the Supernatural Bureau? I think it's a bit rigid, but I don't blame you."
Yunlou shook his head. "Rules and taboos. Professor Yu must have said they were very serious during the training, right? But in reality, when carrying out the mission, the other three teams don't strictly abide by these rules."
Li Xiaogou opened his mouth in surprise. He really didn't know this. It turned out that they were the only ones dancing in shackles.
"So every time you told me that I could use my supernatural powers on ordinary people after applying to the higher-ups, you were lying?"
"Yeah. I agree to that."
Li Xiaogou was completely speechless.
"Wu Liang resisted, and Du Tu killed him. You think he went too far, but he can insist he didn't." The smile on Yun Lou's face gradually disappeared. He looked out the window, his eyes like deep pools. "For many years, the bureau has operated this way. As long as the evildoers are punished, the process is not important."
"I disagree," he said solemnly. "If our authority is uncontrolled, then aren't we a lot like the Organization?"
Yunlou didn't seem to want an answer from Li Xiaogou. He changed the subject after he finished speaking: "You already know the story of Li Xiaogou being handed over to the country and bravely fighting against birds of prey, right?"
I just heard it from Wang Bo and it was nothing, but when Yun Lou said it, I felt inexplicably ashamed.
"Yeah." Li Xiaogou responded.
Yunlou chuckled and took out something that looked like a card camera from his coat pocket.
"This time's reward."
"With the shapeshifter, you can change at any time and adjust your face freely. However, you can't change your voice or form. Be careful next time you use it and don't let it get away."
"Oh." Li Xiaogou looked left and right. The world with super powers is also very interesting.
Seeing his childish look, Yunlou couldn't help but curl his lips. "We intercepted a batch of intelligence earlier. The organization is hunting down mutant animals. This time, the human-faced spider is one of them. Animals are more secretive, which makes it easier for them to operate."
Li Xiaogou finally asked the question that had been lurking in his heart for a long time: "What exactly is the organization trying to achieve by doing so much?"
Unexpectedly, Yunlou didn't know the answer either.
Before leaving, Yunlou received a call. His face changed slightly. After hanging up, he said to Li Xiaogou, "Situ Ming committed suicide."
After Yunlou left, Li Xiaogou tossed and turned in bed for a long time but still couldn't fall asleep.
In fact, he still had a question that he hadn't asked.
In this operation, the support from the bureau was delayed. What was the reason?
He had a vague guess in his mind, which was confirmed after he learned about Situ Ming.
The Special Investigation Bureau's prison is heavily guarded. It's impossible for an ordinary person to commit suicide, unless someone helps him.
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