Girl, you form the head.

Chapter 14 Transformation!

"boom"!
Bai Chi swung his baseball bat in a wide arc and slammed it hard into a fat guy who was lunging at him.

The fat boy collapsed with a thud, blood gushing from his forehead.

"You're getting increasingly rough, officer." A mocking voice came from all directions. "Aren't you afraid you'll actually kill them?"

Bai Chi ignored Ito Kou and swung his bat again, hitting a skinny guy who was trying to sneak up on him from the side and behind on the head.

It was still a crisp sound, the kind that could give you a concussion.

But Bai Chi couldn't care less about that now. If he didn't use some serious force, he would be torn to shreds by these guys first.

"Are you still looking for me, officer?"

More people rushed towards Bai Chi, and Bai Chi could not possibly fight against a hundred people alone, so he quickly ran away.

He nimbly moved between the various arcade machines, dodging attacks while searching for Ito Kou's location, but this was no easy task, as he discovered that the controlled individuals were becoming increasingly faster.

At first, those controlled by Ito Kou walked slowly like the dull zombies in zombie movies, all their movements were a beat slow, and the number of people who could move was very limited, usually only three or four people would come to attack Bai Chi.

But as time went on, these people became faster and faster, and more and more people were able to move around.

Bai Chi immediately realized that Ito Kou's control over these people was not so high from the beginning, but gradually deepened over time.

This also explains why Ito Kou spent so much time talking nonsense to him instead of controlling the hundreds of people to escape from the beginning.

“Give up, officer. You’ll never find me,” Ito Kou said. “You couldn’t catch me fifteen years ago, and you won’t be able to now.”

Bai Chi ignored Ito Kou, because he understood that the more Ito Kou said that, the more it showed that he didn't want to be found by him. Apart from controlling others, Ito Kou's special ability itself had no combat ability.

Once we find Ito Kou, this battle will be over.

But where exactly is he?

Bai Chi had searched the entire arcade, his gaze constantly shifting between people and machines, but he still couldn't find Ito Kou's figure.

Is he no longer here?

Just then, the sharp sound of police sirens came from downstairs, slightly attracting Bai Chi's attention.

In that instant, a burly man lurking in the corner suddenly rushed out, and Bai Chi, unable to dodge in time, was directly hit in the chest.

With a loud crash, his body slammed heavily onto the machine.

But that wasn't the end of it. After Bai Chi fell to the ground, those who had been chasing him swarmed him like zombies who had found fresh meat.

“It’s time to end this cat-and-mouse game, officer,” Ito Kou said. “To be honest, you’ve done a great job, but… oh?”

Before he could finish speaking, two more crisp cracking sounds rang out, and the two people who had pounced on Bai Chi fell down like moles in a whack-a-mole machine. Bai Chi seized the opportunity and rolled out before more people could engulf him.

"You're really tenacious." Seeing that Bai Chi had managed to escape, Ito Kou couldn't help but exclaim, "Are you really not a special being?"

Bai Chi ignored Ito Kou, because he was in a bad state. He was covered in blood and had multiple fractures, looking as if he had been pulled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

But there was nothing that could be done. Although he escaped quickly enough, he was still just a mortal, and it was already a miracle that he wasn't killed on the spot.

But if it happened again, I wouldn't be so lucky.

We can't keep going on like this.

Incandescent turned and ran.

"Oh, so you're finally going to run away instead of still thinking about arresting me?" Ito Kou said jokingly. "If you hadn't run, I would have really thought you were an invincible superman... But aren't you going the wrong way, officer? The exit is over there."

Bai Chi ran away without looking back. After giving up on finding Ito Ko and focusing solely on escaping, the people controlled by Ito Ko really couldn't catch up with him and were quickly outpaced.

But this is also because Ito Kou did not deploy any personnel there, since it is a dead end and Shirachi could not escape unless he jumped off the building.

So Ito Kou wasn't in a hurry, controlling everyone to chase after them slowly, as if he were enjoying this cat-and-mouse game.

"Don't waste your time, officer," Ito Kou said with a smile. "You might as well choose a more presentable way to die, so that when you're reporting it, it'll be... um?"

