Why am I a villain and still have my own jokes?

Although Yang He's reaction was quick, their next actions did not go smoothly.

The old city—Ruifeng District, was indeed once the most prosperous area in Fengcheng, and it was also the place where surveillance cameras were first installed in the city. It was once considered the safest area in Fengcheng.

But that's all in the past.

The reality is that with the continuous development of Fengcheng, the city center has shifted to Haitong District, a new city. New commercial streets, residential buildings, hospitals, etc. and a series of infrastructure have sprung up. Both funds and high-tech forces have begun to change directions, giving priority to serving the bustling Haitong District.

In Ruifeng District, which is gradually declining, except for the locals who are reluctant to part with old houses and old neighbors, there are only migrants who cannot afford houses in the city center.Even this group of people stretched their heads to watch the movement of Haitong District, and they might move out at any time.

In such a place, not to mention thieves and robbers, even those little gangsters who cause trouble are too deserted.It turned out that the sporadic monitoring was still working, and the higher-ups thought they could put things aside for a while, but they never had time to re-install the cameras.

And what Nie Tianyao can tune in is these surveillance images with unstable signals, many blind spots, and far-flung distribution.Except for the first few street surveillances where Yu Huisheng could be seen, no valuable clues were found later.

Even because of the approaching thunderstorm, the shops of many small businesses closed early, and it was difficult to see even a few living people on the street.

"What should we do? Do we really have to find out all the way? Even if we know that he will go to the joint, after all, the people of the Huo family must be faster than us. Who knows if there will be new variables. The scope of positioning is too big now. .”

Sitting in the back seat of the speeding modified car, Nie Tianyao hugged the computer with a worried expression on her face.

"It's still half an hour before we reach the old city. It's still possible. But if we don't have any clues, we can only go out and search."

Meng Jiean, who was sitting in the front row, leaned sideways, poked out half of his head, and comforted,

"As long as it lasts until Heihu and the others get things settled, they will be able to move over, and the speed will be much faster."

Yang He didn't speak.He just sat next to Nie Tianyao, holding the headset in his hand, staring at the screen closely, for fear of missing any clues.

Gray sky, swaying tree shadows, low-flying crows, criss-crossing wires, sporadic passers-by in a hurry.

other?No.Nothing at all.

The old town looks as usual, even though everyone knows what kind of storm is whipping up under the surface of "usual".

But the hunter's sharp eyes can always find some clues in the calm.

"...Tianyao, stop these pictures for a moment and rewind them! Is this the same person who rode the bicycle?"

"I'll compare the data right away!"

Nie Tianyao regained her spirits all of a sudden, supported the computer case, and started typing codes.The result came out quickly:

"Yes! Although I can't see the face clearly, but the clothes and the bicycle can tell that it is a person!"

"This is the road from Haitang Park to Ruifeng District, right? Hey, this scene is almost at the speed of a motorcycle?"

Dong Jie next to him also poked his head over, and said bluffing,

"But he doesn't look like a member of the Huo family, so he doesn't hide his whereabouts at all!"

"At this point in time, this course of action is unlikely to be a coincidence. In Fengcheng, I will go to Professor Yu...his student? Is it called...Nan Botu? If I remember correctly, this person was still there just now. Wu's Medical Center, just released by the Huo family after being ruled out of suspicion? Why did it appear here across half of the city?"

"Are you sure he was 'released'? At least he is backed by the Nan family. Otherwise, why did he walk out of the entire Wu's Medical Center?"

Xie Mingming, who was driving, suddenly said,

"Tianyao, grab your computer, I'm speeding up and overtaking on the first bend!"

"? No, wait, sister Xie, you said it's a curve, why are you speeding up again!!"

Accompanied by howling ghosts and wolves in the car, the car passed several cars in front one after another and drove steadily on the acceleration lane.

"I'm leaving Haitong District soon, the traffic flow will be reduced a lot, and it is estimated that I will be able to reach the last monitoring point that Tianyao found in about 10 minutes. Get ready."

"Understood. Others have their equipment ready and are ready to act at any time! Tianyao, you continue to keep an eye on the surveillance, and I have new clues from Professor Yu to report to me. Also, if you have time to confirm whether the person in the screen is Nan Botu. If so , and also lock his whereabouts. Don't let ordinary people and Huo family elites face each other. Maybe there are other clues on him. "

"understand!"

The crowd responded.

……

The sky was getting heavier and heavier, making it difficult to tell whether it was night or dark clouds.Faint thunder flashed among the clouds, and the heavy and humid air made the atmosphere even more oppressive.

