Chapter XVII
Then the two sides exchanged polite words, and Xu Hongtao introduced his wife to Merlene Ceci, whom he met when he was working in the Western District, but the two got married after returning to the Eastern District.
Then Xu Hongtao asked his wife to help the guests get some tea, and then he officially talked to Chen Zifeng: "I don't know Mr. Chen, what happened to coming to X City?" ”
Chen Zifeng looked at him and asked directly, and said half-jokingly: "I am dissatisfied with Mayor Xu and said, I am greedy, and I came to you to ask for a bowl of water to drink." ”
Xu Hongtao took the tea poured by his wife, handed it directly to Chen Zifeng and said: "Mr. Chen said that he laughed, if you want something, I will send it to you immediately, how can you make such a big move in person!" ”
Chen Zifeng looked at the tea he handed over, but didn't pick it up, and said, "That's not afraid of Mayor Xu, you don't look down on me as a team leader."
Xu Hongtao handed the teacup forward a few more points and said, "Then Mr. Chen, do you drink this water or not?" ”
Chen Zifeng smiled a little reluctantly, took the teacup and said, "Haha, Mayor Xu is polite, how can I not drink the water you invited!" Wouldn't it be a shame to not drink it to give you face!
By the way, does Mayor Xu know about any recent cases in the city? ”
Xu Hongtao picked up a cup of water and tea, and also pointed to the other teas on the table, motioning for Zhou Zhixin and them to drink tea.
Then he replied: "I've been recuperating at home recently, and almost all the affairs are handled by my subordinates and Director Irene, you can ask Erin about the case."
Why did Mr. Chen come to me to investigate the case? ”
Chen Zifeng said with a haha: "It's not, it's not good to stay idle and have nothing to do, and you can't help anything, so you can only do your best in your old business, and please Mayor Xu don't dislike it." ”
Then he drank the hot tea in one gulp, and then Xu Hongtao said with a smile: "Mr. Chen is righteous enough, I have made this friend, stay and have a meal!" ”
Chen Zifeng felt the meaning of evicting the guests in his words, and hurriedly said: "No, no, we won't disturb Mayor Xu's recuperation, another day, and we will definitely come to the banquet when the mayor is better." ”
Xu Hongtao's wife, Mei Lin, went to the kitchen after pouring tea before, and then came out of the kitchen again, and saw that they were about to leave, and said, "Why did you come here and go!" Stay for a light lunch at noon! ”
Chen Zifeng hurriedly said: "No, sister-in-law, Mayor Xu is already recuperating at home, we are already embarrassed to take the liberty of disturbing, how can we continue to bother, we will leave first, and when Mayor Xu is well in the future, we will definitely come to the banquet again." ”
After Chen Zifeng finished speaking, he walked out with the team members, and Mei Lin looked at them and Xu Hongtao strangely, and Xu Hongtao also said that he didn't know what to do.
At this time, Chen Zifeng was a little confused, and Zhou Zhixin asked puzzledly: "Boss, aren't we here to look for evidence?" Why did you just get in and come out? ”
Chen Zifeng replied: "This Mayor Xu, I half-jokingly talked to him about bribery, but he took it seriously, and pushed the case directly to others, pretending not to know, and couldn't ask anything, he was simply an old fritter in the political field." ”
Zhou Zhixin proposed, "Why don't we go in and ask him about ghouls?" ”
Chen Zifeng said speechlessly: "We are here to secretly look for evidence, so that they can be prepared and how to find evidence." ”
Xiao Jue, who had been dull, proposed: "Then I will secretly enter the villa and directly find out their evidence." ”
Chen Zifeng looked at him lovelessly and said, "You are here to torture me, why don't you just go in and carry his head back to the headquarters!" ”
Xiao Jue was about to pull out the sword behind him at this time, and Chen Zifeng was so frightened that he said: "Ancestor, let's not be impulsive, I'm just talking, you carry the sword in, we don't have to wait until we go back to the headquarters, we have to go to the federal prison directly." ”
At this time, Chen Zifeng felt how worry-free it was to have Zhang Xiaoer and Feng Yin by his side.
He sighed and said, "This can't be done, it seems that there is no hope on our side, so we can only hope for them." ”
Then they returned to the villa, and in the afternoon they returned to the villa to report, but there was no evidence or even clues.
This made everyone feel that this time was really in the wrong place, even Chen Zifeng had such a feeling, but the leader of the Death Shadow Land that appeared several times in a row made him feel that something big must happen in X City.
He put aside any other thoughts and began to discuss with the team how to obtain the evidence, and finally they decided to find out the location of the ghoul's ritual.
Because the entire X City has been made like an iron bucket by Yilin and Xu Hongtao, they can't even insert a needle, and it is really irrational to want to attack them directly.
After making a plan, everyone had a simple meal and threw themselves into the search for the location of the ceremony.
It's a pity that a day later, twelve people were about to turn the whole city over, but still no evidence was found, and more than a dozen people sat on the sofa in the villa, a little deflated.
Chen Zifeng and the others were very depressed, but there was really no evidence, and they had no choice but to go home.
But Chen Zifeng was unwilling, he thought there must be a problem, but they covered it up too well, but too long had passed, and they couldn't afford to delay it, Chen Zifeng finally made a decision to face Xu Hongtao directly.
The team members were called, but the team members were not in a very good mental state, and they were so sleepy that they didn't sleep at all after looking for it all night last night.
But in the face of business, a team of people quickly set off to the mayor's villa, but they were stuck in traffic in the air again.
The vicinity of the city center was even more tightly blocked, and Zhou Zhixin was sent out to investigate, but got a shocking news that the mayor of X City, Xu Hongtao, was dead.
