And it was the back seat, with Xia Yibing sitting in the front seat, Mu Ke sitting in the front right passenger seat, and the injured Ethan lying on the right side of the same row, enjoying almost all-round protection from the 17th Squad.
"We actually made a mistake, Hitzfeld."
Even after leaving his professional field, Mu Ke still likes to talk endlessly.
"You should have guessed that we have special cars since so many of us came... Those cars are definitely better than these junks, both in terms of horsepower and steel plate thickness. It's no exaggeration to say that they can easily climb even a 40-degree slope!"
"Ahahaha..." Hitzfeld could only respond with a silly smile.
She has many good qualities as a person, but she knows nothing about cars.
Mu Ke is the team's autopsy officer, and his professional fields are medicine and archaeology. Normally, such a person would be very boring after leaving work, but it is rare to find someone like Mu Ke who is passionate about everything, especially talking about cars.
"Unfortunately, the curse broke out too quickly..." Mu Ke shook his head, "We only left a few people to guard the vehicles. They were scattered on various streets and there was no time to drive them over."
"Mr. Muco." Hitzfeld asked.
"what?"
"You Shadow Lions are the secret police."
"...I thought you already knew it."
"That's not what I meant... I'm just curious why the secret police would dress like this..."
Hitzfeld looked at his angular black uniform and tried to find a less offensive adjective.
"Cool?" Ethan woke up and just happened to hear her hesitating. He grinned and said, "Do you think this outfit is too cool? If we wear it, everyone will know it's us. There's no such thing as a 'secret'?"
"……That's it."
"Then you worry too much."
Xia Yi, who was driving, said coldly.
"The black uniform is not unique to Shadow Lions, but a common feature of the police system in some areas of the capital."
"That's right." Mu Ke turned around and smiled at the girl, "Ordinary police officers in places like Denton District, Crown District, Ningshu District...are all dressed like this."
"You may not understand what's going on. Let me think about how to explain it to you... You should know about the military rotation, right?"
The girl nodded.
"That's good... There are many benefits to rotating the troops. Some maggots stay in a place for too long and collude with local forces. Changing a group of people from time to time can effectively prevent this phenomenon. The police system also has a tradition of 'rotation'."
"It's not called a shift change, it's called a shift handover." Ethan interrupted, "Because of the shift handover system, people from all over the country often see police officers in black walking around in the area. They think it's a normal shift change, but in fact, there are departments like the Shadow Lion among them."
"I understand."
Hitzfeld nodded slightly.
It turned out to be the case.
No wonder they could easily send more than 300 people to the city to carry out the military operations.
Recall that all Shadow Lion agents in uniform wear their peaked caps pulled down so low that their eyes are barely visible.
Maybe he doesn't want people to remember his face.
"In fact, those people in the car in front are just extra-staff agents."
Mu Ke was afraid that the girl didn't understand the details enough, so he continued to educate her tirelessly.
"They know they work for the country and that this is a special unit, but they don't know it's Shadow Lion. They can't produce the agent warrants that Ethan and I have."
"Of course, there are also some unexpected events, such as the identity information of officially established agents being leaked."
Having said that, Mu Ke looked at the girl with an extremely serious look in his eyes.
"We have now implemented a detailed system and process to deal with this kind of thing. Hitzfeld, we are all very grateful to Madam for this."
"Especially for me. My wife gave birth to a daughter this year. I am now the father of three children. If it were me, I can hardly imagine whether I could persist if I were in the same situation as her..."
"Muko!"
Xia Yibing shouted in a hoarse voice.
Mu Ke immediately shut up and turned away.
"laugh!"
Ethan just laughed out loud.
Mu Ke turned around and glared at him, then glanced at the female captain who was looking straight ahead and seemed to be concentrating on driving, and tried to smile at Hitzfeld again.
Hitzfeld also tried his best to purse his lips to him.
"Have you finished chatting?"
Xia Yibing broke this tacit atmosphere.
"Then let's talk about something serious, like Hitzfeld—"
She drawled out.
"What's wrong with your left eye?"
coming.
The girl's smile gradually disappeared.
