Monsters Reappear

The five people fell to the ground, the whole process taking less than a minute.

Even after they had recovered slightly, they still couldn't believe it. They had undergone rigorous and professional training, and ordinary two or three strong men couldn't even get close to them.

Now, they were beaten to the ground in an alley by one person, and it was a complete and utter defeat, with no chance to fight back.

"Cough, cough!" Zhou Yaning coughed, having been kicked in the stomach.

Lu Chengchuan waited for a while, until they had recovered a little, and then he spoke again, "Can you talk now?"

"We are investigators from the Investigation Bureau, and we are here to look for clues about the monster." Under the circumstances, Zhou Yaning could only lower her head.

She didn't believe that none of them could last even one round against him. They were all beaten to the ground in one face-to-face encounter. No wonder he could kill monsters with his bare hands; his martial prowess was truly terrifying.

"Investigation Bureau? I don't know what Investigation Bureau is. Are you an official organization?"

"We belong to a top-secret national agency, and we basically don't appear in public, nor will there be any reports mentioning the Investigation Bureau," Zhou Yaning explained to him.

"What were you following me for?" Lu Chengchuan knew very well that they were here for the monster.

Zhou Yaning slowly raised her head. "Can we talk somewhere else? This isn't a good place to talk."

The alley was relatively secluded, and not many people usually came here. Talking here was very private, but since she had said so, Lu Chengchuan didn't refuse.

He knew that the authorities would find him sooner or later. The power of the state was terrifying. Unless he ran into the deep mountains and forests, or his strength was great enough, he wouldn't be able to escape no matter how he hid.

"Where to?"

"The teahouse across the street. Let's talk there." Zhou Yaning stood up, enduring the pain.

The other four also recovered and slowly stood up, but there was still some fear in their eyes.

The Investigation Team staggered out of the alley, Lu Chengchuan followed behind them, and followed their Captain Zhou Yaning into a teahouse that was neither too big nor too small.

They took a private room, and all six of them squeezed inside.

"Captain Zhou, can you tell me, what do you want from me?" After sitting down, Lu Chengchuan asked her again.

In response to his question, Zhou Yaning took out a laptop, opened a slightly blurry video, and placed the screen in front of him.

Chen Jingxing looked at the screen. The video was in a square, and a person wearing a mask was fighting a monster.

The person in it was him. These people really came for the monster. Lu Chengchuan watched the video without changing his expression, and then turned his gaze to Zhou Yaning.

"You probably didn't know that there are surveillance cameras everywhere on the road. We spent all night searching to find you."

Yesterday, they saw the surveillance footage of a mysterious person killing three monsters with his bare hands. They didn't quite believe it either. If there weren't corpses as proof, they would have thought it was fake surveillance footage created by the police.

After the police spent a night checking the surveillance, they finally found some clues and determined Lu Chengchuan's location.

She originally wanted to find him directly and ask, but in the middle of it, she wanted to know his true strength, so she took action to test him, and the result was that she was beaten to the ground in one move.

"That person is me, so what's the matter?" Lu Chengchuan nodded in admission.

The person in the surveillance video was him, but so what? He just killed a few monsters, didn't hurt anyone, and didn't do anything harmful to society.

On the contrary, he was helping society maintain stability, and the police should give him an award for bravery.

"We want to know, do you know where the monsters come from?"

Her question was inexplicable. Lu Chengchuan shook his head. "How would I know that? That day, I was just strolling down the street and heard some movement ahead, so I went over to take a look."

Before that, he didn't believe there were monsters in the world.

Zhou Yaning seemed to know what he would say. In response, she asked again, "Have you practiced martial arts?"

There were also many powerful people in the Investigation Bureau, and they could also take on ten people each. In a fight, they could knock down people like herself in two moves, but Lu Chengchuan was even more powerful than the people in the Investigation Bureau.

Even those masters couldn't defeat them so easily.

"Practiced a little." Lu Chengchuan replied casually.

Upon hearing this, the people around him muttered to themselves. If he was so powerful after practicing a little, wouldn't he be able to catch bullets with his bare hands and kill people from a distance if he practiced a little more?

"What do you think is going on with those monsters?"

"What do you mean?" Lu Chengchuan asked her.

"We checked the surveillance. No matter which camera it was, it was interfered with when the monsters appeared. The screen went black for a few seconds, and then the monsters appeared and attacked passersby before the surveillance returned to normal."

"I want to hear what you have to say. Do you think the monsters are man-made, or is there another reason?"

Monsters appeared suddenly, and not just in one city. Other cities also had monster killings. The Investigation Bureau mobilized on a large scale and went to all the cities where monsters appeared to investigate.

Other cities had the police solve the monsters, but Anyang City had a powerful martial artist.

"I don't know. Haven't you seen this kind of thing before?"

Even the mysterious national agency didn't know, how would he, a person who had been sick for several years, know these things.

"In the past, there were always various mysterious events reported. We went to investigate, and they were all fake. What ghost villages, zombies, vengeful spirits, were either man-made or purely fake. They weren't real events at all."

Before seeing the monster corpses and surveillance footage, Zhou Yaning didn't believe it either.

"If even you don't know, I'm even less likely to know these things."

Lu Chengchuan had a vague answer in his heart: the System and the monsters... what was the connection between the two? He had a guess, but he couldn't say it. It concerned his own secrets, and he could only hide it in his heart.

"There are monsters! The monsters are here again!"

As they were drinking tea, shouts from passersby came from outside the teahouse, and pedestrians on the street suddenly ran frantically to the other side.

Hearing that there were monsters outside, Zhou Yaning and the others immediately got up and ran out, Lu Chengchuan also running out with them.

They ran back to the car, grabbed their weapons, and prepared to go see what kind of monster it was. Zhou Yaning grabbed her pistol and walked to Lu Chengchuan's side: "I'll have to trouble you to come with us and take a look."

She wanted to bring Lu Chengchuan along; with such an expert present, they would be more confident in dealing with the monster.

Lu Chengchuan was naturally happy to oblige. Monsters represented lifespan; it would be best if he could kill a few of them and accumulate a few more days of life.

The six of them went against the flow of the crowd, running about a hundred meters or so before Lu Chengchuan was the first to see the monster.

Crawling monsters were slaughtering pedestrians, they looked somewhat like humans, except they had no skin, their crimson flesh exposed, and they had sharp teeth and claws.

This was the first time the five members of the Investigation Team had seen a living monster, and they were so shocked that they couldn't speak.

Several pedestrians on the street were knocked down by the monsters, and more people were running in all directions.

The crowd was in chaos, and the people from the Investigation Bureau regained their senses but didn't dare to shoot rashly. They were confident in their marksmanship, but they couldn't guarantee that someone wouldn't run into the line of fire.

Everyone was anxious, wanting to draw their knives and swords and rush forward.