My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 117 The real murderer
3pm.

Chu Zhu returned to the Third District Police Bureau and found that Li Kang and his team were not in the Special Operations Brigade office. He wasn't surprised and decided to go to the underground temple base instead.

"Nuwa No. 17," Chu Zhu solemnly ordered, "From now on, take over the surveillance facilities of the tallest building in Zone 3! Until midnight today, conduct data searches on everyone who enters and exits the tallest building! Find out their true identities and trace their movements."

The tallest building in Zone 3 requires identification for entry and exit, so anyone who gets in can be identified—not that faking it is impossible, but any such faking must be an officially recognized identity. Otherwise, they wouldn't be allowed in!
Afterwards, if this identity is searched, even if the suspect had already abandoned it at that time, a lot of useful information will still be found.

"Message entered! Initiating identity information retrieval... Permissions met." Nuwa No. 17's voice was as familiar as ever. The silver-white wall instantly distorted, revealing a series of small, square-sized monitoring screens.

What's displayed there are the scenes captured by the various cameras on the tallest building.

"That's good! Then." After watching for a while, Chu Zhu asked Nuwa to put the screen away and monitor it from the back end. Then he went to the second floor of the police station again, greeted the guard as usual, went into the phone booth, and made a call.

"Can you spare some time at 4:00 PM, no, 3:50 PM?" Chu Zhu got straight to the point.

"What happened?" Li Kang's voice, which had been somewhat tired, became serious.

After thinking for a moment, he said cautiously, "It's hard for everyone to find the time. You should have been to the office and the temple by now, right? There wasn't a single person left behind, which means we're very busy! That's just how our job is... but..."

After a brief pause, Li Kang continued, "If it were just me, I could barely manage to free myself... it would just be tough on my teammates!"

"Okay, then come over then." Chu Zhu made the decision directly, and then began to explain the details.

"In the third district, over at the abandoned crane, there might be some unexpected events around 4:30... Of course, considering the time needed for preparation, the suspects or the enemy might gradually enter and set up around 4:10, but it can't be too early!"

As for why it can't be too early... because he's about to get there! If he's too early, wouldn't he just run into him head-on?
There's not much to say, just keep resetting, then skip ahead, skip ahead, and then give the enemy a good blast!
Chu Zhu's brain was integrating the existing information, and she said carefully, "I haven't been able to fully confirm what exactly it is yet! So I won't tell you for now and mislead you."

"What I can reveal is that, based on the information I've obtained... it's highly likely a heinous murder case! A large-scale one. It seems to be connected to the supernatural!"

After a brief pause, Chu Zhu emphasized, "It could be very serious! If things aren't handled properly... it could trigger a level three alert."

Level 3? And the abandoned crane was in Zone 3. That means it was a Level 3 accident that occurred within their jurisdiction?!

"I understand!" Li Kang was startled and no longer hesitated.

After hanging up the phone, Li Kang's brows furrowed even more deeply.

"Captain, this... isn't right?" Bi Xuan, sitting in the driver's seat, blinked in confusion. He had seen Li Kang in the passenger seat answering a phone call, and when he heard Chu Zhu's voice, he immediately became apprehensive and began eavesdropping intently, afraid that the other party would betray him. So he listened to the whole thing.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but still couldn't suppress the urge to complain. "Abandoned crane, it's all abandoned, right? There's no one there, so how could there be any heinous murder? Did they deliberately tie someone up and take them there to kill? That's ridiculous... And Uncle Zhu just had to use something like 'suspected'..."

“What you can think of, A-Zhu can think of too!” Li Kang retorted with just one sentence. “Don’t question him… I’ve questioned him many times before! But in the end, I always found out that I was the one who was being stupid.”

Li Kang leaned back in his chair, his gaze deep, as if he were recalling something. So…

At least until Chu Zhu proved unreliable once, Li Kang would trust Chu Zhu without hesitation.

"I want to go too!" Guan Fei stretched his body, his voice filled with excitement and a strong fighting spirit.

"No, as I said before, we still need to capture more extraordinary individuals!" Li Kang shook his head.

"But isn't this level three?" Guan Fei panicked instantly. While leaks by superhumans were indeed serious, what did that matter compared to level three?
“It’s just a suspicion!” Li Kang emphasized. “If it’s confirmed to be level three, then it’s not just us now, we’ll have to mobilize support from other regions! Although I trust Chu Zhu, I personally think this is the worst-case scenario, the kind with a very low probability.”

“However!” Li Kang frowned. “Come call me at five o’clock! If I don’t call by then… then something unexpected has happened!”

Although his tone was calm, the expressions of everyone present changed.

The atmosphere inside the electric car became heavy and solemn!
Realizing this, Li Kang quickly changed the subject, staring at the warning notification on his phone. "Speaking of which, compared to the past two days, hasn't the frequency of warnings increased significantly?"

"Probably, it's doubled, right?" Ning Linglong calculated in her mind for a moment, but couldn't be sure.

"Could it be that someone is deliberately plotting something?" Bi Xuan's body suddenly trembled. "Also, what about Uncle Zhu... Could it be that there is some connection between the two?"