Ito Kou was stunned, because he saw Shirachi, who had run to a dead end, kick open a game console that had no circuitry.

Behind the game console was an elevator door!

How come there's an elevator here?! And it's even running!
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Ito Kou immediately erupted in fury: "Don't even think about running away!"

The controlled crowd suddenly charged towards Bai Chi like zombies injected with hormones.

This is Bai Chi's escape route! He knew from the beginning that there was an elevator here.

This wasn't a hidden elevator; it was a freight elevator that every shopping mall has, and it wasn't open to outsiders, so Ito Kou didn't know about it.

The freight elevator didn't have a floor display, so he didn't know where it was stopped. If it was stopped on the fourth floor, given the distance Bai Chi had created, he could have easily escaped.

This was also the last thing Ito Kou wanted to see, so just as Byakuchi was about to press the elevator button, he became furious.

"Click".

A sudden sound of bones cracking.

But it is not incandescent.

Bai Chi realized something and turned around abruptly, only to see a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy snap his own neck.

As Bai Chi looked over, the boy's eyes widened at the same time.

He seemed to have regained consciousness, opened his mouth as if to say something, but could not utter a word, and the life in his eyes was rapidly fading away.

Then, with a "thud," he collapsed to the ground and died.

"If you run away, I'll kill all of them!" Ito Kou finally dropped the pretense and shouted maniacally, "Want to try?!"

Two more teenagers stepped forward and grabbed their own necks.

"Just press that button! I'll make them die right here in front of you!" Ito Kou roared. "They weren't killed by me! They were killed by you! I've already said, I only want your life! But you wouldn't give it to me, so I had no choice but to kill them! Therefore, you are the real murderer!"

As Ito Kou finished speaking, the two boys tightened their grip. In Bai Chi's view, their expressions grew increasingly pained.

"What do you want!" Ito Kou shouted maniacally, "Are you just going to watch them die, officer!"

Seeing the two dying teenagers, Bai Chi finally stopped reaching for the elevator buttons.

A few seconds later, the burly man who had knocked Bai Chi away crashed into Bai Chi again like a cannonball.

Bai Chi slammed into the elevator door with a thud, then slid down, leaving large patches of bright red blood.

The remaining people swarmed forward, instantly engulfing the incandescent bulb.

"Why aren't we rescuing them yet?!" Downstairs in the mall, Xia Tian looked at the SWAT team, who had assembled but hadn't yet launched their attack, and asked anxiously, "How much longer do we have to wait?"

“We haven’t received orders to raid yet,” the SWAT officer replied.

"But there's still a policeman up there! He's been trapped up there for over twenty minutes!"

"That's not something we should be thinking about."

"How could you not consider this?!" Xia Tian was about to explode. "He's our colleague!"

"Don't cause trouble, Summer."

A familiar voice rang out from behind Xia Tian. Xia Tian turned around and saw that it was the director of the Hanguang Branch. He immediately rushed over as if he had grabbed a lifeline: "Director! Bai Chi is still up there! Please save him!"

"Bai Chi?" The bureau chief was somewhat surprised. "How did he get up there? What exactly happened?"

Xia Tian immediately told everyone what had happened, and specifically pointed out that Bai Chi had saved her, but did not say that Bai Chi had kicked her out because he thought she was clumsy and shot from the shadows.

When Bai Chi's colleagues at the Hanguang Precinct learned that it was Bai Chi who saved Xia Tian and faced a criminal who had been on the run for fifteen years, they were all surprised.

After all, in their minds, Bai Chi was just a scheming, taciturn man. He had killed Liang Rong earlier only because he wanted to take all the credit by relying on his familiarity with the road, rather than because he was truly passionate and courageous. Otherwise, he wouldn't have done nothing except for the Liang Rong case in the year since he joined the company.

But now, Bai Chi is facing a special criminal who has been on the run for fifteen years, and whose fate is unknown. He doesn't seem like someone who is greedy for credit.

Could it be that Xia Tian is just talking nonsense?

Although they had some doubts, no one expressed them, including the director. After all, Bai Chi was his subordinate, and he couldn't just stand by and watch, so he immediately went to ask the SWAT team leader at the scene.

