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There is no other way but to shake people.
Although he might be accused of being incompetent and a good-for-nothing by the General Office, it is better than destroying the entire city next time.
"It's no longer safe here."
The cold woman keenly realized the seriousness of the situation and said to Jiang Lu:
"I suggest you leave the city for a few days. Something big might happen here soon."
"Are you saying that the thing just now will appear again?" Jiang Lu asked.
"I don't think so."
The cold woman was certain that someone was undergoing a tribulation, and concluded that the disappearance of the tribulation just now must mean that the tribulation was successfully overcome. Since it was successful, the tribulation would naturally not appear again.
"Although there won't be any more calamities, this place will soon become a focus of attention for all parties. It will be very chaotic for some time to come. Maybe... Never mind. You'd better take care of yourself."
She seemed to know something, but didn't tell Jiang Luming.
"Is that so?" Jiang Lu nodded without thinking too much: "What about you?"
"I'm also going to take my junior sister away. The complexity of this place is far beyond my imagination."
After saying that, she picked up her junior sister and said, "Well, see you later. Thank you again for saving my junior sister."
"Oh, okay." Jiang Lu waved at the cold woman.
As soon as she took a step forward, the cold woman showed hesitation again. After a brief thought, she said to Jiang Lu: "My name is Lu Qing."
"My name is Jiang Bao."
The two said goodbye.
It was not until this moment that Jiang Lu remembered the sickle and the performer.
But after looking around, he didn't see the two people.
"I clearly remember that he was right next to me just now... Weird."
Jiang Lu had no choice but to struggle to get up from the ground, dragging his injured right foot and limping towards the half-collapsed hotel.
He had a vague feeling that the heavenly calamity just now might have been caused by Jin Yao.
When he arrived at the room where Jin Yao was building her foundation with difficulty, he found that the sickle and the performer had been waiting outside the door for a long time.
Next to them stood a few people wearing law enforcement uniforms, and the two sides seemed to be arguing about something.
Seeing this, Jiang Lu reluctantly quickened his pace and came up to the few people.
"What's wrong? What's wrong with this?"
Seeing Jiang Lu finally arrived, the sickle quickly explained: "We saw that Jin Yao had not come out yet, so we came in to check as soon as the heavenly tribulation ended. As a result, we ran into them, and they insisted that we had something to do with this heavenly tribulation."
The leading law enforcement officer also had something to say: "Hey, don't just pick out things that are beneficial to you. It was obviously you who were sneaking around and ran away when you saw us, so we followed you, okay?
Let's talk about the people inside. We have been standing here for so long, shouldn't we have come out long ago? But why are they still not coming out? If there is no one here, it's fine. But if there is someone here, then isn't that a guilty conscience?"
Hearing this, Jiang Lu also asked: "Why are you running?"
The performer defended himself: "We didn't want to run. We were targeted as soon as we came in. They rushed directly into our faces and shouted at us not to move. How could a normal person resist running?"
"That makes sense." Jiang Lu nodded slightly: "It's really hard not to run away like this."
"If it's not you, then what are you doing?"
It was not until then that the law enforcement officer remembered to ask Jiang Lu what unit he belonged to.
"I'm their friend." Jiang Lu put his arm around Scythe's shoulders: "Isn't it obvious?"
"Oh, an accomplice, huh?" The law enforcement officer sneered, "Then don't leave. Explain everything clearly. We have already contacted the higher-ups, and reinforcements will arrive soon. I advise you not to play any tricks."
Jiang Lu was stunned: "No need, buddy, this is just a misunderstanding, and if we really have the ability to make that thing, do we need to explain it to you calmly?"
"Why, are you threatening me?"
"Why am I threatening you again?" Jiang Lu was speechless. "Can't you use your brain to think about it? How could a few of us good citizens possibly do something like that? If we had that kind of ability, why would we be good citizens?"
But the law enforcement officer didn't care whether Jiang Lu's words made sense or not. He just didn't forget his original intention: "It's not up to me to decide whether it has anything to do with you or not. It's up to the person who is interrogating you. And our job is to send you to the interrogator."
"You don't listen to me, do you?" Jiang Lu finally lost his temper. He rolled up his sleeves, pointed at the other person's nose and shouted, "Call your leader!"
The law enforcement officer was stunned: "Didn't I mean that you should wait for my leader to come?"
"It's different!" Jiang Lu corrected, "It's not that I committed a crime and am waiting for your leaders to deal with it, but that I am dissatisfied with your law enforcement work, so I want to see your leaders. The former is that your leaders will deal with me, and the latter is that I want your leaders to deal with you. It's completely different. Do you understand?"
"Whatever, they'll be here soon anyway." The law enforcement officer shrugged and said, "Go ahead and act crazy. I'll see how crazy you can be when we get to the police station."
Seeing this, and thinking that they were about to set off for Kunlun Mountain, the sickle, who didn't want to cause any trouble at this critical moment, advised Jiang Lu: "Let's not be too tough."
"Don't worry about it!" Jiang Lu waved his hand and said, "For this attitude towards work, I have to teach him a lesson!"
Just then, the leader of the law enforcement officers finally arrived.
"Who? Who is the suspect in this disaster?"
The law enforcement officer looked back and pointed at Jiang Lu and the others and said, "Captain Zhang, that's them."
Jiang Lu looked at the leader and was immediately happy.
Isn’t this Zhang Hui, the contact person during my undercover period?
"Yo!" Jiang Lu greeted.
"What are you talking about? You have no respect for your elders. Call me Sir Zhang!" The law enforcement officer raised his hand and pretended to slap Jiang Lu in the face.
