Law Enforcement Division Four

Li Aoz froze slightly.

For a moment, Nomi's petite figure overlapped with someone from his memories, stirring a faint tremor in his heart.

But then he shook his head.

We're people too—wasn't that a little too foolish and naive?

From a player's perspective, Azure Planet was doomed to destruction anyway. The only thing eternal in this world was profit.

But he was no longer a player.

"Don't overthink it."

Li Aoz looked away. "Still, for things to have reached this point, the Four Nations bear the primary responsibility. There's no doubt about that."

Nomi stared at him with her pale purple eye for a long while. "You really aren't with the Rose Army."

"Does that still matter?"

"Oh my, listen to you. You're not with the Rose Army, yet you're familiar with their organization, ideals, and deployments—what do you think a Rose Army soldier like me is supposed to think?"

Nomi casually rested her wrench on her shoulder. Snowflakes clung to her lashes, and her pale purple eye looked hazy amid the storm.

"Your Excellency Li Aoz, don't you want to explain yourself?"

"First, being called 'Your Excellency' makes it sound like I'm about to get shot. Not very auspicious. I suggest you call me 'Your Majesty' instead."

Li Aoz stepped closer, gazed into Nomi's eye, and said:

"Second, if you think it's worth it to kill me and that mechanic in one go, then drive back to the Rose Army alone, do it."

"Oh? And what wouldn't be worth it about that?" Nomi narrowed her eye and merely smiled.

"Of course it wouldn't be worth it. If you kill us and take the car, you'll only gain one more vehicle. But if you come with me, I'll give you a future."

Li Aoz said confidently, "A future with sunlight and warmth, where everyone has a chance to rise, where men and women enjoy equal rights. People won't dig through trash cans for leftover slop, nor will anyone have to beg or perform for money. There will be no prostitutes or slaves. Children and the elderly will be respected and protected. Criminals will be punished by law, and labor will be rewarded accordingly—a future like that."

"...You're full of it." Nomi sneered. "Isn't that fucking paradise?"

"This isn't paradise," Li Aoz said. "This is how people should have lived."

Nomi Favorability--

Before Li Aoz could even see the number that followed, a bone-chilling shudder suddenly ran through his body.

Someone was aiming at him!

That intense sense of danger was the "intuition" born from the accumulated experience of veteran players being ambushed and set up time and again over the years.

Before he could react, he caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye of a red flare from burning gunpowder in the distant Frost and Snow.

He couldn't dodge! Bang! Li Aoz was suddenly knocked to the ground. Nomi grabbed his head and pressed it against her chest, then instantly kicked open Benny's assembled car door and dove inside.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Bullets punched through Nomi's shoulder and back. Blood ran down her pale skin and dripped onto Li Aoz's face.

"Nomi—"

"Shut up!"

Nomi took several rifle rounds head-on. She let out a muffled groan and gritted her teeth. The bullets that followed all struck the car's frame. This assembled car, without even sheet metal plating, had no way to withstand military rifle fire and was shot straight through.

Fortunately, the enemy couldn't see where they were inside the vehicle and could only fire blindly. The occasional stray bullet was also blocked by Nomi's petite body.

Nomi was drenched in sweat, biting her lip. Li Aoz felt the hand holding him clench tightly into a fist, and he heard her low groan beside his ear.

How many times had she been shot? Li Aoz looked at the team member status panel—her Aoneng had activated and was rapidly recovering at twenty points per second.

"...Haaah!"

She exhaled a breath of foul air. More than a dozen bloodstained, elongated bullet heads popped out of her back and clattered onto the car floor.

Nomi panted violently for a while. Red-black traces surfaced in her purple eye, but soon faded, returning it to pale purple.

"Why did you block the bullets?" Li Aoz demanded. "That was obviously a 6.8-millimeter rifle. It could tear through even a level-three bulletproof vest. Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"Tch—I can't die, you pretty boy!"

Nomi struggled up off him. Curling herself up, she slowly moved beneath the car's chassis. Li Aoz vaguely heard her mutter, "Someone dies from two pistol rounds, while I take an entire magazine and I'm totally fine. Do I really need to answer something that obvious? Idiot."

She was talking about how he had shot himself in the arm earlier.

Li Aoz himself had already forgotten. Players used suicide tactics every day and weren't afraid of dying. Something like that really didn't amount to much.

But Nomi remembered it clearly.

"My start was too smooth. I barely suffered at all, and it almost made me forget... I'm no longer a player."

Li Aoz's gaze shifted. He steadied his emotions, and his eyes gradually turned cold.

He entered combat mode. His Charm was now twenty-one points, and with Eternal Love Hunter's thirty percent increased benefit effect, his actual Charm was equivalent to 27.3 points.

The growth of attribute specialties was like a snowball—it only grew larger as it rolled.

