At six o'clock in the morning, the compound of the S City Public Security Bureau was still quiet, only the assistant police officer Lao Wang, who had just been on the night shift, was sweeping in the courtyard, ready to welcome the new day, and the sweeping sound of "brushing" was unhurried.

As a small city in the third and fourth tiers, life in S City is always so unhurried.

"Woooooo

Without warning, the shrill sirens exploded, piercing the silence of the early summer morning, and outside the high walls of the compound, a flock of birds was startled, and the rising sun shone obliquely, casting several shadows that flew by.

Lin Xiao jumped up from the bed, his sturdy body drew a powerful arc in the air, and years of training had given him a deep conditioned reflex to the sound of sirens.

Wearing, draping, arming......

In less than three minutes, Lin Xiao was already armed to the teeth, and he opened the door and rushed out with an arrow, and at this time, he seemed to have really woken up from his sleep.

Rushing down to the fourth floor, Lin Xiao stood still in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, silently counting his breath in his heart: "One, two, three, four......"

Ten breaths later, more than a dozen figures rushed out of the dormitory on duty on the west side of the compound, running while embarrassingly sorting out the eight major pieces of police (uniforms and) police equipment on their bodies.

Seeing Lin Xiao standing motionless in the center of the courtyard with a black face, these young police officers were like mice seeing cats, hurriedly forming two teams in front of him, and after a period of trembling, the team quickly stopped.

Lin Xiaojian's eyebrows tightened, and his gaze swept over the worried young faces in front of him, in fact, he was not a few years older than these young people, and he was only 28 this year, but in this S City special service team established by him a month ago, he undoubtedly had absolute authority.

"See for yourselves, procrastinating, like a team girl!!" Lin Xiao yelled, making his subordinates tremble, he was very dissatisfied with the efficiency of this gathering.

"Captain Lin, extinguish the fire. A magnetic baritone voice came from behind Lin Xiao, interrupting his reprimand.

Lin Xiao looked back and saw a second-class superintendent wearing two four-pointed star flowers striding towards him with a gray-blue folder, with a gentle and elegant demeanor, and his age was similar to Lin Xiao's.

Seeing this person, Lin Xiao's eyes showed a trace of kindness and a smile, coughed, and ran forward to meet him.

"Report to Superintendent Hong, the special service detachment has been assembled, please instruct. Lin Xiao snapped a salute.

"What are you pretending!" Hong Jun smiled and punched Lin Xiao in the chest, "Old classmate, don't look like you're dissatisfied with them, do you think you're still the captain of the Lei Leopard SWAT Brigade? That's the top masters selected from the special police teams in the province, and when you come to our small temple, it's not easy to pull out such a team, so you can be content!"

"Alas!" Lin Xiao could only smile bitterly and shake his head.

"What's the matter? You, the number one master in the history of the Provincial Police Academy and the three-time champion of the provincial special police competition, don't you feel like some heroes are useless?" Hong Jun teased unceremoniously.

Lin Xiao was not angry, raised his eyebrows, and said with a big grin: "I really feel like this, I have been here for more than a month, and the team has also been pulled up with the support of you, the chief superintendent, but there is not a single fart policeman." ”

"Regret it, right?" Hong Jun smiled evilly, "Now if we encounter our eldest son Li again, we won't break someone's nose with one punch, right?"

"It's regret, I regret that I didn't give a fucking punch to break his front teeth at that time!" Lin Xiao glared at him, and his face was rebellious.

Hong Jun smiled, as if he knew that Lin Xiao would answer like this: "Look at your virtue, it should be handled lightly if you are sent to us, and you should be allowed to go to a police station in a corner to be a policeman." By the way, don't you want to have something to do? ”

As soon as he heard that there was a task, Lin Xiao snapped and straightened up, and asked loudly, "What task?"

Hong Jun opened the duty notes in his hand and read aloud: "I just received an order from the provincial bureau that rare and rare mineral deposits were found in Huju Village, Qiyun County, our city, and the third provincial mining company has gone to the scene to prepare for production, but when several local old farmers obstructed, the special service team was ordered to dispatch urgently to ensure the smooth progress of mining construction." ”

"What!" Lin Xiao looked deeply insulted and aggrieved, "Let us have a fully armed special service team to deal with a few old farmers, is there a mistake?!"

"There's really no mistake, you still have to stay there for about half a month after you get it, until the mining is successfully completed. The mineral deposits discovered this time are extremely rare, and although the reserves are not large, their value is immeasurable, and it is said that even the provincial leaders were alarmed. Hong Jun said.

"Oh?!" Lin Xiao came to his senses, "What kind of mine? ”

"I don't know the specifics, you guys go to the No. 2 Institute of Precious Metals Research to pick up a person, this mineral deposit is the first thing they found and reported, you can ask him then." After speaking, Hong Jun slapped the duty note in his hand onto Lin Xiao's hand.

"Resolutely complete the task!" Lin Xiao shouted.

......

A convoy of three armored assault vehicles galloped down the street.