Who knew that he was just pretending to do it, but someone actually did it.
Zhang Hui slapped him on the back of the head: "I think you are disrespectful!"
"Captain Zhang, you..." The law enforcement officer covered the back of his head with his hands, his eyes full of disbelief and a little grievance.
"You don't know who he is?" Zhang Hui's eyes widened: "Didn't you come to work today?!"
The law enforcement officer swallowed his saliva, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, and replied honestly: "I...I am on leave today, and I was urgently notified to return to my post."
At the same time, Jiang Lu smiled crookedly and gently unzipped the chest of his jacket, revealing the green sportswear underneath.
"I wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but I didn't expect to be bullied. For a law enforcement officer like you who can't hear the voices of ordinary people and acts only based on subjective assumptions, I decided not to pretend anymore. I'm going to show my cards!"
Wow!
Jiang Lu threw the jacket into the air, revealing a sports suit covered with large white letters.
In this situation, all that’s missing is someone next to him loudly introducing: He is actually the youngest top chef in history - Chef Boy!
"Did you see that?" Zhang Hui kicked the law enforcement officer angrily. "He's a hero! You can even treat heroes as suspects. I can't help but wonder how many unjust, false and wrong cases you have handled over the years."
Seeing the words on the clothes, the law enforcement officer finally knew that Jiang Lu was the guy who had been rumored to have risen to fame overnight. He suddenly felt extremely panicked: "I... I don't know..."
"Does this have anything to do with you? I'm telling you about your random arrests!" Zhang Hui was furious after hearing this: "If he wasn't a hero of our Nanjiang Branch, would he deserve to be arrested by you for having this identity? You're discrediting the Law Enforcement Bureau!"
"I really didn't... I was just a little anxious."
"I understand, Brother Zhang. He just wants to make progress so badly that he won't let go of any opportunity to make merit. If he captures two people and tortures them into confessing, wouldn't that be meritorious service?" Jiang Lu was still adding fuel to the fire.
"I didn't, I really didn't!" The law enforcement officer was anxious.
"He did. He just said that we'll see how arrogant we are in the police station." Jiang Lu pointed at him and accused him tearfully, "Oh, isn't he planning to do evil in the police station?"
After saying that, Jiang Lu also asked the agents who were following the law enforcement officer, who were so scared that they couldn't speak, whether what he said was true.
Facing Zhang Hui's stern gaze, the others could only nod and said, "That's exactly what the captain said just now."
"look!"
Zhang Hui felt so embarrassed that he even brought shame to his grandmother's house.
He didn't even dare to think about whether this matter would be used to make trouble if it was known by those people in the bureau who were not on good terms with him.
"Come back with me!" Zhang Hui grabbed the law enforcement officer by the collar and pushed him aside, then said to Jiang Lu: "I will give you an explanation about this matter..."
"It's just a misunderstanding. We're one family." Jiang Lushang patted Zhang Hui's shoulder and said, "You've been very kind to me. I can't cheat anyone but you. Don't worry."
Zhang Hui nodded gratefully, and without asking any further questions, he left with those people.
The performers couldn't help but marvel at the attitude of someone who seemed to be a high-ranking official in the law enforcement bureau towards Jiang Lu.
"I knew you had power, but I didn't expect you to be so powerful," he exclaimed.
"Of course not." Jiang Lu smiled and said, "You should have understood from the moment I confronted him that I never play against the wind."
But Scythe did not relax and his expression remained solemn.
"Now is not the time to talk about this. We have been making a fuss here for so long, but there is still no response from inside. Could something have happened?"
Hearing this, Jiang Lu also became serious.
Although he felt that the heavenly tribulation just now was most likely related to Jin Yao, he did not rule out the possibility that it had nothing to do with them, and that they did not run away because they were in trouble.
Thinking of this, Jiang Lu, nervous, kicked the door.
But the door was not broken open forcefully. The next moment, Jiang Lu was lying on the ground, holding his right leg that had kicked the door, twisting in pain, like a big maggot.
"Oh fuck! It looks like it's broken!"
Looking at Jiang Lu's ankle, which seemed to have become more deformed, the sickle and the performer sighed softly at the same time.
The two looked at each other and pushed the door open together.
When the door of the room was opened, the two were stunned.
I saw that the totem covered with reliefs of ferocious beasts in the outside world was now located in the center of the foundation-building formation, and the Four Symbols Gods were guarding the four directions of the formation. Except for the lack of thunder tribulation, everything was the same as outside. The only difference was that the room seemed to be a miniature version of the outside world, but it was also more refined and vivid.
Jin Yao was sitting on the totem, meditating with his eyes closed.
Hong Yi, on the other hand, sat on the sofa, chin in his hand, in a daze.
Seeing the two people suddenly break in, Hong Yi was shocked: "Why did you come here suddenly?"
The performer looked at Jin Yao who was meditating, then looked at Hong Yi who looked puzzled, and asked tentatively: "Don't you know what's happening outside?"
"No matter what happened, you can't just barge in at this critical moment. It's very dangerous. Get out now!"
Seeing this, Scythe did not explain, but just pulled the performer out and closed the door.
Coming outside, looking at the hotel building which had already been reduced to ruins, the sickle took a deep breath and said, "This is all caused by Jin Yao's foundation building, and it seems that Hong Yi didn't know what happened outside when Jin Yao was building his foundation."
The performer recalled the foundation-building scene described in his book of exercises, and was puzzled: "It shouldn't be...it shouldn't be like this..."