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The reporters had originally come just to try their luck, but they were stunned when they saw the nine-tailed fox with their own eyes.

They truthfully relayed what they had filmed, but they were still quite skeptical. For reporters, skepticism was in their nature.

"Professor Rabbin, could it be a fake? The tails could have been fabricated."

Rabbin, looking like a scholar, said, "Are your eyes made of plastic? I've spent thirty years tracing myths from various countries, and I can't tell the difference between real and fake?"

"Legend says a fox gains a tail every hundred years. I always thought it was just a legend, but when I saw this nine-tailed fox, I felt my life was filled with meaning. My persistence wasn't wrong! Mythical creatures do exist!"

"Preliminary judgment suggests it can cause people to lose consciousness. The police officers who approached it all lost their ability to attack. Could an ordinary fox do something like this?"

Rabbin was extremely fervent, but the reporters scoffed. In their opinion, with advanced technology, the world was full of wonders, and there were countless ways to make someone lose consciousness.

Not only that, but the later supporting police officers thought the same. They were unwilling to believe this was a supernatural event.

Rabbin kept pulling at an officer, saying, "Send more people! It's best to send the army too!"

The officer was unwilling to heed Rabbin. While you are a respected scholar, you don't have the authority to order the police around.

The reporters had already sent back the photos of the nine-tailed fox and the footage of over a dozen police officers collapsing. The news spread rapidly. Professor Rabbin from National University soon found out, and he insisted on coming along. He was a professor of archaeology at National University, and instead of studying history properly, he spent his days pondering the fusion of myths and legends with history, belonging to a school of thought rejected by the mainstream.

Although the events of today were indeed astonishing, based on the information the police gathered from two colleagues, the killer was a nine-tailed fox, but the cause of death was strange. The police officers charged forward and seemed to lose their will to attack, collapsing foolishly.

The newly arrived police officers sneered, completely disbelieving that a fox could kill people.

"It's true! We saw it with our own eyes! And the reporters took pictures too!" Two officers tried to explain to their superior, but the officer completely ignored them.

"This should be a case where the perpetrator disguised themselves as a monster to kill. After all, this is a native area, and the locals are heathens and can be superstitious... But you are police officers! Devout believers of the True God, how can you believe in an external myth like a nine-tailed fox? Someone found a fox, attached a few tails, and used some unknown method to secretly attack our officers, faking a monster killing to help the real culprit escape..."

"Immediately change into riot gear and storm the mountain. There must be a human hiding up there; the fox is just a cover."

The officer, following his habitual way of thinking, categorized the case. Soon, another dozen police officers, fully covered, began to charge up the mountain.

They believed that what caused the police officers to lose consciousness was some kind of projectile coated with a special drug.

Lan Mu hid at the mountaintop, completely unconcerned about these police officers. He only needed to wait for the time to pass, transform back into the Hunter, and leave easily.

"It's starting again?"

Lan Mu sneered, using himself as the source of charm, luring the police officers into crawling towards him in a daze.

The commanding officer at the foot of the mountain saw his subordinates charge onto the large rock and immediately waved his hand, shouting, "Well done!"

"As expected, the culprit is out of options, with nowhere left to run, and can only surrender!"

However, two junior officers who had witnessed the same situation shouted, "No! That's not right! Why aren't they shooting!"

As expected, the police officers reached the stone platform and made no move. The officer waited for a few minutes, but there was no sound from above.

"What's going on? What are you doing up there? Bring the culprit down! What's the situation up there now?"

The command post repeatedly called the police on the mountaintop, but the communication line was dead silent, with no response.

"Damn it, what happened? You guys go up there too!"

The officer sent another team, leaving himself alone at the foot of the mountain.

But when this group of police officers also charged onto the mountaintop rock, there was again no movement. Several police officers could be seen standing at the edge of the large rock, not moving, just standing there foolishly.

"Received, reply quickly! Reply to me!"

"What's the situation up there?"

Two consecutive waves, a total of twenty-four police officers, fully armed and protected, charged onto a small stone platform, and yet there was no activity.

An invisible fear spread. The reporters also felt that this matter was too bizarre.

"What kind of drug could penetrate riot gear and hallucinate people?"

At this moment, Rabbin shouted, "I told you it was a monster! They've all been bewitched by sorcery!"

"Sorcery? Nonsense!"

The officer stubbornly retorted, "Impossible. You're a professor too; aren't you afraid of being ridiculed for saying such things? There must have been an accident up there."

He was seen frantically requesting more support from the city, then stood bewildered at the foot of the mountain.

He didn't dare to go up, and the reporters didn't dare to go up either. Night soon fell, and the dark mountaintop looked like a giant maw, swallowing everyone who went up.

The scene remained in a stalemate for a long time, with an eerie calm.

