Chapter 49
Chapter 49
"Huh? Why...why did they steal the command vehicle?" Xu Wei asked in surprise.
"Make the call first, and I'll explain to you later."
Li Jiuhe didn't say much, but opened the car door, jumped out, and quickly approached the dispatch vehicle of Group 1.
Xu Wei immediately called Gao Jingting.
Gao Jingting's phone was on vibrate mode while he was on a mission, but he was wearing an invisible earpiece beforehand, so he answered the call with a light press of the earpiece.
"What is it?"
With the arrest mission about to commence, Gao Jingting was in no position to answer the phone at this moment. If it weren't for the automatic announcement in his earpiece that it was Xu Wei calling, he probably would have hung up immediately.
Xu Wei and he were classmates at the same school, but she was two years younger than him, and they are currently close colleagues.
"Senior Brother Gao, the apartment is a trap! Mission terminated! Retreat immediately!"
"Huh?!" Gao Jingting was clearly taken aback. "But Team Leader Liu didn't notify us."
"Retreat first, Team Leader Liu will notify us soon!" Xu Wei said urgently.
She knew Li Jiuhe wouldn't lie to her, and this person had the ability to define tasks, which might allow her to glean information that others couldn't grasp.
Although Gao Jingting was still somewhat hesitant, he was also someone who listened to advice and chose to believe Xu Wei's words.
"Don't go upstairs yet!"
Instead of leaving immediately, he instructed his colleagues to remain in place and not go to the seventh floor of the apartment building.
"Okay, don't go upstairs, Liu's message is coming soon!"
Xu Wei sounded anxious on the other end of the phone and then hung up.
"trap?"
Gao Jingting looked bewildered as he stood in the corridor on the sixth floor with several other investigators, looking up towards the seventh floor.
However, none of them went upstairs; instead, they all remained on high alert.
While Xu Wei was calling Gao Jingting, Li Jiuhe had already run to the dispatch vehicle.
He didn't stop, but went directly to the apartment via the dispatch vehicle. On the way, he saw a thin man wearing sunglasses and a hooded tracksuit coming towards him.
The man had never seen Li Jiuhe before and regarded him as a stranger.
But Li Jiuhe was all too familiar with this guy.
"The one with the strange eyes?"
He silently assured himself that as long as the guy didn't take off his sunglasses, he wouldn't pose a threat to passersby.
Just as the two passed each other, Li Jiuhe turned around and punched the guy in the back of the head.
With his current strength and speed, this guy couldn't react at all, and he could have killed him with one punch, but because he controlled his strength in advance, he knocked him unconscious on the spot.
The sunglasses fell to the ground, and the man with the strange eyes went limp. Before he could even curl up on the ground, Li Jiuhe caught him and, without looking into his eyes, quickly picked up the sunglasses and put them back on.
Then, seemingly helping but actually carrying the person with the strange eyes, they arrived at the back of the dispatch vehicle.
At this moment, Li Jiuhe glanced back at the direction of the apartment building. Judging from the time, the investigators from the Explosives should have self-destructed by now.
But no explosion occurred at that moment, which means that Xu Wei's phone call had worked.
When Xu Wei arrived, she saw him holding an unconscious stranger, looking puzzled.
"This person is...?"
"An accomplice of the trackers," Li Jiuhe explained, then instructed her to knock on the tail door of the dispatch vehicle.
After the car door opened, Liu Qian walked over, listening to Xu Wei and Li Jiuhe's explanation while looking at the strange-eyed creature that Li Jiuhe was carrying with a puzzled expression.
After getting a general idea of the situation, she didn't say much. She pointed at the man with the strange eyes and ordered, "Cover his head with clothes and handcuff him in the car."
Liu Qian then picked up the walkie-talkie and called Gao Jingting: "Operation temporarily canceled, everyone await further instructions..."
Before he could finish speaking, Li Jiuhe walked over and gestured that he wanted to use the walkie-talkie to talk to the other side.
Liu Qian hesitated for a moment, then gestured to her subordinate to hand another walkie-talkie to Li Jiuhe.
Li Jiuhe pressed the call button and said, "Please be aware, the other side has an accomplice who is invisible. He has been in a state of invisibility and may already be among you."
Upon hearing his words, not only those at the apartment, but also Liu Qian and the other staff members in the car, all had a slight change in expression.
Gao Jingting, who was on the sixth floor of the apartment building, also had a change in expression. Although he didn't know who was speaking, anyone who could talk on a walkie-talkie must be an insider from the Investigation Bureau.
Without much thought, Gao Jingting immediately activated his sequence ability, forcibly severing the connection between the capture operation at their apartment and the enemy's trap.
In this way, the party that sets the trap will suddenly lose the idea of targeting them, and they will also stop thinking about capturing the pursuers.
However, Gao Jingting's abilities did not affect him; he remained clear-headed and well-informed about the cause and effect of the incident.
If the invisible man had already secretly approached them, intending to strike from the shadows, he would be completely bewildered at this moment, unable to understand why he was there or what he had been thinking.
This ensures the safety of these investigators to the greatest extent possible.
Those who are far away in the dispatch vehicle will not be affected by the severance of causal connections.
Li Jiuhe continued, "The tracker isn't upstairs; he's just bait. He's probably hiding somewhere downstairs now."
The other colleagues guarding the apartment looked confused, not knowing why they were there, but Gao Jingting nodded.
He said to his two colleagues behind him, "I just used my sequence ability, so you don't know why you're here. Now go downstairs and look for the tracker. Xiao Chen and Xiao Wang, you both know the tracker's characteristics, so make sure you find him quickly."
The two colleagues only then realized what was happening, their thoughts reconnected, and they nodded as if they understood something before turning around and heading downstairs.
Gao Jingting and another colleague from the Burst team continued up to the seventh floor.
He has now severed the connection, causing the invisible man to lose his target and stop attacking them stealthily, so he has no fear of facing the guy directly.
At the same moment, Liu Qian also breathed a sigh of relief. She glanced back at the still unconscious man with the strange eyes and felt a lingering fear.
If it weren't for Li Jiuhe and Xu Wei's appearance, and their ability to predict so much crucial information and take control of the Ghost Eye in advance, their mission would likely have come at an extremely heavy price.
She gave Li Jiuhe a meaningful look: "After things are over here, I want to know what your sequence ability is, and hear your judgment and analysis of this capture mission."
Li Jiuhe scratched the back of his head and glanced at Xu Wei.
Xu Wei gestured to him with her eyes that he didn't need to say anything, and quickly sent a message to Chen Zhenghai on her phone.
Her meaning was clear: Li Jiuhe didn't need to tell Liu Qian all his secrets; the specific coordination would be handled between the two team leaders, and Chen Zhenghai would speak on his behalf.
This time, Li Jiuhe timed it perfectly, preventing all the impending accidents from happening.
Soon after, news came that the tracker had been found, and the guy not only did not resist, but also seemed to be very cooperative.
However, Gao Jingting and his colleague, the Exploder, searched the seventh floor but did not find the invisible man.
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