Probably because the speed of the bicycle is too fast, the newcomers who meet by chance always look at him with strange eyes.But Ling Yao didn't put too much energy on them.

Even if the rainstorm is approaching, they seem too leisurely - they have neither encountered anything worthy of vigilance, nor have they had any premonition of a crisis.

To them, this rain was indeed just rain.

The street in front of me is gradually narrowing, and the strange and winding fork road is like a tree with more and more branches, endless and endless.

This is the most densely populated residential area in Ruifeng, and it is also the smallest range that Ling Yao can guess where the secret service base is based on inference.

After all, it has to be a place that requires frequent entry and exit, but is not eye-catching.

Next, we can only rely on some unconventional means.

Ling Yao stood at the intersection with the most forked roads, parked the bicycle he turned halfway, closed his eyes, and muttered something silently.

Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak.

On both sides of the street, inside the half-covered wooden doors shaken by the wind, there are colorful signboards and fluttering banners.Among them, the most common ones are nothing more than words such as horoscope calculation, feng shui calculation, professional naming, Zhouyi fortune-telling and so on. Usually, it looks like bluffing or opportunistic trading. This kind of atmosphere adds a bit of supernatural and mysterious atmosphere.

got windy.

The quiet street is only the sound of the wind.

But Ling Yao could hear those footsteps walking back and forth, those whispers, and even those light or heavy, shallow or deep breathing and heartbeat, coming from layers of gray bricks and tiles.

thump.thump.thump.

Suddenly, he dropped his bicycle, turned his head and ran towards an alleyway behind him.

……

"Wait, why did Nan Botu suddenly turn around and run away!"

A group of people who were still discussing why Nan Botu suddenly stopped to meditate were taken aback by this sudden move.

They had just arrived in Ruifeng District at this moment, and the Black Tiger Squad and the Red Bee Squad had already spread out to conduct a carpet search.And a few members of their Golden Scale Squad were also equipped with weapons, ready to find a commanding height that was convenient for observation.

"I didn't see anyone chasing him in the surveillance. Did he see or hear something?"

Meng Jiean analyzed.

But Yang He just thought about it a little, and then made a further judgment:

"Let's follow him. Maybe he really knows where Professor Yu is."

"The car in front can't drive in. Follow me on foot?"

Xie Mingming patted the steering wheel and unlocked the car casually.

"Tianyao, which part of the alley is it?"

Yang He turned to ask.Nie Tianyao called up the topographic map:

"I'm not sure, I don't know if he will stray to another fork or climb the courtyard wall. But all the way to the end, it should be the cultural street near our base...the one that sells yellow talisman cinnabar peach wood swords."

"Okay. Jie'an and Xiaojie, get off here and approach the place where Nanbotu just parked, and I will let the black tiger gather in your direction. Xiaoxie, let's take a shortcut to the North 3 outpost! I will Let the red bee meet us."

North 3 is the closest high point to Wenhua Street.Although it is just a dilapidated and deserted small teahouse on the surface.

"understand!"

Both Meng Jie'an and Dong Jie were qi refiners, they only needed to bring their magic weapon with them, and they hurried away with light clothes.As soon as Xie Mingming waited for them to close the door, he immediately slammed the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator and flew the car out:

"Captain, judging from his reaction just now, that Nambotu may not be that simple. Even if he doesn't cooperate with the Huo family, we can't be sure whether he can become our side."

Nie Tianyao has been able to protect her computer very familiarly, and even nodded in response to Xie Mingming's words:

"He looks like he knows a lot. It feels like the target is very clear. We can't treat him as a simple rescue target and be defenseless against him."

"As long as he has the same goal with us now... No, as long as it doesn't hinder us. The rest can be planned after saving Professor Yu. He has the Nan family behind him, so it's not suitable for him to have a close relationship with us. You guys Just don't use classified equipment in front of him."

Yang He nodded, apparently he had already planned in his mind,

"I'm more worried about the Huo family now. Chifeng just sent a message and they have seen Xu Wenbo's people. They should still be looking for Professor Yu, but their speed is obviously faster than ours, and their goals are clearer than ours. I It has already made them follow the Huo family to narrow down the search area, but it is still one step slower than that."

"You should make a decision early on, whether to give priority to ensuring the safety of Professor Yu, or to take this opportunity to wipe out all the Huo family members. This is related to everyone's follow-up actions, whether to search vigorously without concealment, or to take the opportunity quietly They are completely surrounded. How important is the thing in Professor Yu's hand? Is it worth the Huo family's death, and is it worth us letting the Huo family go? "

Xie Mingming's words were very straightforward, and they were not pleasant to listen to. Even the two who were used to her words couldn't help frowning.

