Cityfire Squad

Lu Xiao was not surprised to hear that the Doctor had conditions.

Even someone like Mr. Prison Doctor stayed obediently inside this containment facility. Lu Xiao found the place increasingly unfathomable.

Besides, he had never intended to come into direct conflict with humanity.

After all, before falling into the Dark Prison, he had been a five-star model citizen himself.

"Doctor! Tell me your conditions!"

The Doctor adjusted his monocle and said to Lu Xiao,

"I need a large quantity of your flesh and blood!"

Lu Xiao paused at the Doctor's words.

The Doctor thought he had asked too much and was just about to revise his request.

Instead, Lu Xiao asked,

"Doctor! How much do you mean by a large quantity?"

He held out his hands and measured against his body.

The corners of the Doctor's mouth twitched.

"Not that much. About this much!"

The Doctor also held out his hands, forming the shape of a bowl.

"Mostly blood!"

The Doctor had already confirmed that, compared with his flesh, Lu Xiao's blood did the most damage to anomalies.

With the blood smeared on a bullet, even an ordinary person like the Doctor could instantly kill S077-Butler with a single shot.

Of course, that was because the Doctor had pressed the gun against the Butler's forehead.

An ordinary anomalous creature would not stand there and let you shoot it.

Some anomalies were even faster than guns.

"You want my blood?"

Lu Xiao rubbed his chin.

"Will five liters be enough? I won't have enough left if you take any more!"

The Doctor shook his head again.

"No matter how much blood you give me, it'll eventually run out!"

"I intend to extract some of your hematopoietic stem cells!"

The Doctor's plan was to culture Lu Xiao's hematopoietic stem cells to produce blood artificially.

Although the effect might be greatly diminished, it would be sufficient.

Lu Xiao was very familiar with the term hematopoietic stem cells, but he did not know how to extract them.

He patted his chest.

"Go ahead, sir! Take all you need!"

By the time Lu Xiao came out of the operating room, his face was somewhat pale.

The Doctor was a man of few words and ruthless action. He had extracted well over half of them from Lu Xiao.

Fortunately, Lu Xiao's recovery ability was extremely strong, so it had not caused him any substantial harm, only temporary weakness.

The Doctor patted Lu Xiao on the shoulder.

"I'll notify you when there's a mission that needs you!"

At those words, Lu Xiao began looking forward to it.

At the same time, on a small hill near the Magic City urban district.

A luxurious manor stood there.

At that moment, countless burly men in black suits stood in the garden.

They all wore black sunglasses.

A microphone extended from the end of each pair's temple arm.

"Brothers! We've received word that someone will come to rob the manor tonight!"

"All units, prepare for combat!"

The voice came through the sunglasses they wore.

A bulge at each man's waist suggested that they were carrying firearms.

In a room deep inside the manor.

A middle-aged man wearing a gold necklace as thick as a thumb stood facing a mirror with an antique pattern.

He cradled his belly in both hands, his expensive custom-made white shirt already soaked with sweat.

"Magic mirror, magic mirror! I want to ask how many people are coming tonight!"

A human face appeared on the mirror's surface.

He glanced at the middle-aged man with some distaste.

"What will you give in exchange for the answer?"

"Don't try to fob me off with that filthy flesh and blood from before!"

"I need pure flesh and blood! Pure! Do you understand?"

If anyone else had seen a talking mirror, they might have suffered a heart attack from fright on the spot.

But the middle-aged man seemed accustomed to it.

He clapped his hands.

The door was pushed open, and two bodyguards in black suits came in, dragging a teenage girl between them.

The girl wore a blue-and-white striped school uniform, and her face was rather pale.

She had clearly suffered a terrible fright.

The middle-aged man waved a hand, and the bodyguards immediately turned and left.

The girl's hands and feet were bound, and her mouth was gagged.

The middle-aged man grabbed the girl by the hair and dragged her in front of the mirror.

"Magic mirror, magic mirror! Are you satisfied with this offering?"

He looked at the mirror with a broad smile.

The face in the mirror twitched its nose.

"Hmm? Not bad! Pure flesh and blood!"

As it spoke, its mouth split all the way to its ears, revealing a huge, bloody maw.

The girl's eyes filled with terror at the horrifying sight.

She struggled desperately, but she was bound too tightly.

The middle-aged man turned around and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

It was not because he was afraid. The exertion just now had been a little too much, leaving him drenched in sweat.

A spine-chilling sound came from behind him.

It sounded like a rodent grinding its teeth.

About five minutes later, a voice came from behind him again.

"Seven people! Tell your bodyguards to watch the sewers!"

Hearing the magic mirror's answer, the middle-aged man nodded, then took out a communicator.

"Seven people. They may come through the sewers, so stay alert!"

"Once we get through tonight, I'll give you boys a bonus tomorrow!"

"Thanks for your hard work, everyone!"

His words rang in the ears of every bodyguard throughout the manor.

At his words, quite a few of them immediately began breathing harder.

"Boss Liu really is a good man!"

One bodyguard spoke quietly.

"Yeah! Sixty thousand a day. I bet even the head of state's bodyguards don't get treatment like this!"

"Just one more week, and I'll have saved enough to buy a home in Magic City!"

"What kind of business does Boss Liu actually run? Why does someone come to rob him every few days?"

"Just do your job. Don't ask questions you shouldn't!"

Some of the bodyguards chatted quietly.

They were not particularly concerned about someone coming to rob the place.

It happened every few days.

Each time, they drove the robbers back.

And the man they called Boss Liu was the richest person in all of Magic City.

Boss Liu had a hand in ninety percent of Magic City's businesses.

After every attack, Boss Liu gave them bonuses.

Anywhere from fifty thousand to a hundred thousand.

There were at least a hundred bodyguards like them throughout the manor.

Meanwhile.

Inside the manor's sewers.

A squad of six in special operations gear was crawling through the cramped sewer.

"Captain! Will this really work?"

"The target containment subject has the trait of omniscience!"

"It'll definitely know we're coming through the sewers!"

The captain answered in a low voice.

"Where could you go that it wouldn't know about? In the sewers, we're less exposed and it's easier to defend!"

"If they toss in a grenade, tsk, tsk, tsk! We could all meet my great-grandma!"

"Slick! Can you read the damn room?"

"It's fine! We've already investigated. They only have handguns! They can't get their hands on powerful heavy weapons."

This was the Cityfire Squad that had carried out Lu Xiao's containment.

In a concealed spot outside the manor, Xiao Yu held a tablet in her hands.

The screen showed a view of the entire manor.

Her fingers swiped rapidly across the tablet for a while before she spoke into the communicator.

"Captain! Every sewer exit is guarded!"