Behind the carousel.
"Everyone, walk quietly, don't alert the enemy."
In an abandoned amusement park, a group of Law Enforcement officers, under the command of a Level Seven executive, quietly surrounded the carousel.
Number Three next to him was incredulous.
The fact that an executive officer was parachuted into the operation to make the arrest is unprecedented.
Led by an executive officer and a judge, the arrest team was exceptionally impressive.
Number Three's palms were sweaty.
The amusement park has been abandoned for a long time.
The carousel's surface was covered with mottled rust, and waist-high weeds grew around it.
Soon, more than 30 Law Enforcement officers surrounded the carousel and began shouting warnings.
"You are now surrounded."
"Surrender immediately, bring the hostages out, and we will guarantee your safety."
You have three minutes to consider.
"If you remain obstinate after three minutes, we will take coercive measures."
Silence Soundlessness.
Only the occasional evening breeze.
After a while, the judge at the front turned around and glanced at the executioner.
The executive nodded.
The judge waved his hand and shouted, "Action!"
Upon receiving the order, the vanguard immediately prepared for a full-scale assault.
Meow~
A large tabby cat, startled, jumped out of the overgrown carousel.
The little guy was exceptionally agile.
He leaped up and landed on the chest of a Law Enforcement officer, using it as a springboard to break through the encirclement and disappear into the darkness.
Everyone looked at each other, somewhat bewildered.
Why mobilize so many people in the middle of the night just to catch a cat?
The executive officer stared at the tiny screen, where a red dot was moving rapidly, his face turning ashen.
He gently clenched his right hand, and the screen turned to dust.
"Fall back."
Number Three breathed a sigh of relief; the anxiety that had been hanging in the air finally subsided.
Inside another safe house.
Qin Ze received a text message from Number Three informing him that the Law Enforcement team had finished their duties.
Even the executive officer was involved in the arrest?
Things were indeed not that simple.
Qin Ze walked to the bedroom door, where Nangong Qianrou was sleeping soundly like a baby on the bed.
He was quite envious of those who were carefree and could fall asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.
"How novel! That's like you falling asleep the moment your head hits the pillow."
If you sleep less than nine hours a day, you're considered to have insomnia.
Are you a pig? Or did you never sleep in your past life?
"So-called geniuses are just people who use the time others spend drinking coffee to sleep."
"..."
Qin Ze ignored the ridicule from his clones on the Local Area Network.
He briefly recounted what had happened that night, and roughly got a sense of the sequence of events.
Unsurprisingly, none of the Law Enforcement officers involved in tonight's operation knew who they were arresting.
The only person who probably knew the truth was the executive officer who was present.
The chip embedded under the skin on Nangong Qianrou's back was clearly a technological creation.
Qin Ze's first reaction was that Nangong Qianrou had been involved in the humanoid combat weapon project.
Thinking of the Valkyrie on the battlefield in Otherworld, Qin Ze looked at his senior and fell into deep thought.
At this moment, has the gears of Nangong Qianrou's fate begun to turn again?
"A bad news, or a so-so news, which do you want to hear first?"
Thousand Faces voices echoed across the Local Area Network.
To be fair, the Son of the Version is very efficient.
Less than three hours had passed, and Thousand Faces was already showing promise.
Qin Ze said calmly, "Spit it out."
Thousand Faces: "So, you're just using me and then discarding me? Is this how you treat the Son of the Version? Let me tell you, Qin Ze, you'd better treat me better. From the beast tide on Thousand Streams Island until now, when haven't I been the one to turn the tide?"
"Although I've never shown my face on the front lines, I've still been a hardworking underground worker. Without my contribution, you'd all be out of commission."
"I've never asked anything of you, yet this is your attitude? I'm only disappointed in you..."
After rambling on for Thousand Faces, we've finally gotten back to the main topic.
"The bad news is that the operation was kept highly secret."
"Many Law Enforcement Department Law Enforcement weren't even aware that an arrest operation had taken place."
"Two-thirds of the Law Enforcement officers take turns going out of the city every day to guard that non-existent spatial rift."
Upon hearing this Qin Ze exclaimed, "Wow!"
He truly hadn't expected such a high level of secrecy.
It seems that Number Three now holds a high position within the Sea Capital Law Enforcement Department, or rather, enjoys the deep trust of a certain bigwig.
He wasn't even a judge, yet he knew some of the inside information.
Qin Ze: "Go on."
Thousand Faces: "Damn it! Can't you be nicer to me?"
I'm not saying anything more.
"Unless you politely say, 'Your Highness, please continue.'"
Qin Ze: "..."
There was a full five minutes of silence on the Local Area Network before Thousand Faces finally couldn't hold back any longer.
"Never mind, never mind."
"The ruler of this Son of the Version is magnanimous and will forgive you this time."
"I secretly sneaked into the offices of several judges, including those involved in the arrest operation."
"Their mission briefings were no different from those of ordinary Law Enforcement officers; they all said it was about arresting terrorists."
Just when I thought I had gained nothing and was about to leave, oh my god, guess what I saw?
Qin Ze smirked. "You saw a tunnel?"
Thousand Faces: "I saw an angry enforcement officer and a team of Law Enforcement officers who looked like wilted eggplants. Their pathetic appearance was hilarious, hahaha!"
Clearly, they were the same group of people from the amusement park not long ago.
"I dressed up as a cleaning lady and swept the floor in front of the executive officer's office."
"However, the soundproofing is too good; I could vaguely hear him angrily making a phone call, but I couldn't make out the exact content."
" The Son of the Version had a sudden inspiration, pushed the door open and entered, pretending not to know there was someone inside."
Qin Ze: "You're incredibly lucky the executive officer didn't slap you to death."
Thousand Faces Yangyang, "An executive officer dares to kill someone casually in the Law Enforcement Department? He's got some nerve!"
"This was all part of my calculations. I anticipated that he wouldn't dare do anything to me, which is why I decisively took this step..."
Qin Ze impatiently interrupted Thousand Faces as he listened to him constantly patting himself on the back.
"Let's get down to business."
Thousand Faces: "The important thing is that I heard two sentences in total, one when I first went in and the other when I came out."
"One of the things the executive said was, 'Your locators are all set on cats. How can we accomplish anything big with a bunch of unreliable bastards like you?'"
"The other sentence came from the phone; although it wasn't loud, my keen senses still caught it."
"The message reads: 'Please don't be angry, Your Excellency. This concerns the future of Human Race. You've worked so hard.'"
Qin Ze frowned.
What kind of grand plan is this for the Human Race?
Whenever he was associated with those four words, he never encountered a single good thing.
Why do Human Race always have to resort to such self-destructive tactics? Can't they just play it safe and focus on developing their strength?