Four Skills for All.

Mo Xiu rushed to Cao Fenglin's office.

Upon entering, Cao Fenglin gestured for Mo Xiu to sit down first.

"I know why you've come!"

Mo Xiu asked, "What happened this time?"

Cao Fenglin's attitude had changed significantly compared to last time, and he patiently explained things to Mo Xiu.

"The situation at the crime scene was as follows: the perpetrator and the victim had an argument at the school gate. After the argument, the victim turned and walked into the school, and the perpetrator shot him from behind."

"The background is that the two had a romantic entanglement, which is the same as the case at Qingyun University."

Mo Xiu asked, "I want to know where the gun came from!"

"The murderer was a rich young man who bought it at a party."

"The gun seller?"

"The gun-selling organization was busted last night. They all claimed the guns fell from the sky."

Mo Xiu frowned deeply. What exactly was going on?

"Teacher Cao, are you still unwilling to investigate with me? The situation is very serious now; at least tell me what you know!"

Cao Fenglin hesitated visibly, but still refused, saying, "I'm sorry, I can't help you!"

Aren't you afraid that your family and friends will be in danger?

"I told you, I can't help you, and I advise you not to get involved in this."

"teacher!!!"

"Alright!! The reason I didn't let you get involved before was because neither of us were high enough to uncover the truth. The reason I'm not letting you get involved now is because we no longer need to get involved."

Cao Fenglin tossed a map to Mo Xiu, who caught it and saw that it had more than a dozen circles drawn on it.

"Is this a map of Yanjing?"

Cao Fenglin said with his eyes closed, "That's right, this is a map of Yanjing. All the circled areas are where murders involving firearms occurred."

Mo Xiu looked at Cao Fenglin in disbelief, never expecting things to have developed to this point.

"Now you know why, right? Including the one that happened on the Peking University campus yesterday, there are a total of eighteen murders. You didn't know because the news was blocked. Now, not only Peking University, but also the law enforcement team, the military, and all Shadow Level 6 and above teams have been mobilized to investigate this matter. You... your influence is too small!"

Mo Xiu fell into deep thought, never expecting that the clue he had discovered would develop to this extent within a month.

Mo Xiu didn't want to give up. Even if many people investigated, he wanted to do his part.

"Teacher, are you aware of the current progress of the investigation?"

Cao Fenglin said with exasperation, "Why won't you listen to advice? Now we can confirm that all the firearms fell from the sky, but who threw them is unknown."

All clues stopped at this point. Mo Xiu stood up, bid farewell to Cao Fenglin, and prepared to leave.

Mo Xiu didn't blame Cao Fenglin for not helping; it was clear that he was also trying to gather clues.

"etc!"

Mo Xiu turned around and asked, "What's wrong, Teacher Cao?"

Cao Fenglin sighed and said, "Alas! I can't help you with anything else, but I can tell you my experience."

"I'm all ears!"

Why did the advent of firearms increase crime rates?

Mo Xiu replied without hesitation, "Because firearms are powerful and easy to use."

"You're only talking about the superficial reasons; the root cause is humanity's animalistic nature and desires!"

Mo Xiu didn't speak, but listened attentively.

"Many people may have firearms, but there are only two kinds of people who actually commit crimes. One is the moderately wealthy who have things they can't get and want to solve them with violence, as exemplified by these two school shootings. The other is the lower class, represented by the circles on the map of various neighborhoods."

"People who are moderately wealthy have desires that outweigh their animalistic instincts and are wary of rules, so they often commit crimes with premeditation."

"People at the bottom of society, after being suppressed for too long, suddenly erupt, their animalistic instincts outweighing their desires, often becoming uncontrollable and indiscriminately harming innocent people!"

Mo Xiu asked, "What is desire? What is bestiality?"

"There is something that allows you to do things you couldn't do before, but this thing violates the rules, and you still accept it. This is what I called desire before."

"There is something that can make you completely explode, so you no longer have to swallow your anger, and you can do whatever you want, even if the consequence is self-destruction. You still accept this thing. This is what I called the animalistic nature before."

Mo Xiu asked, seemingly understanding but not quite, "Then what should we do?"

Cao Fenglin said, "Desire and bestiality will only hide, not disappear. The only way to put them on is to completely ban firearms. But now that lock... has been opened."

"Then we should find out who's behind this and lock it up again!"

"Mo Xiu, you're very smart, smarter than me, but what you lack right now is vision; your vision is too narrow..."

"How so?"

"Leaving aside the fact that we currently have no leads and cannot find the mastermind behind this, meaning we cannot eradicate it at its root, just considering the current situation, how many people within the entire alliance are secretly possessing firearms? Can this hidden danger be completely contained?"

Mo Xiu fell silent. Yes, things had gotten to this point, and it would be very difficult to control them now.

"The last time there was a complete ban on firearms, it took ten years, and the background at that time was that wild beasts were watching us with predatory intent, and the whole nation was united as one. It's not the same as now."

Mo Xiu said, "Teacher Cao, do you think these firearms might have been thrown by wild animals? Are they trying to undermine us from within?"

"It's possible, but not very likely. I'm more inclined to believe it was done by humans. This person usually places the firearms in slums or at wealthy merchants' banquets, so they can quickly dispose of them without them reaching the law enforcement team. This person understands human nature better than you or I..."

Mo Xiu walked out of the office, his head spinning.

Strategic vision? Human nature? It seems I was oversimplifying things.

As he walked, Mo Xiu took out his phone, opened the Shadow software, and discovered that the investigation mission he had created earlier to investigate thermal weapons was gone.

Looking at the homepage again, I realized that things had gotten serious; there was a pinned task on the Shadow homepage.

"Investigation Mission: Source of Thermal Weapons (Unlimited attempts, multiple players and teams can accept the mission.)"

Quest Level: SSS

Mission Details: Recently, several cities within the Alliance have experienced incidents of people being injured by firearms. Please check the relevant forums on the homepage for more details.

Completion condition: Identify the source of the dispersal of thermal weapons.

Mission Reward: 1000 Billion Points

The fact that Shadow has also issued a quest shows how much importance the Alliance attaches to this matter.

Mo Xiu opened the forum to check, and found that there were incidents of people being injured by firearms in 43 cities across the alliance, with Yanjing being the most severely affected.

Mo Xiu searched and found that Shuncheng was one of the forty-three cities, but it wasn't a serious case, with only one case.

Still not entirely at ease, Mo Xiu called his mother, Li Yuan, to inquire about the situation.

After receiving news that his mother was safe and sound, he called Yue Yuan again and asked him to send some people to protect his mother during this period of time before he felt at ease.

On August 29th, 30th, and 31st, the first and second teams of the Auxiliary Department conducted intensive training to prepare for the intra-school team competition.

Mu Mu has made further progress recently. His analysis of the battle situation and understanding of skills have improved significantly, greatly benefiting everyone.

Mu Mu simply said, "Let's improve together!"