"Boom--"
A distant explosion interrupted Shen Heng's thoughts.
Shen Heng glanced sideways at the direction from which the explosion had come.
The thick fog obscured everything, making it impossible to see anything.
He frowned slightly.
There were no weapons of mass destruction in the Linhai, and the troops sent to provide support did not bring any either.
Tier 3 couldn't possibly cause that much of a commotion, but a Fourth Tier hazard...
The captain's abilities couldn't possibly produce such a sound, nor could the Sharp-Horned Rat's. In that case...
Something like a power plant explosion?
Shen Heng listened intently.
Ice cracking, a hissing sound... a teeth-grinding, subtle sound of icing...
Hearing the screams filled with hatred and pain, Shen Heng's eyes narrowed slightly.
He glanced sideways at the Linhai map standing beside him.
"Westward, about 15km away, there is..." Shen Heng's gaze quickly locked onto a location on the map.
The sign there reads, " Linhai Cold Chain Storage Center!"
What was the Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch doing there?... Shen Heng frowned slightly.
Suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply as fragmented information from his interrogation of the Sharp-Horned Rat flashed through his mind.
"Explosion... Destruction... Fog... Death..."
Somewhere in Linhai.
Wang Hai stood still, listening to the conversations between his squad members through his headset.
After a long while, he raised his eyes, his brows furrowed as he looked towards the cold chain center in the western suburbs.
"... Will a leak occur?"
Just then, a communication came in.
" Captain Wang, there's a situation I need to report to you." That was Fan Hong's voice.
"I know what you need to report, just listen to me," Wang Hai said in a deep voice.
"Did Shen Heng find out...?" Fan Hong paused slightly, then quickly realized what was happening and replied,
"Please speak!"
"There are two things that require your attention," Wang Hai said in a deep voice.
"The first thing to do is to immediately organize personnel to evacuate people outwards, starting from the cold chain center in the western suburbs."
"As for the other matter, from now on, the handling of this incident will be handed over to Shen Heng. You will primarily be in contact with Shen Heng from now on."
After speaking, Wang Hai hung up the call with Fan Hong.
He then contacted the military officials and relayed the same information to them.
Finally, he picked up the encrypted communicator again.
"Hello, this is the headquarters of the Supervision Bureau!"
" Wang Hai of the Linhai Supervision Bureau, the situation has taken a major turn, and we need further support from headquarters," Wang Hai said in a deep voice.
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the communicator, then it rang again.
This time, it wasn't the female voice that had answered the call earlier, but a deep male voice.
"This is Zhao Yonggang, what are you saying!"
Minister?... Wang Hai took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:
" Sharp-Horned Rat attacked a cold chain storage center in our city, which stores a large amount of liquid ammonia. We currently suspect it was planning to sabotage the facility and cause the liquid ammonia to leak."
"I have already made arrangements for the evacuation of personnel."
"However, a leak may require a large number of personnel to handle."
"Leakage?"
Zhao Yonggang repeated himself through the earpiece, and then said...
"Okay, I understand. How's the situation in Linhai now?"
Wang Hai paused for a moment upon hearing this, then said:
"Even without considering what happens next, based solely on the previous rat swarm, it's estimated that at least a thousand people will be injured or killed in this incident!"
Seemingly sensing the heaviness in Wang Hai's words, Zhao Yonggang said:
"Okay, I understand."
"This has nothing to do with you. When faced with such a sudden rat swarm, aside from a few S-Class ability users, no one can handle it perfectly."
"You just need to focus on handling things at the cold chain center!"
"Yes, I understand!" Wang Hai replied in a deep voice.
"Looking forward to your good news!" came the minister's last words through the earpiece.
The call ended, Wang Hai looked up towards the west.
Without pausing, he pushed off with his feet and dashed off in that direction.