Chapter 23 Troubled times are coming

"I said Lao Lan, you're enough!" said the night owl, who was sitting in the back of the police car, with some annoyance.

Lan Haoting didn't get angry this time, but said with a serious face.

"I'm not kidding you, something unexpected happened and we need your help. ”

"Then you just make a phone call, why bother to pick me up in a police car, make me feel like I've committed a crime, and I don't know what the school will say about me. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm talking to you about business, we've got three police officers in the hospital. ”

When the night owl heard this, his face couldn't help but straighten, he didn't think that he would be stronger than the well-trained armed police. The police have lost three police officers, and the two of them are students, isn't it even more dangerous?

Thinking of this, the night stalker asked out loud, "What the hell happened?"

"See for yourself. Lan Haoting held the steering wheel in one hand, and without looking back, he threw a document to the night owl.

As soon as the file was acquired, the night owl saw a photo of a man with a thin face. The man in the photo has a sallow complexion, and at first glance he looks like a hard-working farmer who has suffered from wind and frost.

What could an old peasant do? The night owl's doubts could not help but welling up in his mind. But when I looked at the second page of the document, my brow couldn't help but wrinkle.

This old farmer's name is Zhang Tie, and he is a serious farmer. Zhang Tie has two sons and a daughter, the eldest son is in college, the younger son has just entered high school, and the third daughter is in middle school.

Providing for three children to go to school is a huge burden on the family. However, Zhang Tie has good cooking skills, so he wants to take advantage of the slack time to get some snacks to sell at the entrance of the school, which can subsidize the family.

These hawkers not only affect road safety, but also cause a lot of trouble to schools.

Recently, quite a number of students have reported that they have developed food poisoning to varying degrees after eating roadside snacks.

Many farmers believe that the cold weather in winter makes food easy to store, so those snacks that are not sold out are not processed in time and continue to be sold the next day.

Unbeknownst to them, however, air pollution in the city is also a significant contributor to student poisoning.

After being reported, the conflict between the chengguan and the hawkers also broke out.

At first, the chengguan were only going to confiscate the vendors' stalls, but because of the huge traffic in the school, the vendors would soon make a comeback, and it would not take long to make up for the losses.

Later, the chengguan simply sent people to keep an eye on them every day, and for those hawkers, they only confiscated the tools for lighting the fire.

Zhang Tie is an honest man, unlike other hawkers, who will spare a gas canister, and over time he will be a little unable to make ends meet.

To his surprise, however, two days ago, he had awakened an ability. And his ability is "arson", as the name suggests, Zhang Tie can manipulate flames.

In this way, Zhang Tie doesn't have to worry about the stove, on the contrary, his cooking technique like a trick immediately attracted many students.

Zhang Tie was soon targeted by the city management, although they didn't understand what small means Zhang Tie used, but because of the orders of their superiors, they still arrested Zhang Tie.

This scene happened to be seen by the second son who had just gotten out of school, so he fought with the chengguan.

When the old man Zhang Tie saw that his son was injured, he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and subconsciously released the ability to set fire.

No matter how powerful the ability is, let alone a big living person, even cold ingredients can be baked in a short time.

The staff who were severely burned soon lost their lives, and the police who arrived later surrounded Zhang Tie and his son at the same time.

The old man Zhang Tie knew that he had caused a monstrous disaster, so he wanted to put aside the relationship with the child, so as not to affect the youngest son who still had a good future.

However, what he didn't know was that in the past few days, there have been endless cases involving the supernaturals, and the police have suffered serious losses. The nerves of those policemen had already been straightened, and when they saw the old man's strange movements, they wanted to shoot the old man, but Zhang Tie's youngest son blocked the gun.

Zhang Tie looked at his youngest son who was lying in a pool of blood, and suddenly lost his mind, and a large area of flames erupted like no money. Under the emotional outburst, the flames released by Zhang Tie were as high as thousands of degrees.

The guns in the hands of those policemen were suddenly like hot potatoes, and they couldn't help the old man for a while.

It wasn't until three police officers were burned by the flames that Lan Hao Pavilion was finally alarmed, that there was a scene of a police car picking up people from the school.

After figuring out what had happened, the night stalker also thought of Bai Wei's ice control ability.

Judging from the attributes of the ability alone, Bai Wei's ability is indeed Zhang Tie's biggest nemesis, but this matter is also very dangerous, and no one can say what an old man who has lost his son will do. If you don't get it right, it's impossible to say that Zhang Tie will become the second Xiao He.

"No, I can't let Bai Wei take the risk!" After pondering for a long time, the Night Stalker still vetoed this operation.

Lan Hao Pavilion seemed to have expected that the night owl would answer like this, and said without looking back.

"You belong to the Anomaly Investigation Team, and I didn't force your powers. However, I don't have any plans to let Bai Wei personally deal with the supernatural person, as long as he protects the safety of the other members of the anomaly investigation team, and you don't have to worry about the hands-on matters. ”

The night owl looked back at Bai Wei and asked, "Can you do it?"

Bai Wei thought for a while and said, "My ability is limited, but I don't think there is a big problem in protecting three people." ”

Lan Haoting was afraid that the night owl would reject him, so he threw a bombshell again.

"Maybe you don't know, but in the past few days, the number of abnormal cases in the city has been increasing at a geometric rate. If this momentum continues, evacuation measures will soon be activated. ”

"Huh, is it that serious?"

Lan Haoting didn't answer the night owl's question, but said to himself.

"The first batch of people to withdraw from the city must be important people from various industries, as well as relevant relatives. If you can help me solve this matter, I promise to put your relatives on the list of the first batch of evacuees. ”

In fact, the development of the situation has exceeded the control of the authorities, and those supernatural people have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, constantly appearing in all corners of the city. They only saw the tip of the iceberg of the supernatural group, many people who awakened the supernatural ability, because they were afraid that they would be regarded as an alien, invariably chose to hide at home, and many people secretly escaped from the city overnight.

Only a small group of Strangers, because of the special powers, felt their confidence swelled and did something to disrupt the order.

Because of the lack of time, the above is just a simple conclusion, the population of this city is infected by an unknown virus, and these people are carriers of special viruses. This is also the inference they make based on related foreign films.

In order not to let the situation continue to deteriorate, the evacuation plan has been quietly operated, but these things are obviously not accessible to ordinary people like night stalkers.

Without waiting for the night owl to answer, Bai Wei, who had been unknown, stepped forward.

"I agree to such conditions!"