Chen Shouyi saw the anxious look on Bai Xiaoling's face and knew something had happened.
"Mom, Dad! I'm back."
"Officer Bai has been waiting for you for ages!" Mother Chen said.
Bai Xiaoling hurriedly said, "No, I only got here a little while ago."
"Is it urgent?" Chen Shouyi asked.
"Not urgent, not urgent!"
"Mm, then I'll go change first," Chen Shouyi said.
He hurried upstairs, tugged off the clothes and pants that had been battered to shreds by iron rods, and threw them in the trash. Then he rushed through a shower, picked out a set of clothes at random, changed, put on a mask, and walked out of the bedroom.
The two of them went outside.
"What's going on?"
"There's a tricky mission!" Bai Xiaoling replied in a low voice as she walked briskly. "I'll tell you on the way. I'll ride with you; it's a bit far!"
By "ride," she naturally meant a bicycle.
Chen Shouyi had no objections. He put his bow case on the handlebars and wheeled his bicycle out of the garage.
Once Bai Xiaoling climbed on, she naturally wrapped her arms around Chen Shouyi's waist. She had learned her lesson last time, so she began explaining:
"This mission is extremely dangerous. It's happening at Jiangnan Martial Arts Academy. The first deaths were five days ago: four students from the same dormitory were silently gnawed to pieces, leaving behind nothing but a pile of bones.
"The death toll has reached twenty-six so far. Twenty-two students have died, along with two Martial Arts Teachers and two military warriors. One of them was even a Great Martial Artist!"
Chen Shouyi furrowed his brow at that.
Hedong City's security was always handled by the military, and the warriors in the safe zone were still undergoing closed military