Nie's City's public security visibly improved.
The lawbreakers who had once run rampant through the streets were being cleared out by Shi Tiexin in steady, planned stages.
He actively promoted the principle of upholding righteousness and banishing evil, throwing open the doors to recruit one aspiring member after another. He gradually expanded the Special Case Unit's ranks: the second intake added five hundred trainees, and from the third intake onward, the Major Crimes Division would field a special-case force approaching two thousand strong.
At the same time, the fast-moving, fast-responding, fast-striking Special Case Unit established its prestige in every street and alley of Nie's City.
Inside a bank, a masked man was carrying out a robbery.
He pulled out a grenade and stuffed it into the mouth of a security guard lying on the floor. Then he removed his mask, revealing pale makeup and blood-red lips.
He looked down at the guard and said in a hoarse voice with a strange cadence, "What doesn't kill you only makes you more... strange."
The robber had the air of a madman. The robber was no ordinary man. The robber's head was full of bizarre yet genius ideas, and he was about to turn all of Nie's City upside do—
"Waa-ta!!" Li Xiaolong closed in with godlike speed and whipped a spinning kick brutally across the robber's face. Foam spilled from the robber's mouth as he spun through the air seven thousand two hundred degrees, then landed with a thud, unconscious.
Li Xiaolong wiped his nose with his thumb. "Take the suspect away for interrogation. Oh, and find a towel to wipe his face clean. Doesn't he feel stuffy wearing foundation that thick?"
A tremendous storm that had been about to sweep through Nie's City died at the very beginning.
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