"What are you thinking!" Li Kang glanced at Bi Xuan speechlessly and said, "It's just normal fluctuation—when it's quiet, there are none at all, and when it's busy, it feels like there's not even enough time to be in two places at once! That's how work is... there's no such thing as an average."

"As for a connection, you're overthinking it! You're always talking about connections? Is it possible that all the crimes in our Third District are actually related to one person... and have a mastermind behind them? That's nonsense!"

Bi Xuan shrank his neck. He thought about it and it seemed to make sense. He gave an awkward smile.

Li Kang finally made the final decision, saying, "Alright, that's settled then. We still have some time! Let's get back to work... When the time comes, find a place nearby to drop me off, and I'll go alone."

"Captain...actually, I feel that my strength isn't much worse than yours!" Ning Linglong pouted, quite dissatisfied. "Why didn't Uncle Zhu call me? Wouldn't it have been the same if he invited me to go alone? Besides, I'm probably much more attractive than you!"

Li Kang forcibly suppressed the urge to roll his eyes. You think A-Zhu can't see what you mean? His not contacting you is already the answer!
Is that even a question?

3:54 PM.

Abandoned crane tower.

Chu Zhu frowned, turned around, and saw Li Kang rushing towards her. He clasped his hands together, looking apologetic, "Sorry, there was a little accident! I'm a bit late..."

"Okay, come with me!" Chu Zhu didn't say anything more and walked straight into the tower.

Inside the dilapidated crane tower, the walls were all concrete, with no windows. The stairs had no handrails... and some of the steel bars were even exposed! It looked like a run-down, abandoned building.

Reaching the top floor, Chu Zhu looked down into the distance, took the binoculars off his neck, focused them, and was able to see the church in the third ward. Of course, even though the church doors were tall and open, due to the angle, only the interior could be seen.

However, this is already the place where you can see the most things happening inside a church, and there is little risk involved.

"Can you say a few more things now?" Li Kang clapped his hands and asked directly.

“I said, suspected! Those two words mean…nothing might happen here!” Chu Zhu tossed the binoculars to Li Kang, her tone slightly serious. “Hide! If you have any doubts, you can use this to keep watching the church…something might happen at the church! But, there’s a high probability that someone will enter this tower later!”

"You mean, some superhumans are doing something illegal in this stilted building?" Li Kang interrupted Chu Zhu, his face full of confusion. "And it involves the church?"

"You...you didn't even consider the possibility that the visitor might be a cultivator! Shouldn't you have used your divine sense to scan them?" Li Kang didn't know what expression to make. "In the city, because of the Extraordinary Isolation Act, they might not dare use their divine sense, which is visible to outsiders! But in this no-man's-land..."

"Oh! Let's look on the bright side. Maybe it's a body cultivator." Chu Zhu said expressionlessly. How could he not have thought of that? But he didn't care. As long as he could see who the enemy was, that was enough! The worst that could happen was death, right?

As for why Li Kang had to be brought along... well, he's too weak right now! What if he gets instantly killed? If Li Kang can hold out a little, there'll be plenty of room to maneuver... at least he can see the opponent's face!

"You...no!" Li Kang almost laughed out of anger, but quickly recovered, his words deep and cautious, "Don't you...have some other plan?"

"Who knows?" Chu Zhu replied ambiguously.

“I’m very curious, how can you be so sure that what happened here is related to the church…” Li Kang picked up his binoculars and looked in the direction Chu Zhu had been looking.

The next moment.

Chu Zhu's expression froze. He saw a faint black light covering the empty hole in the crane tower in front of him, which had no windows installed.

Then, he felt a joy and pleasure that were difficult to describe in words—

“This…” Li Kang’s expression changed abruptly, but he could not continue speaking, and his pupils gradually became lifeless.

And then……

Chu Zhu lost consciousness.

……

Open your eyes again.

Everything was still familiar.

Chu Zhu stood up abruptly, his face icy cold. He practically spat out the two words through clenched teeth, “...Qi Heng!”

When he encountered that situation before, wasn't it the effect of Captain Qi's corrupted soul sword?
Zhang Hai: "???"

What the heck?! Why are you staring at him and saying another name? Are you dreaming?!

Chu Zhu ignored Zhang Hai's confusion and frowned in thought... He had always known that Qi Heng had a problem, but the information he had confirmed before was that Captain Qi was an all-powerful partner of the Police Superintendent's Office, or more accurately, the Commandant's Office.

Captain Qi definitely knew about the situation on the All-Round side, but he didn't join—at least not as far as Chu Zhu knew.

But now, things have become complicated!
Chu Zhu forced herself to calm down and think things through.

The attack on the church was orchestrated by Qi Heng, who was actually observing the situation? And Captain Qi even dared to lay a hand on them? Was he really so ruthless? Or did he genuinely believe that killing them would allow him to cover it up?

A series of possibilities flashed through Chu Zhu's mind. Had Qi Heng joined the Omnipotent Sect in the past two days? So what if he couldn't cover it up this time, and instead defected to the Demonic Path Sect? Or had some other unexpected event occurred?

Chu Zhu took a deep breath. Regardless, the situation was gradually becoming clearer!
(End of this chapter)