Use first and repay later: Advance the future cultivation fruits-Chapter 112 - 94, Self-confidence_2

However, on the day of the incident, Yuan Anping left Lin’an City by patrol car, except for a minute or two when he got out to use the restroom at a service area, the surveillance inside the patrol car showed Yuan Anping at all times; even after reaching his destination, there was surveillance footage to vouch for his whereabouts.

Even if he disappeared occasionally for a while, it was far from enough time to travel to and from the crime scene.

Of course...

Even so, Lin Qing still managed to come up with several scenarios that could fabricate an alibi.

If he could think of them, how could the expert group and the think tank, with so many people, not consider them?

Therefore, Yuan Anping was only temporarily excluded from suspicion, albeit, relative to others, his likelihood of guilt was much less.

"There are quite a few suspects; I’ve compiled a list here for you all to see."

As Gong Ming spoke, the projection on the table immediately turned into basic profiles of various suspects.

"This list is just a reference; I hope everyone will be vigilant."

Gong Ming spoke earnestly, "The key to this operation is to search for Captain Xu Qiu’s whereabouts. Every place she has been after three o’clock yesterday afternoon must be thoroughly searched."

"Keep in mind—"

He glanced at the Life Detector next to him and said, "The enemy might have means to evade detection by the Life Detector, and underneath Lin’an City, there might be underground spaces deeper than fifty meters."

Lin Qing understood his point.

The previous lack of findings did not mean absence.

After all, the current technology for underground space detection could only probe up to fifty meters underground.

"Based on the strengths of the twenty-nine patrol officers, the three patrol chiefs, and one senior patrol chief present, this is the most rational grouping method constructed by the Patrol System’s AI."

With a tap of his fingertip, Gong Ming immediately displayed a list allocation plan, "Please take a look."

Lin Qing examined it carefully.

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He, together with patrol chiefs Yuan Anping and Hu Xianan, would lead a portion of patrol officers each, keeping distance and coordinating with Commander Lian Zexu as the center.

Lin Qing looked at the list of patrol officers and understood that the AI that constructed this list had surely ranked him as the weakest among the three.

This was evidenced by him being assigned the ten strongest patrol officers.

Yuan Anping was assigned ten patrol officers slightly less strong than Lin Qing’s group.

While Hu Xianan was only given nine patrol officers, and they were also from the weakest group.

"This list has been allocated by the Patrol System’s AI based on everyone’s past performance," Gong Ming explained. "If any of you are confident, or not confident in your strengths, you may speak up and we will re-distribute fairly."

Lin Qing knew that the Patrol System’s AI probably calculated this based on his performance when he killed Chu Tianyao.

But at that time, he had only used close to half of his strength.

Moreover, two months had passed, and he was now much stronger than before.

The list, which clearly hid his and Yuan Anping’s strengths, was giving them the greatest protection.

Such an imbalanced allocation indeed was not conducive to the search.

Lin Qing pondered for a moment and then said, "The list for Chief Hu has officers who are on the weaker side; could we perhaps transfer a few stronger ones from mine? Actually, I recently—"

"I don’t need them."

Before Lin Qing could finish, Hu Xianan interrupted, shaking his head, "With the strength of Chief Lin, there’s no need to be modest. How about this: leave me three patrol officers as assistants, and distribute the other six among yourselves."

Lin Qing was taken aback.

Yuan Anping smiled and shook his head, "Chief Hu might be underestimating us a little too much, don’t you think?"

Hu Xianan furrowed his brow and said, "Then how about we have a fight? The two of you together against me, if you can last ten seconds against me, I’ll agree to the current allocation."

He was utterly confident.

Even among the external students of the Chaoyang Martial Arts Hall, he considered himself a combat genius.

Now that he had cultivated the eight animal forms of the Hundred Beasts Series to the instinct level—two more than the Patrol provided series, and only something Chaoyang Martial Arts Hall students could learn.

Unfortunately, his chance of genetic awakening was too low. Even with the Bloodline Evolution Method provided by the martial arts hall, his progress was slow, and he had only managed to excavate a relatively weak genetic ability, which is why he was persuaded to leave.

