Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 681: Rush
In just ten seconds, Andun found out the origin of this mansion and the source of all the high-energy nutrients.

“This house and the houses nearby are illegal gang assets. Three years ago, this house was rented to a citizen named Li. This person has a complicated background. He has been a client and a mercenary. It is recorded that he returned to the mansion once a month. Now there has been no news for more than a month, and no records of his whereabouts can be found.

All the high-energy nutrients came from other central cities’ public procurement channels. The buyers were all small companies registered for less than half a year. The earliest record that can be found appeared three years ago. The specific records need to be checked in other central cities. It is inferred that this batch of high-energy nutrients was delivered to the city in batches and stored here..."

Chen Chuan thought for a moment, and told his subordinates, "Send someone to transport all these high-energy nutrients away first, and seal off this place temporarily."

After dealing with the situation here, it only took about ten minutes to find another warehouse. It had the same layout and was also filled with high-energy nutrients, and had also been tampered with.

But there is one difference. Some fresh traces were found here, proving that the queen insect had just been here. According to monitoring, the time was less than two hours.

In other words, they withdrew just as the security personnel entered this area. Chen Chuan immediately arranged for the combat creatures to track them down through the pit they left.

It is impossible for this modified creature to erase its traces on its own, so the chances of finding it this time are very high.

This was indeed the case. In just half an hour, the fighting creatures that entered the underground came into contact and fought with some newly bred larvae. From time to time, scenes of biting and rolling could be heard from underground.

This means that the queen is not far away.

Yuan Qiyuan and others ran quickly on the ground according to the location pointed out by Andun. Although the larvae they encountered posed an obstacle, they also clearly pointed out a path where the mother insect might exist.

After all, the larvae were few in number, and they did not eat much nutrition after birth. They could not resist the continuous influx of fighting creatures at all, and soon there were no obstacles in front of them.

However, as these fighting creatures rushed forward, the picture from the world suddenly turned pitch black. Not only those who rushed forward first, but also those who came later disappeared almost in an instant.

But the team members above couldn't help but become excited, which meant that their tracking had worked and this time they were very likely to find the real culprit.

Yuan Qiyuan and the other two finally settled down in one position based on the information transmitted through the boundary.

"This is it."

The three of them looked at each other, and then Yuan Qiyuan and Su Wei focused their attention on Qin Qingque, who raised an extended spear he had brought with him, turned the gun tip upside down and pointed it at the ground, then took a breath.

After a moment, she pushed the spear into the ground, and with a "swish", almost three-fifths of the spear was immersed in it. Then she shouted, held the spear handle and shook it. The mud above cracked and collapsed, revealing a cave, and the spear was stuck in a creature about two meters in size.

However, this thing was covered with a lot of mud, so its original appearance could not be seen clearly. Only a part of its smooth shell with some spots on it could be seen.

Qin Qingque then held the gun handle with both hands, took two steps back, shouted again, and exerted force with his arms, and picked the thing out from under the ground!
When they reached the top, with the fall of mud, they could finally see this thing. Its body was shaped like an inverted weight, with a smooth shell, curved limbs and claws on its abdomen and sides, multiple compound eyes on its head, and there seemed to be retractable spikes on its back. At this time, accompanied by a strange hissing sound from its abdomen, it bounced out and stabbed towards Qin Qingque.

Qin Qingque remained calm. She just shook the gun lightly, and the force on its body was immediately dispersed. The sharp spikes that were stabbing at her became soft and powerless. Then she turned sideways, lifted the thing up, then pressed it down, and with a bang, she slammed it heavily on the ground!
The insect was thrown down and made a strange and shrill hissing sound.

Yuan Qiyuan then said: "Let me do it!" He raised the stick in his hand high and suddenly smashed it at the insect, and the air burst into a whistling sound of force.

This blow can at least blow up most of the insect's body.

But at this moment, he suddenly realized something was wrong, and he turned the stick in the air, but it turned halfway and smashed to the other side, and immediately hit something, and the force of that thing actually drove the head of the stick out.

He glanced and saw that the direction was heading towards Qin Qingque, and the thing on it would most likely fly and hit the latter, so he hurriedly retracted his strength, but he was already exerting force, and being able to change direction in a hurry showed his excellent coordination ability, but at this moment he did not have much strength to retract it.