Oh, she did peek into Xia Yibing’s nightmare in the dream world.
Conversely, Xia Yibing also saw her left eye.
But she thought there was a tacit understanding between them!
She doesn't talk about her nightmares.
Shouldn't she mention her eyes too?
"Is it offensive?"
Seeing the dazed look on the girl’s face in the rearview mirror, the woman almost couldn’t hold back her serious expression.
"You can't blame me."
"Who told you not to specify it?"
"Bang!"
Before anyone realized the bad joke, the car jolted violently.
"What's going on?" Ethan asked.
This kind of bumping is not normal.
There are bound to be bumps on the road. On the one hand, this is the road out of the city and the road conditions are not good. On the other hand, there are often "golem-like" people falling to the ground and acting as obstacles.
But that kind of movement just now.
The front wheel lifted up, the chassis rubbed violently against something, and then fell to the ground with a bang.
It felt like I had run over a tree trunk as thick as a bucket. It was too exaggerated.
Xia Yibing didn't say anything, just stepped on the brakes.
The bus in front stopped, and its taillights glowed red in the thick fog. The consequence of continuing to drive would be a rear-end collision.
"You stay in the car."
She opened the car door.
"Hitzfeld, come out with me."
Is this what they call inseparable?
Hitzfeld complained inwardly but had no choice but to get off the car.
Close protection from a beautiful police detective.
Well, it was a good intention after all, and she couldn't refuse.
Following the woman to the front, I saw three buses parked in a row in the middle of the road. More than a dozen people had already gotten off the buses and were standing at the front of the bus, discussing something.
As the distance shortened, the fog's obstruction to his vision disappeared, and Hitzfeld finally figured out what was going on.
There is an obstacle ahead.
Broken tree trunks, garbage trucks, car wreckage...all imaginable objects that could serve as obstacles were piled together, completely blocking the way out of the city.
Then what they just ran over might be something similar...
Hitzfeld thought in a daze.
The fog is getting thicker and thicker.
Standing outside, every breath of air she took was too humid. She felt her brain was a little dizzy, and even her thoughts were stagnant.
Suddenly, a vice-like hand grabbed her ankle.
"!?"
The girl was stunned, and looked down, seeing a thing that had completely turned into a puppet crawling out from under the car little by little, waving its other hand towards her.
Chapter 66: Holy Light
"What is this!?"
"monster!"
"Bang! Bang, bang, bang!"
The silent atmosphere was broken in an instant.
Hitzfeld heard shouts, sirens and gunshots from the other side of the car.
"summer……"
She quickly turned around and tried to call for help, but all she could see was a thick white fog.
Why is the fog so thick?
She was slightly startled, and actually forgot what to do next.
She could swear that less than ten seconds ago, when she stood in this position - right next to the left side of the first bus, the visibility in the fog was still more than ten meters.
But now, the density of the white fog has reached the point where you can’t even see clearly within two meters!
Even if you moved the thickest clouds down from the sky, it wouldn't be that fast, right?
what is happening?
"boom!"
"what!"
A huge force pulled her down, her buttocks landing on the ground, and the girl screamed in pain.
This thing...
He raised his head with a grin and stared at the bottom of the car with his one eye.
For four or five seconds, the thing was just holding onto her ankles, and it was moving outward at a speed that was - for example - about as fast as Mr. Flash in Zootopia.
Therefore, she did not care too much about it, until she was pulled down and saw that there was no hope in calling for protection, Hitzfeld finally woke up with a start.
What am I doing?
I shouldn’t have relied on others… I have to save myself!
She didn't change her outfit much when she went out. In addition to basic underwear and socks, she wore a black dress with a black bottom and white trims and a short black jacket.
This coat is used to keep out the cold and to cover the holster inside.
The right hand reached into the left armpit, and the girl pulled out the plank.
The safety is turned on during the extraction process, and the process and actions are done in one go.
Raise the gun and aim.
Hitzfeld was slightly stunned.
Half a second ago, she thought that the person who pulled her down was a poor creature who was about to be completely "transformed into a golem".
Because it has not been completely "golemized", it is not dead yet and can continue to survive.