Chen Zifeng was speechless in shock, and then Chen Zifeng seemed to think of something, and suddenly said, "How did he die?" And what are these citizens doing here? ”
Zhou Zhixin replied: "The mayor died in the early hours of yesterday morning, saying that he died of food poisoning, and now these citizens are going to the city center to mourn." ”
Chen Zifeng suddenly figured out all the problems, and he hurriedly wanted to contact the headquarters, but at this moment, the city protective shield in the air suddenly opened automatically, and the mode of complete defense was activated.
Chen Zifeng turned on the chip communication mode and found that sure enough, all the signals could not be sent and received, and the team members asked the captain what happened.
Chen Zifeng said with a stern face: "Someone in the sub-bureau headquarters has opened the city's comprehensive defense mode, once this mode is opened, it cannot be terminated, this is to protect the city when it is invaded, the last means of defense, and it cannot be terminated is also to prevent traitors from appearing in the city, open the protective cover."
But now that it's independent, no signal can be transmitted, and if a ghoul arrives, it will soon become a dead city. ”
The team members all looked at Chen Zifeng and waited for him to give an order, Chen Zifeng said: "I suddenly thought that we had one of the most conspicuous places that we didn't search, that is, the underground in the city center, and I guess that it is the place where the summoning ceremony is located. ”
Shen Qiyun said anxiously: "Then what are you waiting for, let's go directly to the ceremony of breaking their ring!" ”
Chen Zifeng said: "It's too late, they dare to kill the mayor directly and gather the crowd here, because they have already started the ceremony, I'm afraid that there are already ghouls coming, now what we have to do is to lure the people away and find a safe place to protect them."
Then we had to wait for the headquarters to spot the anomaly and notify the army for help. ”
Jiang Xinmeng said anxiously: "Then where can we find a safe place?" ”
Zhang Xiaoer said: "There is a place, that is, the black market, where the place is big enough, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as they agree to the people to enter, I believe we can hold on for enough time to wait for the rescue."
However, the most difficult thing is that the owners of the black market and the people who do not agree to enter the market, and everything is in vain until this problem is solved. ”
Chen Zifeng said at this time: "I will solve this matter, you only need to be responsible for escorting all the people to the black market now, no matter what method you use, you must do it, do you understand?" ”
The team members said in unison, "Understood." ”
Then Chen Zifeng made a gesture of action, and the team members began to act.
At this time, the sky in the central square was pitch black, and the originally clear sky became so dark at some point, and there was a rapid roar in the city center, and it was the ghouls who began to invade the city.
The citizens in the middle saw that ghouls were constantly emerging from the underground pipes, attacking the crowd, and the citizens wanted to resist, but almost all of them were injured by the strength of the lower servant race, and they could hardly have a real impact on the ghouls.
They took the lead in biting a large number of citizens to death, and the citizens began to flee in a panic, but they were squeezed by the citizens outside, unable to move, fortunately, a team of team members immediately arrived at the scene, began to resist the ghouls, and used various means to tell the citizens to follow them to the safety zone.
At first, the citizens responded to something, but there were many people who died, and everyone began to follow them, among which the credit of the master of a lamp was the greatest, he only relied on one person, and the sunlight bodhisattva behind him appeared, and it was directly a lion's roar that shocked everyone, and then the citizens recognized it as a master of Buddhism, and obediently followed them.
Chen Zifeng's side he quickly walked between the buildings, and after a while he came to the entrance of the black market, there was no time to waste, he directly stepped forward and kicked the basement door open, rushed in, entered the black market because of the permission problem can not stop on the first floor, one foot broke the elevator, and ran towards the place of the person in charge of the black market on the first floor.
Someone on the road stopped him from flying without saying a word, and finally after flying more than 20 people, he finally met the person in charge of the black market here.
A short fat man, the fat man was soaking in his luxurious bathroom, two beauties served beside him, he was enjoying it, but Chen Zifeng kicked and smashed the crystal door, broke in, and directly came forward with an arrow step, the two beauties saw that things were not good, and directly turned into bodyguards and stabbed Chen Zifeng with daggers.
But he was blocked by Chen Zifeng one by one, and he flew out with one punch, and he didn't pay attention to the two assassins of the superior independent race.
Only Chen Zifeng and the fat man were left at the scene, and the fat man wiped his body with a bath towel unhurriedly.
Said slowly: "Captain Chen, the first meeting was so abrupt, how much did I lose face!" I don't know what makes you so anxious! ”
Chen Zifeng said: "I'm really sorry that Director Liu is so offended today, but the incident is urgent, and I really can't take care of it too much." But your black market intelligence network is all over the city, and you won't know about the ghoul outbreak. ”
Director Liu said: "Yes, I know, but I can't do anything, they have promised not to do anything to me and my black market brothers, why should I be an enemy of them!" ”
Chen Zifeng said: "Chief Liu, you have to think well, if you don't make enemies with them, you want to be enemies with the Federation, I know that there are people in your Federation, but if you don't help us, you want to stay out of the matter, you will be the enemy in wartime, and when the Federation is liquidated afterwards, even the people behind you will not dare to protect you, you have to think about it."
And as a human, when facing monsters, can you watch your fellow citizens being eaten by monsters? ”
Director Liu thought about it for a while, sighed and said: "Okay, as a human being, I can't sit still, but you have to promise one thing, the things we committed before will be written off, so that I can give an explanation to my brothers." ”
Chen Zifeng promised: "Don't worry, as long as the black market brothers who survive this time, the previous things can be written off." ”
Director Liu nodded and said, "I believe you, you can tell you what you want me to help you with." ”
Chen Zifeng told Director Liu about the things that needed his help, and after Director Liu agreed, he began to prepare.