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At this moment in the middle of the night, everyone was startled by the sound. At this moment, the lights on the ceiling of the factory flickered several times, and everyone's heart beat a little too fast for a while.

Shen Lin hung his fingers above the phone, did not move for a long time, gritted his teeth and clenched his fist, smashed the hang up button a few times, raised his other hand to cover his cough and panting.

But the button seemed to be malfunctioning, and he heard the other end of the phone continue to say: "There is nothing you want here."

He stumbled forward a few steps, his mind was blurred by the fever, and he continued to look through the drawers of the cabinet next to the desk without fear, ignoring the voice.

"This should be a clothing factory," Yan Cun flipped through the stacked items on the shelves, and whispered, "It's all fabric."

The workers who were arranging the shelves on the other side of the storage cabinet just now began to shift positions, gradually approaching his position, and it took a while before they had time to pay attention to the movement in the communicator.

"Well," Ji Liao replied, "Be careful."

Yan Cun replied "Okay", as if thinking of something: "By the way... Lianyi, check it out..."

His voice stopped abruptly, just as he wanted Wen Lianyi to look up the source of the call: "Ah, this...you..."

What kind of striker are you, a network investigator!

"Let me try." Universal Xiaoji understood tacitly, and quickly went to the back seat to get the laptop, connected to the Internet, and remembered the firm tone on the phone just now, "Sister Lianyi, see if there is any surveillance nearby."

"Ah?... Probably not? I just watched it specially..." Wen Lianyi came back to her senses, "No, no! Not necessarily! I didn't see the large ones, and there may not be miniature ones!"

"Do you have masks?" Ji Liao asked.

In the communicator, the two answered "no" very synchronously.

"Forget it," Ji Liao could only tell, "Be careful."

They both said "yes".

Yan Cun asked: "Has anyone responded to the message?"

"Yes," Ji Liao said, "He Jiao and Jiang Huai have both returned and said they will be there soon."

"Okay... um! Wait..."

"?" Ji Liao hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

At the same time, the sharp phone tone just now sounded again on the communicator channel, with a little smile: "Call me back? Hmm? Don't be so nervous, we are also a legitimate place, and what we do is legal."

"Ji Liao, I saw a person..." Yan Cun said.

"..." In the video screen, Shenlin finally stopped, threw the pile of waste paper back into the drawer, raised his hand to hold the gun on his waist, and asked coldly, "What's the secret?"

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be thinking about his words, he laughed for a long time, and said something vaguely: "You can't know."

Taking advantage of the silence between the two, Yan Cun speeded up his speech and finished the important things first: "That person...judging from the color of the clothes, it should be the person Shen Lin bumped into just now. She...seems familiar, I'm not sure if I saw it. Qing, take a look for me."

He took two steps forward carefully, and just pointed the camera at the person, before he could speak, the light tube on the ceiling went out with a "snap".

There was some noise on the communicator.

The factory in the video screen was pitch black for an instant, Ji Liao stopped breathing, and his heart seemed to be grabbed: "What's wrong?!"

"Light, the light is off..." Yan Cun's eyes adjusted to the darkness for a while, and he quickly came back to his senses, and hurriedly asked, "Lianyi, how are you doing over there!"

It was too obvious to turn on the flashlight at this moment, so he had to raise his hand to touch the shelf first, and walked a few steps forward in the dark.

"The light in my room is also off!" Wen Lianyi said in a low voice, "The corridor light is also off, only the light in Shen Lin's room is still on!"

Shen Lin also seemed to have noticed that something was wrong with the movement outside, and he tensed up. He heard the other side of the phone continue to say: "This secret will harm everyone. I suggest you stop now and stop investigating... right?"

Ji Liao: "..."

Just now the other end of the phone was extremely arrogant and forcibly turned on the speaker, deliberately increasing the volume, as if to let everyone hear, but now suddenly lowered the volume, and the voice slowly decreased, as if whispering to Shen Lin.

In the video, Shen Lin carefully placed his ear on the receiver, and did not speak for a long time.

"Listen... I can't hear Captain Yan!" Wen Lianyi stepped forward, seeing Shen Lin's serious expression, she felt a little anxious, "How about I, I'll throw the earphone with the mic over there to try, Listen to what they say?"

"...Retreat after throwing away," Yan Cun said, "Go back, I'll be right there."

Wen Lianyi quickly responded "Yes", took off a Bluetooth headset, and rolled the headset into the room at a good angle.

At this moment, Shen Lin in the picture slammed his fist on the table and said firmly, "I am a policeman."

Afterwards, Yan Cun seemed to smell something wrong, the tip of his nose twitched slightly, and he had a bad premonition in his heart: "Wen Lianyi, retreat quickly!"

Ji Liao was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the factory, squinting his eyes, and after seeing a few wisps of black smoke wafting from the window near the gate, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Yan Cun! Come out!"

He first dialed 119, opened the door and got out of the car, passed by the woman in the video just now, and instantly saw the face of that person—it was the woman they met on the corner of the street last time whose child was robbed!

The woman looked him inadvertently, her eyes flickered, and she walked away as if nothing had happened.