The SWAT team leader was noticeably more polite to the district chief, but his answers were the same.

“We can’t just storm in,” the SWAT captain said. “The suspect, Kou Ito, is an extremely dangerous superhuman and has taken over a hundred hostages. This is not a case we can handle. We’ve already requested backup from headquarters, and the superhumans are on their way.”

When will the special medical team arrive?

The SWAT team leader glanced at his watch: "Ten minutes, I guess."

The bureau chief frowned slightly, but before he could speak, Xia Tian roared angrily, "Ten minutes? What about Officer Bai Chi?!"

"If he really did die," the SWAT captain said calmly, "we will count him as a martyr."

……

“I can already foresee tonight’s headlines.” On the fourth floor, Ito Kou looked at the bloodied and mangled Bai Chi and a slight smile appeared on his lips. “They will report on your sacrifice and my whereabouts being unknown. So do you really think it was worth it, not being able to do anything and becoming a martyr.”

Bai Chi had no way to answer Ito Kou.

“Do you know why I said you’ve accomplished nothing?” Ito Kou said. “If you can still see, look over here.”

Under Kou Ito's control, the two boys who had previously been used to threaten Bai Chi once again choked him.

"Click."

Ito Kou mimicked the sound of bones breaking with his mouth, and the two boys actually snapped their own necks and fell to the ground, crimson blood slowly oozing from the corners of their mouths.

"See? You couldn't protect anything," Ito Kou said with a smile. "Oh, you can't see it anymore."

But what he didn't know was that Bai Chi had been watching the whole time, just without saying a word.

He was beaten bloody by these people who were controlling him, but he didn't say anything. He just silently protected his vital parts.

He watched the two boys being killed by the untrustworthy Ito Kou, and he remained silent, because he knew that was how criminals were. So, from his first day as a policeman, he made a rule for himself: never negotiate with criminals.

Yes, Bai Chi never intended to trade his life for the lives of those two boys; he wasn't that kind of person.

The reason he didn't press the elevator button wasn't because he was threatened by Ito Kou.

Instead, he saw... the elevator going up.

"Judging by the time, the Special Sciences team should be arriving around now," Ito Kou murmured. "It's time to wrap this up."

The strongest man, controlled by Ito Kou, picked up Bai Chi's baseball bat and aimed it at Bai Chi's head.

He chuckled and said, "Go back to being a good policeman in hell."

But at this moment.

"Ding Dong".

A sudden sound rang out, distracting Ito Kou. He subconsciously looked over and saw the elevator, which had not been summoned, slowly opening its blood-stained doors. The light shining from the elevator quickly tore through the darkness of the arcade.

coming!

Bai Chi seized the opportunity, using the last of his strength to kick the burly man over, and then used the momentum to quickly rush towards the elevator.

"Do you think you can escape?!" the controlled people shouted in unison, then desperately tried to grab Bai Chi.

But Bai Chi still rushed into the elevator.

To be precise, he fell to the ground and slid into the elevator, ending up at someone's feet.

"Ah?!" he heard a gasp. "What happened to you?"

Bai Chi struggled to lift his head and saw Liu Li Hui wearing his heavy police coat, wrapped up tightly, looking like a naive little village girl.

She was looking at him with a face full of surprise.

Why wear winter clothes?
Bai Chi was somewhat puzzled, but there was no time to think about it now; he had to transform immediately. So he exerted his strength again, rolled to Liu Li Hui's side, and grabbed her ankle under her coat.

Then he felt a strange coolness coming from his fingertips.

These don't look like... pants?
Bai Chi subconsciously raised his head and immediately saw a completely different scene.

"You, you, you mustn't look around like that!"

Bai Chi's gaze was like a gust of wind blowing from below, making Liu Li Hui's legs feel chilly. She reacted instantly, and her face flushed red in a flash.

"You, you, you people from Nanluo wear such strange clothes, I really can't wear them out..."

Before he could finish speaking, the manipulated puppets rushed into the elevator.

"It's too late to explain."

Bai Chi interrupted Liu Li Hui, then hugged her legs tightly and firmly uttered those two words.

"Transform!"

(End of this chapter)