Otherwise, he might have had the chance to enter the Inner Hall.

Even so, with his instinct-level Hundred Beasts Combat Skill, plus genetic ability, he wouldn’t need much effort to take down an ordinary patrol chief.

Even taking on both of them together would be meaningless.

As for these weaker patrol officers?

No matter how many, they would still be useless.

"That confident?"

Lin Qing couldn’t help but size up this man known as a martial arts maniac, Hu Xianan.

Perhaps this standout from the outer students of Chaoyang Martial Arts Hall really was extraordinary?

"Forget it."

Lin Qing didn’t want to reveal his strength over such a trivial matter and shook his head, "Since Senior Patrol Chief Hu is confident, then let’s keep this assignment."

"I’ve always lacked ambition and insight," Yuan Anping said with a chuckle, "Didn’t see that Senior Patrol Chief Hu actually had this kind of strength? Then thank you, Senior Patrol Chief Hu."

Hu Xianan nodded slightly and said, "I only need three assistants here to run errands, the rest of you can divide up."

"Alright, we can’t let down Senior Patrol Chief Hu’s kindness," Yuan Anping said with a smile and a nod, "just as long as Senior Patrol Chief Hu doesn’t regret it."

"Regret?"

Hu Xianan could hear the sarcasm in this androgynous person’s tone and his face grew cold, "When you, Senior Patrol Chief Yuan, are in danger, don’t beg me to save you."

Yuan Anping laughed it off, "Well, that’s hard to say, Senior Patrol Chief Hu, you might need to help me out then."

Lin Qing shook his head slightly and said no more.

If it wasn’t for making the investigation mission smoother, he wouldn’t even bother persuading.

"Let’s leave it at that."

Hu Xianan turned his head to look at Gong Ming and calmly said, "Patrol Officer Gong, which search area has the highest danger? I’ll take it."

...

"Bang!!"

Hu Xianan hastily raised his arms to catch a punch coming straight for his face, feeling a surge of astonishing invisible force rebounding madly within him, numbing and weakening his entire body.

The floor tiles beneath him were cracked into a spiderweb of fissures by the force that seeped into the ground.

"Who are you..."

Hu Xianan looked incredulously at the mysterious man shrouded in a black cloak opposite him, his heart trembling.

Was this his lucky draw on the very first night of his investigation in Lin’an City?

At this moment, beneath the pale smiling mask of the other party, those eyes were radiating a terrifying life intimidation, causing his limbs to go weak with instinctual fear, limiting his ability to use his full strength.

Merely Divine Transformation’s instinctual intimidation had this effect?

This was definitely the strength of a Senior Patrol Chief!

"Ha ha—"

In the next moment, a sharp, distorted laugh came from the mysterious man as he suddenly vanished from Hu Xianan’s sight.

"Bang!"

Hu Xianan’s vision went dark, and he completely lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground.

The three Patrol Officers around him were stunned.

How could they fight against such strength?

At that moment—

"Whoosh!"

With the sound of rushing wind, a fast-moving shadow suddenly appeared hundreds of meters away, racing at an incredible speed down the street, heading rapidly this way.

"So fast."

Beneath the pale smiling mask, the mysterious person’s eyes gleamed with amusement, then as silently and swiftly as he had arrived, he disappeared.

"Whew!"

The blurred shadow that had rushed from afar like a whirlwind, covering over a hundred meters from the street corner to the scene in barely a second, suddenly came to a standstill, the shadow solidifying to reveal Lian Zexu, the commander who received the distress signal.

"Where is he?"

Lian Zexu’s expression darkened as he took out his communicator and asked, "Patrol Chief Gong, where is he?"

From the communicator came Gong Ming’s deep voice, "Trouble, the enemy’s strength is much stronger than we anticipated, and crucially, there’s a portable device that hides the life field. No wonder the Life Detector couldn’t find him."

Lian Zexu took one look at the unconscious Hu Xianan on the ground and shook his head slightly.

"His limbs have been shattered by Dark Energy," Lian Zexu frowned and said.

Just then—

"Request support urgently!"

Gong Ming’s voice in the communicator suddenly became anxious, "He’s gone after Lin Qing again!"