With such high Primary Attribute returns, he had already obtained the attacker's information.

Name: Law Enforcement Division Four Field Agent—Nimoting (Extremely Dangerous) Race: New Generation Homo Sapiens—Frostplate Citizen

Age: 31 Template: Advanced Veteran Combat-Type NPC (Damage Rate +15%, Maximum Health +10%)

Faction: Frostplate Republic—Constitutional Law Fourth Security Bureau Total Level: lv.30 (MAX)

—Main Class: Destruction—lv.20 [Assassin]—Secondary Class: lv.10 [Agent] Health: 390/390 Aura: 270/270 Attributes: Strength—??

Dexterity—??

Constitution—??

Charm—3 Willpower—5 Talent: ??? (The difference between your attributes is too great. Unable to display.)

Specialties: ???

Owned Skills: ???

Rank: Alpha Rank

"Holy shit!"

Li Aoz's blood pressure spiked, and he cursed aloud as well. "Night Hunter Nimoting—the final boss of the Assassin Main Quest!"

The average level of Law Enforcement Division Four's low-ranking agents was only fifteen, and their rank wasn't high either. Without Aoneng, Li Aoz could still slaughter those people with nothing but experience and skill.

But that did not mean every Law Enforcement Division Four Agent was so weak.

On the contrary, Frostplate was ruled by women, which meant that female superhumans were largely concentrated within the government. Vast numbers of highly educated, lavishly equipped female superhumans chose to join Law Enforcement Division Four's intelligence organization to gain greater power and status.

Night Hunter Nimoting was not merely an elite agent. She was also the final boss of the Assassin players' Main Quest.

What did that mean?

The Assassin class Main Quest was infamous for being long and tedious, involving forty assassination targets. By the time players finished it, Assassin players had already reached the maximum level of thirty. And at that point, they faced the version's final boss.

Nimoting might not have been a version boss, but she was more terrifying than many version bosses.

The gale howled fiercely, and several figures emerged across the snowy plain.

Clack!

Female agents in long boots and black coats calmly walked up to higher ground. At their head was a woman with dark golden hair, wearing an exquisite and efficient closed breathing mask. The prosthetic on her left hand slowly retracted its barrel, while a short dagger sprang from her right arm into her grasp.

They wore red-and-black armbands bearing a blooming white snowflake crystal pattern, symbolizing the Frostplate Republic's purity and flawlessness. At the center was a prominent IV—the Roman numeral four.

Their identities were obvious.

"Law Enforcement Division Four..." Nomi gritted her teeth in hatred. "Those butchers!"

Several heavily armed police officers jumped from their vehicles and swiftly surrounded the area.

"Come out, Rose Army thugs."

Nimoting's voice carried powerful Aura, her sound waves like the roar of tigers and dragons, enough to make hearts tremble in fear. "What are you traitors to the republican will and the female guardians still hiding for?"

"I know who you are, Li Aoz. No need to argue. Surrender quietly. Agent Ya Wen has already investigated every last one of your dealings with the Rose Army. We have witnesses and physical evidence. Don't even think about denying it."

As she spoke, her gaze casually swept over the young female agent beside her, who wore a breathing mask that concealed her expression.

—It had to be said, the young lady's education had actually come in handy.

After obtaining the recovered bank surveillance footage, Ya Wen immediately spent five days acting alone and captured the human smuggler.

Then, in less than two days, she also apprehended the driver who had helped with border smuggling, taking down the entire smuggling chain in one sweep. That achievement alone was enough to earn a generous reward.

The number of legal immigrants was limited, but illegal smuggling could damage the foundations of the nation. More importantly, it could alarm foreign capital. They would hesitate over whether to invest in Frostplate and establish factories, severely harming national interests.

They had to make an example of them! Since there were rather a lot of criminals involved, they conducted concentrated interrogations before finally identifying Li Aoz as the true culprit behind the bank arson case.

Most surprisingly, Ya Wen had not participated in torture at any point. Without resorting to violence or coercive interrogation, she had still uncovered clues about Li Aoz's dealings with the Rose Army.

Although Nimoting was displeased that the "vase" in her eyes had cracked such a major case, she had no grounds to object. There was no time to mobilize Law Enforcement Division Four's field forces, so she gathered the police units and began the search and pursuit.

Fortunately, the warm environment around this wastewater lake seemed to have drawn Li Aoz and his accomplice, who had fled into the Outland.

There was no need to think about it. The other person was definitely a Rose Army thug as well.

Now she could catch two of them in one go. Nimoting was in no hurry to kill them. Living people were always more useful than dead ones. If she could extract any intelligence from them, this trip to the border would yield enormous gains.

Nimoting had made her position clear. Whether it was her personal Aura Burst suppressing the entire field or the surrounding police units' firepower, they were turtles trapped in a jar, with nowhere to escape.

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