Those at the foot of the mountain dared not go up, while those on the mountain were tidying their fur.

"Four more hours."

Lan Mu sat calmly on a rock, tidying his fur. Around him stood a circle of police officers.

Some were constantly stroking their guns as if they were their dearest lovers.

Some were hugging rocks, their eyes filled with greed, as if they were holding large gold bars.

Others hugged each other, the scene extremely harmonious.

Lan Mu, the cause of all this, yawned, mentally calculating the time until his forced transformation period ended.

He had already figured out the survival method of the nine-tailed fox. Anyone present could easily kill him if they drew their guns.

But not a single person could do it, because in the face of the nine-tailed fox's innate abilities, no one could draw a gun on him!

Lan Mu didn't kill the police officers immediately. For one thing, they were wearing riot gear, which prevented Lan Mu from directly absorbing their energy.

On the other hand, he was deliberately stalling. Since they were charmed, they posed no threat.

Time ticked by, and with two hours left until his transformation ended.

Lan Mu noticed a large number of police officers arriving at the foot of the mountain, and helicopters flying in from afar.

"Helicopters! Damn it..."

"With helicopters, staying on the mountaintop is suicide."

Lan Mu wasn't stupid. He quickly ran down the mountain. The police surrounding the base of the mountain immediately opened fire, forcing Lan Mu to retreat behind the stone platform again.

"Tch..."

With a thought, Lan Mu transferred the police officers he had charmed on the mountain onto himself, making them surround him in a circle as he retreated down the mountain.

The police at the foot of the mountain were dumbfounded. What the hell? You went up there and didn't arrest the culprit, and now you're escorting the culprit down the mountain?

"You bastards! What are you doing?" the police chief roared, but his shouts couldn't break the charm.

Lan Mu swaggered down the mountain with a group of police officers, disappearing into the jungle and leaving behind a bewildered police force.

"Chase him! Hurry up and chase him! Why aren't you shooting?"

Rabbin watched the Nine-tailed Fox escape and shouted anxiously.

"Are you an idiot! Didn't you see my men surrounding it? Do you want me to kill my own people?"

The police chief roared, then continued to command, "You, chase that fox. Lethal force is authorized."

"And send some people up the mountain to rescue the hostages..."

"Everyone, keep an eye out for the culprit. So far, we've only seen the fox; the real culprit hasn't appeared."

Rabbin became even more furious upon hearing this. "You're truly foolish! How dare you order the killing of a Nine-tailed Fox? Do you know how precious this fox is? Even its corpse would overturn modern biology and even break the theory of evolution. If it's alive, it's even more valuable than a corpse. Perhaps we can breed new Nine-tailed Foxes!"

The police chief impatiently pushed Rabbin aside and insisted on his orders.

The police officers split into two groups. One group went up the mountain and found their colleagues from the afternoon, discovering they were all withered and dead. The other group ventured deep into the jungle, pursuing the escaped fox.

The police chief received the report: "They died this afternoon. Their deaths were very strange – drained of blood without any wounds, their cells and internal organs failing.

"Who can tell me how this was done? Cell failure leading to death?"

No one could answer the police chief. At this moment, the police officers who had helped the fox escape earlier also regained consciousness and were looking at their colleagues blankly.

"What are you all doing? Where's the culprit?" the police chief angrily questioned the group of police officers.

However, the police officers exchanged glances and babbled about seeing their lovers, treasures, or even God... Heaven knows what God looks like.

After asking for a long time, not a single police officer could provide any useful information; they were all lost in their dreams.

"They seem to have been hypnotized..." one police officer said to the chief.

The police chief naturally saw it too and was immediately filled with a headache. He said in disbelief, "Of course, I know they were hypnotized... You all smelled that strange fragrance earlier, right? Collect it and analyze its components. It should be a new type of hallucinogen. Damn it! Where's the suspect? We never saw the suspect from the beginning. Where is he hiding? Don't tell me he can turn invisible!"

The police truly couldn't find the so-called person. They searched the entire mountain top to bottom but found no suspicious individuals, because before the police arrived, there was no one else besides Lan Mu.

Except for Rabbin, no one fully believed that such a major case was committed by a fox. There must be someone behind the scenes orchestrating everything. As for the fox transforming into a human to commit the crime, it was simply absurd.

"Keep searching! He must have come down with them earlier and hidden in the jungle."

With over a dozen police officers dead and the police not even seeing the enemy's shadow, the media witnessed it all, causing immense embarrassment.

Enraged, the police frantically searched the jungle for the so-called suspect.

Helicopters used searchlights to scan at low altitude, their powerful downdraft stirring up chaos in the jungle.

More than sixty police officers conducted a carpet search. This night, countless lights flickered in the ancient jungle.