But they understand that this is indeed a choice that should be made sooner or later.

Yu Huisheng is very important, but there will be almost no chance to deal with the Huo family like this and completely lose their ability to continue doing evil.

There has never been an absolute best of both worlds.Only by procrastinating, you will get nothing.

Yang He picked up the walkie-talkie and began to give orders.Soon, he hung up the intercom.

"...Heihu has brought other converging teams to outflank this area. These people... have countless lives in their hands. Since they dare to come to our territory, they must not let any one go. The red bee will Continue to keep an eye on them, as long as they don't silence Professor Yu immediately, we still have a chance. Obviously, how many minutes are left?"

"Immediately, it's just a corner away."

The car suddenly flicked its tail, turned into a new fork, and quickly slowed down to a stop. Then Xie Mingming's voice came,

"OK, we're here. You go first, I'll follow."

The two people in the back seat didn't talk much, picked up their belongings, got out of the car, and climbed up to the roof of the teahouse.

"As expected, Nan Botu came to this street through the alley. It's just that he is at the east end now, and we are at the west end."

Before Nie Tianyao finished speaking, an astonishing light suddenly flashed across the sky, followed by a huge roar.

Boom——!Boom—crack—!

Both of them were attracted by that at the same time.Bright purple lightning tore through the clouds and quickly dissipated in the air.

Like a signal sounded, the torrential rain poured down.

Neither of them were surprised by this, since they were both indoors.Nie Tianyao also pulled the bamboo curtain in front of her to prevent the rain from splashing in.

But Nan Botu, who was running on the street outside the window, was not so lucky. The sudden heavy rain immediately soaked him.

But in the picture, he seems to be frozen in place, motionless.

"The signal is not good, the video card?"

"...No. The rain line is still changing, it's because he hasn't moved. There are quite a lot of monitoring on this street...but nothing unusual was found."

Soon, the expressions of the two people gradually became weird due to the changes in the picture.Nie Tianyao couldn't help complaining:

"Maybe the most abnormal thing here is himself. Wait, why did he suddenly... Aren't these props and swords cheap goods that can be seen everywhere? Why did he grab them one by one? Also, what is he drawing in the void? He is not in a hurry Looking for Yu Huisheng? Did we guess wrong about his purpose, or did we overlook something?"

Yang He squinted his eyes, staring at Nanbotu who was moving quickly but methodically in the screen, and let out a breath slowly:

"Maybe... through the screen, we did overlook something."

All of their intelligence revealed Nan Botu's marginal status in the Nan family, but the facts proved time and time again that the Nan family valued Nan Botu more than they thought.

If what happened at the beginning can be regarded as the Nan family's compensation to Nan Botu, and Nan Guozhong's connivance to the younger generation, then all the things that happened later have obviously crossed the line between "compensation" and "connivance".

Unless, Nan Botu has something worthy of the Nan family's pursuit.

cultivator.

The flow of true energy is indeed something that cannot be captured by digital equipment.

However, before returning to Nan's house, how could Nan Botu have the opportunity to get in touch with practice?Yu Huisheng obviously wouldn't take the initiative to tell him.

So... a genius who just started practicing in his early twenties, but is already comparable to ordinary people who have practiced for many years?

Bapin?Qipin?No matter how talented you are, you have only started to refine Qi at this age, and it is impossible to break through to a higher level.

But this level is still not enough to compete with so many people from the Huo family.How could he have the courage to come to Yu Huisheng alone?Is it because they don't know the real strength of the Huo family?

Yang He felt that he had caught a thread that untied the ball of thread amidst the mess of information.But he didn't have time to dig a little bit.

"Jinlin, this is the base. We haven't received any distress signal from Professor Yu. Our entrance has already been blocked by the Huo family. I'm afraid Professor Yu won't dare to show up."

"Golden Lin received it. The base continues to maintain vigilance and is on standby to receive the wounded at any time."

"The base received."

"Golden Lin, this is Black Tiger. We have surrounded the entire residential area. We are retreating towards the base. Please give instructions on the next step."

"Golden Lin received it. Continue to close the range. Try to control the people of the Huo family in Area C. If it is scattered around the edge, solve it on the spot."

"Heihu received it!"

"Aren't you going to scare the snake? There is also a communication link between them, right?"

Nie Tianyao asked.

"No. Xu Wenbo is a very conceited person. Compared with the stragglers who are sent out, he believes in the harvest of leading the team himself. The temporary team is not reliable."

Xie Mingming, who had already climbed onto the roof, took over the conversation.Nie Tianyao turned her head and saw that Xie Mingming was already lying down, adjusting his footstand facing the street.