Ji Liao didn't care about anything else at the moment, turned on the lighting tools and rushed into the factory, and found that a small flame had ignited on one of the storage shelves, took a breath, looked around and started to find a fire extinguisher.

"Ji Liao! Cough... you came in?!" Yan Cun was choked and coughed a few times, "Quick...cough cough...see if there is any fire near the gate!"

He turned on the flashlight, rushed towards the direction where the crowd gathered, tried to evacuate the crowd at the top of his voice, and at the same time shouted to the communicator: "Wen Lianyi! Cough... retreat! Quick!"

Wen Lianyi just threw the headset into the office room and couldn't answer the conversation, but obviously also smelled the burning smell, so she didn't move the camera, got up and wanted to rush out.

However, just as she was about to rush into the office to pull Shen Lin away, she suddenly noticed a sound of breaking wind approaching behind her, she couldn't avoid it, and someone hit her shoulder with a stick.

Her eyes were blackened by the pain, and she staggered and fell to the ground: "——uh!"

"?!" Yan Cun only heard the cry of pain, his heart seemed to be pulled up, and he growled, "Wen Lianyi! What's wrong with you?!"

The communicator did not respond.

When Shen Lin heard the movement, she turned her head to see Wen Lianyi, who was gritting her teeth in pain to avoid the attack, and the tall man behind her whose face was covered by a peaked cap and a mask. With a chill down her spine, her actions rushed out before her thoughts.

The man saw the gun that Shen Lin drew out, his eyes froze, and he quickly turned around and ran out into the dark corridor.

Shen Lin's mind was finally a little clearer, he didn't catch up, and anxiously stepped forward, and looked at Wen Lianyi's injury by light: "You... why are you here! Are you okay?!"

"You..." Wen Lianyi wanted to scold him first, but now that the situation was urgent, she could only say something in a hoarse voice, "Ah... First, go first... Quick! Team Yan is outside!"

"... Yan, Team Yan?!" Shen Lin was taken aback, the tip of his nose twitched slightly, and it was belatedly that he noticed the smoke in the air, "This...how, how...?!"

He reacted, hurriedly picked up Wen Lianyi, who was exhausted, and rushed back along the original road.

The communicator was left in the office room. Except for the cry of pain just now, their conversation was not recorded by the microphone.

The fire in the clothing factory spread faster. When those people heard Yan Cun's voice, they panicked for a few seconds, and then followed the flames and smoke smell as usual, and successfully found one of the fire sources.

There was a neat row of fire extinguishers in the corner of the factory, and those people skillfully picked up the fire extinguishers and sprayed them.

After a while, the fire was extinguished, and the people in front of the door let out a long sigh of relief, thinking that the black smoke would dissipate soon, they immediately went forward to check the loss of the fabric, but they never thought that the fire was not the only one.

"Wow...fuck..." Jiang Huai seemed to have arrived outside the factory, connected to the channel, and was startled, "This...what's the situation! It's different from what I just said! Did you call 119!"

"Hit!" Ji Liao replied, covering his mouth and nose with his hands, and looked down at the video. The camera seemed to be still intact and pinned to Captain Yan's shirt pocket, "Yan Cun! Where are you!"

He judged the direction and walked quickly to the opponent's location.

"Cough...I...cough cough! I'm inside!" Yan Cun's voice was hoarse, and no one answered him, so he had to grit his teeth and say something first, "Go...to find Wen Lianyi! Jiang Huai, come in. Go straight! Take them out first!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed that one of the workshops was emitting black smoke, so he hurriedly picked up a fire extinguisher and rushed there in three steps at a time.

However, just as he pulled out the safety pin, and before he had time to press his lips, he noticed something was wrong out of the corner of his eye, his pupils shrank, and he jumped to the side neatly.

"Bang!"

The cabinet that was standing there just now shook unnaturally, and suddenly fell towards the place where he was standing just now.

He looked up and saw a man wearing a peaked cap standing behind the closet, holding an iron rod in his hand, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he swung the stick like a mad dog trying to hit him on the head.

Yan Cun raised his hand to block it, and just hit the knife wound he made last time. He let out a "hiss" in pain, and quickly reacted, quickly picked up the fire extinguisher that had just dropped on the ground and smashed it forward.

The opponent had no way to dodge, he was hit hard by the fire extinguisher in the abdomen, staggered back a few steps, reacted quickly and pulled the brim of his hat, gritted his teeth and rushed out, just in time to bump into Ji Liao who was standing behind him.

Both of them reacted very quickly. Just as Ji Liao was about to catch him, the man swung an iron rod and threw it at Ji Liao's head.

Ji Liao dodged back, but the man didn't pursue him, instead he staggered towards the darkness.

"Jianghuai!" Yan Cun yelled into the communicator, "Stop that one with the peaked cap! He is about 1.9 meters tall!"

He raised his hand to cover his arm, turned his head and glanced at the fire that started to spread, and just about to climb a few steps forward to pick up the fire extinguisher, Ji Liao had already taken it first, raised the fire extinguisher and sprayed it there.