At the same time, He Xiaoyu and He Jinghui appeared. They first took down several tattooed men, and the situation suddenly reversed. However, Zhou Henling seemed unwilling to surrender. She clutched her Miao dao and charged at me desperately!
He Xiaoyu knocked away her Miao dao with his sword. Then, He Jinghui extended a palm from behind and struck her back precisely. With a knee strike, Zhou Henling knelt on the ground.
Liu Yuning stepped forward, handcuffed her, and scolded, "Miss Zhou, you're quite good at keeping secrets, but we actually discovered you long ago. We were just waiting for you to make this move, and you walked right into our trap!"
"I told you, only we could find this killer. But we only joined the mission after arriving here," He Xiaoyu said, sounding like a hindsight prophet. We didn't bicker about who deserved the credit and temporarily left the forensic medicine academy.
Upon returning, we simultaneously identified the women who had been in contact with Old Zhang when he was on his deathbed. After some resistance, this woman was eventually subdued by Xiao Yuande and others.
Although they continued to resist stubbornly after returning to the provincial department, they ultimately failed. We forced them to confess their crimes. However, as I was leaving, Zhou Henling suddenly said contemptuously, "So what if you succeeded? You'll still end up destroying each other in the end!"
"What do you mean?"
"Didn't I tell you before? That man was meant to be sacrificed. We installed something on him!"
"You bastard, this is the provincial department! What exactly do you want?"
"Nothing much. It's a disease. You'll know when the time comes. We targeted those two old forensic doctors simply because they carried the serum back then. You've been puzzling over our motive for murder, haven't you? Hahahaha, how foolish!"
"You..."
At that time, I no longer had the time to investigate the ins and outs of this matter. I rushed out in one breath. However, that man had already appeared in the corridor. Several police officers were about to take him in for questioning. Upon seeing him, I said, "Get away from him quickly!"
Before those police officers could react, the man let out a wild laugh and violently slammed himself against the adjacent wall!
With a deafening bang, his forehead cracked open in an exaggerated manner. Thick smoke, accompanied by a spray of blood, billowed out. Instantly, the entire corridor was filled with this gas, which then spread with astonishing speed to every corner of the provincial department!
I had already hidden in a room, which seemed to be a rest room in the provincial department. Closing the door, the gas was slightly blocked from entering. Then, I heard commotion outside. After about 10 minutes, continuous coughing erupted. When I opened the door and came outside, I found many police officers lying on the ground. I checked their conditions; they seemed to be breathing, but for some reason, they were all incapacitated.
I dialed for an ambulance and went to the man's side. I found that he was completely desiccated, his body seemingly ravaged by the smoke. As I was about to examine his body, Zhang Keying, Xie Chuchu, and Ling Xiaotao arrived with their forensic kits. They seemed largely unaffected.
Perhaps it was because the forensic laboratory was in the basement.
Seeing the surrounding situation, Zhang Keying asked, "What happened?"
I briefly recounted what had just happened.
Zhang Keying said, "This wouldn't be another scheme by those bastards from the organization, would it?"
"I heard them mention serum just now. They're probably developing some kind of virus, and those two old forensic doctors were killed because they were holding the serum they needed!"
"So, did the two of them have any connection with the organization in the past?"
"Perhaps. We can investigate that later. Let's save people first! Xie Chuchu, you stay and examine the bodies!"
Then, several of us began to search every corner of the provincial department. As we approached the conference room, I saw Liu Yuning, Gao Mingqiang, and others coming out. They seemed fine. Liu Yuning said, "We were still in the middle of interrogations when we heard strange noises. Those people suddenly seemed to have stopped breathing. After we escaped, we came here!"
"Let's go to the interrogation rooms!"
Everyone followed me as we kicked open the doors of one interrogation room after another. Inside, we found the same phenomenon as with that man. All the criminals we had brought back were shriveled, their forms like completely dehydrated trees, or like twisted, deformed aliens!
Every interrogation room was like this. When the rescue team arrived and saw these bodies, the medical staff were somewhat stunned. Fortunately, our police officers were sent away. Most of the police officers managed to escape because they had timely taken shelter. Director Zhang was still outside and rushed back immediately upon receiving information from here.
Knowing that such a horrific scene had occurred, Director Zhang, upon his arrival, wanted to review the surveillance footage.
We went to the duty room, and several police officers played the scene of the man hitting the wall for us.
Witnessing the scene, Director Zhang exclaimed, "No wonder when I went to a meeting, the bureau chiefs from various cities told me about many bizarre cases that have appeared in the city recently. Those bastards from Polaris have gone mad! They've gone mad! They're taking their revenge on us frantically!!"
"Why? Is it because He Qing was arrested?" Liu Yuning asked anxiously.
"He Qing is Pierce, their god, their faith. We've captured their core now, so they're bound to go mad!" I said.
"What's He Qing's condition now?"
"He hasn't been executed yet, but his execution time seems to be today!"
"This is bad! Our attention is all focused there. The detention center..."
BOOM—!!!
A loud explosion suddenly came from outside the provincial department, shaking our very organs. Everyone rushed out immediately and saw that the road near the detention center in the distance had turned into an inferno!!
We drove towards it desperately. It took about 5 minutes to reach the scene. Damn it! They even went to the vicinity of the detention center...
Suddenly, quite a few black vehicles appeared around us. That's right! They were hearses used by funeral homes to transport bodies. Numerous hearses appeared, and many tattooed men wielding submachine guns charged at us. Although He Xiaoyu and He Jinghui appeared simultaneously, due to their sheer numbers and the fact that they were driving directly at us, we were busy dodging. Gao Mingqiang, being inconvenient to move, was directly thrown aside by the impact!