Chapter 97: Pinning Down the Culprit

The Stolen Immortal Arts Are Quite Extraordinary A bright moonlit night over the Twenty-Four Bridges 4191 words 2026-04-10 08:39:08

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Searching for blueprints and confirming the location, the logistics support department of Changsheng Group sprang into action...

During this interval, they were not idle. They descended into the underground parking garage, but found nothing unusual—only dozens of parked cars, all empty.

Finally, after Team Leader Shen had let out a string of curses, the logistics department delivered the blueprints of the building. An entire hour had already passed.

The blueprint showed that the building’s sewer outlet was at the northeast corner.

However, knowing the general direction was one thing; pinpointing the exact location was another challenge.

The person in charge’s face had long lost any smile. Sometimes he said they needed to ask Old Zhang; other times he said it seemed to have been opened a couple of years ago—anyway, it was all just for reference.

Time ticked away, unknown risks dancing at their nerve endings.

The three of them in the garage were at a loss...

They clearly knew that the murderous spider was somewhere beneath this parking garage, but they just couldn’t find it...

Suddenly, Lin Xiaosu’s eyes lit up.

“What did you find?” Chang Ye was watching him closely because she knew this situation was not her strength; she had to place her hopes on him.

Lin Xiaosu strode over to a parking spot.

A car was parked there—a Fit model.

No one was inside.

Lin Xiaosu’s gaze pierced through the window, staring inside.

His heart skipped a beat...

Because just moments ago, almost unintentionally, he had caught a glimpse of a scene that surprised him.

This car had arrived in the afternoon.

After it entered, the driver did not leave.

Now, looking closely, there was no one inside the car.

The driver had vanished into thin air!

Tracing backward through time, he realized—the person inside the car had pressed a button; the chassis shifted, and the floor beneath opened up. From inside the car, he silently entered a hidden underground chamber.

After he went down, the floor above closed back, and the seats inside the car returned to their original positions.

Not to mention that the quiet underground garage had few people; even if someone stood beside the car, they probably couldn’t see what was inside.

At this moment, the car was blocking all secrets hidden beneath the floor.

What a clever hiding method.

Even if there were surveillance cameras in the garage, they would never detect this trick.

Lin Xiaosu crouched down, eyes fixed on the car’s undercarriage.

Shen Yinchuan also crouched, viewing from another angle. Their gazes crossed beneath the car, and Shen Yinchuan looked puzzled...

Lin Xiaosu stood up and extended his hand!

He forcibly pushed the car out of the parking spot.

Chang Ye stepped onto the spot and asked, “What’s going on?”

Lin Xiaosu tapped the floor; the sound resonated, and Chang Ye’s expression changed: “Something’s down there?”

“Yes! This should be the secret entrance!”

Shen Yinchuan perked up: “I’ll go!”

“No need,” Chang Ye said.

She raised her hand, and a dragon scale appeared in her palm. With a sharp sound, four knife marks appeared on the thick steel plate in a hashtag pattern.

She stepped down hard, and with a loud crash, a hole appeared in the middle of the steel plate. Faint light seeped up from below, but at that instant, the light went out...

The three were shaken simultaneously.

There was light below, but it extinguished quickly—what did this mean?

Someone was inside!

Shen Yinchuan was the first to jump down.

Chang Ye followed second, and Lin Xiaosu last...

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Ahead lay a corridor, shrouded in darkness.

But darkness was no obstacle to them.

Shen Yinchuan was captain of the criminal investigation team, famed in Jiangcheng for his night vision; even in pitch black, he could see clearly.

Lin Xiaosu’s Heavenly Eye required no further introduction.

Chang Ye lacked night vision, but she possessed the Dragon Eye.

At the corridor’s end was a door, which suddenly swung open. Suddenly, the darkness before them gave way to a giant spider lunging forward, its sharp claws radiating a murderous intent as if from hell itself...

Shen Yinchuan stretched out his hand and caught the stabbing claw, slamming the spider onto the floor.

Two other mutated spiders came from the left and right.

Lin Xiaosu and Chang Ye struck simultaneously—one on the left, one on the right.

Lin Xiaosu’s fist intersected with claws, hitting the spider’s body precisely. The blow shattered its internal organs completely. The spider staggered a few steps and collapsed, all its legs trembling in death throes...

Chang Ye’s dragon scale stabbed into the spider’s body, releasing a faint yellow mist. Though the spider was an ancestor of poison and naturally immune, being pierced by her blade and then injected with the toxin rendered it helpless.

Ahead stood four massive steel cages.

Three were empty. Before the last cage stood a middle-aged man staring at them as if seeing a ghost...

His hand was already reaching for the cage’s release button, but he seemed too weak to press it...

Inside this highly secret underground chamber, the police had come—and these were officers capable of single-handedly killing mutated spiders...

Qianlong!

The visitors must be from Qianlong!

It was over!

Crack!

At the same instant, the man’s knuckles were twisted apart.

Although he was genetically enhanced himself, under Shen Yinchuan’s grip, he was subdued by a single strike that dislocated his joints and forcibly disarmed him.

Lin Xiaosu stepped forward.

From his Dragon Eye, Lin Xiaosu had already scanned this man’s information...

He was He Yunfei, from the Changsheng Group’s Research Department, Division Two...

This Division Two was precisely under Huang Chengwang’s charge.

Division One was managed by Ding Lizhong; Division Two by Huang Chengwang.

Chang Ye’s Dragon Eye glowed faintly as she activated a powerful signal jammer.

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