After seeing this, Su Wei immediately threw out a lasso, wrapped it around the head of the stick, and then pulled it. But even so, the two men were driven back several steps by the force, leaving several deep footprints on the ground.

After they stopped, they could see clearly that what made them look so embarrassed was just a sling with several metal balls at the end. They were shocked. Judging from the situation, this thing was thrown from at least one or two kilometers away. It was so powerful from such a long distance. This must be a master!
And at the moment this thing was thrown out, Chao Ming let out a whistle in the air.

Chen Chuan's eyes flashed. Although blocked by the building, he could instantly see the fighter who threw the slingshot through Chao Ming.

The man was wearing a grey smock that covered him from head to toe. He was very tall and broad, with hard stubble sticking out from the hood, covering the upper half of his face and revealing his well-defined chin.

It is worth noting that there is a knife on the waist. Judging from the scabbard alone, it is about one and a half palms wide. It is obviously very wide, but not very long. There are many carvings on the scabbard that are badly worn.

This person is standing on the roof of a tall building at the moment, but just standing there makes people feel very stable. This external expression not only involves one's own center of gravity, but also involves a certain spiritual aura.

He stared at this person. If nothing unexpected happened, this person should be the captain that the three men mentioned.

It is logically unwise for this person to show up at this moment, because showing up means revealing his whereabouts, and the processing bureau will definitely try to hunt him down, even if they didn't have this idea before, they will pay attention to it in the future.

However, considering that the queen is indeed very important to it, it is not too strange that it appears here.

And this time he came here with the purpose of luring this person out, so the place where he is standing at the moment is at least three kilometers away from the search area. Maybe he didn't see anyone strong enough at the scene, so he dared to take action.

The man heard the whistling sound at this time and looked up at the sky, but there were thick dark clouds above because it was a rainy day, so he could only see a vague shadow.

But at this moment he should have realized that he had been discovered, so he untied another ball rope from under his waist, turned it around twice in his hands, and then suddenly threw it into the sky!

Almost in the blink of an eye, this thing appeared in the sky and instantly turned into a black dot that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

Chao Ming just flapped its wings lightly above and avoided the ball rope thrown at it. Now it was at least three or four kilometers away from the ground. Even if it attacked an ordinary bird from the ground, it might not be able to hit it, let alone a bird like it with alienated tissues. There was no possibility of hitting it at all.

After seeing this, the man did not insist, but turned around and jumped off the tall building, and began to move at high speed along an alley with obstacles and cover.

Chao Ming immediately flapped its wings and chased after him, but in order to gain visibility, it had to lower its altitude. At a certain moment, the man suddenly disappeared, which must be because he had gone into a house somewhere.

So Chao Ming circled around this area, trying to find out where it was, but at this moment, the skylight on a tall building suddenly collapsed, and a ball rope flew out rapidly from it!
This time it was extremely abrupt. Not only was it faster than the previous one, but the location it came from was more hidden and higher.

However, when facing danger, Chao Ming suddenly folded his wings, and his body suddenly stretched straight, almost like a line from front to back. Instead of dodging, he accelerated his leap and slipped through the twisting rope loop by a millimeter. Then he spread his wings and avoided behind another tall building, while letting out a long chirp.

The man just wanted to use the building as cover to lure it down, so as to kill it as an obvious spy in the air, while Chao Ming also used himself as bait to try to lure it out.

Both of them are taking risks, but Chao Ming is taking a greater risk. If he is not careful, he may be entangled. With the force of the casting rope, it is very likely that his tendons and bones will be torn and his wings will be broken.

Seeing that he still couldn't capture Chao Ming, the man seemed to give up and leaped down from a building dozens of meters high. He landed on the ground intact with a bang and then quickly ran into the shadowy alley between the tall buildings.

In the back, Chen Chuan was rushing over like a swift shadow. Although the two sides were quite far apart, with the help of Chao Ming's high-altitude observation, he was always moving in the right direction. He also used Jie Ping and Andun to analyze and outline the opponent's possible escape route and destination.

While he was running and passing through an alley, he suddenly felt a sense of alarm in his heart. With a bang, the entire street exploded almost at the same time, and the blast instantly sucked him in.

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(End of this chapter)