"Hello, I'm Ma Yuan. A big black man who had just gotten in the car from the middle of the road sat opposite Lin Xiao and stretched out his hand to him, his voice was thick and loud.

This black man is tall and big, with thick skin and rough meat, but he wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, which is very disobedient.

"Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao briefly reported his name, and at the same time stretched out his hand and shook it tightly with Ma Yuan.

"Hey, Dr. Ma, your hand strength is not small!" As soon as the two joined hands, Lin Xiao felt the power coming from the palm of the other's hand.

"I'm sorry! We all have a lot of energy in geology, and we can't figure out whether we are manual laborers or mental laborers when we spend all day in the wilderness in the wind and sun, pickaxes and hoes. Ma Yuan smiled self-deprecatingly.

"You are a big doctor, if you are not a mental worker, then we can only be regarded as brain-dead!" Lin Xiao snorted, and then asked: "By the way, I heard that the mineral deposit this time was first discovered by the exploration team you presided over?"

"Yes, this is an osmium-lithium alloy, ten times heavier than steel, twenty times harder, used in many high-tech fields, and can only be synthesized in space or in weightless laboratories, so it is very valuable, a hundred times the price of gold. This time, it is unbelievable that the natural veins of this alloy can be discovered. As soon as he said this, Ma Yuan's eyes lit up.

"How many reserves are there in the veins discovered this time?" Lin Xiao was also interested.

"You see, this is a satellite image of the resource, and the bright part is the vein. Ma Yuan took out a folder from his backpack, opened it and handed it to Lin Xiao, "The vein is uniformly narrow and long, 1,200 meters long, 60 meters wide, and about 10 meters thick, and the quality purity reaches 5A, that is, laboratory grade." It is unbelievable that such a high-quality osmium-lithium alloy can be produced in nature. ”

Lin Xiao listened to Ma Yuantao's endless introduction, and at the same time carefully looked at the thermal printing paper with white texture on a black background in front of him, and seemed to have made a discovery: "This ...... The shape of this vein looks so much like a long knife!"

"Huh?" As soon as he heard this, Ma Yuan also leaned over to take a closer look, "It's really, it's long, and it's a little curvature, it's absolutely like it! Why didn't I find it before! Captain Lin's eyes are sharp!"

"We dance knives and guns all day long, so we are naturally sensitive to the shape of knives and guns. By the way, this mine doesn't seem to be large!" Lin Xiao said.

"This is not a coal mine, iron ore, this is an osmium-lithium alloy mine, you don't look at the scale, just this reserve, with the current consumption level, is enough for the world for 50 years, the value is immeasurable. There was pride in Ma Yuan's tone that could not be concealed.

"Wow!" Lin Xiao exclaimed.

......

As the name suggests, Qiyun County is a typical mountainous county, and thirty kilometers after leaving S City, the convoy entered the mountainous area, circling all the way along the narrow mountain road, constantly climbing.

When you turn a mountain pass, you suddenly see a huge mountaintop plain in front of everyone, this plain is so smooth that it seems that a giant has flattened several nearby peaks with a knife.

The destination of this trip, Huju Village, is located in the middle of this alpine plain, and from a long distance, you can see the village's iconic towering tree, at this time, a large flock of crows is circling around the canopy in a panic, "quacking" and noisy.

"This big maple tree has even been reported by provincial TV stations, with a diameter of 8 meters and a height of 102 meters, which is more than the average American sequoia, completely subverting the botanical definition of the height of the maple, which is said to have a history of thousands of years. As soon as Ma Yuan finished his introduction, the assault car had already stopped at the entrance of the village with a "squeak".

Lin Xiao and his party walked along the narrow alley in the village, and soon came to the bottom of the big maple tree, where a large group of people were arguing.

There were villagers in the crowd, as well as workers in hard hats, and five or six thick linen ropes had been tied to the trunk of a dozen people, which were pulled by a dozen workers and stretched to the east, in that direction was the village threshing field, and there were no houses.

"What's the situation?" Lin Xiao shouted.

Seeing the arrival of the heavily armed police, the crowd quickly quieted down, and in a blink of an eye, a thin and capable middle-aged man squeezed out of the crowd, wiping the sweat from his forehead, while smiling and nodding straight in front of Lin Xiao: "Comrade police, you are here." ”

"Who are you?" asked Lin Xiao.

"I am Hong Sheng, the village director of Huju Village. The middle-aged man nodded and introduced himself, while taking out a pack of cigarettes and handing one to Lin Xiao.

"What's going on?" Lin Xiao raised his hand to signal not to smoke, and at the same time raised his chin towards the crowd.

"This vein just passed under this big maple tree, and this big maple tree has been dying in recent years, and there are constantly dead branches falling, which is very dangerous, so I thought about taking this opportunity to cut down. Most of the villagers supported it, but several old people in the village refused to let them live or die, insisting that there was some kind of monster under this big tree, so ......" Hong Sheng introduced the situation while spitting stars, and led Lin Xiao and his party towards the crowd, and the villagers who were watching the excitement automatically got out of the way.