"Wow."

Nie Tianyao's eyes lit up, and he poked Yang He's waist with his elbow,

"Sure enough, every time I see Sister Mingming on a mission, I still feel very handsome. You can learn from others."

"You calm down."

Yang He helplessly patted her hand away,

"Nambotu is coming towards us. He's picking up speed."

Sure enough, within a short while, the three of them could vaguely see the figure running from the east.It's just that their location is very hidden, and they are definitely invisible from the perspective of Nanbotu.

Xie Mingming turned the gun head and stared at Nan Botu through the scope.

In the surveillance screen just now, Nan Botu had grabbed many swords randomly placed on the stalls, but now he only has a mahogany sword that looks solid but not sharp enough.

Although none of them knew why Nan Botu was obsessed with finding a sword that was destined to be incompetent at such a critical moment, but Xie Mingming had an intuition that Nan Botu with the sword was the same as the madman riding a bicycle just now. Compared with the runners, there seems to have been an inexplicable change.

It was as if the sharpness and hardness that should have belonged to the sword had been transferred to the human body.

However, Nan Botu did not continue to walk along the street towards the teahouse as they expected.As if he had a goal long ago, he naturally walked to the door of a house, used his sword to break open the bolted wooden bar, and pushed the door straight in.

Xie Mingming preloaded the gun.

No one can rule out the possibility that Nan Botu is also a dangerous person.

However, at the moment she pre-pressed the trigger, she suddenly felt Nan Botu's eyes cast on her.

thump—

An inexplicable sense of crisis suddenly exploded, as if the identities of the prey and the hunter were suddenly reversed.Xie Mingming's heart beat heavily, and her disordered breathing forced her to let go of the trigger.

That gaze immediately retracted, as if it had never existed.

Xie Mingming only experienced this feeling once.It was during a mission. Although she was holding a sniper rifle, she had a premonition that another sniper with better equipment and more experience was looking for her position - as long as she shot to reveal the position, she would be killed. shot dead.And that time, she temporarily gave up the killing mission at that time.Facts also proved that her final choice saved her life.

She trusted her intuition.

But this time the "enemy" is even more bizarre - he has no gun, only a cheap wooden sword.

Moreover, where is Nan Botu standing, can she really be seen visually?

Just when she was about to report this special situation, Nie Tianyao's voice interrupted her thoughts:

"It's Xu Wenbo and the others! At three o'clock. One, two, three... a total of fourteen people! They came from another road! There is a high probability that Professor Yu's whereabouts have been exposed!"

Following Nie Tianyao's voice, Xie Mingming quickly turned his aim to Xu Wenbo.

Compared with the uncertain factor of Nanbotu, Xu Wenbo is obviously the key target of their operation.

If it weren't for the fact that they were too weak and lacked successors, she could even have killed Xu Wenbo with one shot—her bullets were specially made, and they could completely break through the defense of a sixth-rank cultivator under a sudden attack.

It's a pity that the manpower for this operation was dispersed, but in the end, the few of them who followed Nan Botu found the target first, which led to the slightly embarrassing situation now.

However, unlike Nan Botu's state of galloping all the way with a clear target point, Xu Wenbo and his party are smashing and rummaging all the way, as if they just found a path.But they seem to be uncertain which point on the path it is, so their pace is slower than that of Nanbotu, and the movement is also greater.

But this also created a new problem: If Xu Wenbo and the others found this place, they followed the traces left by Yu Huisheng all the way, then how did Nan Botu find this place directly from another direction?

In the empty streets and alleys, Xu Bowen's yelling voice was particularly abrupt:

"Damn it, this old thing really knows how to hide! Try to drill into some corners. Really think that my little trick can fool us cultivators? I have already forgiven it once, and dare to go to our Huo family's business You should know what the price is if you run into each other! Why don’t you get out yourself? Are you really not afraid of implicating your daughter and students?!”

Unexpectedly but not so unexpectedly, he finally led someone to break through the door that Nan Botu had just entered.

However, unlike the silence after Nan Botu opened the door just now, what greeted them was an unexpected gift.

sizzle...

At the moment when more than a dozen people walked into the gate of the courtyard, Xu Wenbo heard a fine electric sound.He made a defensive posture, but all he could see was the yellow talismans sticking abruptly on the walls and doors fluttering in the wind.

The louder the wind, the closer the thunder.

Wait...thunder? ?

Xu Wenbo suddenly raised his head, put up a qi shield around his body, and looked towards the sky.

The yellow talisman in the courtyard suddenly flew up and quickly burned into ashes.And the roaring thunder and lightning fell from the sky, rushing towards him! !